Farrelly Colin
Department of Political Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
Biol Lett. 2024 Dec;20(12):20240426. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0426. Epub 2024 Dec 11.
Why should, and how can, the fields of climate science and geroscience (which studies the biology of ageing) facilitate the cross-disciplinary collaboration needed to ensure that human and planetary health are both promoted in the future of an older, and warmer, world? Appealing to the ideal of 'wisdom-oriented' science (Maxwell 1984 In ), where scientists consider themselves to be artisans working for the public good, a number of the real-world epistemic constraints on the scientific enterprise are identified. These include communicative frames that stoke intergenerational conflict (rather than solidarity) and treat the ends of planetary and human health as independent 'sacred values' (Tetlock 2003 , 320-324) rather than as ends. To foster 'climate geroscience'-the field of knowledge and translational science at the intersection of climate science and geroscience-researchers in both fields are encouraged to think of novel ways they could make researchers from the other field 'conversationally' present when framing the aspirations of their respective fields, applying for grant funding and designing their conferences and managing their scientific journals.
在一个老龄化加剧且气候变暖的未来世界中，气候科学和老年科学（研究衰老生物学）领域为何以及如何能够推动所需的跨学科合作，以确保人类健康和地球健康都能得到促进？借鉴“以智慧为导向”的科学理念（麦克斯韦，1984年），即科学家将自己视为为公共利益而工作的工匠，本文指出了科学事业在现实世界中面临的一些认知限制。这些限制包括加剧代际冲突（而非团结）的沟通框架，以及将地球健康和人类健康的目标视为相互独立的“神圣价值”（泰特洛克，2003年，第320 - 324页），而非统一的目标。为了促进“气候老年科学”——气候科学与老年科学交叉的知识领域和转化科学领域，鼓励这两个领域的研究人员思考新颖的方法，以便在阐述各自领域的抱负、申请资助、设计会议以及管理科学期刊时，能让来自对方领域的研究人员“在对话中”参与进来。
