The Guardian decided to ignore the rules about what constitutes news and start writing about positive climate stories
2 months ago by mapto to c/climatehope
The Guardian decided to ignore the rules about what constitutes news and start writing about positive climate stories
And so was born the Alternatives, a weekly news column where we cover these different projects. We’re constantly amazed by some of the things we learn. Norway has heat pumps in two-thirds of its homes. China’s sponge cities are targeting 70% rainwater reuse. Paris is building a gigantic cooling machine using river water.
My view on this is that in all news there is editorial. If you choose not to report on the latest goings on in Ghana you are changing what information will get to your readers. Reporting is inherently done with a perspective, even if it is only in the sense of choosing what to report on.
The key issue for climate change is that things are changing due to human activity. There are lots of ancillary issues, for example how exactly things are changing or who is responsible for causing the situation. These are all valid parts of the overall story of climate change and each one adds to the knowledge of your readers. Adding another story of a bushfire does provide more context to your readers, but at some point diminishing returns starts to rear its ugly head.
If you only focus on the harms and never talk about solutions you are in fact biasing the information given to your readers. Recognising that you have not been providing a full context for your readers and then changing your reporting practises to fix that seems like good journalism to me.
We should absolutely be talking about the harms of climate change. This information is vital to actually making changes in who we vote for and what policies we support. But if we have no information about solutions we can't make informed decisions about whether a new technology is viable or vapourware, or whether a financial mechanism is useful or extractive. We need good information covering the causes and solutions so we can make good choices.
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@lemmy.world
A community dedicated to chronicling and spreading the word about positive actions, solutions, and policies being enacted to try to slow or prevent catastrophic climate collapse. We explore strategies and solutions for solving global warming, mitigating and preventing its deleterious effects, and protecting the environment, animal life and human life from it.
Rules:
No name-calling, trolling, ad-homs, personal attacks, strawmanning, or disrespectful or abusive behavior toward any other member.
This should go without saying, but any homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism/sexism/any kind of -ism is not allowed. “It’s just a joke” is not an excuse. Any sort of needling to try to convince the mods or anyone else to accept such behavior, or enabling or defending such, is not acceptable either. Breaking this rule will result in a ban on first sight.
Please respect our community and don’t use it to post spam, porn, gore, or any other disruptive content.
All posts must be evidence of or related to positive actions, policies, and solutions to climate collapse. No doomerism or anti-climate rhetoric allowed; if you think climate change is not man-made or is not really happening, this is not the community for you. This sub is a positive, supportive place and giving into fear and despair over climate collapse is unhelpful and dangerous for people's mental health, so it won't be allowed here. This is humanity's greatest challenge and so we all need to band together and be there for each other as we fix our broken planet.
Posts and comments must be in English only so they can be properly moderated.
Note: failure to abide by the rules may result in a ban depending on severity.
Rules subject to change based on community need.
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This sounds like constructive hope, rather than the “it will all be fine” type. Good. Exposing us to the idea of positive change is probably something we need more of.
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