A Backstage Pass to Climate Reality : Katie Carpenter
At any given time, the Web audience was hardly epic, despite the large number of visitors who checked in at least once during the show. Turned out we would have been pretty safe to speak freely, in our little cocoon of panelists and climate advocates...when the birds and the clean air and the water and the trees are gone, you will really miss them. Stand up for nature!
Turns out I was talking in a vacuum. Let's be honest—the media is doing a terrible job. Getting a mention of climate change into a news cast on television is like pulling teeth—your bosses hate you, or laugh at you, and then don't return your emails for weeks afterwards. You feel ostracized, you learn to shut up.
As far as I can tell, this enormous undertaking—24 hours of broadcast-quality television production for the Web, featuring luminaries from science and other realms—has had zero effect. It's hard not to get a little depressed...
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Quote from Katie:
"Andy Revkin's been at this game for thirty years, and so have I."
And what has changed that is noticable except the same historical cycles? You'd think they would learn after 30 years that just maybe this isn't a crisis. The weather has actually improved. They could relieve their anxiety IF they would look at the data and weather history. But that would be a career ender for them.
Sad, actually because there are real enviromental problems that could be tackled, if they would stop chasing their imaginary crisis.
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