Image of Summer Beach as “Tiananmen Square” for Climate Change – Are you enjoying it?

Essay by Eric Worrall

h / t fretslider; According to the University of Exeter, Summer fun masks concerns about “climate decay” and hinders climate action.

‘Fun in the Sun’ photos are a dangerous distraction from the reality of climate divergence

Saffron O’Neill
Saturday, May 14, 2022 17.00 AEST

Think of the images that define our understanding of war or resistance. Similar people can tell the truth about this disaster

Open a British newspaper when a heatwave hits and you will likely see headlines about the unprecedented nature of the coming heatwave, the cost to lives and livelihoods, even death due to extreme heat. But accompanying the same story, you can also catch images of people playing in the sunshine – children splashing in the city fountains, crowded beaches, blue seas, clear skies. green and happy holiday.

The way the media communicates about climate decomposing reflects and shapes how society engages on the issue. Behind every photo that makes the news is a person who is reflecting and perpetuating the way society thinks about climate decomposition. Images are an important part of any media: they are often vivid and colorful, engaging the reader and helping them remember the story.

They also shape news production: compelling visuals help stories become media programmes. Think of the man blocking the flow of tanks at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a young girl flees her village after being burned by napalm bombs during the Vietnam war, smoke billowing from the twin towers. These images became part of our common soul – through them we remember the power of resistance, the horrors of war, and the moment when everything changed. Images of the climate crisis could hold the same power, which The Guardian noted in its industry-leading 2019 editorial decision to rethink the images that accompany climate narratives.

Our new study, led by the University of Exeter, highlights a distinct issue with how European media visually represent news about extreme heat. We examined media coverage from the UK, Netherlands, France and Germany during the summer of 2019. Importantly, we only included stories that mentioned both. keywords “heat wave” and “climate change”, arguing that if we were responsible and accurately reporting heatwave risk, it would range at least to refer to increased risk of heatwave become longer, more frequent and more intense under the influence of climate.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/14/sun-photos-climate-breakdown

My first thought was that someone should check for fungus growing in the University of Exeter’s water supply.

But seriously, imagine a locked-down medieval riot we would all have to endure if these killers were at all in charge. It will be like living in the Middle Ages, sacks and ashes, Limit dancing and partyingbecause play leads to more travel and higher respiration, an unnecessary increase in CO2 emissions, a complete mockery of our burden of climate sin.

Of course, the climate elite will still enjoy all the perks of an industrial civilization, like their private jets. Their holy climate mission will justify any conceivable waste of carbon.

I have lived in the UK for over a decade. England is a lovely place, but every year they can have a week, maybe two weeks if they’re lucky, when the temperature hits the high 80s (30C+) and they can really enjoy the lakes and his beach. However, they have one of the most fearsome climate-anxiety populations on the planet.

Imagine climate disruption if Britons worried about climate change had to endure THREE weeks of summer.