We have only few years left to prevent climate catastrophe. Last week, Greta Thunberg led four million people in taking to the streets in the largest climate protest ever.
Yet the corporate media still refuses to treat climate change as a major front page news story.
Common Dreams is able to give the climate crisis the coverage it deserves because we’re an independent nonprofit that is not beholden to corporate advertisers. We're going to keep news about the climate emergency on our home page, and we're going to hold all of the corporate interests contributing to the crisis to account.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to take to the streets with thousands of fellow teenagers in New York to call on leaders to make real, substantive change to address the rapidly warming earth. She sat in front of the UN and gave a talk to representatives from around the world, admonishing them for putting the economy over the wellbeing of the planet and future generations. But Donald Trump wasn't there to hear it.
Instead, Trump led a session on 'religious freedom' at the UN at the same time, purposely snubbing the climate protestors. But none of the major media outlets mentioned Trump skipping the meeting on their front pages.
Scientists have been clear that we are just a decade away from a climate catastrophe, and we are already seeing signs now. Category 5 hurricanes are now the norm. Wildfires are sweeping across the West Coast and Alaska, and flooding is destroying crops.
We are running out of time to act—it is either reverse course on energy and get off oil immediately, or millions of people will suffer.
If any other brewing conflict threatened this many lives, it would be on every front page. But we aren't at war with another country—we are at war with industry polluters and corporations that care too much about profits to stop killing the planet. And many of those corporations own media outlets, so it's no wonder climate change isn’t in their big headlines.
Common Dreams doesn't have corporate investors, and we'll never bury climate science. We will continue to sound the alarm to make sure people know the truth about the climate emergency and what is needed to address it.
