Stakeholder response
Hi there, here is a response we recieved via another route which may help to start some debate:
Imagine a train hurtling down a track and heading off a cliff. The driver has gone a bit mad and demands a popular vote of all passengers on whether or not to apply the brakes. In the time remaining only one person has the power and reach to make that vote happen. Thats the conductor with the tannoy. But the conductor says ‘people don’t want to hear bad news like that from me – it would make me very unpopular’.
The train is our civilisation which is already probably beyond the tipping point of climate change but can maybe halt some of the worst effects if it acts radically and fast. The driver of the train is our heads-in-the-sand ‘leaders’. The conductor – the man with the tannoy – thats the media sector.
Who is madder and badder the driver or the conductor?
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