Media coverage of climate change: Difference between revisions

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It has been argued that using sensational and alarming techniques, often evoke "denial, paralysis, or apathy" rather than motivating individuals to action and do not motivate people to become engaged with the issue of climate change.<ref name="Dilling & Moser">{{Cite book|last1=Lisa Dilling|author-link1=Lisa Dilling|last2=Susanne C. Moser|title=Creating a climate for change: communicating climate change and facilitating social change|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|___location=Cambridge, UK|isbn=978-0-521-86923-2|pages=1–27|chapter=Introduction}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1177/1075547008329201 | title = "Fear Won't Do It": Promoting Positive Engagement with Climate Change Through Visual and Iconic Representations | year = 2009 | last1 = O'Neill | first1 = S. | last2 = Nicholson-Cole | first2 = S. | journal = Science Communication | volume = 30 | issue = 3 | pages = 355–379| s2cid = 220752087 }}</ref> In the context of [[climate refugee]]s—the potential for climate change to [[displaced person|displace people]]—it has been reported that "alarmist hyperbole" is frequently employed by [[private military contractor]]s and [[think tank]]s.<ref name="Hartmann2010">{{Cite journal|last=Hartmann |first=Betsy |year=2010 |title=Rethinking climate refugees and climate conflict: Rhetoric, reality and the politics of policy discourse |journal=Journal of International Development |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=233–246 |issn=0954-1748 |doi=10.1002/jid.1676}}</ref>

Danish environmentalist and author, [[Bjørn Lomborg]], has written a number of books and columns on global warming and the climate. He believes that although climate change is a reality with definite negative consequences, the [[Apocalypticism|imminent threat]] it poses to humanity has been vastly exaggerated by climate alarmists <ref>{{Cite book |last=Lomborg |first=Bjørn |title=Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming |publisher=Knopf Publishing Group |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-307-26692-7}}</ref>. That the trillions of dollars proposed to be spent on [[Climate change mitigation|mitigating]] climate change will have only a miniscule effect, and that focusing on [[Climate change adaptation|adaptation]] using innovations is a better option [<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lomborg |first=Bjørn |title=False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet |publisher=Hachette Book Group |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-541-64747-3}}</ref>]. Experts at his research institute, the [[Copenhagen Consensus]], have on several occasions concluded that climate issues deserve a lower priority in global attention than more pertinent issues like disease and nutrition <ref>{{Cite book |last=Lomborg |first=Bjørn |title=Global Crises: Global Solutions |publisher=Copenhagen Consensus |year=2004 |isbn=0-521-60614-4}}</ref>.

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