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Mapping Weak Signals

Inspired by: interviews » The environmental fiasco caused by scientists changing their results to get their message across in a continent such as Europe, where there was quite a lot of scepticism towards science and technology.

version: 7 / updated: 2011-10-23
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Originally submitted by: Ivan Montenegro Perini
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Source of inspiration

Interviews

The source of the Weak Signal is

Ian PEARSON, "Futurizon", interviewed by "MIOIR".

Signal's headline

(max. 9 words)

The environmental fiasco caused by scientists changing their results to get their message across in a continent such as Europe, where there was quite a lot of scepticism towards science and technology.

Signal's description

(approx. 150 words)

Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)

Many traditional techniques are clearly failing and many techniques used by politicians over the last few decades have made things much worse. There is a lot of frustration building up, people are wary of politicians and I think that is a weak signal pointing towards a major change in how we do politics . It is the same in many European countries – confidence in politics is dropping and pressure is building up for change. This is based on a lot of factors: pressures from immigration; conflicts in the religious world between East and West; conflicts on environmentalism; conflicts due to the increasing gap between generations in the population, as we have an increasingly large older population and the costs for these are going to be borne by the younger generation.

Keywords

Confidence in Politics, New Generations and Environment.

Signal's potential evolution

It could lead to...

	issue	type of issue/development	potential impact on society	timeframe for the issue to become at least 50% probable
#1		continuation	beneficial
#2		continuation	harmful

Importance

		please specify
	please select	please specify
Level 1: important for a particular country
Level 2: important for a particular world region
Level 3: important for the European Union

Filters preventing the signal's monitoring

scientific filters (knowledge/technology access)

social filters (class, status, education level)

other, please specify: Environment

Signal's relevance for European Grand Challenges

		where?		please justify:
	particularly relevant	Europe	world	please justify:
Ethics and abuse of S&T
Governance and trust in democracy
Innovation dynamics
Sustainability and climate change

Signal's relevance for thematic research areas

		please justify:
	particularly relevant	please justify:
ICT - Information & communication technologies
Environment (including Climate Change)
Social Sciences and Humanities

Progress: 52.51% WWI-WE Version: 7
0	mandatory questions pending
19	questions total
9	questions answered
9	questions completed
10	questions pending