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Beacon Hill Seminars – Spring 2018
Climate Vulnerability: Responding to the Physical, Economic & Social
Challenges of Earth's Changing Climate
Tim Weiskel Cambridge Climate Research Associates
Spring Semester 2018
2 May 2018
Session 9 How to Keep Track of the Coming Trends +
+ Some Thoughts about the concept of a
“Boston Climate Institute”
Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (Focused on data manipulation + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist…”
DON”T BLAME YOURSELF… There are
Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (Focused on data manipulation + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist – neither are you, so…”
DON”T BLAME YOURSELF… There are
Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (More focused complicated data + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist – neither are you, so…”
DON”T BLAME YOURSELF… There are
Reasons mentioned 25 April
Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (Focused on data manipulation + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist – neither are you, so…”