A narrow class of people is profiting from our anguish. They know they’re setting our world on fire. They persist because they love neither the Earth nor its people. What they care about is money. Not just enough to get by on. Not even enough to become grotesquely rich with. They want the kind of money that bends others to their will. They seek power, buy it, co-opt it, leverage it and always thirst for more of it. As far as they’re concerned, the rest of us can go to hell – so long as we bend the knee and keep paying them as we stagger towards the flames.
This is why reporting on the state of our climate is so inadequate. Too often, coverage is evasive, recklessly shallow or simply dishonest. The oligarchs who own the news and direct the algorithms of social media are committed to keeping it that way. They give us bread and circuses and bank on our remaining distracted and tractable. They are betting against our children’s futures.
The Guardian serves the same masters. I guess it’s too late to deny it and they want more subscriptions? But yes, climate extinction is upon us.
This one lost me in the last paragraph lol
I could not get past the first sentence of that last paragraph.
i didn’t even read the full sentence and closed the tab, and that’s the only thing i read on the whole page
Oh, hell yeah, sign me up! This free press, as they call it, will surely save the planet! What more do they plan to do about this existential problem, though? Write more articles reminding us about what most of us already know? Yes, that’s precisely what they’ll do.
