The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?

Cuz they’re owned by the people overheating the planet.

Because saving it doesn’t generate shareholder value

Because it always ends with “but the economy!”

Same reason your dad looks away when Santa starts kissing your mom.

Because paying attention and trying to reverse course doesn’t benefit entrenched wealth and power.

$$$

The shareholders demand a blood sacrifice.

War generates more clicks than the environment and there’s a few of those going on at the moment.

’news’ in western for-profit society, are NOT what WE need, but what the Ychopath elite wants us to know and think. Unfortunately, western population have gotten the information/belief that western “journalism” actually ensures true information and hence gives a true window to what is happening in the world, so they keep listening to the propaganda crap and keep regurgitating it on social media for everyone to see..

Btw. If you noticed a lot of media attention to climate a few years ago - together with so-called “wokeness” (I was ‘woke’) etc - I’m afraid it was all propaganda campaigns aimed at getting EU to cut off fossils from Russia. The immense scope and effectiveness of these campaigns are beyond what ordinary people can even imagine, and they are being bombarded with “See, ‘conspiracy-theorists’, let’s laugh at them so to deflect our believers attention”. It is pure manipulation, and it works..

The nasty fact is that Western Oligarchs - the s*itters in power, don’t care shit about ‘climate’, ‘diversity’, ‘freedom’, ‘Democracy’ or ANY such pro-social attitudes. ‘Wellfare’, security from psychopaths, freedom from surveillance capitalism, and other nasty effects from capitalism that enshittifies everything around us, are what we don’t get ! They care about power and are completely dominating the western for-profit information sphere, and most key political positions (manufacturing consent).

We in the West are NOT fighting for anything good - we are getting ass-pounded every second by the worst ‘Dark Triad’ scum in world history - the US/Western Capitalist Elite, while the same elite use us to spread their warmongering hate-propaganda and fight their insane wars against everyone and every nation not bowing down to their regime..

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19798

the planet’s current atmospheric-CO2 equilibrium temperature is WAAAY hotter than what the international climate committee admits.

Model-based predictions are bogus until MADE accurate, through corrections.

They haven’t got there yet.

That link I put up above is on the MEASURED, not merely-modeled, relation between CO2 & planetary equilibrium temperature.

We’re guaranteed to lose inhabitability for much of California, much of Texas, much of India, much of the Sahara, much of Saudi Arabia, & possibly all land in the tropics, within the still accelerating ClimatePunctuation between the TemperatePlanetClimate we used to be inhabiting, vs the HotPlanetClimate this world is swinging towards.

Punctuated Equilibrium, in Climate: stay at an equilibrium for centuries, or millenia, then SUDDENLY, by geological/climate speeds, switch to a different one.

I’ve read that the GLOBAL average sea-level-rise during the Laurentide Ice-Sheet’s melting ( when other ice was melting elsewhere, too ) was something like 7’, aka 2+m, every 50y.

Punctuations TRASH coastal-civilizations.

Why is “journalism” not keeping it front-&-center?

Motivation.

Journalism-with-a-capital-J isn’t what’s done, now: profit comes 1st, & “you can’t serve 2 contradictory gods”.

Keeping the population moving, rootless, so they can be perpetually-parasited-on more efficiently, is the driving-force among the “journalism” of nowadays.

Basically all media is owned by Billionaires, the ones responsible for boiling the planet and bringing us fascism. Epstein’s clients

Sing along if you know the words:

The purpose of news corporations is not to inform. The purpose of news corporations is not to serve the public interest. The highest priority of any news corporation is to make money.

One reason might be the increasing likelyhood for everybody’s violent death maybe?

The Financial Times in the UK has an entire climate change section, read the comments in any article published there.

nearly everything we do is wrong, so its easier to lie to ourselves and keep doing the same stupid things.

I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don’t know how to do that.” -James Speth