I guess they’re broadening their horizons as the dire global warming predictions fall by the wayside.
The IPCC: Going Where No Scientist Should Go — NFC
The upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report will contain a chapter titled Human Security. According to an official outline, this will examine the following topics:
- Social and economic activities, including employment
- Education
- Inequalities, gender, and marginalized populations
- Culture, values, and society
- Indigenous peoples
- Local communities
- Local and traditional knowledge
- Migration and population displacement
- Conflict
- Community resilience
- [see page 4 here]
We’re told that the IPCC is a scientific organization and that its job is to “provide rigorous and balanced scientific information to decision makers.” But what can science possibly tell us about Culture, values and society? Or about Local communities? Why is the IPCC going anywhere near subjects such as these?