Professional paper
Climate Changes and the Social Roles of Science and Politics
Jelena PUĐAK
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
In this article we analyze the attitude of the political
establishment toward the scientifically proven problem of
anthropogenic global warming and climate changes. Both
global warming and climate changes are mainly caused by
the political and economic interests of developed nations.
Political institutions on the global level have shown inability
in solving these problems. Those institutions aren't incapable
'per se', but are, under the influence of profit, neglecting the
public interest of resolving climate changes. In the article we
have shown the longlasting course of identifying these
problems by the scientific community that should lead the
policy makers in creating strategies for mastering the
problems. Although some shifts have been made in the
political field on local or national level, greater ones are still
expected. By analyzing the developed nations of the world
(USA, Canada, European Union, Australia), we tried to show
both positive and negative examples of approaching the
problem of climate changes, and the tight connection
between the political and economic systems, which has as
its consequence the direct influence on policy makers in
bringing strategies for stopping climate changes both on the
national and global levels.
Keywords
global warming; science; politics; interes
Hrčak ID:
37189
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2009.
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