On the economics of techno-scientific promises
Year: 2010
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Contemporary societies are far more intensely future-oriented than those of the past (Giddens, 1998).Climate change is a paramount example of close entanglement of the future in the present. It illustrates how representations of adverse irreversible futures shape current behaviours when we are collectively convinced that this is the only way to avoid the unacceptable. In this case, the future is so strong that it determines the present. As suggested by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, we then observe an i...
Source: Presses des Mines eBooks
Author: Pierre-Benoît Joly
Institution: Sciences en Société
Language: French
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2151139938