There is no room for faith in the climate change debate, wrote Ian McPhail (Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability) with a degree of faith in a letter to The Australian.
Strangely enough, the greatest idea of modern science is based on faith, not on reason: it is the belief that the universe operates according to what has been called 'the principle of universality'. This means that there is faith in the idea that there is order in the universe; that the rules applying to our earth apply everywhere else. Yet, there is no way to prove this. However, without this intrinsically 'irrational' faith in the premise that we live in an ordered universe, modern science simply could not function.
Like scientists, I too have faith in science's ability to determine the exact nature and causes of climate change, if any, and its ability to come up with solutions. Ultimately, of course, it would be up to those who control the world's corridors of powers (politicians, manufacturers and financial institutions, to name but a few) whether the solutions devised by science would be put into practice for the good of humanity.
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