The Dismal Science On Climate And The Future - It's Even Worse Than You Could Imagine

[CatLady78]

6. I have wondered about this

How is it that it has only been in the last 5-10 years maybe that I have seen environmental issues start getting factored into economic models? They generally parrot that crap-austerity for the poor, cut taxes on the wealthy etc over and over.

How can something that is supposed to be a science ignore how finite our resources are and how they are subject to natural laws that should be factored into any realistic model?

They should fund interdisciplinary areas where some of these social sciences (especially these hideously right shifted ones like economics) have more of a conversation with people with training in the natural sciences.


Look at psychiatry for instance. It will almost certainly become a more accurate science if they implement stuff like computational psychiatry properly (without falling prey to the biases inherent in ai right now). Surely economics is another softer science that needs a serious overhaul.