Sentences with phrase «broader social consensus»

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

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While there is an emerging consensus that a broader range of skills are necessary to face economic, environmental, technological, political and social challenges of our time, the question of how specifically to develop such skills has received less attention.

Even if, for argument's sake, there were to emerge a broad consensus that the impacts of SRM could be accurately predicted (which seems highly unlikely and endlessly contestable), the social and political impacts of such an intervention are essentially un-knowable, meaning that whatever level of physical scientific certainty or engineering know - how we might gain in this area, the whole enterprise will remain radically unpredictable and risky.

To argue that it the broad consensus has arisen in the absence of compelling evidence, that the broad consensus is social as opposed to evidence - based, you have a difficult case.

This sort of broad policy could only work where there is a very broad consensus among those sought to be governed that it's right to go along with it — and that's exactly what you don't have here — or, alas, where there's a majority that wishes to enforce conformity on the minority and is willing to use social and other pressures to bring that about.