Monday, April 12, 2010

WATER ISSUES WITH AN OUNCE OF HUMOR: WILL THAT GET PEOPLE TO LISTEN?

I recently received an email touting a segment on The Daily Show that the sender felt I should watch. So I took a few minutes and ran the short video. The video stars Robert Glennon, author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It. Glennon is also the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona.

Glennon’s book, as titled, shares the many water challenges and potential crises that face our country. Some of which are mentioned in the interview with Jon Stewart. Of course, Stewart adds a bit of humor to the topic and with some luck may have brought interest to a topic that many times is taken for granted.

Take a peek at this segment at http://www.rglennon.com/. Let me know your thoughts. Is humor what we need to get water messages to the public? Or does it make light of an issue that is in need of human action?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing this fun video -maybe humor is a way to get more people to understand the role the resource plays in our lives!