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“We sat around as a message to the future: not to close your eyes, to keep your eyes open, and if you see something, say something and take action.”
“It’s not just local ecosystems that these data centers are affecting, but it’s also driving death and destruction across the globe.”
“All of the changes that happen economically that are going to harm the most of us and enrich a few of the others are sold to us as inevitable.”
Even Forbes has to acknowledge that even as the Starbucks strike “drags” into a second month, “global support grows.”
“This is because of community pushback, communities that are saying, this is not worth the environmental threat that these data centers pose.”
“This budget proposal is one of the worst attacks on the environment that we have seen in our lifetime.”
Our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.
“This is a free speech issue that in normal times would be a no-brainer.”
Fossil fuel corporations’ lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.
It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.
“Pragmatic” means doing what’s best for the US, “ideological” means doing what’s best for the Mexican people Claudia Sheinbaum represents.
Reporting on coral bleaching should not only link it to climate change, but to climate change’s main culprit: the fossil fuel industry.
One-source stories on a controversial story, where there is a long-running dispute about the use of DU weapons, are lazy journalism.
When a new example arose of RICO being used to punish the powerless rather than the powerful, concern was hard to find in corporate media.
On US TV news, viewers were more likely to hear climate denial than the connection between fossil fuel consumption and worsening wildfires.
“Electronics and software are moving into all of our products. And it provides tools for manufacturers to intentionally lock products down.”
Media complicity in using feigned concern for dead whales to shield fossil fuel interests undermines genuine environmental activism.
On Earth Day, no doubt most major media will pay lip service to the extreme dangers of climate change. But what happens the next day?
“The media…basically regurgitated falsified data that was being said to them by the very state government that presided over the poisoning.”
“It’s the playbook for these corporations to fight back against activists, journalists, lawyers, human rights organizations.”
