ECOLOGY, LOW-CARBON SOCIETY AND POLITICS

The developmental concept of a "Low-Carbon Society" (LCS) is an operational concept, on which the governments of developed countries are building their way out of environmental and technological-developmental quandaries. The concept itself has not been subject to any significant reflection and criticism in expert circles and has quietly taken up residence in public policy. The central role of technological development as a precondition for new momentum of the economic cycle needs to be problematized. This concept also clearly establishes a hierarchy among different sciences and technologies, and reserves only a secondary role for social sciences, a role in which their production of knowledge must be embedded into the reproduction of the existing political-economic order.