Attitude Adjustment: Changing our relationship from water as low-cost commodity to water as sacred, life-giving resource
- Resumen
- Much of the world treats water as if it were in endless supply or a commodity that can be easily manufactured. Neither attitude reflects water's reality and yet this water fantasy is commonplace in all levels of society in Canada and many other countries. As a result water is wasted, polluted and mismanaged in most places. Changing our relationship with water from a product or commodity to a precious, life-giving resource is crucial to coping with the water challenges we face. Water has been sacred for most of humanity's history save the last two hundred. It is time for an 'attitude adjustment'. <br/> Journalists and communicators have an important role in revealing and explaining the reality of water and exploring how attitudes shape our decisions about water. Most importantly communicators must first pull themselves out the prevailing water fantasy in order to ask the right questions. This work of vital importance because humanity is reshaping the Earth and its climate with little knowledge of what we are doing.
- Autor
- Leahy, Stephen
- Palabras Clave
- Recursos hídricos, Medio social, Conciencia ecológica
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