The details matter...Is Global Warming a Social Construction?
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June 16th, 2015
In the thread below this question, a thoughtful and intelligent jelly suggested that race and gender are social contructions.
And here, I always thought they were metaphysical.
But that got me to thinking. Are other things, that might be considered as metaphysical, actually social constructions?
Is Global Warming a social construction? Are the standards to prove that it exists different than the standards that might lead one to reasonably conclude that there are, in fact, different genders, and different races?
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Yes global warming is a fraud. It is global climate change now.
Repackaging things to fit the masses, that is a social construct. From what I have gleaned from science is that climate change has always been a part of the Earth’s ecology. If the climate is changing it is the cycle for it to happen. But the timing of it might make some believe otherwise, and thus do certain actions for who know s what.
Well naming it as such is a social construction, but the world is hotter whether you call it global warming or tanning season.
No. Neither are race and gender.
Global warming is a physical phenomenon. It is sad that science has become so entwined with politics in this way, but the science is quite clear.
Race is a biological feature. Culture is a social construct. I could move to another country and adopt another culture in a year or two. But I am not physically capable of changing the fact that I am of Anglo-Saxon heritage, and I share common features with the rest of my race, such as facial structure, skin tone etc.
Gender is a different concept to sex. But it is still not a social construct – it is a direct result of biology. There are cultural elements that go along with a given gender, but most of the differences we attribute to gender are a direct result of hormonal levels. Transgenderism is just a form of Body Identity Integrity Disorder.
The jelly you quote got it a bit wrong. By trying to say climate change/warming is the same, you are getting it really wrong. Willful ignorance isn’t a social construct, either. It is a real phenomenon.
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