On the economics of techno-scientific promises

Abstract

Contemporary societies are far more intensely future-oriented than those of the past (Giddens, 1998).Climate change is a paramount example of close entanglement of the future in the present. It illustrates how representations of adverse irreversible futures shape current behaviours when we are collectively convinced that this is the only way to avoid the unacceptable. In this case, the future is so strong that it determines the present. As suggested by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, we then observe an i...

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