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Breaking News:Climate Change Will Cause T.V. To Fail

posted by Christian on 2009.10.31, under Uncategorized
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I was reading a forum today related to a recent disruption of television broadcast services in London and people are upset. Actually let me correct that. People are F&%$ing PISSED OFF. As a matter of fact apparently its on “par with the reception disaster at Sutton Coldfield” and therefore “The guilty men need to be brought into public scrutiny.”

So it got me thinking… maybe… just maybe, the key to getting people to do something about climate change is to claim that it will cause a  disruption to television broadcasts… potentially even the Internet. Sure it’s not exactly true but…..

I can picture the article now “BREAKING NEWS: Climate Change and increasing temperature will cause all Television and Internet signals to stop working. New research has found that the increase in temperatures will prevent the transfer of signals through its usual conductors causing all homes to lose all forms of entertainment.”

I don’t know much but I guarantee you that action would be taken by even the most apathetic of  citizens. That being said I don’t support this sort of campaigning, but if someone wanted to run with the story….

For the record, this outrage is not the peoples fault, their reaction is completely natural.  I think it goes to demonstrate the communications problem which climate change has. T.V. is much more in your face and much more personal for the majority of people. We need to become more creative with climate change and sustainability issues (not only in run up to COP15). This is really the only way to get people to take it more seriously and realise that Climate Change is not the too BIG and impersonal issue but something which has an impact on all of our lives… sort of like T.V…. but not really

(examples of outrage on forum below)

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The Power of a Local Story during COP15

posted by Christian on 2009.10.30, under Uncategorized
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ThisPlace09 like so many other ideas started with one too many bottles of wine and a non-exhaustive list of conversations which ranged from Bonobo’s over active sex life to the concept of positive reciprocity in advertising.

Anyway… something that I remember discussing was that this project belonged to anybody and everybody who contributed to it. I know that words like that are thrown around far too often, but in today’s world our strength lies in the intent of people. Each individuals intent to add value, create and participate is compiled into what will eventually be the final product.

I want to focus on the word ‘individual’ for a moment. Despite the collective movement being what brings it scale and momentum, think of it as the vehicle, nothing would happen without the individual driver. What’s my point? Well we hear about climate change very often through mainstream media.  In the midst of all that spectacle and all of the science which is thrown around it is easy to forget how personal it can all be.

The personal element is one of the motivations for this project. As I read through the submissions it strikes me how the personal local stories and worries are the entries with a really profound impact.

Examples of great submissions;

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See what I mean? Individual local stories submitted by real people. Can’t think of a better reminder to the delegates at COP15 whilst drowning in politics that there is so much which is really worth saving…

*The ones submitted under the thisplace09 profile were email submissions that we then posted on twitter, in the book these will include the name and location of the person
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