Coby Beck wrote: > http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58635 > > According to the Woods Hole Institute, it may only take three years of > drought to potentially destroy the Amazon rainforest. I don't know how > reliable such a conclusion is, but this strikes me as hugely serious, and > maybe happening right now.
It strikes me as highly apposite that the above story appeared at the same time as this report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/5236482.stm == 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". == Lean and Pearce (the authors of the Amazon article) are responsible for some of the most extreme stuff in the UK press (ie the Independent). James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
