Comments on: What do we do?

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:28:25 +0000

I found the slashdot discussion on the Microsoft gay rights issue rather interesting, I suppose it reflects the libertarian nature of a lot of internet discussion boards, but the advocates were generally pretty articulate. It's certainly not something you could expect from some other popular internet sites like Fark.

By: sieber

sieber — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:30:07 +0000

More on Microsoft and its refusal to support the gay rights bill.

By: sieber

sieber — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:40:03 +0000

Maybe Microsoft is becoming the Fox News of the software industry. The latest: the company has withdrawn its support from legislation in its home state, Washington, that would have forbidden discrimination based on sexual orientation. This is all the more shocking since Microsoft leads many software companies in it gay-friendly human resources policies (from Seattle's alternate weekly paper, The Stranger)

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:15:35 +0000

Fight Fox News…hmmm…well you can’t necessarily change people’s views, but you can be the model. Little
things do spark change. But, speaking of something big…anyone interested in working on a proposal for
a grant from CBC or something, to create a radio program on climate change? Let’s think of all the
resources we have at the school…I’m sure professor Ewing would be happy to talk about the problems
with transportation today – he’s extremely knowledgeable and some of the solutions seem very applicable
so it’s not like there’s no hope. We also have professors and students from the school of the environment…
Jennifer? Then we could find someone who was really affected by climate change and a frequent storm (the tsunami?),
and get their story…what do you think? We don’t have to be in the same city during the summer to work
on the proposal, we could keep passing it around through the wonderful internet! Talk about
grassroots started by a blog!

By: pete

pete — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:31:03 +0000

I think a big part of the problem of finding common ground, is trying to move the climate change issue out of the realm of moral arguments (where it resides for many people, based on who they see making the arguments), into the realm of intellectual arguments.

Good luck doing that in a population with such a poor science literacy. Until that is fixed, don’t expect to see a great groundswell of public support for painful economic changes to halt climate change – until it is way too late, that is.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 04:02:34 +0000

this is the essence of interpretation: identifying with your audience. interpretation can appear in many disciplines: nature, politics, sports, economics, sociology, climatology, universe physics… interpretation is used all the TIME! And you are absolutely right, Liam, to change the world we need not only to inform people but to inform them in a way that they can relate to and feel safe in accepting the information.