Doom and Gloom: The Role of the Media in Public Disengagement on Climate Change [shorensteincenter.org]
By Elizabeth Arnold, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center, May 29, 2018 In July of 2008, as a national broadcast correspondent, I reported on environmental conditions in Newtok, a remote community of roughly 400 Yup’ik people in Northwest Alaska. Newtok was losing forty to a hundred feet of coastline a year to erosion, and sinking because of “permafrost” that is no longer permanent, the direct result of a warming climate. Flooding threatened homes, the school, and the only supply of...