Part Five / What We Must Do Now

5.11 Changing the Media Narrative

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  1. allows a few extremely rich people to grab and destroy Monbiot, G., ‘Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown’, Guardian, 10 November 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/10/extreme-wealth-polluting-climate-breakdown-rich.

  2. a two-part documentary broadcast in 2006 IMDb, ‘Are We Changing Planet Earth?’, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810491/.

    presented by ‘the most trusted man in Britain’ McCarthy, M., ‘Why we all love Attenborough’, Independent, 8 February 2013, https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/why-we-all-love-attenborough-8487708.html.

    Against Nature (1997) Monbiot, G., ‘Crimes against nature’, Guardian, 26 November 1997, reprinted https://www.monbiot.com/1997/11/26/crimes-against-nature/.

    The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007) Monbiot, G., ‘Don’t let truth stand in the way of a red-hot debunking of climate change’, Guardian, 13 March 2007, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/13/science.media.

    But Channel 4 did, blatantly and disastrously Monbiot, G., ‘Correspondence with Hamish Mykura’, 1 April 2007, https://www.monbiot.com/2007/04/01/correspondence-with-hamish-mykura/.

  3. In one day, NBC, ABC and CBS spent almost as much time Kahn, B., ‘Jeff Bezos got as much morning show coverage in a day as climate change got all last year’, Gizmodo, 21 July 2021, https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-got-as-much-morning-show-coverage-in-a-day-a-1847334966.

    Undercurrents, a video newsreel produced by activists Undercurrents, http://www.undercurrents.org/.