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the Titanic  Filed under: — rasmus @ 3 May 2012  It’s 100 years
since the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, and it’s still
remembered today. It was one of those landmark events that make
a deep impression on people. It also fits a pattern of how we
respond to different conditions, according to a recent book
about the impact of environmental science on the society
(Gudmund Hernes Hot Topic – Cold Comfort): major events are the
stimulus and the change of mind is the response.  Hernes
suggests that one of those turning moments that made us realize
our true position in the universe was when we for the first time
saw our own planet from space.  NASA Earth rise  He observes
that  [t]he change in mindset has not so much been the result of
meticulous information dissemination, scientific discourse and
everyday reasoning as driven b