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Max Boykoff highlighted in BBC News program speaking about CSTPR’s Media and Climate Change Observatory (MECCO)
BBC News
March 31, 2015
It seems something is missing from newspapers and TV bulletins – climate change. A story which dominated the news five years ago has dropped steadily down the agenda. One study has found coverage has dropped 36% globally in that time. Why? On The Inquiry this week we hear a tale of chronic political fatigue. We ask whether our hunter-gatherer brains simply aren’t wired to think long-term. And we find out why climate change has all the hallmarks of a story likely to make newspaper editors groan. It could be – as one of our expert witnesses tells us – time to “change the narrative”. Listen to the program …
