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Revealed: Scale of The Telegraph’s Climate Change ‘Propaganda’

  • Publication year: 2023
  • Media: DeSmog
  • Post category:Articles

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK.A new analysis by DeSmog reviewed over 2,000 Telegraph opinion pieces and editorials published online over a six month period, ending in 16 October. Of the 171 opinion pieces that dealt with environmental issues, 85 percent were identified as “anti-green” : attacking climate policy, questioning climate science and ridiculing environmental groups.

Hollywood: Bring back Captain Planet

  • Publication year: 2023
  • Media: Yale Climate Connections
  • Post category:Articles

For climate change, we need a story that doesn’t end in the sixth mass extinction. If we can see what a climate-safe world looks like, we might believe in it, and we might create more and stronger solutions that accelerate progress toward a net zero world. A reboot of Captain Planet could inspire a new wave of problem-solvers and optimists that this crisis needs.

Leave ‘em laughing instead of crying: Climate humor can break down barriers and find common ground

  • Publication year: 2019
  • Media: The Conversation
  • Post category:Articles

Research shows that in a time of deep polarization, comedy can lower defenses. It temporarily suspends social rules and connects people with ideas and new ways of thinking or acting. Comedy exploits cracks in arguments. It wiggles in, pokes, prods and draws attention to the incongruous, hypocritical, false and pretentious. It can make the complex dimensions of climate change seem more accessible and its challenges seem more manageable.