Our Climate is Shutting Down - Does Anyone Care About That?

Our Climate is Shutting Down – Does Anyone Care About That?

As I write this, wall-to-wall coverage continues on the financial emergency brought on by our nation’s so-called Republican leaders. However, as damaging as the “fiscal cliff” is for hundreds of thousands of Americans, it pales in comparison to the human crisis we’ll all face if we go lemming-like over the climate cliff. We are heading there fast and furious, seemingly with blindfolds and earplugs on, as the nation is slow to come to grips with the full intensity of what ...
/ 2013, Blog
The Green Elephant in the Room

The Green Elephant in the Room

As the New Jersey Shore’s “surreality” show continues to unfold on TV, one cannot help but note all the ads on CNN and Fox News from those that likely helped make such epic storms possible, or — at the very least — helped to make them worse. Commercials from the oil and coal industry pepper the coverage like so many reminders of what is not being discussed by the mainstream news media: the role our dependence on fossil fuels is ...
/ 2012, Blog
The Reagan Fetish II: Greed Versus Green

The Reagan Fetish II: Greed Versus Green

Arguably the most pernicious aspect of President Reagan’s environmental legacy was the 1987 decision by his Federal Communications Commission to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, a nearly 40-year-old effort to ensure that broadcasters were legitimately fair and balanced in their presentation of controversial issues. The Fairness Doctrine worked quite well for the mainstream media, allowing the Fourth Estate to honor its charge to keep the public fully informed about the day’s issues. For reasons that can only be construed as ideological, ...
/ 2012, Blog
The Reagan Fetish

The Reagan Fetish

In his 2009 documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore noted that while the content of President Jimmy Carter’s July 1979 speech about our need to abandon fossil fuels for cleaner forms of energy was accurate, it was something that most Americans didn’t want to hear at the time. Most Americans preferred to hear the convenient lie that we would always have plentiful oil at low prices, and voted for the candidate who embraced that vapid vision—Ronald Reagan. Moore argued ...
/ 2012, Blog