Sadly, climate change
is one of the things that fall in and out of favour.
As recent as 2009, people all around the world were taking
note and would have acted, had they then been asked and not been swayed by the
powerful lobby groups funded via the deep pockets of the fossil fuel
industries.
It was about then that the media was alive with discussion
about the causes of, and complications arising from climate change, but now the
mood has changed.
Coverage of climate change, at least on American news
services and happenings there probably reflect the Australian market, peaked in
2009 and then dropped significantly from there.
That significant change in priorities is explained in a story
published on the Huffington Post
headed: “This is how little time television news devotes to climate change”.
The twist is that while TV coverage of climate change has
dropped significantly, the evolving catastrophic change humanity faces from
this human-induced injury to our atmosphere has not, rather the reverse is true
as climate change is tightening its grip on the world.
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