Climate and mathematics

# 3088

Many technical people and those influenced by their thinking think that if a curve can be drawn describing some activity, like interest rates or population or food systems, then social action can get us on that curve. Similarly, if a policy can be written down or presented at a conference, that proposal can be achieved. Physical constraints, such as materials, time, skills, money, and management are ignored. AI supports the illusion that everything is calculable and modelable.

The result is a society - modernism - that thinks it can when it can't.

The end of the Asia Pacific Cliomate week

ends with the world's bureaucrats congratulating themselves, These conferences, sponsored by institutions, shift the agenda from regenerating society to financialization. We need to think of what can happen with COP 28.