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    Humanity's failure to prevent*climate*breakdown begins with the
    media - George Monbiot
    <http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/2016/08/13/humanitys-failure-to-prevent-climate-breakdown-begins-with-the-media>

BDlive 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

WHAT is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. *The 
media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of 
our lives*, and towards topics of brain-melting 
irrelevance....Television channel controllers, perhaps the least 
accountable arbiters in public life, see themselves as edgy and 
provocative, but they have purged from the schedules almost all 
challenges to established power... Newspapers style themselves defenders 
of free speech, but within their own pages most of them stamp out 
dissenting voices and dissonant topics. If you are scarcely aware of 
what confronts us, don’t blame yourself....The*El Nino*phase has now 
passed, but still the records fall. Eight months ago in ... If you 
blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps*the most striking 
aspect of the Democratic platform (the party's manifesto) *approved in 
Philadelphia*... now promises a national and global mobilisation on a 
scale not seen since the Second World War.... She will seek to 
renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil 
drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic and to ensure America is "running 
entirely on clean energy by mid-century"....*To pretend that newspapers 
and television channels are neutral arbiters of such matters is to 
ignore their place at the corrupt heart of the establishment*. At the US 
conventions, to give one small example, The Washington Post, The 
Atlantic and Politico were paid by the American Petroleum Institute to 
host discussions, which provided a platform for climate science deniers. 
The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the purse is mightier than 
the pen.....Why should we trust multinational corporations to tell us 
the truth about multinational corporations? And if they cannot properly 
inform us about the power in which they are embedded, how can they 
properly inform us about anything?..*..**If humanity fails to prevent 
climate breakdown, the industry that bears the greatest responsibility 
is not transport, farming, gas, oil or even coal*. All them can behave 
as they do, shunting us towards systemic collapse, only with a social 
licence to operate. The problem begins with the industry that, wittingly 
or otherwise, grants them this licence: the one for which I work.*


    Obama previews new efforts to tackle*climate change*
    <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-previews-new-efforts-to-tackle-climate-change/>

CBS News 	 -‎11 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

In a new video address, the president previewed his latest efforts to 
address what he called "one of the most urgent challenges of our time," 
noting that despite national -- and international -- movement on*climate 
change*, "there's still so much more*...*


    *Climate Science*: Revolution is Here
    <http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/12/climate-science-revolution-here>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎Aug 12, 2016‎ 	

	
	
	

But it has now become clear that on present trends, there is very little 
chance of it being achieved (see "Scientists warn mankind will miss 
crucial*climate change*target - eight months after agreeing it", 
Independent, 7 August 2016). Indeed, figures*...*

*Paris climate targets could be breached (Reuters video report) 
<http://www.reuters.tv/v/DF1/2016/08/12/paris-climate-targets-could-be-breached>*
http://reut.tv/2aQ87vV


    Time is now to take the next step on*climate change*
    <http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-climate-20160813-snap-story.html>

Los Angeles Times 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

To the editor: Passage of this measure SB 32 on reducing*greenhouse 
gas*emissions is desirable, but we can reverse*climate change*without 
government action. The needed lifestyle adjustments are well known, 
including: Don't have more than one child, ...


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