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ON’T EXPECT THE mainstream media to help alert the world to the environmental cri- sis at hand. In many cases, they’ve become


the Leni Riefenstahls of our time, cre- ating distracting and misleading pro- paganda to support a tiny handful of climate change deniers. As Dr. Brian Moench, President of


Utah Physicians for a Healthy Envi- ronment, points out, “Media coverage of the likely end of civilization has plummeted and is now 70-90% less


than two years ago. Snooki gets more media attention. Worse still, most of the coverage is of climate denier poli- ticians. On the Sunday talk shows no scientists have been interviewed in the last three years. Of 839 questions asked by the media in the recent Republican presidential debates, two were about the climate crisis.” But the consensus of thousands of reputable scientists worldwide is that the “debate” on global warming is over. Whatever the precise causes, humans are accelerating the change—in a way never before seen.


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“The current warming trend is of particular signifi cance, because most of it is very likely human-induced, and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.” – NASA


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