ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the media's equivocation about the ecological crisis that reinforces a social tendency to deny the urgency of the crisis. It further responds to the problem by suggesting ways that relevant parties might converse and uses media as a space of deliberation to confront the ecological crisis. Environmental change and resource scarcity have emerged as existential threats in every corner of the world with divergent political responses and reaction. Media coverage of the nineteenth annual meeting of Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change offers a telling illustration of the problems addressed here. The ecological crisis in Africa is thus so complex that it becomes difficult to identify a single cause explaining the current and past tragedies. The ecological challenges we face as a planet are enormous and ominous in terms of what they suggest for the well-being of peoples and places across the planet and the biosphere as a whole.
