Why is there no climate action?
Because governments, media and Big Business are all part of the same mutually supportive system, and mainstream media refuse to say that the fossil fuel industry and governments that support it are committing crimes against nature and humanity...
Because governments, media and Big Business are all part of the same mutually supportive system, and mainstream media refuse to say that the fossil fuel industry and governments that support it are committing crimes against nature and humanity...
Action will only come once people are informed. Media are very obviously influential when it comes to people forming their opinions, and if TV & newspapers were explaining that continued fossil fuel burning is akin to committing mass murder, people would soon grasp this truth...
100s of millions are set to be killed at 1.5- 2°C within ~15 years, but governments still support greenhouse gas emitting corporations with vast subsidies and other fossil fuel friendly policies. And it's not just fossil fuels, but also food corporations, aviation, construction..
It has been over a decade since James Hansen suggested coal, oil & gas execs should be viewed as climate criminals.
Media have spent the last 10+ years throwing out red herring after red herring, whilst deliberately suppressing this most crucial of ideas.
This must now change.
Media have spent the last 10+ years throwing out red herring after red herring, whilst deliberately suppressing this most crucial of ideas.
This must now change.
'heads of oil and coal companies who spread doubt about global warming and resist efforts to move to a carbon-free economy “should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature"' e360.yale.edu/digest/hansen-…
Governments around the world are resisting efforts to go carbon-free.
Governments around the world are resisting efforts to go carbon-free.
Hansen's remarks were on actually on oil & coal.
He recently said Bernie Sanders was killing people in India for not being pro-nuclear - fairly extraordinary considering Sanders isn't in power. Plus, in a rapidly warming, increasingly unstable world, nuclear is just too risky.
He recently said Bernie Sanders was killing people in India for not being pro-nuclear - fairly extraordinary considering Sanders isn't in power. Plus, in a rapidly warming, increasingly unstable world, nuclear is just too risky.
