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Why don't newspapers

📰 back system change to respond to the Ecological Emergency?

📰 make the existential nature of the calamity clear?

📰 praise postgrowth economics?

📰 make Ecological Collapse top story?

📰 support GND of Corbyn/Sanders?

📰 analyse the Arctic each week?
Why don't our newspapers

📰 endorse genuinely socialist Jeremy Corbyn, who has a red/green economic vision, and a chance of beating climate denier B. Johnson?

📰 reject right-wing myths of green growth & billionaire philanthropy?

📰 talk agroecology?

📰 endorse Green parties?
I'm talking about all corporate newspapers, and that most definitely includes ad-dependent, pro-billionaire/growth economics, 'green' liberal-capitalist, not-at-all-independent @Guardian:

Will Herman & Chomsky's propaganda model ever become common knowledge in relation to the #EcologicalEmergency, or must we watch corporate media control the narrative to protect criminal business-as-usual growth (that scientists say *must be re-assessed*)?
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Ben See
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'the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.
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Around the year 2030...we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilisation... unless...permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place
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including a reduction of CO2 emissions by at least 50%.

And please note that these calculations are depending on inventions that have not yet been invented at scale, inventions that are supposed to clear the atmosphere of astronomical amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Ben See
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East Siberian Arctic Shelf Horror:

1. subsea permafrost
2. not included in IPCC calculations
3. 'a monster in hiding'
4. life-ending 1256 ppm threat
5. 500-5000 gigatons of methane
6. sudden release possible
6. methane plumes now bubbling up
7."we do not like what we see there"
Truly terrifying:

A 50-square-foot area of the East Siberian Sea "boiling with methane bubbles."

"This is the most powerful seep I have ever been able to observe".

"No one has ever recorded anything similar."

commondreams.org/news/2019/10/0…
From 2011

"I am concerned about this process, I am really concerned. But no-one can tell the timescale of catastrophic releases. There is a probability of future massive releases might occur within the decadal scale..."

independent.co.uk/news/science/v…
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Ben See
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Siberian Yedoma region:

1. permafrost melt beyond control
2. self-amplifying process
3. warming now hitting 3°C to 6°C
4. major methane release inevitable
5. 40 gigaton carbon-pulse danger
6. 'the melting of Yedoma is a tipping point: once it starts, there may be no stopping it'
from July 2013:

'A large region called the Yedoma could undergo runaway decomposition once it starts to melt. This is because elevated temperatures cause microbes in the soil to decompose, which causes heat, which creates a self-amplifying process.'

theconversation.com/methane-and-th…
Analysis led by the UK's Met Office recognised the 'plausibility of catastrophic carbon releases from Arctic permafrost thawing of between 50-100 Gt this century, with a 40 Gt carbon release from the Siberian Yedoma region possible over four decades'.

theguardian.com/environment/ea…
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All of the evening news broadcasts are leading with what Republicans want as the top story.

Meanwhile, they did not air a single health care segment for all of 2018.
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