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

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)