One of the environmental groups in the US just completed a very extensive and painstaking analysis of every single question asked by the American television networks to all of the candidates for president, Democratic and Republican. In the calendar year 2007, the total was 2,976 questions. How many of them were about the climate crisis? The answer is 3, the same number that was asked of them about UFOs.
Al Gore, in his talk with Bono and Tom Friedman at the World Economic Forum. Check out this and other webcasts here.
From What I Learned Today. This is interesting to me not in that it provokes some indignant avalanche of bitter thoughts about climate change but in what it says about the media and the American electorate: they ask the questions “that people want to hear answered,” but people value primarily what the media tell them to. Our inability to break this cycle, which coarsens our culture and reduces our national intelligence, will be the end of us.
Note also that I’m probably more likely to listen to one of these sociopaths talk about UFOs than about climate change.
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