tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216971263350849959.post1173702421085044359..comments2023-08-07T16:41:49.660+02:00Comments on Die Klimazwiebel: Media "overkill" -- could it be true?eduardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725131974182980651noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216971263350849959.post-76804967596118536532012-10-16T03:23:19.642+02:002012-10-16T03:23:19.642+02:00Inspiring people tends to be more difficult than s...Inspiring people tends to be more difficult than scaring them, and it's especially hard to do with a website. This might account for the site's awkward design - trying something new I guess...Mike Zajkonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216971263350849959.post-79397834935561941342012-10-09T12:00:42.352+02:002012-10-09T12:00:42.352+02:00Hans,
of course, climate change is an unintended c...Hans,<br />of course, climate change is an unintended consequence of industrialization. Nonetheless, there is no routine or normal to rely on or to go back to - this is what I meant by social experiment.<br /><br />Werner Krausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15094636819952421339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216971263350849959.post-56480486890242597942012-10-09T10:56:43.509+02:002012-10-09T10:56:43.509+02:00Werner - not sure if I would call anthropogenic cl...Werner - not sure if I would call anthropogenic climate change a social experiment. In the sense of inducing intended change, obtaining a planned difference to "normal" (presently prevalent) conditions.<br /><br />Would a development towards more affluence qualify as an "experiment"?Hans von Storchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778028673130006646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216971263350849959.post-66247995408819303122012-10-09T09:16:47.641+02:002012-10-09T09:16:47.641+02:00The BBC article is about a campaign by the EU name...The BBC article is about a campaign by the EU named "worldulike", which intends to inspire people instead of frightening them. It's interesting to click through the following link:<br />http://world-you-like.europa.eu/en/<br /><br />This is what archaeologists in a couple of hundred years will look at and wonder what kind of cosmology people lived by in 2012! <br /><br />Hans: I agree, but: "The issue seems more as an opportunity to do social experiments" - isn't anthropogenic climate change a social experiment per se? Consequently, the problem is not that climate change is used for social experiments, but which social experiments do we want instead to face this challenge.Werner Krausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15094636819952421339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216971263350849959.post-28253979283967870182012-10-09T07:54:12.185+02:002012-10-09T07:54:12.185+02:00If this report is accurate, it describes a sad ina...If this report is accurate, it describes a sad inability of European elites to take climate change seriously. The issue seems more as an opportunity to do social experiments - such as mass mobilization, steps towards a truly global governance - than dealing with efficiently limiting climate change and protecting society against "non-mitigatable" climate change.<br /><br />"A bit too much doom and gloom in the past on climate" - if quoted accurately - describes a concept that this past "gloom and doom" practice could easily be rectified by another educational approach "inspiring people" - without recognizing that the gloom & doom practice caused damage in the trust in policymakers, media and science - even though "people" are not mentioned in Reiner's discussion; it seems that the EU officials consider the media as culprits.Hans von Storchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778028673130006646noreply@blogger.com