BPSDB Mark Hertsgaard (author of On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency) is interviewed by Democracy Now about his new book “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.”
Some worthwhile points that he makes:
It’s a crime
Our inaction on climate change is a crime. It is and should be treated as such. The lies and propaganda of the Anti-science Machine are crimes against humanity and hopefully they will be formally recognized as such.
“Uncertainty”
The alleged uncertainty of the science is very much an American phenomenon. Not that there aren’t Bolts, Delingpoles, Balls and Mtols all over the world (what village is without its’ idiot?), but that widespread and official Denial is peculiar to the US.
Update 18/4/11:
- National Journal: “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones.”
- Washington Post stunner: “The GOP’s climate-change denial may be its most harmful delusion.”
Nukes
I am not yet ready to talk about Nuclear Power, but Hertsgaard makes some interesting points relevant to that discussion.
Food & GMOs
As with Nukes, here is another I will be returning too, but he is certainly right in saying that food is the issue with respect to climate change.
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