Naomi believes people are terrified - not apathetic - re: climate... We also need information we can trust - based on facts - and a plan that we can unify behind and support. ("Without a vision, the people perish.")
This is a start: "The journalism school's publication, The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), is joining with The Nation to launch an initiative, #CoveringClimateNow, to change coverage of the climate crisis."
Because 'The House Is on Fire,' Naomi Klein Takes Centrism-Obsessed Media to Task for Failed Climate Coverage
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/01/because-house-fire-naomi-klein-takes-centrism-obsessed-media-task-failed-climate
Naomi believes people are terrified - not apathetic - re: climate... We also need information we can trust - based on facts - and a plan that we can unify behind and support. ("Without a vision, the people perish.")
Some examples of the type of coverage that won't lead us down a slippery slope, i.e. REAL deal... NOT secretive NON-transparent Green New Deal....
1) Silent Spring’s Encore by Robert Hunziker
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/06/silent-springs-encore/
2) A Million Species ‘Threatened with Extinction’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/million-species-threatened-extinction/5676686
The state of the world’s nature shows human-driven sixth mass extinction is ongoing.
By Arthur Wyns Global Research, May 06, 2019 The Ecologist
Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history – with grave impacts on people around the world, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), launched today in Paris.
The report, authored by 455 experts and reviewing over 15,000 scientific studies, assesses the global changes to the world’s biodiversity over the past five decades, providing a comprehensive picture of our relationship with, and impact on, nature.
A summary of the IPBES global biodiversity assessment can be accessed here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5988821-Summary-for-Policymakers-IPBES-Global-Assessment.html
(https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5988821-Summary-for-Policymakers-IPBES-Global-Assessment.html)
Solutions
A number of conservation success stories during the past decade, although still few and to a limited scale, also offer hope, showing that with prompt and appropriate actions it is still possible to reduce human-induced extinction rates.
“Policies, efforts and actions – at every level – will only succeed, however, when based on the best knowledge and evidence. This is what the IPBES Global Assessment provides,” says Sir Robert Watson.
3) Saving the World’s Nature and Biodiversity
https://www.globalresearch.ca/saving-the-worlds-nature-and-biodiversity/5676712
Islands of Nature in a Sea of Decline – Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Action and Contributions
By Forest Peoples Programme Global Research, May 06, 2019
4) re: urgency we face: Note To the Environmental Community Ralph Nader
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/06/note-to-the-environmental-community/