Climate Change Impacted By the Enlightenment Age
Hi reader,
During the Enlightenment age, one work that shocked the world was Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica and that work provided people with scientific reasoning for how the world works. Once people started to find reason in the world, even more people continued to find discoveries and inventions in the world. Originally when Newton first published his book, many people were skeptical of his finds because many people believed in the churches and the idea of the “will of God.” As time goes on, people started to know that Newton was correct with his finds and people praised his findings. One of Newton's most famous quotes was, “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth,” and he is pushing for the people to listen to the truth and not believe what other people are saying to them (Source). Both Newton and Aristotle, a famous philosopher, most likely talked a lot to each other, but Newton kept going back to the idea of truth and finding out why things work, like ideas of gravity and conservation of motion.
Today, some people
noticed the temperature and sea level slowly increasing every year and people raise concerns about climate change. At first, many people were very skeptical of this
finding, but after many years of scientific reason and evidence of climate
change, people slowly start believing that it is real. But much of the
population do not believe that climate change is real and think that it is the “will
of God” or the will of Earth, and they do not believe that the scientific reasoning supports the idea of climate change is real. This has led much of today’s society to make
political cartoons and arts and posting these ideas on social media to spreading awareness of
this issue. The findings of climate change are similar to how Newton published
his book because both started receiving criticism by people saying that their
ideas are wrong or they do not believe that person. From the enlightenment age,
people started to realize that Newton was correct and much of current-day
physics is based on his finds. Currently, more people are believing the idea
of climate change to be real and the enlightenment age is one of the reasons
for starting to believe in scientific discoveries. The image below shows a
political cartoon published four years ago and shows the Earth tweeting a
selfie. This image shows people how bad the Earth is suffering from global
warming and climate change. The image brings back the idea that people do not
believe in the scientific fact the Earth is going through a dramatic change,
but as soon as enough people start to see that the scientific fact is true,
society starts to accept that fact.
Sincerely Raj
Hello Raj,
ReplyDeleteWithout evidence to back up any claims that is centralized around research and repeatability, you are effectively putting out a speculation which previously was based around the church as you said. Where in modern day society from having too little data to prove, we have too much data respectively that with an inverse effect due to having too much people can believe to disbelieve. This can and has happened within the last few decades with the flat earth theory, as with modern tracking technology the government is suspicious with belief they are hiding more.
Best,
Treb (They/Them)
Hey,
ReplyDeleteI can see what you are trying to say. Yet, the post reads weird. I can see you are trying to connect Newton's scientific discoveries and the idea of climate change. There is a line of connection, but you lose it in a couple of spots. Mostly, you focus too much on climate change's church aspect and not the scientific evidence of climate change. If you referred to articles and documentation of climate change, you would sound like an Enlightenment-era churchgoer.
Hi, I really enjoyed reading your post! I had never thought about how something like climate change could ever relate to the Enlightenment, but you were able to explain the connection really clearly. I think this pattern is true for a lot of major scientific discoveries throughout history. People tend to resist major change, so when something challenges a longstanding way of thinking, it'll be resisted, even if there is evidence backing up that claim.
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