Talk:Requiem for a Species

Publication history
As you can confirm through Worldcat, the book is available as an eBook as well as paper publication. I'd recommend information on editions being included in the article. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Add http://www.worldcat.org/title/requiem-for-a-species-why-we-resist-the-truth-about-climate-change/oclc/659560679/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br WorldCat to this article? 99.19.41.10 (talk) 04:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Per http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ravula_Suryanarayana_Murty&diff=425016136&oldid=410039437 ReAdd. 99.119.131.205 (talk) 02:04, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Is WorldCat reliable? I don't know.  As for the edit the 99.* is referring to, I made the mistake of trying to provide references for a random unreferenced biography, and WorldCat was the only one I could find.  If the anon would suggest that this subject is only marginally notable, go with WorldCat.  If not, then not.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:10, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Add wikilink to Life, as that is what is in question ... see Holocene extinction for reference ... with Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth as context.
Add wikilink to Life, as that is what is in question ... see Holocene extinction for reference ... with Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth as context. 99.56.123.44 (talk) 07:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * WP:OVERLINK seems to apply. In fact, more so than most.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 08:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

"motivated to deny" is denialism
"motivated to deny" is denialism  99.56.123.179 (talk) 02:35, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No. Denialism may not require "motivation", and is not the same as "motivation".  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 05:40, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * An "-ism". 99.56.121.111 (talk) 08:14, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ??? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 08:15, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

"Enormity" vs. "Enormousness"
Nasnema,

As I explained on your talk page, this all too common English usage error, has nothing at all to do with "local dialect." Given that you are evidently British and have displayed over your history of edits here a very marked preference for your own "local dialect," I refer you to the entry for "enormity" in the highly respected (British) Compact Oxford English Dictionary: enormity 1 [mass noun] (the enormity of) the great or extreme scale, seriousness, or extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong:a thorough search disclosed the full enormity of the crime (in neutral use) large size or scale:I began to get a sense of the enormity of the task 2 a grave crime or sin:the enormities of war Origin: late Middle English: via Old French from Latin enormitas, from enormis, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out of' + norma 'pattern, standard'. The word originally meant ‘deviation from legal or moral rectitude’ and ‘transgression’. Current senses have been influenced by enormous Usage Enormity traditionally means‘ the extreme scale or seriousness of something bad or morally wrong’, as in residents of the town were struggling to deal with the enormity of the crime. Today, however, a more neutral sense as a synonym for hugeness or immensity, as in he soon discovered the enormity of the task, is common. Some people regard this use as wrong, arguing that enormity in its original sense meant ‘a crime’ and should therefore continue to be used only of contexts in which a negative moral judgement is implied. Nevertheless, the sense is now broadly accepted in standard English, although it generally relates to something difficult, such as a task, challenge, or achievement

The sentence in the Requiem for a Species entry that I'd edited by inserting [sic] to flag the error as per Wikipedia's Manual of Style, did not use "enormity" to relate "to something difficult, such as a task, challenge, or achievement," so its usage to apply to an object -- the gulf between acknowledgment and acceptance of climate change -- was incorrect as a matter of standard English, even in its least prescriptive BRITISH application.: Hamilton ... argues that the gulf has two primary origins: the enormity of its consequences and the way it challenges how we as individuals and as societies have constructed our identities over the past three centuries. Ravinpa (talk) 03:26, 9 June 2011 (UTC)