BBC News website A new report was published on 19th September by the IPPR on climate change and the lessons we can learn for encouraging public action. The original 2006 BBC news article read like this. Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the UK government amount to "climate porn", a think-tank says.
The report from the Labour-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says over-use of alarming images is a "counsel of despair".
It says they make people feel helpless and says the use of cataclysmic imagery is partly commercially motivated.
However, newspapers have defended their coverage of a "crucial issue".
The IPPR report also criticises the reporting of individual climate-friendly acts as "mundane, domestic and uncompelling".
"The climate change discourse in the UK today looks confusing, contradictory and chaotic," says the report, entitled Warm Words.
"It seems likely that the overarching message for the lay public is that in fact, nobody really knows."
For more on this report see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5236482.stm
To read the full report see: http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=561
No comments:
Post a Comment