Comments on: Memo to the Moderator: Find That Lost Question on Climate Change http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/memo-to-the-moderator-find-that-lost-question-on-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=memo-to-the-moderator-find-that-lost-question-on-climate-change Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Peter Thomson http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/memo-to-the-moderator-find-that-lost-question-on-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-26273 Peter Thomson Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:58:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=143259#comment-26273 Hi, Peter Thomson here. If you mean by this that these millions will be real people with individual, real life challenges and stories, rather than huddled masses of faceless problems for our and other governments, you're absolutely right. We should be making that clear, and telling some of those stories, and we have been, although not enough. But my point here was to specifically pose the issue in the very reductive way that such things are usually talked about in foreign policy circles, as stark geopolitical challenges that efface details and individuality. The whole notion of "foreign policy" by nature lacks nuance, and given the box put around the debate, I was trying to reflect that mindset. Also, there's only so much detail you can include in a short blog post! Hi, Peter Thomson here. If you mean by this that these millions will be real people with individual, real life challenges and stories, rather than huddled masses of faceless problems for our and other governments, you’re absolutely right. We should be making that clear, and telling some of those stories, and we have been, although not enough. But my point here was to specifically pose the issue in the very reductive way that such things are usually talked about in foreign policy circles, as stark geopolitical challenges that efface details and individuality. The whole notion of “foreign policy” by nature lacks nuance, and given the box put around the debate, I was trying to reflect that mindset.

Also, there’s only so much detail you can include in a short blog post!

]]> By: Alex Randall http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/memo-to-the-moderator-find-that-lost-question-on-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-26269 Alex Randall Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:14:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=143259#comment-26269 I'm not sure this is a useful way to talk about people whose displacement or migratory decision has a climate change dimension: "You know the likelihood that it will unleash waves of millions of destabilizing climate refugees" I’m not sure this is a useful way to talk about people whose displacement or migratory decision has a climate change dimension: “You know the likelihood that it will unleash waves of millions of destabilizing climate refugees”

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