We need only experience a 24-hour news cycle for evidence of the unsustainable state of life on this planet. Environmental disasters, civil unrest, economic doubt and reports of violence within and among nation states and faith communities dominate in sensationalised news bites created for our limited attention spans. What troubles a critical viewer is that complex issues of social and environmental unrest are often reduced to disaster snapshots, while graphs of upward trending company profits and consumer indexes get celebrated in featured finance news. The relationship between these graphs and the rise of poverty, inequality, violence, and environmental degradation simply do not feature in the sensationalising news stories that are sold.
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↑ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7710-4_2