Credit: Reuters/Randall Hill
Four years ago, CNN’s Candy Crowley had the perfect opportunity to ask President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney what they would do about climate change. An audience question on gas prices sparked a heated debate about energy policy and oil drilling. But when neither candidate mentioned global warming, Crowley quickly moved on.
Climate hawks squawked with outrage. “Where is global warming in this debate?” tweeted former Vice President Al Gore. “Climate change is an urgent foreign policy issue.” The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert called climate “the debate’s great unmentionable.”
“I had that question for all of you climate change people,” Crowley would later respond to critics. But she skipped it, choosing to stick with the economy instead.
The 2012 cycle would turn out to be the first since 1988 in which climate went unmentioned in either a presidential or vice presidential debate — although to be honest, it’s hardly ever a popular topic with moderators. The advocacy group Media Matters for America analyzed the 1,477 questions […]
Behind this is the ‘sunk cost’ bets of the 5 money center banks who are invested in oil. Why are you not seeing advertisements for solar? The Banks have bet on the other side of the technological table: black gold… the blood of war. And supplier utilities. How to get them to bet on the sunny side? The ugly and traditional scenario is have a war make this change…. or extend this bet. What a losing proposition. But then, is there a polite way to wind down the oil empire? Some serious wellness envisionment is required here that reaches into the financial world.
For even bankers have children, and might not wish to create a choking hell for them.
It seems short sighted to continually remanufacture glass, to break bottles instead of washing them. and keeping it local. Why not a standard easily washable standard form that marketers can then put thier distinctive labels upon. Is climate change happening? If so, stop burning sand! and in the process reinforce the system of local production of food.
Oh, that would take unified action. What was I thinking?