After watching this highly recommended show I had quite a surge of hope. David makes the simple point that WE created the markets and WE created the economy, and so WE can change things. D'oh! It would take a critical mass of people working toward a similar goal, of course, but we got into this climate change mess, and we can get out of it (barring something like a gigantic asteroid strike or a super-volcano erupting and blocking out the sun for a decade or more).
OK, forget about that last point. Watch this 25 minute program and I think you will feel a similar pang of hope.
Time to Get Real on Climate Change
Bill Moyers & Company
This week, as the White House issued a landmark report detailing the frightening affects of global
warming on our country and President Obama took to the airwaves to drive home
that message, Bill Moyers talks with a scientist who has sounded the alarm for
decades.
For nearly 35 years, David Suzuki has brought science into the homes of millions on the Canadian television series, The Nature of Things. He has become a godfather of the environmental movement, and in a poll of his fellow Canadians last fall he was named that country’s most admired figure. Nonetheless, his outspoken views on climate change and the government’s collusion with the petrochemical industry in developing Canada’s oil-rich tar sands have made him the target of relentless attacks from his nation’s prime minister, corporations and right-wing ideologues.
“Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. …I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It’s an intergenerational crime,” Suzuki tells Moyers.
For nearly 35 years, David Suzuki has brought science into the homes of millions on the Canadian television series, The Nature of Things. He has become a godfather of the environmental movement, and in a poll of his fellow Canadians last fall he was named that country’s most admired figure. Nonetheless, his outspoken views on climate change and the government’s collusion with the petrochemical industry in developing Canada’s oil-rich tar sands have made him the target of relentless attacks from his nation’s prime minister, corporations and right-wing ideologues.
“Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. …I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. It’s an intergenerational crime,” Suzuki tells Moyers.
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