I thought America was way behind the times on the science of climate change, given the positions of so many anti-science, anti-evidence Republicans who populate our House of Representatives. Our northern neighbor, Canada, is surprisingly anti-environmentalist, considering they are socially more progressive than the U.S. with their single payer healthcare. Canadian PM Harper, who is as committed to proliferating the production of dirty Alberta tar sands oil as America’s fossil fuel sweethearts Charles and David Koch, stands in unison with the ultra-conservative Australian PM, Tony Abbott.
Salon reported, “President Obama has stayed far from these two other world leaders when it comes to climate policy. He is pursuing a number of avenues to reduce the United States’ emissions with his National Climate Plan, including the recent announcement of the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to substantially reduce emissions from power plants.”
Australia was once a leader on climate action. This cabal of the anti-conservationist movement, formed by the unlikely triumvirate of Murdoch, Grover Norquist and PM Abbott has dealt a lethal blow to the future prevention of climate change disasters.
This denial movement has shaped legislation on two continents, both very susceptible to the rising sea levels that are imminent with our current carbon emissions. Curiously, yesterday was also the day Mr. Murdoch publically offered to buy Time Warner Cable, which includes the very cash lucrative HBO, for $80 billion. Currently that bid has been rejected, but he is determined to find a price that will be acceptable for the massive merger.
With control of the media on two continents, unfettered pollution will only become a bigger problem with the media devoting little to no attention to the crisis of man-made climate change.
