TY - JOUR AU - Craddock, Patrick PY - 2012/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - REVIEW: Climate change, media, culture and the arts JF - Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa JA - PJR VL - 18 IS - 2 SE - Reviews DO - 10.24135/pjr.v18i2.274 UR - https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/274 SP - 190-192 AB - I approached this special edition of Dreadlocks with caution and apprehension. I saw two interpretations for the title: did it mean embracing science with creative political decisions for change, or did it mean using creativity through the arts as a symbol for approaching climate change? There is little hard science in these published papers, although there is a view from Richard Dawkins that makes an iconic appearance in a paper by Briar Wood from London Metropolitan University. This emphasises the Dawkins view that scientists must reach out to ‘…for want of a better word, poets’ and that there is a mismatch between science and the metaphorical language used to describe the real world. Improving communication and understanding is a good point to make, although where does climate science meet the arts? ER -