Science, Responsibility and Global Sustainability: Steps toward a New Ethical Paradigm?

1 Introduction: The Catastrophic Convergence and the Tropic of Chaos Global crisis is not a technical problem, nor even an economic problem. It is, fundamentally, a cultural and political problem, where we need new epistemological and ethical tools. Climate change has arrived in a world primed for global crisis. The dislocations of unsustainable change intersect with the already-existing crisis of poverty, resources, and violence. Christian Parenti has called this collision of political, econ..