Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Peter Woods:

That describes pretty much what it is like. If we were talking about different viewpoints on something like rewetting, we have a job to do. The only way we can bring climate change into programmes as an argument or a subject is to engage with different aspects of it. I suspect, but I have no numbers on this, that the vast majority of people probably think that actions is needed in respect of climate change. However, it is about how it is done and the cost to people. I am also thinking about the people we do not reach. I sometimes think that we are largely speaking to the converted. It is about people who are probably looking at the big climate issue of how to heat their houses in these times. We consider all aspects of this but if we are not reflecting the other side of an argument and if we are saying it does not exist, we are not doing our job. That is why we are here. We are here to reflect the country in as wide a sense as possible.

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