Blog Action Day 2009
This is the first time I’ve participated in Blog Action Day, so do forgive me if it is utter poo. The subject this year is Climate Change and for various reasons I feel like I should at least have an opinion on this.
Reason one: I live on this planet. Perhaps not mentally or emotionally for a good deal of the average day, but the corporeal bit of my is very much of this earth.
Reason two: I am currently a science student. If I didn’t have at least some kind of opinion on one of the biggest science subjects around at the moment there would be frankly little hope for me.
Reason two and a half: The reason I’m a science student is because I’m very very interested (read: I could converse about it for days) in science communication, and the way that science information gets to non scientists.
The thing about reason 2.5 is that an awful lot of things that are communicated about science, be that via television, the internet or the Daily Mail’s ongoing fetish for all things oncological, much of it requires no audience interaction. Generally the audience is expected to passively take in this fascinating/crazy/scary/wasteful [delete as appropriate to publication] set of findings, or at least a cut-down and sexed up version of them. Perhaps there’ll be some whinging about universities having too much money to fund cheese sandwich measuring in the Prove You’re an Idiot Have Your Say section, or a sudden rush on tuna sales in a bid to prevent some previously not heard of, and frankly rare, type of cancer. But that’s about it.
