Latere toevoegingen:
Kinderen maken zich zorgen over de aarde
Trouw, 8 mei 2012
Volgens onderzoek van NOS Jeugdjournaal wil een groot deel van de kinderen qua persoonlijke leefstijl van alles doen voor het milieu; wel vinden ze dat vooral politici moeten zorgen dat we goed omgaan met de aarde.
Het kan zijn dat er een flink verschil is tussen jonge kinderen en tieners. Ook zijn de uitkomsten van dit soort onderzoeken waarschijnlijk erg afhankelijk van de vraagstelling.
Why Do Gen Xers Care So Little About Climate Change?
Door Brett Israel, Daily Climate / Alternet, 17 juli 2012
Pre-occupied with careers and families, the Gen Xers - adults in their 30s and 40s - remain almost as indifferent to climate change impacts as their parents.
Why Don't Americans See Climate Change As A Moral Imperative?
Door KC Golden, Alternet, 11 juli 2012
New research uncovers potential strategies to engage our moral intuition to solve the biggest problem of all.
[einde toevoegingen]
Het volgende doet de gedachte opkomen dat de mens, zoals zo vaak, in plaats van zaken onder ogen te zien en adequaat en geduldig te handelen, de pijnlijkste feiten verdringt en onbewust 'omzet' in - gewelddadige - fantasieën, die mogelijk een voorafschaduwing zijn van werkelijke strijdtonelen.
The Hunger Games: Post-Apocalypse Now For Young Adults
Door Joe Romm, Climate Progress, 18 maart 2012
The revolution will be televised. So will the post-apocalyptical fight to feed ourselves on a ruined planet. [...] Those are 2 key themes of the wildly popular YA [Young Adult; K] trilogy that begins with The Hunger Games, whose movie version comes out this week. [...] But like much (though not all) post-apocalyptic fiction, the book spends exceedingly little time actually explaining to anyone how we got in this mess.
Interestingly, the UK Telegraph wrote last week that there is a new trend in YA fiction:
The Hunger Games and the teenage craze for dystopian fictionWell, as I’ve said, there is precious little global warming in this book. [...]
Wizards and vampires are out. The market in teen fiction is dominated now by societies in breakdown. And it’s girls who are lapping them up.
Many parents might feel worried on finding their teenage children addicted to grim visions of a future in which global warming has made the seas rise, the earth dry up, genetically engineered plants run riot and humans fight over the last available scraps of food. Yet with the arrival of the film of the first book of Suzanne Collins’s best-selling trilogy The Hunger Games this month, dystopia for teenagers has hit an all-time high in public consciousness.
Nor is it alone in riding the dystopian wave. This year, Moira Young’s best-selling debut, Blood Red Road, a kind of Mad Max for girls, won the Costa Children’s Award, and has been bought by Ridley Scott for film; Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now is about to start shooting with Saoirse Ronan as the lead in a story of underage passion in a future England plunged into war.
[...] These book are hyperviolent and by the end the heroine, Katniss Everdeen, has become a super-jaded and cold-blooded killer.
Vergelijk:
Doemrapporten maken mensen murw
Door Joop Bouma, Trouw, 7 april 2012
Zie ook m'n blognotities:
Kind vervreemdt van natuur
Hansen: aanpak CO2-uitstoot over 10 jaar is te laat
Bron foto: andersbekekenblog.nl
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