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    Jaida Wilson
    Dash  ·  
    Mar 30, 2021

    Who Are Climate Models For??

    in Thoughts from Learners

    While I’d crafted this question while watching the McCarthy video, I realize it could be a valuable question in any of the interviews. When it comes to making actions about Climate Change, who should science be trying to convince to act?? Consumers/Constituents (i.e. the everyday citizen)? Corporations? Politicians? Which group should take priority, if any, and how has the formulation/presentation of climate models adjusted to appeal to that group? In each of the interviews, this is answered in little bits, with the individual often focusing on how scientists have approached one of the listed groups. However, I think it would be interesting to see which group others think should be the focus on Climate Change education.


    https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:HarvardX:b0b1d3dd:lx_simulation:1


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    William Foulkes
    Dash  ·  
    Apr 01, 2021

    I definitely think these questions relate to a wide range of the interviews that we've watched this week. One that comes to mind for me is the interview with George Church, in which he makes pretty clear how much the test subject needs to know before giving their genomic information to his research group. While he goes in depth on this subject, I wanted to know more about how much other groups of people, such as academic institutions and governments, should be persuaded to encourage the growth of this type of research. It seems like those large institutions could possibly do more to affect change than any one person. Of course, education on the individual level is extremely important, but it's interesting to think about how someone like Church could go about expanding his research which could save lives.

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