Because we didn’t have the money
By that, I mean myself and most the planet don’t have enough money to buy politicians who make the rules that make them more money. Instead we get models that talk about people like they are commodities and say the social impact won’t be be so bad
Agreed, for them it’s just another way to make money, ala Disaster Capitalism. On another note, George Carlin on youtube around 1:45.
Note his usual focus on billionaire-run oligarchy which distracts from the corporate power that pays his salary:
‘But partly because billionaires own most of the media, most people never heard it.’
Also the mission of saving civilisation presented uncritically as something we should obviously be trying to do - despite the fact that civilisation is the cause of all these problems.
Anyway, triggered as usual. It’s an important story.
That is A) weird, and B) ambiguous. Which part civilization do you want to eliminate? Civilized discourse? Treating each other like we have the right to live?
Corporations are run by billionaires. Where’s the line between these two?
I’m not a fan of Monbiot, but the ideas in this article stand on their own
Monbiot will speak of the shady billionaire but will not do so for the media corporation such as the one he works for not least because it is as dependent on advertising as its rivals. That makes it not only deeply embedded in a neoliberal capitalist system, but dependent on it for survival.
Yeah, billionaires, corporations, media, marketing, and the people who work them, that’s the system.
Arundhati Roy had a thing called “national Thanksgiving turkey”, after the ones that are pardoned each year by the President. The system lets some truth through, some reporters that get to say a little more than the others without getting harassed or cancelled. That creates the illusion of a free press and open society.
corporate power has a long history of rising up to crush dissent in society. That is why the media is one big problem that cannot be divided into an “underlying” problem – the right-wing press – and a “derivative” problem – the liberal media.
Meanwhile, almost into Canada, Spring is just arriving, and it’s over 80. That’s 15 above average, but the common argument I hear is that it is not a new record. When we get to the point that records are being set every day of the year, we’ll all be dead.
In France, some records have been overpassed, and the denyers claim that the climate specialists are members of a general plot.
To fight climate change would mean a total change of all our processes and of our way of living, and nobody is really ready to accept that.
And the voters reject the minimal mesures needed to take the path.
In Europe, the matter is largely in the hands of the European parliament. Ultra-right and right have wone the last general elections and they are dismantling what has been set.
Same thing in France.
The headline needs some unpacking, but the analysis is decent. It had to get this bad, to the point that journalism can’t keep ignoring reality, before an article like this could be in the mainstream.
It admits that the deniers got press because people clicked on those stories, and that the owners of media are profiting off the destruction of the planet.
Especially since that demands first and foremost, a radical change in how we think and prioritize.
You are politically apathetic on this
And you are our hero.
And youre hero to zero
Awwwww, is your opinion supposed to devastate me?
What have you done to get above zero???
Did i hurt your feelings sweet heart ?
