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Something to think about on the role of the media ? And the reality of our world ?The Guardian’s climate crisis reporting goes where others fear – or refuse – to treadGeorge Monbiot[ATTACH=full]147411[/ATTACH]As most of the media, beholden to those who would uphold the status quo, downplay the most critical issue of all, our mission is to put the environment front and centre[ATTACH=full]147412[/ATTACH]People use a temporary bamboo path near their home in Sindh province, Pakistan. Recent floods ravaged a third of the country and killed 1,500 people. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty ImagesWed 28 Sep 2022 08.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 28 Sep 2022 08.01 BSTWhat is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. Most of the time, most of the media obsess over issues of mind-numbing triviality. Much of the world’s political journalism is little more than court gossip: who’s in, who’s out, who said what to whom. At the same time, issues of immense, even existential importance are largely or entirely ignored.With the exception of all-out nuclear war, all the most important problems that confront us are environmental. None of our hopes, none of our dreams, none of our plans and expectations can survive the loss of a habitable planet. And there is scarcely an Earth system that is not now threatened with collapse.Let’s begin with the ground beneath our feet. Soil is a biological structure, created by the organisms that inhabit it. When conditions become hostile to their survival, the structure collapses, and fertile lands turn to dust bowls. The global rate of soil degradation is terrifying. We rely on the soil for 95% of our food, yet we treat it like dirt.Ocean ecosystems are in even greater trouble, hammered by a combination of industrial fishing, pollution, and acidification, as carbon dioxide dissolves into seawater. Forests, rivers, wetlands, savannahs, the cryosphere (the world’s ice and snow) – all are being pushed towards the brink. And above all, climate breakdown is gathering at shocking, unanticipated speed, with disasters occurring at 1.2C of heating that scientists did not expect until we hit 2 or 3C.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/guardian-climate-crisis-reporting-fearless-monbiot[/URL]
Something to think about on the role of the media ? And the reality of our world ?
George Monbiot
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As most of the media, beholden to those who would uphold the status quo, downplay the most critical issue of all, our mission is to put the environment front and centre
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People use a temporary bamboo path near their home in Sindh province, Pakistan. Recent floods ravaged a third of the country and killed 1,500 people. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images
Wed 28 Sep 2022 08.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 28 Sep 2022 08.01 BST
What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. Most of the time, most of the media obsess over issues of mind-numbing triviality. Much of the world’s political journalism is little more than court gossip: who’s in, who’s out, who said what to whom. At the same time, issues of immense, even existential importance are largely or entirely ignored.
With the exception of all-out nuclear war, all the most important problems that confront us are environmental. None of our hopes, none of our dreams, none of our plans and expectations can survive the loss of a habitable planet. And there is scarcely an Earth system that is not now threatened with collapse.
Let’s begin with the ground beneath our feet. Soil is a biological structure, created by the organisms that inhabit it. When conditions become hostile to their survival, the structure collapses, and fertile lands turn to dust bowls. The global rate of soil degradation is terrifying. We rely on the soil for 95% of our food, yet we treat it like dirt.
Ocean ecosystems are in even greater trouble, hammered by a combination of industrial fishing, pollution, and acidification, as carbon dioxide dissolves into seawater. Forests, rivers, wetlands, savannahs, the cryosphere (the world’s ice and snow) – all are being pushed towards the brink. And above all, climate breakdown is gathering at shocking, unanticipated speed, with disasters occurring at 1.2C of heating that scientists did not expect until we hit 2 or 3C.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/guardian-climate-crisis-reporting-fearless-monbiot[/URL]
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