Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them
In the Uk, The Guardian is saying Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them.
Covert lobbying, in the UK as well as the US, has severely set back efforts to combat the world’s biggest problem.
The campaign of dissuasion funded by Exxon and the tobacco company Philip Morris has been devastatingly effective. By insisting that man-made global warming is either a “myth” or not worth tackling, it has given the media and politicians the excuses for inaction they wanted. Partly as a result, in the US at least, these companies have helped to delay attempts to tackle the world’s most important problem by a decade or more.
The full article is well worth reading as George Monbiot delves deep into the corporate backing of the climate-change deniers. I recommend readers simply boycott any companies found to be financing these denials. These people are putting us all at risk. — DS
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