Pioneering survey into censorship of the climate crisis in global storytelling
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/march/climate-censorship.html
I cringed watching CBS News' Jonathan Vigliotti publicly shame-blame a Maui city employee for not sounding emergency sirens during the wildfire. Though the city worker explained that upon hearing sirens, the public is trained to seek higher ground (which was precisely the fire's location) Jonathan's tsk-tsk-I-caught-you segment barrels on, self-righteously.
On the other hand, Oprah Winfrey, with a nearly 4000-ton annual carbon footprint in private jetting alone (her 11 luxury properties and superyacht put her more in the 6000 range) provided brave Jonathan a wonderful opportunity to ask her what the hell is wrong with her, when she showed up to hand out a few water bottles in a Maui gymnasium.
Private jetter Jason Momoa provided a similar opportunity the same week.
Obviously there is a media blackout going on here; understandable when your corporate overlords are selling cars, SUV's, fancy vacations, home improvement stuff, etc.
The Paris Agreement's goal of 2 tons of CO2 per year is a lifestyle many Americans would consider "poverty-level" - a salary of $30k is more than you need. It's quite clear that the pursuit of wealth is either pointless (if you care about the future) or irresponsible (if you plan to spend all that cash on something other than planting trees, and trees, and more trees).
Capitalism, and the media that cheerlead for it, are gleefully eating our children and grandchildren alive.
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