Questions for candidates: 0.15% about global warming
Well, it seems very few people in the media give a flying f**k about the planet suddenly warming up. Two pieces of evidence.
- Here in the south-west Pennsylvania area where Climeshift finds its home, we’ve had extremely high temperatures over the last week. Monday and Tuesday were all-time highs… by more than 2 degrees. And the local papers manage to highlight it by discussing… potholes.
- Democracy Now stated this morning that the Sunday gab-fest-talk-shows contained exactly three questions for candidates about global warming during 2007. Out of more than 2000 questions.
With a media like that, who needs a forgetful public?
All I can say is, start figuring out what people will want when the warming hits badly, because you’re going to make a ton of money. People are not being prepared by the media for what will happen, and the candidates are not being encouraged to care.
Posted by jc on January 10th, 2008 in Uncategorized |
Lisa remarks on January 11th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Well make them care. You’re a blogger, do what bloggers do. Shame them. Write on their boards. Host a climate change blog-fest. Call the parties and insist their candidates address this issue. Write an op-ed. Write ten. Send one to the NYTimes and one to the WSJ. Writing an anonymous blog about it obviously isn’t enough to tip the scale. Jump up and down on it.