Prof. Julia Steinberger reports
that for 3 full days the EU parliament hosted thousands of scientists, activists and policy-makers charting a future beyond growth, but says every single journalist there she spoke to said, "my editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth."
She is asking people to spread the word about this.
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@JKSteinberger: As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, b...…

@AlisonCreekside News is funded by advertising, advertising is funded by capitalism, capitalism depends on growth.

The whole business model of journalism (as of most other industries) is unsustainable and is destrying our hope of a future.