{"id":1444,"date":"2008-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/climate-change-and-the-elephant-in-the-living-room\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"climate-change-and-the-elephant-in-the-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2008\/10\/climate-change-and-the-elephant-in-the-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quest of an Endangered Species <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p>The debate on climate change has offered many occasions for reference to the proverbial &quot;elephant in the living room&quot;. Climate change itself has been seen in this way as an unmentionable feature in a context of efforts to ensure &quot;business as usual&quot;. Indicative examples include: <\/p>\n<p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;discussion of the biased coverage of the BBC by John Vidal (The BBC can&#8217;t win on climate change, The Guardian, 10 July 2007)<\/p>\n<p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;discussion with regard to understanding of the issues by children in the ProgressiveKid (The Climate Change Elephant, 24 March 2008)<\/p>\n<p>Now that &quot;climate change&quot; has become an acceptable topic of discourse, the concern in what follows is the identification of any elephants in the living room with respect to climate change discourse &#8212; namely topics that are implicitly recognized but cannot be formally acknowledged. The expression helpfully illustrates the possible dimensions of the challenge of overpopulation &#8212; that it is so easy to ignore in common discourse. The argument builds on a detailed earlier study (Institutionalized Shunning of Overpopulation Challenge: incommunicability of fundamentally inconvenient truth, 2008). <br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laetusinpraesens.org\/musings\/eleph.php\" ><br \/>GO TO ORIGINAL<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quest of an Endangered Species Introduction The debate on climate change has offered many occasions for reference to the proverbial &quot;elephant in the living room&quot;. Climate change itself has been seen in this way as an unmentionable feature in a context of efforts to ensure &quot;business as usual&quot;. Indicative examples include: &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;discussion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}