JEFF BIGGERS - Climate: we need a new vision of hope, change and empowerment
As deadly wildfires raze millions of acres across the Western states, issuing a canopy of noxious smoke and eerie colors in coastal cities, and Hurricane Sally continues a historic pounding along the Gulf Coast, we have been overwhelmed by scenes of a climate emergency that the media is now headlining as a "wakeup call." But a majority of Americans already got that call, according to a Pew Research Center survey this year, and consider our climate crisis as a threat to the well-being of our country. In fact, new polling shows that seven out of 10 Americans actually want more than news on our climate crisis.
Framing this unfolding reality as a "climate apocalypse," as the Los Angeles Times headlined last week, might seem like a media breakthrough. But the failure to place our unfolding catastrophes within the context of a century of the fossil-fuel industry's political dominance, or to recognize the success of fossil fuel-free policies in other countries, risks a debilitating narrative of gloom and doom that plays into Donald Trump's anti-science antics in California on Monday. We need a new climate narrative that sets out a road map for a renaissance of thinking and action, not a new series of dystopian chronicles that paints our climate emergency as a roadside attraction. We need to get beyond "wake-up call" approaches in the media, and set out a game plan to bolster the needed public support to bring about urgent climate action on a policy level….
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people working for a more sustainable future
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Could the
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Wiped out:
America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests
