Power we ask Award Winning sociologist Richard Lachlan how Mass Mobilization can now transform the neoliberal world order all this more coming up in todays going underground or 1st all around the world our politicians will today be telling you how to live your lives and not be killed by coronavirus how to decode what theyre saying and bypass the politicized spin incompetence and malfeasance joining me via skype from berlin is director of the Harding Center of a risk literacy professor good. Thanks so much for coming on so as i say were going to all be watching our politicians tell us about the fact that they are following the science how should we interpret what those politicians tell us in the in the context of risk and literacy i think it would be really important that people themselves think about the risks to get into it only to be. Im also not sure hope that politicians know whats the best thing to do this is a situation of uncertainty where we came not to calculate the risk but w
Power we ask Award Winning sociologist Richard Blackman how Mass Mobilization can now transform the neoliberal world order all this more coming up in todays going underground or 1st all around the world our politicians will today be telling you how to live your lives and not be killed by coronavirus how to decode what theyre saying and bypass the politicized spin incompetence and malfeasance joining me via skype from berlin is director of the Harding Center of a risk literacy professor good. Thanks so much for coming on so as i say were going to all be watching our politicians tell us about the fact that they are following the science how should we interpret what those politicians tell us in the in the context of risk and literacy i think it would be really important that people themselves think about the risks to get into or only with their behavior im also note shows. Hope that politicians know whats the best thing to do this is a situation of uncertainty where we came not to calcula
Power we ask Award Winning sociologist Richard Lachlan how Mass Mobilization can now transform the neoliberal world order all this more coming up in todays going underground or 1st all around the world our politicians will today be telling you how to live your lives and not be killed by coronavirus how to decode what theyre saying and bypass the politicized spin incompetence and malfeasance joining me via skype from berlin is director of the Harding Center of a risk literacy professor good. Thanks so much guys for coming on so as i say were going to all be watching our politicians tell us about the fact that they are following the science how should we interpret what those politicians tell us in the in the context of risk and literacy think it would be really important that people themselves think about the risks to get into or only seen. With their behavior im also not sure hope that politicians know whats the best thing to do this is a situation of uncertainty where we came not to ca
Ventilators were bought for corona virus that it turns out we dont need why are we more scared of what is less likely to kill us the key problem you know society is that we all have learned how to read and write but note how to become risk literate that is to understand the numbers so the numbers that made us feel the numbers of infections of tests and also to understand the kind of thinking about what might lead to ward problems youve talked articulately how to interpret mammogram results cancer risk flu risk which ill get onto in a moment had i better just ask you then are we more scared than we should be about coronavirus theres nobody who came to tell you exactly where this virus is growing so we need to live with uncertainty. But we can protect us against her reactions that creates more problems so the classical situation of the earliest 911 Many Americans after 911 stopped flying and what to do they use their cars instead ive underlies the traffic statistics and fog that for 12 m
Europe are trying to fight the spread of african swine fever and are taking drastic measures to do so sometimes even against the will of the farmers if just one animal is infected the whole herd will be culled. Well the virus has yet to reach germany but farmers here are very nervous and thats because infected animals have been confirmed just a few kilometers away from the border in poland and so the hunt for wild boars in that region is on a warning for our viewers this report contains graphic images of dead animals. Court block invade near is hunting wild boar in germanys east. These hunters in some 80 kilometers from the polish border are calling the boar theyre seen as a danger potential carriers of african swine fever which is harmless to humans but an existential threat to pig farming. But even these hunters know that alone probably wont be enough to prevent the spread of the disease to germany. Comes and goes all you care advocate it just cant be i dont think you can contain a s