Sentences with phrase «deep polarization»

Given surveys and polling that shows deep polarization — in which there are passionate camps defending both the idea that humans are already dangerous disrupting things and utterly rejecting that — do you see signs that providing a flow of information can help?

The exchange explores both the validity of the conclusions in the original 2004 paper and reactions to Socolow's proposals for gaining traction in an era of deep polarization and economic malaise.

I saw that work as invaluable because it illustrated that a focus on deep polarization over the level of risk posed by global warming could be distracting from the prospect of taking widely - supported steps that could be taken to address it.

The e-mail discussion that follows proceeds along two tracks, one examining the validity of the conclusions in the influential «stabilization wedges» paper that Socolow co-authored with Stephen Pacala in 2004, the other offering reactions to Socolow's ideas on how to advance sustainable energy choices in an era of deep polarization and economic malaise.

Despite deep polarization, particularly on the climate implications of energy policies, Obama can use this speech to lay the foundation, in a «cathedral building» sense, for making a sustained energy quest the American imperative for the 21st century.

There is a deep polarization that exists within the lactation community itself so that is really tricky.

Several decisions and actions that were themselves spurred by broad social changes taking place at the time led to this deep polarization and partisan entrenchment.

At the same time, the mainline churches were facing their own crisis involving declining membership (especially among younger generations), clergy shortages, and deep polarization over issues such as human sexuality.

Moreover, the period precipitated the deep polarization of the middle classes on social and moral issues that has defined subsequent religious and political debate.

Thus, the closer look at the shift out of the middle reveals that a deeper polarization is underway in the American economy.

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The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not radical enough and by some of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential truths of the faith.

«I think the main culprits in explaining the rapid rise in polarization are probably to do with forces broader and deeper than the digitization of the news,» Shapiro said.

But he should embrace it anyway; he should fight for it, ask House Democrats to vote for it, and urge President Obama to sign it because he understands that, in a democracy — especially at a time of deep political and ideological polarization — compromise is the only alternative to stasis.

Anyone eager to understand, and move past, the deep political polarization around global warming would do well to explore the findings in «Solution aversion: On the relation between ideology and motivated disbelief,» published in the November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

People have been focusing on what is in fact the Report headline, namely, that there's deep political polarization on all matters climate.

An analysis of voting in a supreme court primary election suggests «deep racial polarization.»