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  title info:
    title: Climate change as social drama
    sub title: global warming in the public sphere
  name:
    name part: Smith, Philip (Philip Daniel)
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is real and that it is a very serious threat on multiple levels for the entire planet (IPCC 2013). Economic, social, political and biological systems are all said to be in trouble. Moreover, there is a limited window of opportunity for dealing with the problem. At the same time the public around the globe is mostly apathetic. Even in countries such as Norway where high levels of environmental concern and political involvement are the norm, climate change often seems more like "background noise" than a problem demanding radical collective action (Norgaard 2011). Contrary to what one might think, a similar situation pertains in the United States. Here, despite an effective right-wing campaign to discredit climate science (Oreskes and Conway 2010), surveys now show that a majority of people believe that climate change is happening and needs to be addressed, including, now, a majority of Republicans (Maibach et al 2013). Yet many of these same surveys indicate most Americans are unwilling to make meaningful sacrifices to deal with the problem.
  table of contents: Introduction: The problem of climate change -- Climate change as social drama -- Narrating global warming -- An inconvenient truth : the power of ethos -- Climate change art : an illustrative failure? -- 'Climategate' and other controversies -- The climate conference as theatre -- Local dramas : the places of climate change -- Conclusion : the show must go on.
  note: Philip Smith, Yale University, Nicolas Howe, Williams College.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-237) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Global warming
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  classification: QC903 .S589 2015
  classification: 363.738/74
  identifier: 9781107103559 (hardback)
  identifier: 110710355X (hardback)
  identifier: 9781107503052 (paperback)
  identifier: 1107503051 (paperback)
  identifier: 2014046189
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150227
    record change date: 20170928133111.0
    record identifier: in00003583297