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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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George Monbiot

MYSTERIOUS: Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis by taking knowledge hostage - You Need To See This

Illustration: Thomas Pullin

If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis.

An epistemic crisis is a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge. It’s about what we know and how we know it, what we agree to be true and what we identify as false. We face, alongside a global threat to our life-support systems, a global threat to our knowledge-support systems.

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