“Instead of sleepwalking us toward [climate] disaster, the
U.S. news media need to remember their Paul Revere responsibilities — to
awaken, inform, and rouse the people to action.”
—Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope, reporters, “The
media are complacent while the world burns,” Columbia Journalism Review,
April 30, 2019. Image:
16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses U.N. climate summit. Video.
• Editorial Comment:
“One if by land and two if by sea”? Well, I think it’ll be two.
• Related: “New
U.N. climate report: Monumental change already here for world’s oceans and
frozen regions,” Washington Post, Sept. 25, 2019.
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