Why climate change is not an environmental problem: The video

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http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-climate-change-is-not-an-environmental-problem-the-video/


Ryan L. Cooper, the able young web editor over at Washington Monthly, is the guy who remixed my TEDx talk to such nifty effect. Now he’s finished a new climate video of his own, which he produced and narrated.

Ryan will be the first to tell you that he’s not a video production guru. He’s an amateur, figuring stuff out on the fly. He just feels like he needs to be doing something, so he’s doing something. Would that there were more like him.

Here’s the video

[newfie11]

1. To bad this isn't on tv

In place of advertisements

[kristopher]

2. K&R Share this any way you can! nt

[limpyhobbler]

3. k/r. So true. nt

[cprise]

4. I think its kind of inane

Practically any environmental problem pushed far (or long) enough will lead to global catastrophe. There are hundreds of ecological abuses waiting to compete with global warming if they're allowed to continue. And to think we can keep weakening and killing off other species without endangering ourselves is folly. Everything is ultimately connected.

That post is just another "environmentalism is dead" concept from yet another wannabe-iconoclast. GHGs took hundreds of years of neglect to get to this point, and global warming is no more or less of a global issue than depletion of the ozone layer (a successful environmentalist cause).

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The rest of society has dug in its heels on global warming, however. The denialism is mainly an American phenomenon that is spreading to the rest of the Anglophone world. It is probably due in part to the timing of warming trend discoveries coinciding with the capitalist triumphalism starting at the end of the Cold War.

To cope with this, we would have to end gerrymandering and restore media ownership restrictions at the very least. The political culture can't change for the better without rectifying those two sectors first.

[kristopher]

5. Kick.

[hatrack]

6. This is pretty fucking good . . .

Too bad it's gotten a whole, what, hundred-odd views?