CLIMATE CHANGE
Business level strategies
October 28, 2020The US spends more on its military than the next 10 or so nations combined, what does the US government and its people get in return? Is this a good use of tax dollars?
October 28, 2020Prompt
Think about the various theories that Elizabeth Kolbert supplies in her brief discussion in Chapter 11 of “cli-psy” or climate psychology to account for the “gap between the science of global warming and the public’s response.”
She mentions three theories for this gap:
1-the public’s continuing confusion about what scientists are really saying,
2-the confusion between the science and one’s identity or tribal commitment, and
3-the psychological strategies that people use to avoid painful subjects.
Instructions
Read Chapter 11 of Field Notes from a Catastrophe.
Choose ONE of the three theories that Kolbert discusses in Chapter 11, and compare it with ideas that Rich has explored in his article.
Write a paragraph in which you discuss the ways in which the theory your chose from Field Notes is echoed and/or distorted in the content of “Losing Earth.”
OR
Discuss the ways in which you have witnessed the theory being played out among your acquaintances.
Losing The Earth by Nathaniel Rich: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
