Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Two Americas and Absolutism

Nation Now: Climate Change Is Here—It’s Too Late for Pessimism. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwz_fRrAk

I'm preparing for a course on crisis communication and climate change, and I'm testing blogs for an assignment.  I also see this space as an opportunity to organize articles and concepts for class.
This article points to a series on Showtime that I should check out, called Living Dangerously. It also contains two themes I've seen before: 1) audiences or types, but they boil it down to two Americas, those that care and believe and those that don't; and 2) a shift in discourse away from qualified language to absolute language among researchers.  I just wonder if a shift is really occurring.  As long as I can remember,  I've known a sense of certainty in the reporting of climate change data in popular sources.

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