Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 14, 2019 16:15:45 GMT 12
MAORI SHOW WAY IN CLIMATE SENSE
This year’s winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Science Communication says there are lessons to be learned from te ao Maori in tacking awareness of climate change.
Victoria University Professor James Renwick won the $100,000 prize for his communication of the science behind climate change, including being involved in more than 100 public presentations and 200 media interviews over the past five years in New Zealand and internationally.
He says western technological society has lost its sense of being part of the earth and the environment, but that knowledge is still evident in Maori communities such as those on the coast which are seeing its effects through level rise or a change in growing seasons.......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjEyOTA/Breakfast%20with%20Dale/Maori-show-way-in-climate-sense
This year’s winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Science Communication says there are lessons to be learned from te ao Maori in tacking awareness of climate change.
Victoria University Professor James Renwick won the $100,000 prize for his communication of the science behind climate change, including being involved in more than 100 public presentations and 200 media interviews over the past five years in New Zealand and internationally.
He says western technological society has lost its sense of being part of the earth and the environment, but that knowledge is still evident in Maori communities such as those on the coast which are seeing its effects through level rise or a change in growing seasons.......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjEyOTA/Breakfast%20with%20Dale/Maori-show-way-in-climate-sense