{"id":968,"date":"2009-05-27T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=968"},"modified":"2009-05-27T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:37:29","slug":"dramatizing-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Dramatizing Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/smile-gallery/ Last summer, Bill McKibben argued<\/a> in Orion magazine that global warming is<\/p>\n

Zolpidem 5Mg Order Online essentially a literary problem. A technological and scientific challenge, yes; an economic quandary, yes; a political dilemma, surely. But centrally? A crisis in metaphor, in analogy, in understanding. We haven’t come up with words big enough to communicate the magnitude of what we’re doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://dentalprovidence.com/payment/ That’s about to change, but perhaps not exactly as McKibben envisioned. Via Garry Peterson at Resilience<\/a>, I learn that climate change is now the subject of compelling theater in London.<\/p>\n

Order Ambien Online However, as Robin McKie at The Observer recently noted<\/a>, it is not climate change itself in the new play that is “riveting stuff,” but rather “the human and cultural reaction to it.”<\/p>\n

https://blackhillsballoons.com/bookyourflight/ That kind of drama, as opposed to typical Hollywood fare<\/a>, or a clever verbal metaphor<\/a>, allows people to process global warming on a human level. In a slow-moving crisis such as climate change, where the worst consequences are thought to be decades away, perhaps such artistic drama will prove the best impetus for collective action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, Bill McKibben argued in Orion magazine that global warming is essentially a literary problem. A technological and scientific challenge, yes; an economic quandary, yes; a political dilemma, surely. But centrally? A crisis in metaphor, in analogy, in understanding. We haven’t come up with words big enough to communicate the magnitude of what we’re… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2476,2553,3020],"tags":[835,1120,1692],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-climate-change","category-theater","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}