On Thursday, 29 August, CPI’s Associate Research Fellow, Dr Calum T.M. Nicholson, delivered a public lecture in Pécs, exploring the politics of climate change, and the polarisation of this debate.
In a discussion that used the debate on climate change as a case study to explore the nature of political polarisation more generally, Dr Nicholson argued that we need not be caught in binary thinking, when it comes to climate change.
While arguing that the ‘climate deniers’ have too little faith in the natural science around climate change, he also argued that the ‘climate activists’ suffer from the opposite but equal fault of having too much faith in the social science on climate change's societal consequences. In light of this, he argued for a third approach which avoids these symmetrical naiveties.
