Thinklog Wargafikir

Today I watched a documentary on climate change. The narrative is all too familiar to me, since it is part of the subject matter I teach. However s omething struck me as a resonance, of another narrative I have been dealing with. The documentary tells of an obstacle, in the early days, namely the reluctance of government, industrial players, and even scholars to acknowledge the harm of fossil fuels, in the face of mounting empirical evidence. After almost sixty years since the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, only recently has the green sentiment begun to take hold in civilisation. I have been talking about reductionism in academia for so long. In doing so, I found similar symptoms in the economy, education, medicine and science itself. Despite the mounting evidence of their relationship with reductionism, it is hard to wean people off the reductionist mindset. I cant help but draw a parallel between the two narratives, our addiction to fossil fuel, and to reductionism. I