We could talk about climate change for years. No, seriously. If every country in the world spoke their piece individually at the UN conference in Copenhagen this year, there is no way the issues at hand could be resolved in a two-week period. Recognizing this, the UN has organized itself into groups or coalitions of […]
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While reading the CRS Report for Congress Global Climate Change: Three Policy Perspectives I came across something that was somewhat intriguing to me. Here is an excerpt: “It is not necessary for consumers to change their behavior significantly to adjust to the “new reality” of an environmental problem. What this is basically stating is that […]
The lens through which I see climate change solutions is somewhat of a hybrid of Parker & Blodgett’s three. Although I see the situation largely through the ecological lens, I feel that the other two lenses represent the flaws in our appreciation of the environment. All three lenses provide integral parts of the ultimate comprehensive […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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