by sustainablesociety | May 26, 2018 | Climate Change
Photo by Maid Milinkic on Unsplash The following outline of climate breakdown as a wicked problem (Rittel and Weber 1973) is based on a reading of Reinar Grundmann’s (2016) ‘Focus on Climate change and the social sciences’. The work of Jurgen Habermas (1984, 1987)...
by sustainablesociety | May 24, 2018 | Climate Change, Health, Politics
Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash Sustainability – what can we in health services do? This appears to be a common question, perhaps indicating that the debate has moved on from questioning the scientific basis for both climate change and the data around...
by sustainablesociety | May 21, 2018 | Politics, Sociology
Photo by Amos Bar-Zeev on Unsplash “It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals”....
by sustainablesociety | May 19, 2018 | Climate Change, Politics
Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash “Austerity is an instrument of malice” Richard Horton (2017) in the BMJ A sustainable society not only has to consider what its source of energy is, but also what its social cohesion might be. We have to look at social...
by sustainablesociety | May 14, 2018 | Politics
Photo by rob walsh on Unsplash The Malefactors of Great Wealth I came across a quote from a speech in Oreskes and Conway’s (2014) ‘The Collapse of Western Civilization’. At this point, I will not name or date the speechmaker. I thought it interesting as a view on...
