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TreeHugger points out that though the situation does have dire possibilities for the future, the UN-sponsored Millennial Ecosystem Assessment does not simply paint a bleak picture.| "Who needs another sky-is-falling hour anyway? Then came a decent reporter's take on it (1 in a million chance) making it clear that other sources had misconstrued. It was, after all, an inventory, followed with a scenario planning study; and, only one of the four written scenarios were dire. Of course the dire one got almost all of the coverage. Which leads me to the obvious point. Is the media's constant rant about environmentalists being negative, the doom and gloom thing if you will, an intrinsic problem with TreeHuggers? |
An interesting assessment, and one that I admit I didn't pick up on until they pointed it out. It's indeed true that the media sells fear. I mean, they wouldn't make any sort of money if they didn't. "Celery, carrots, beets - one of these vegetables will kill you. We'll tell you which one after the break!" How about "The country is more politically divided than ever," (never mind that we had a civil war). So with that being the case, how do we know who to trust? Almost every bit of information we get passes through one filter or another, so really all we have is our own bullshit meters and people who like to fact check this kind of stuff... but even they have their own filters and their own agendas.
It's hard to know what to think when you read this kind of thing, because on the one hand, there really ARE some serious environmental problems. On the other hand, the sky isn't necessarily falling and we may just pull out of this yet if we start changing things. Will we pull it off? I guess we'll know in a few years.
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