Science Reimagined: Pluralism for Climate Justice
Science Reimagined: Pluralism for Climate Justice

Summary/Abstract: A real debate around climate change must confront the tension between scientific objectivity and its sociopolitical and cultural entanglements that could stall or deter effective climate action. How would science then be reimagined and responsive to the interpretive and normative demands of such entanglements? This creates a challenge for scientific pluralism as to how to verify the coexistence of multiple, equally valid scientific paradigms in explaining the same events and withstand falsification. Where production, verification, distribution, and reception of knowledge are governed by competitive mechanisms, epistemic agents would become both producers and consumers; climate justice, a view that examines inequality and the historical responsibilities for climate change, would prioritise local, need-driven solutions over universally applicable models. A marketplace-based rationality, structured by exchange, competition, and mediated visibility, is not only descriptively accurate but also normatively indispensable in a time when place-specific knowledge must coexist in a productive tension.

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