Publication Date
6-2022
Abstract
How shall we judge the element of practicality or urgency for scholars working in the era of the 2030 deadline for action on climate change? This essay surveys the reaction to climate change by scholars who work with data, using the philosopher Stephen Gardiner’s conceit of “corrupt institutions” to organize the approaches according to an index of pragmatic orientation. This survey will lead to the identification of some challenges for those seeking to engage the climate deadline with data, especially work making climate data more transparent, text mining to identify aspects of corruption and reform within contemporary institutions, and building infrastructure for citizen participation.
Document Type
Article
Part of
Special Issue on Actionable Climate Data
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/719704
Rights
CC-BY Attribution 4.0
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Guldi, Jo, "The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History" (2022). History Faculty Publications. 19.
https://scholar.smu.edu/hum_sci_history_research/19
