Not about climate change, but all about climate change

The late Dr Herbert Schiller.

This is not about climate change, but it is about how the modern world community communicates and how that is distorting our understanding of how we are impacting on the world’s climate system.

Again, it is not necessarily about the latter even, but it is about the colonization of the world’s media infrastructure by corporations and how that influences our behaviour and decisions.

American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar, the late Herbert Schiller, who received his PhD in 1960 from New York University and died in 2000, warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations.

In this conversation with Harold Hudson Channer, Dr Schiller talks about the “unbridled arrogance” of the world’s corporations; an arrogance that is now manifesting itself as climate change.

Spend an hour listening to the late Dr Schiller and enhance your understanding of how the world’s corporations, whose only allegiance is to profit, are the key drivers of climate change, despite their rhetoric about sustainability and care for the environment – watch the 1997 conversation.