Crisis fatigue and despondency about the potential for change
With so many issues competing for public attention and resources, the stakeholders associated with each issue can feel systemic pressure to present the impact of their issues, and the urgency of the action required, in as dramatic a way as possible; a tendency that tends to be amplified by the commercial media's attraction to simple and dramatic headlines. This pattern can encourage public fatigue towards the language of crisis and a sense of despondency about the prospects for systemic change.
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Link[1] The dangers of fried food and a fried planet

Zitieren: Rob Lyons
Publication info: 2007 October, 17
Zitiert von: David Price 6:57 PM 11 January 2015 GMT
Citerank: (1) 400066Crisis fatigue and despondency about the potential for changeWith so many issues competing for public attention and resources, the stakeholders associated with each issue can feel systemic pressure to present the impact of their issues, and the urgency of the action required, in as dramatic a way as possible; a tendency that tends to be amplified by the commercial media's attraction to simple and dramatic headlines. This pattern can encourage public fatigue towards the language of crisis and a sense of despondency about the prospects for systemic change.118FF4888
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Claims that the ‘obesity epidemic’ is as bad as climate change suggest that modern society is bingeing on scare stories...

...What is evident from the seemingly endless series of panics about the future is that society has lost confidence in its ability to solve problems. This gives rise to a view of the future as being filled with disease and destruction; the future is apparently something we must guard against, by making changes to our behaviour, rather than something we mould through positive human action.
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