Science/technology and Capital: the unholy alliance - how to tackle it?

gorski · Nov 22, 2012

Phew...

gorski · Jan 20, 2013

Here is a possible version of Science: http://www.pugwash.org/

See the "team": http://www.pugwash.org/about/conference.htm

Or here:

http://www.pugwash.org/reports/pac/pac256/rotblat.htm

See these, for instance, when it comes to "strategic thinking" of a truly intelligent species:

...the urgent need and duty of scientists to be concerned about the social consequences of the tremendous advances in science and technology - the Scientific Revolution, as he used to call it. He believed that this revolution called for a correspondingly radical change in the attitude of Man towards social and political problems, especially towards solving disputes: it was vital to resolve conflicts by non-military means...

...since the problems created by the advances in science and technology affected the whole of mankind, a truly international endeavour was necessary to tackle them.

Science misused by nations to foster their competitive interests as world powers makes possible the destruction of mankind. Science used co-operatively by all nations for the increase of human knowledge and the improvement of man’s productive capacity can give all men on earth a satisfactory and worthwhile life. Scientists bear a responsibility both to foster the constructive use of science and to help in preventing its destructive use.
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And then:

The goals adopted by the London Conference were outlined in the public statement, issued at its conclusion:

We scientists from 36 countries, assembled at the Tenth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, are united by an awareness that the scientific revolution has created a radically new situation for humanity, endowing man with an unprecedented capacity for creation and destruction....

Disarmament and a stable peace are essential conditions for making a new society in which poverty could be abolished. The prospect of such a world is no longer Utopian.
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We reassert our conviction that the goal of full disarmament and permanent peace is realistic and urgent. This work is truly to be seen as a part of a long struggle for the progress of mankind, and it is one in which scientists have a responsible part to play. We call upon scientists everywhere in the world to join us in this task.

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Moreover:

The Pugwash Movement is an expression of the awareness of the social and moral duty of scientists to help to prevent and overcome the actual and potential harmful effects of scientific and technological innovations, and to promote the use of science and technology for the purpose of peace.
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Even this came to the fore:

...on the social responsibility of scientists.

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...a campaign on the Pledge - a sort of Hippocratic Oath intended to be taken by young scientists at the start of their careers.
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...the rapid advances in several areas of technology may lead to profound societal disturbances, which may arise from the changes in the norms of life of the human community as a result of these advances; changes in economic, cultural and spiritual values, changes that may be abhorrent to some sections of society. There is a real danger that science and scientists will be blamed for the upheavals. It will be difficult to refute such accusations, unless the scientific community wakes up to its social responsibilities.
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Just another such view from a philosopher of science/physicist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Supek

Already in 1944, fourteen months before Hiroshima, he warned on the danger of the newly developed atomic bomb, which could soon destroy the entire life on Earth.

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...he founded the Institute for the Philosophy of Science and Peace, as a section of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 1991 the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) of which he was president from 1991 to 1997. The Institute was also a center of the nuclear disarmament movement, the Pugwash Conference for Yugoslavia, of which he was one of the founders and a member of its Permanent Committee. In 1970 he initiated the establishing of the Interuniversity Centre in Dubrovnik (IUC). He was also one of the founders of the international organization World without the Bomb. After numerous disputes and arguments with the government he was interrupted in his public activity in 1971.

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In 1976 he signed the Dubrovnik-Philadelphia Statement, with Philip Noel-Baker, Linus Pauling and Roberto Peccei. He participated at the Philadelphia Congress of World Unity in 1976. He formulated his famous ten humanistic principles, which were more or less repeated at every later peace summit and event. He also established the International League of Humanists.

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It's interesting what the "Bible Believers" "think" about it:

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/human1.htm

intelvn · Mar 8, 2013

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Science/technology and Capital: the unholy alliance - how to tackle it?

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