In their report to Congress Parker and Blodgett outline three pervasive lenses through which many laypeople, activists and policy makers see climate change. Each lens is shaped by values and beliefs about climate change, and it determines what action a person believes should be taken to counter it. I would like to propose one all-encompassing, […]
Emission trading – Theregenerationproject.org Parker presented three lenses that can be used to view and prioritize solutions to climate change. She gave a warning before describing the three lenses, “The purpose here is not to suggest that one lens is superior to another, but rather to articulate the differing perspectives in order to facilitate communication […]
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The world has a problem. Climate change has ceased to be a debatable possibility with the potential to affect earthly existence at some point in the (very distant) future, and has materialized in the form of measurable ecological changes. Scientific evidence showing elevated atmospheric temperature, rising sea levels and changes in precipitation patterns has begun […]
A TechnEcologic Lens for Viewing Global Warming As someone who holds strong morals and ethics, and a believer in efficiency, I characterize the lens in which I view climate change as TechnEcologic, a blend of Parker & Blodgett’s technological and ecologic lenses(http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B2X6pLBKlqTLNjYxOGE5YTAtYjMwYy00MTJjLTlkMjUtZDcyMjE1OTgzYzVi&hl=en). I feel that people need to be properly educated on global warming and […]
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Among the technological, economic, and ecological lenses described in Parker and Blodgett’s report, economic and ecological lenses best characterizes the view of China. But there is another sociological lens through which climate change can be viewed and it plays a more important role. China’s economy has developped rapidly over the past decades, but its environment […]
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