Media myopia as we hurtle towards climate oblivion
JVL Introduction
“Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likely be intrigued, bemused or simply horrified at humanity’s headlong drive towards climate catastrophe.”
Thus begins this Media Lens report on the disjuncture between what we know about looming environmental catastrophe as a result of human activity and what governments and corporations are prepared to do about it.
Prof Bill McGuire, whose new book, ‘The Fate of the World: A History and Future of the Climate Crisis’, is among sources cited here.
He is one of those scientists warning us about how rampant capitalism is destroying the life-support systems that allowed our earth to become an environment for life as we know it to evolve and flourish.
Is he even heard? Does our insane media system know or care?
RK
This article was originally published by Media Lens on Tue 19 May 2026. Read the original here.
Media myopia as we hurtle towards climate oblivion
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Kurt Vonnegut pretty much nailed it – “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.”
Absolutely correct. Absolutely depressing. Media bias isn’t just about Israel-Palestine.
The establishment politicians and media seem incapable of understanding the climate crisis and are disinterested in doing anything real.
As this article alludes, trivial or relatively irrelevant topics get the attention.