Tagged: balance

From Restoration to Reconciliation: Belief 4 – We need to restore the balance - So Shoot Me

Jamie Steer • Dec 17, 2018 •

• balance,
• gondwana,
• introduced species,
• invasive species,
• native species,
• wildlife

This is the idea that people have upset the balance or equilibrium of nature, but that we can return that balance in future if appropriate steps are taken. This belief is very much supported in New Zealand by this notion that our environment is Gondwanan and that it hasn’t changed much in the last 80 million years. Or if … Read More

How scientists should communicate their work in a post-truth era - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 04, 2017 •

• balance,
• Brexit,
• engagement,
• false balance,
• journalism,
• march for science,
• outreach,
• post-truth,
• Science and Society,
• science communication,
• trump

By Andy Miah, University of Salford It’s not an easy time for scientists to talk to the wider public. The US president, Donald Trump, has called global warming “bullshit” and a “Chinese hoax”. In the UK, leave campaigner and MP Michael Gove famously declared that people “have had enough of experts”. But now UK MPs have published … Read More