Climate change and epistemology
Jem Bendell, who is the founder of the Deep Adaptation (to climate change) movement, started it with a paper. It's now downloaded more than 100 000 times. But it's now also read bye scientists that not miss to mention that Bendell is a professor of sociology and not an expert of climate change. Though Bendell refers to scientists he is accused for doing cherry picking among them. Bendell is also very sure of his findings: We are on our way towards a collapse of civilization. We should grieve and then prepare for the collapse. Many young people will die, but hopefully humankind will survive in some form. A respected journal, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (SAMPJ), rejected the paper. A publisher explained that the paper wasn't peer reviewed. They wanted Bendell to correct the paper so it reflected the facts. Bendell didn't do so but posted it in a blog. Bendell means that the journal didn't want to post the paper, because it says th