The short explanation is that the US is a petrostate.
Fealty to fossil-fuel polluters has little to nothing to do with what voters want.
The fealty is structural, embedded in our institutions - industrial and military of course, but also academic, journalistic, cultural, financial.
#climate #uspol #kamalaharris #gop #trump #climatesilence #fossilfuels #bigoil
good reporting by KFile such as it is but it fails to explain *why*.
It's why McCain went from championing strict climate legislation in 2004 to picking Palin as a running mate in 2008.
Why Obama talked about shutting down coal companies in 2008 to climate silence in 2012.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/harris-oil-companies-emissions-kfile/
#climate #uspol #kamalaharris #mccain #gop #obama #climatesilence
When Kamala Harris ran for president in 2019, she repeatedly warned oil companies they should be prepared to face hefty fines and even criminal prosecution under a future Harris administration for their role in contributing to climate change.
boy does the New York Times work hard to not say "fossil fuels" these days.
Watch out for those "human-caused forces that have been bringing abnormal heat"!
lol.
#milton #climatesilence #climatechange #fossilfuels
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/07/climate/gulf-mexico-ocean-temperature.html
“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like [it] is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in Oklahoma’s tornado belt, told CNN. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”
Strange day when a film director says films are best when empty of meaning.
Twister 2O24 is crafted to convey only empty visceral sensation? Lifetime is a budget. Why spend 122 minutes on nothing?
In today's Hill Heat: Long-time federal prosecutor Cindy Cho, in a prosecutorial memorandum, lays out the case for charging oil majors with second-degree murder or reckless manslaughter for the July 2023 Southwest heat wave, with Maricopa County alone recording 403 heat-related deaths.
#climate #summerofheat #fossilfuels #uspol #debate #climatesilence
Maui wants answers.
Such vast death. Why no alarms?
They would have acted.
We boiling frogs feel for Them,
Shush, Climate! We want to hear.
#tanka (5-7-5-7-7 extended #haiku / #senryu) #poem
#climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSilence #Maui #Lahaina #ClimateMessaging
"KCCI assigned a security detail to Gloninger but also, he said, “told me to dial down the climate stuff a bit”."
If you follow the money it's arguable that this is the end result of a calculated campaign of terrorism conducted by the fossil fuel industry in the interest of prolonging monetization. There's an anger factory operated by FF interests.
Every day of #ClimateSilence is money banked.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/chris-gloninger-tv-weather-man-climate-crisis
Eric Doherty
Brad Johnson
Doug Bostrom
Kent Pitman