cause and effect

Many will argue with their conclusions, but their impeccable research and clear-cut cause-and-effect scenarios might at least spur actionable change.

Communicating this cause-and-effect requires empathetic reporting and journalism that centers the human dimension instead of foregrounding abstract policies and numbers.

“It struck me that the footage had no linear, cause-and-effect pattern,” Jia explained in a director’s statement.

“By assuming the cause-and-effect relationship,” he says, “you seem to give grounding to a new medical diagnosis that may not actually be a proven cause-and-effect.”

Although it’s difficult to pinpoint a direct cause-and-effect relationship between climate change and bird flu, research going back many years before the current crisis linked our heating world and natural disasters with changing migratory patterns, nesting seasons, and habitat ranges of wild birds.