It's Eerie; Climate Disaster Is Happening Right Now & Humanity Is Just Pretending It's Not Happening

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21. A big part of the problem is a disinformation campaign that says it's not happening

Check out anything by James Hoggan. For example, look at this interview with Amy Goodman: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/20/pr_executive_james_hoggan_on_james (starting at about the 48-minute mark).

The media have failed us, and by "us" I mean the human race, because it's all of us that are going to suffer for this. And our government has failed us, because it's government's job to do what can't be done individually. Sure there are people who will act on their own and grow their own food and trade in their cars for bikes, but for the most part, especially given the disinformation campaign, change will not happen until it's organized.

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a treaty signed by most countries in the world, including the United States (See http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/status_of_ratification/items/2631.php), every year there is an international meeting to try to get some cooperative action. As the crisis worsens, these meetings seem to end, year after year, with very little progress. This is a place where the United States needs to take a leading role. President Obama, at this year's meeting in Doha in November, use your charisma to get the world together on a course of action; get them to come up with a draft treaty for the most aggressive action possible to at least start to solve the greatest problem the world has known. Then come home and smack the Senate around as much as necessary to get them to STFU and ratify the damned thing before we all cook.