{"id":36614,"date":"2018-08-14T06:59:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36614"},"modified":"2018-08-14T19:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:04:02","slug":"climate-change-bites-big-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36614","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Bites Big Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate Change Bites Big Business<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cElectoral politics is not the solution to the Earth-threatening problems we face.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jeffrey St. Clair, 10 August 2018, Counter Punch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is now no non-violent way to reverse climate change. Even with morally unrestrained action, it is probable that there is now no physical possibility of reversing climate change. The time for action was 1973-1979, the time of the two oil embargoes (the post Israeli War \u2013 against Egypt and Syria \u2013 Arab Oil Embargo of 1973; and the related-to-the-Iranian-Revolution vengeful price gouge oil embargo of 1979). This was the period of the Watergate-climax finale of the Nixon Administration, the Ford Administration, and the Carter \u201cenergy crisis\u201d Administration. Politically, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 killed the possibility of US climate change action.<\/p>\n

From Reagan through Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama to Trump, the mentioning of climate change \u2013 as one of government\u2019s highest priorities, as one of corporate America\u2019s foremost concerns (to be addressed, not suppressed), and as one of mainstream media\u2019s primary and continuing focuses and leading stories \u2013 was minimized if not altogether absent. If anything, climate change denialism was heavily promoted by corporate and partisan (right wing) media, and by legions of corporate agents, flacks and factotums masquerading as elected representatives in federal and state governments. That has now changed.<\/p>\n

Climate change is now all over the front pages of the newspapers and is the headline story of the mainstream mass media, primarily because of the massive fires in California whose smoke has even reached New York City. Why this new overt and blaring mainstream news attention to climate change, a subject that was officially hush-hush, trivial and fake news so recently in the past? Obviously because climate change has begun costing big money to major sectors of American capitalism.<\/p>\n

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Climate Change Bites Big Business \u201cElectoral politics is not the solution to the Earth-threatening problems we face.\u201d \u2013 Jeffrey St. Clair, 10 August 2018, Counter Punch There is now no non-violent way to reverse climate change. Even with morally unrestrained action, it is probable that there is now no physical possibility of reversing climate change. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,992,1937,5493,18833,496,18832,3098],"class_list":["post-36614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-denial","tag-corporate-america","tag-counterpunch","tag-jr","tag-mainstream-media","tag-manuel-garcia","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36615,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36614\/revisions\/36615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}