Joe Romm, writing for Thing Progress, points out the frightening reality of mainstream media coverage of arguably the biggest story of this century – the massive damage we are doing to this planet.
As people get excited about the movie Oscars, and the media is full of the stars, Romm points out the dangers posed by climate change and the damage we are doing to the environment are not being covered with the urgency needed.
In the story, Apocalypse Not: The Oscars, The Media And The Myth of ‘Constant Repetition of Doomsday Messages’ on Climate, he says it’s “business as usual” with the media ignoring the elephant in the room.
As he says, “You’d think it would be pretty obvious that the public is not going to be concerned about an issue unless one explains why they should be concerned about an issue.”
That explanation is desperately needed.
Read the full story: Apocalypse Not: The Oscars, The Media And The Myth of ‘Constant Repetition of Doomsday Messages’ on Climate.
Bio
Joe Romm is a Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called “the indispensable blog” and Time magazine named one of the 25 “Best Blogs of 2010.” In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm #88 on its list of 100 “people who are reinventing America.” Time named him a “Hero of the Environment″ and “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger.” Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in R&D, demonstration, and deployment of low-carbon technology. He is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. (Courtesy: Think Progress)
