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Constance Lever-Tracy

Flinders University of South Australia, Constance.Lever-Tracy{at}flinders.edu.au

The precautionary principle warns that while we should not ignore actions needed to prevent worst-case scenarios, expecting only the worst can immobilize us. The scenarios of climatologists contain a range of possible time scales and impacts. With a determined effort, we may win time for later solutions such as carbon sequestration, fusion power, lower birth rates or social transformation. Both total societal collapse and ensuing barbarism are potentially avoidable.

Key Words: climate change • climatology • sociology • worst-case scenarios

Current Sociology, Vol. 56, No. 3, 485-491 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0011392107088241
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