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Friend,
In 2018, one of the top hosts on cable news openly admitted why the corporate media spend so little time covering the climate emergency.
Climate change, he said, is a "palpable ratings killer."
Since then, the corporate media's coverage of the climate emergency—even as global temperatures have gone up—has actually gone down.
The planet is on fire, and the corporate media ignores it because it's in their financial interests to do so. Their business model is based on ratings and clicks, and then they sell advertising to the very fossil fuel companies that have brought our climate near the brink of collapse.
As an independent newsroom funded by you, our readers, Common Dreams covers the climate crisis every day, delivering context and perspective on the latest science, lifting up the voices of those most impacted, and calling out the fossil fuel industry for causing the catastrophe and blocking solutions.
Our climate coverage doesn't rest on ratings, it rests on readers like you. Will you make a donation today to support our coverage of the climate emergency?
The recent dire warning from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change grabbed corporate media headlines for one day.
Common Dreams will never let the urgency of tackling the climate crisis recede to the back pages.
Day in and day out, we cover the policies world governments are enacting—or avoiding—to help stem the pollution spewing into the atmosphere and our oceans. We cover the communities around the world whose lives will be upended if we don't act. And we feature leading progressives who won't settle for half measures.
Common Dreams doesn't depend on ratings to deliver hard-hitting news about the climate crisis. But we do rely on individual donations, which have dropped sharply in the post-Trump era.
The corporate media isn't built to cover the climate crisis, but Common Dreams was born for this. Will you support our work right now?
We can't do it without you.
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