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Senior Fellows ArchivesThe Cloth of Science: an Interview with Roger Pielke, Jr.
"Instead of battles over morals or politics, we battle over science"
The following is an interview with Breakthrough Senior Fellow Roger Pielke, Jr. Roger has done pioneering work on proper role of scientists and experts in society. He is an expert on the societal impacts of natural hazards, particularly hurricanes and floods, and a strong advocate of adaptation as a vital part of climate change policy. He is a guest contributer to the Breakthrough blog, and writes his own blog, Prometheus. Continue reading "The Cloth of Science: an Interview with Roger Pielke, Jr." » Surprise, Transgression, and Dancing: An Interview with Political Theorist Bill Chaloupka
"Certainty is for science. But politics looks a lot like dancing."
You describe how anti-environmentalists in the rural western US turned populist resentment against environmentalists in the wake of environmental victories which protected forests from logging and wilderness from mining and development. You draw on the philosopher Nietzsche, who famously argued that Christian morality, which valorized sickness, poverty, humility, had simply reversed an older "noble morality," and was motivated by resentment. Is the "ressentiment" that Nietzsche wrote about useful for understanding anti-environmentalism? |
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