Greta is not the Problem: Climate Crisis and the Culture War

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About a Girl

As I mentioned in a prior Six Things I Think post, I don’t write about humanity’s impending doom on a boiling planet nearly as often as I should; at least in part because I’m not qualified to produce the scientific evidence required to dispute oil company propaganda. I am however something of an expert on propaganda, the American culture war, and coordinated right wing smear attacks on activists. Unsurprisingly giving the money involved here, these subjects often intertwine. That’s why the media coverage of Greta Thunberg’s 2019 visit to the United Nations to talk about climate crisis convinced me to write not one, but two separate, outraged blog posts.

In my first post, I talk about why the media coverage of right wing culture war attacks on Greta is still totally about ignoring the important things Thunberg has to say about impeding climate catastrophe. I then follow that up with a more thorough examination of what the Koch-inspired smear attacks on a teenage climate activist can tell us about other media arguments designed to discredit folks fighting for a better world. Neither of these pieces are particularly long, but they ask and answer important questions about why the corporate media never seems to get climate crisis coverage right.

That’s not an accident. Check these stories out by clicking on the appropriate header or image below.

“We’re trapped in a coffin ship hurtling towards an angry sun and there’s a myopic pack of deranged sociopaths who mean to kill us all for a spare buck at the controls – no little Swedish girl was ever going to stand a chance against the towering ignorance of Pig Empire capitalism and a society so addicted to oil that it would rather die, than get off the dope.”

A Dull Constant Roar on Can’t You Read

Propaganda & Elite Factionalism on Media Madness

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