The climate crisis should be the front page, top stories of every media we watch, read, listen to. Every story needs to be seen through a climate lens to help people connect dots, grapple with what’s at stake, and understand the scale and urgency that’s required.https://twitter.com/GhostPanther/status/1141226371085004801 …
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Emily Cunningham Retweeted Wes Wolfe
Journalists covering the climate crisis have one of THE most important jobs. Hats off to them. Media *institutions* fail us by not covering the climate emergency like the existential threat it is. Think media during WWII. Do we see anything like that? No.https://twitter.com/WolfeReports/status/1141568173046673414 …
Emily Cunningham added,
Wes Wolfe @WolfeReportsPart of my job is covering the environment. I regularly report on climate change and environmental degradation. So do literally dozens of reporters at dozens of outlets in the U.S., coast to coast. We're. Not. Effing. Silent. And look, this is QTing a story by the BBC. https://twitter.com/GhostPanther/status/1141226371085004801 …Show this thread2 replies 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @emahlee
I read papers from WWII every week. I've done so since November 2016. The problem with WWII reporting is it gets real hard to see the big picture real quick. Battles in half a dozen places around the world no one's heard of. Plant strikes. Price controls. It all becomes noise.
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Replying to @WolfeReports
Genuine question: What do you think needs to happen so that the public has a true sense of the existential threat we're facing? The urgency? What it would actually take to turn this around and avoid the worst of what's coming?
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Replying to @emahlee
I really don't know. I think about it often. It seems to matter more to people when it affects them personally.
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Well, in addition to doing a lot of "reimagining," part of it *must* be a critique of media institutions current failure on reporting on the climate crisis. Respectfully, that's what @GhostPanther was doing and what you balked at. Much media *is* silent and lacks urgency.
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