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Here is science speaking truth to power, and finally embracing its political and ethical obligations. While still haunted by malthusianism, the actual paper takes #politics and #petrocapital head on. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/13/top-scientists-warn-of-ghastly-future-of-mass-extinction-and-climate-disruption-aoe
The use of terms such as 'human species' and 'populations', and calls to 'education' still betray the unwillingness to point the finger at particular forms of being 'human' and at particular groups of humans as the main culprits of this barbaric present. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full
The future may be not only ghastly, but barbaric, as Stengers argues - dominated by increasingly violent conflict between those already sinking and those clambering into the fortified top of the sinking ship.
The recommendations are a hotch-potch, but finally do not avoid the c-word: "fundamental changes to global capitalism", "abolition of perpetual economic growth". Overall a powerful sign of a new consensus emerging - science acknowledging it is political, and taking responsibility
