Reporting On Military's Role In Driving Climate Crisis Too Negative For Corporate Media?

"Horrific heat descends upon Western Europe:  104° in London"
 Source: Yale Climate Connections (Image credit: tropicaltidbits.com)

Source: India Today

Following an extensive clampdown on information sharing --using the pretext of dangerous wronthink on the covid pandemic -- no corporate media outlets and few social media posts in 2022 are in danger of connecting these dots: 

Despite years of research and reporting on the U.S. military's enormous role in driving climate crisis, and despite record high temperatures and wildfires across the Global North, what messages are corporate media putting out?

Fear Russia and send more weapons to Ukraine. 

By astonishing coincidence, the popular Netflix horror series Stranger Things began production in 2016 and just happens to be set in the 1980's, getting maximum mileage out of Cold War era bad guys.

Fear China, and conduct RIMPAC war games with South Korea and Japan blowing up battleships in the Pacific.  Also, focus on Taiwan as the location for the next U.S./NATO proxy war.

Remind people how beastly hot it is and how many unnecessary deaths result -- but do not address the root cause: fighting wars for access to fossil fuels.

Admonish climatologists to not be so negative.

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened pic.twitter.com/CokQ5eb3sO

— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) July 20, 2022

https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1549768004233314306

Spin "protecting the homeland and the United States" (whatever that's supposed to mean) as necessary because Russia and China might get better access to fossil fuel reserves, rare earth minerals, and potable water in Latin America.

U.S. SOUTHCOM Commander:"This region is so rich in resources.. it's off the charts rich."

"60% of the world's lithium is in the region; you have heavy crude, you have light sweet crude, you have rare earth elements, you have the Amazon.." pic.twitter.com/33dQ6EXKAo

— Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) July 20, 2022

https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1549834456353185797

Promote WWIII, ignoring the abundance of historical examples of what happened to empires that overextended in the mistaken belief that they were invincible.

Fiddle while Rome burns.

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