修复地球:在谷的环境意识形态中思考整个系统
1Radboud Institute for Culture & History, Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Internet histories (2017)
|January 6, 2025
概括
由谷推动的生态现代主义,在技术气候变化解决方案中使用"整体系统思维". 这种方法提供了一个天真的,数据驱动的地球观,忽视了系统性环境问题.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 技术社会学技术的社会学.
- 媒体和通信研究 媒体和通信研究
背景情况:
- 美国科技行业的参与者推广应对气候变化的技术解决方案.
- 在谷普遍存在的生态现代主义认为,人类进步与环境损害的分离.
- 整体系统思维是当代生态现代主义话语中的一个核心概念.
研究的目的:
- 在生态现代主义气候变化话语中分析"整体系统思维"的历史发展.
- 检查关键出版物和期刊对采用技术固定的影响.
- 批评将地球视为数据化,可控制系统的局限性和误解.
主要方法:
- 对生态现代主义话语的历史分析.
- 检查关键出版物:全地球目录 (1960年代),增长的限制 (1972) 和网络空间宣言 (1990年代).
- 在加利福尼亚技术文化中对"整体系统思维"进行话语分析.
主要成果:
- "整体系统思维"是从网络学,生态学和计算理论中演变出来的.
- 关键的历史时期塑造了对技术创新作为气候危机的解决方案的看法.
- 生态现代主义提出了一个潜在的误导性叙述,地球是一个数据化的星球.
结论:
- 生态现代主义的"整体系统思维"为气候变化提供了一种简单而不现实的观点.
- 依赖技术解决方案可能会掩盖环境退化的复杂性.
- 需要对地球作为一个复杂的生态系统进行批判性重新评估,而不是一个数据化的系统.
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