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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

No one Cares About Climate Change

Author:     JOHN D. SUTTER
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     8:59 AM EDT, Mon September 22, 2014
 Link: No one Cares About Climate Change
Stephan:   Did you notice as well? The paucity of coverage about the climate change rallies on the major cable and broadcast channels. Occasional mentions, but nothing sustained. You could see it on the Weather Channel, but not MSNBC. I have been really struck by this. As well as the lack of discussion about what has happened. Here is one of the best accounts of the experience I have seen.

NEW YORK — You could be forgiven for thinking no one cares — or even should care, right now — about climate change.

For starters, there’s all that other terrifying stuff competing for attention: President Barack Obama’s war with ISIS; the Ebola outbreak, which recently put Sierra Leone on national lockdown; Ukraine; Scotland; wife-beating athletes. That scary guy in Pennsylvania.

The world seems like a pretty big mess right now.

The climate? Not top of the agenda.

Polls indicate Americans care less about climate change than pretty much anything. Even among those of us who are inclined to care about the planet, there’s the holy-crap-I-can’t-even-deal-with-it factor. It seems too big, too daunting — and like so much damage is already being done.

But I put those doubts completely to rest on Sunday as I wove through hopeful crowds of thousands at the People’s Climate March in New York, which was billed by organizers as the biggest rally against climate change world has ever seen. There was no independent estimate of the size of the crowd immediately available, but organizers said as many as 310,000 people attended — many from far reaches of the globe, ahead of a UN climate summit here this week.

Marchers sound urgent […]

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