Global Warming As a Social Term Paper

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" (Ungar, 2001) in the work of Jerry Williams entitled: "Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience: The Social Construction of Environmental Problems" explored are the "realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems." (1998) Neither view in its current form is adequate as the actual reality is one that "moves beyond relativism and definitional constructionism" recognizing that the natural world is not dependent upon the constructions of humans. (Williams, 1998) the work of Carvalho and Burgess (2005) entitled: "Cultural Circuits of Climate Change in the U.K. Broadsheet Newspapers 1985-2003" provides an argument supporting "a cultural perspective to be brought to bear on studies of climate change risk perception." This article holds that those who produce and consume media texts "are jointly engaged in dynamic, meaning-making activities that are context-specific and that change over time." (Carvalho and Burgess, 2005) Richard a. Kerr in the work entitled: "Global Warming: Rising Global Temperature, Rising Uncertainty" states that dramatic headlines during January entitled: "Scientists Issue Dire Prediction on Warming: Faster Climate Shift Portends Global Calamity This Century" according to the Washington Post. (2001) Kerr states that: "In this politically charged atmosphere of climate forecasting, uncertainties are often seized upon as excuses for inaction.

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The work of Andrew Dobson entitled: "A Politics of Global Warming" the Social-Science Resource" sates that practically everyone has now been convinced that global warming is a real threat and that human beings are the cause leaving the question which asks: "What are we going to do about it?" (Dobson, 2007) According to Dobson: "The technology box contains many tools: hybrid cars, solar panels, nuclear power, low energy light bulbs...." (Dobson, 2007) it is related in Dobson's work that "people are guided by other motives and values than the traditional economic rationality of the consumer...they feel a moral obligation to sort waste in order to contribute to a better environment." (Dobson, 2007) the politics that global climate change requires cannot be provisioned through technology, changes in lifestyles or green taxes. Dobson suggests that sound social science should be present in the global climate change debates, which will make the question of "what are we going to do about it" look very different. (Dobson, 2007; paraphrased).....

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