In this Science Talk episode, host Dr. Muhammad Ittefaq and guest Dr. Peter Kalmus* discuss the role of media in pushing climate narrative, fossil fuel industry's propaganda, and how Republicans and Democrats are equally bad for climate change.
Transcript of entire show here, sample quotes below
"The fossil fuel industry has been lying and blocking action, maybe if they hadn't, that hurricane would not have happened. Media need to let people know that 20:49 when you burn fossil fuels, you can think of it as like a ratchet. like every little bit that you burn, every gallon of gas, it's a little ratchet making the planet a tiny bit hotter." [More quotes below; transcript of entire 40 min program here]
I would love to see a ground swell of climate 32:46 scientists speaking out a lot more, speaking really clearly. Not telling the public to stay calm, right? That's the wrong message right now. I would love to see more climate scientists directly explaining that this is a human-caused problem and that the fossil fuel executives corporations have been lying to us for decades.
I used to have a 39:34 medium size microphone on Twitter until Elon Musk bought it. But even if I did, for somebody to actually hear what I'm saying, they would have to trust me. And right now, the working class right have essentially been divided by the wealthy class, by this billionaire class which owns a lot of the media, right? And so so I will be perceived by people on the right as someone as one of them as on the left. 40:08 Right? So it's very hard.
I think there's a connection between global heating and 40:58 the rise of fascism, this xenophobia, wanting to close borders, for example, this sense of fear that things aren't going well, which makes a populace susceptible to authoritarianism. Academics need to study that connection, cuz I think we're going to see, unfortunately, a lot more authoritarianism in the in the future as the planet heats up.
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* American scientist and writer Peter Kalmus is a data scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an associate project scientist at UCLA's Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering
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