Not 'Fake News' but 'No News'
An Environmental Article from All-Creatures.org

From

Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
November 2018

​The reality is that politicians, bureaucrats and the mainstream media do not wish to address these issue. It is not in their immediate interest. There's no profit in it.

The Ocean is dying and yet it's not a story despite the fact that when the Ocean dies, we die with it.

Not "Fake News" but "No News"

The problem is not "fake news". The problem with the mainstream media is "no news."

The mainstream media ignores ecological realities and gives token coverage of things like mass species extinction, climate change and other serious ecological issues like the tar sands, Standing Rock etc.

We never hear about Fukushima and it is one of the greatest threats to the Ocean with the daily dumping of radioactive water. We never hear about the diminishment of phytoplankton in the sea. The coverage of the RedTide has been too little, too late.

The reality is that politicians, bureaucrats and the mainstream media do not wish to address these issue. It is not in their immediate interest. There's no profit in it.

The Ocean is dying and yet it's not a story despite the fact that when the Ocean dies, we die with it.

I have a two year old son and I have no idea what kind of world he will be living in when he is 20, 30, 40, or 50. 

In 2048 worldwide fisheries will collapse. He will be 32. By 2025 the Great Barrier Reef will be dead. He will be 9. He will never see the incredible beauty of what was once a natural wonder of the world.

Despite the horrific red tide the man responsible in many ways for that disaster may still be elected as a Florida Senator. The despicable Ted Cruz defeated a younger BETO O'Rourke who challenges the GOP agenda of denying climate change. In Canada, Justin Trudeau does nothing to address the problem and the same is true in Australia, Great Britain and France etc. We simply cannot rely on the present world leadership to address the real problems.

The amount of money spent on the Texas Senate race alone would have given Flint, Michigan clean drinking water. Politics is really quite insane.

Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires are the fault of climate change, earthquakes from fracking are not natural. Melting glaciers and polar ice. The writing is on the wall but not on television or in the newspapers.

Politicians doing nothing is one of the reasons nothing is done but the media reporting nothing is also another reason nothing is being done.

Reality is being fabricated for political reasons. The 'dangerous' caravan from Honduras ceased to be dangerous a day after the U.S. election. The danger vanished because it was never there.

The ecological dangers exist in reality yet don't exist in our minds because our minds are controlled by politicians and the media.

People are losing their homes to fires and hurricanes and they ask why? The answers are apparent but unspoken. For the people in Florida who ask why is there red tide? The answer is they elected the cause. For the people in California who ask, why the wildfires? The answers lie in Washington D.C. and in the pages of the Los Angeles Times and the environment of denial in the general media overall.

No one wants to hear bad news they say, which is bullshit because almost everything in the the news is bad news but it is bad news that fits into the media agenda of drama, sex, violence and celebrity. The real bad news like the planet is dying is not the bad news they wish to report.

The solution to any problem is to understand that the problem exists and the media and the politicians are dedicated to making sure we do not fully understand the scope of the problem and the scope of the real threats to our survival as a species upon a planet whose life support system is being eroded beneath us by a combination of political arrogance and media generated ignorance.

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