>Unfortunately, a lot of the solutions are expensive and frankly politically toxic.
At the end of the day, everything is political. Instead of shying away from it engage with it because it is the only way you'll change society.
At the end of the day, everything is political. Instead of shying away from it engage with it because it is the only way you'll change society.
In fact, the more harsh way to frame this is people need to understand whether they have an interest in politics does not change the fact others do.
And we all live with the product of those of us who do get involved politically.
Speak or be spoken for has real teeth when viewed through this lens.
Next is feeding the homeless, some cities limit how they can be fed.
We need to take a close look at these sorts of regulations as soon as possible. Just these two things could make a huge impact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse#Cage_hotels_in_the...
It only is if you view everything through a political lens. Science and psychology, for example, are not political.
Plus you can affect change without the political system. Starting with improving oneself. Then family members. Then local community. If enough people did that, that would be a societal change and maybe we wouldn't have such a crisis in the first place.
Could you clarify? Do you mean to say that these fields of study don't yield results that have political implications? Or that these fields are impervious to political influence because...well I don't know, they aren't performed by humans?
Facts are facts regardless.
That and there is an incredible shortage of reproductions and garbage publications that are difficult or impossible to replicate with the available information.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170411104516.h...
These point to soft sciences, so I suppose my point doesn't stand so much for things like climate change publications, or evolutionary biology.
Science is extremely political. Ask any PI who's written a grant or published a paper before whether they think science is apolitical.