There is a possible silver lining to the disastrous floods swamping the UK — an end to
public apathy on climate change, says psychologist Adam Corner
Not exact matches
He's now 76 years old and still focused
on purging the parasite - driven illness from the two countries, Ethiopia and Chad, where transmission persists — a task to which he's bringing both a mastery of
public health and a lifetime's worth of understanding political intransigence and
apathy.
By trying to caricature those
on the left as believing that Murdoch is the only thing stopping the revolutionary vanguard from shaking the
public out of their political
apathy, Knowles misses what a lot of these commentators are actually trying to say.
Furthermore, although I agree the changing nature of our state demographics (including the support for
public education as a function of non-elect-based
apathy) will clearly impact credentialing enlistment, I would say that it's impact will dwarf in comparison to the impact that media - based attacks
on public education and the proliferation of charter schools will have
on it (again due to a decline in support for
public education).
Early in 2011, two longtime 60 Minutes producers, David Gelber and Joel Bach, met with me to describe their ambitious plan to create a television series
on global warming that, they hoped, would break through the enduring
public apathy and haze of disinformation surrounding the subject.
These kinds of statements (and there are many more) coupled with
apathy from democratically elected governments not wanting to commit electoral suicide and inactivity
on emissions cuts fron China / India / Brazil means that the climate debate isn't likely to develop beyond it's current level regardless of attempts to regain
public trust in the science.
Normally I am sceptical of user comments, but in this case, I wouldn't buy insurance from Alliance even if my life depended
on it — not because customer complaints, but purely due to the impersonal and insulting
public display of
apathy by the customer service team.