Vagueness of Assembly

Rather than being forced to see the divides between nature and society, Latour would argue that it's about time "for social and natural scientists to forget what separates them and start looking jointly at those ‘things’ whose hybrid nature has, for many decades now, already united them in practice." The common world made up of assemblages and natural scientists who deal with primary qualities of the natural world might prove favorable to the social sciences in not taking short cuts of due process.

Countries shouldn't be "free" to pursue their own strategies for meeting targets of reducing greenhouse gasses, an approach some environmental groups called vague. Why would it be voluntary not mandatory for all global economies? Mr. Bush is delaying in setting goals for reducing greenhouse gasses. He didn't support the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and he skirts around the subject of global warming by playing his political trump card of reducing chaos and suffering in the world by making "America safer, because prosperous nations are less likely to breed violence and export terror.'' What does violence and terror have to do with global warming? It may be his way of mixing politics and science.