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Garbagio
lemmy.zip

Reminder to all the people who think of NZ as a sane capitalist democracy: Capital and financialization will come for us all. America didn't metastasize, capitalism did, and it's demands do not change.

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absGeekNZ
lemmy.nz

“It is all throughout the social sciences curriculum, and we’ll just signal it now and signpost where that is. But it is it is definitely there. I’ve had a look.”

It maybe "in there"; but climate change is not a social science, this is atmospheric physics, thermodynamics and chemistry.

Trying to reframe it as a social science is terrible.

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RephlectioNZreply
lemmy.nz

I totally agree. I also think that the whole field since the 80s should be studied in social science as a masterclass in how corporate interests can influence public discourse and government policy to achieve outcomes that benefit business at the expense of people and the environment.

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absGeekNZreply
lemmy.nz

This along with the tobacco, asbestos, glyphosate and a few others; where corporate interests subverted scientific evidence to influence policy to ensure that their business interests are favored.

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absGeekNZreply
lemmy.nz

Indeed; opioids are not really much of an issue here in NZ. Our government is not as captured by the pharma industry.

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