George Monbiot
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dark forces are preventing us ...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian
Nov 14 at 6:47amWeb
Show threadDebbie BelairNov 14
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Same with covid. 😡
Show threadDr Susi ArnottNov 14
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Especially good column today! Brought to mind terrifying comment this week at #StopRosebank picket outside #DESNZ: staffer seeing it as a pro/con argument, telling me 'government is about balance' #stopfossilfuels #UKPolitics
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The entire species is the victim of its own arbitrary economic laws and conventions.

Corporations are legally obliged to make a profit for their shareholders which drives massive wealth inequalities, which in turn funds the lobbies that make social and environmental reform impossible.

Even the most progressive political and environmental reforms offer little more than mitigation against the worst excesses of a system that doesn't have to exist at all.