Modern abstract reasoning in science focuses the thinking on outcomes. To focus on outcomes guides the thinking process to look for solutions in the realm of what Aristotle called material cause. To seek for material causes leads to abstract or technological perspectives. Opposed to this is a reasoning process that focuses on the activity of the mind engaged in the thinking process. The focus of this reasoning process is how the idea came to be in the mind of the thinker. This guides the mind to what Aristotle called final causes. We could say ultimate or primal instead of final causes since our sense of the word final is tinged with the modern tendency to expect factual outcomes from reasoning processes. To seek for ultimate causes leads to moral perspectives.

In the present day these two perspectives are in opposition. This is most evident in the debate surrounding the climate crisis or global warming issues. The global implications section of the ClimaTrends website features articles that focus on presenting aspects of these two approaches in simple language so that the unique perspective of the ClimaTrends research approach can be placed into context in the current debate on the climate. The articles address the potential for solving a problem that has resulted from abstract technological thinking with reasoning processes that are the very cause of the problem itself. They also point to an alternative approach to climate science that can include ultimate causes as part of a mathematically based science paradigm.