Humanity is suffering from a critical shortage of empowered Experts™ wielding computer models designed to help politicians tell us what to think, how to live, what to eat, and who to trust.

That’s why MIT is launching the Center for Sustainable Science and Strategy, aligned with the Climate Project at MIT. Both serve the essential role of capturing as many federal grant dollars as possible for as long as the climate crisis cornucopia keeps spitting out free money.

Incorporating and succeeding both the Center for Global Change Science and Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change while adding new capabilities, the center aims to produce leading-edge research to help guide societal transitions toward a more sustainable future. For example, if the computer models tell us that the global population must be halved in order to save the planet, fertilizer and food production will be scientifically reduced accordingly.

Achieving global policy hegemony requires pandering to a broad range of stakeholders, including not only corrupt third world nations and unbridled multinational companies, but nongovernmental organizations like UNRWA and ideological communities like Just Stop Oil that take action to promote sustainable development — with special attention to those who have historically borne the brunt of environmental injustice.

The new center will be led by Professor Noelle Selin from MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, the same folks who brought us that swell antiracism virtual reality game to help exorcise your Islamophobia.

Story liberally copy-pasted from MIT News