The complexity of “advancement”

XVII.5 September + October 2010
Page: 26
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Hope for the best and prepare for the worst


Authors:
Eli Blevis, Shunying Blevis

Typical interaction designers are not climate scientists, but interaction designers can make well-informed use of climate sciences and closely related sciences. Interaction design can make scientific information, interpretations, and perspectives available in an accessible and widely distributed form so that people's consciousness is raised. Such consciousness raising is our only hope to empower individuals, groups, nations, and the international community to possibly prevent or reverse climate change and at least prepare and adapt to it in as safe and orderly a manner as possible—with the goal of securing a sustainable future for and the well-being of each and every…




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