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<\/a>The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nThe UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, ended with one of those marathon all-night negotiations that the media love so much. The outcome was a commitment to talk about a legally-binding deal to cut carbon emissions \u2013 by both developed and developing countries \u2013 that would be agreed by 2015 and come into effect by 2020. It was about as torturous and vague as that sounds.<\/p>\n
BBC News reported the UN chairperson saying that the talks had \u2018saved tomorrow, today\u2019.\u00a0 But nothing substantive had changed. Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.<\/p>\n
A Guardian editorial assured readers that the Durban deal is \u2018better than nothing\u2019, and that: \u2018There are times when inching forward can look like progress […] a moment when it is cheerier to think of how bad things might have been than to rate the success of the final outcome.\u2019<\/p>\n
Adopting the standard, but discredited, establishment framework to explain the treacly mire hindering serious action on climate, this vanguard of liberal journalism opined\u00a0 \u2018There is an unvarying conflict of interest in the fight against climate change between developed and developing economies. \u2019No hint there that the conflict is, in fact, between the elite corporate 1% and the 99% of the global population that are their victims.<\/p>\n
The Independent, another great white hope of liberal journalism, told its diminishing band of readers that the Durban outcome is \u2018an agreement that gives new cause for optimism.\u2019 Indeed, it \u2018is an enormous advance on the position now.\u2019<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A Crime Of Global Proportions<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe are not suggesting that critical comment was entirely missing from press coverage. That would take absurd levels of totalitarian media control. The Guardian managed to find space on its website, if not in the print edition, for the Guardian\u2019s head of environment, Damian Carrington, to write in his blog:<\/p>\n
\u2018Unlike the economic debt currently transfixing the attention of world’s leaders, it appears possible to them that we can put our climate debt on the never-never.<\/p>\n
\u2018The loans in euros, dollars and pounds will be called in within days, weeks, and months. But the environmental debt \u2013 run up by many decades of dumping carbon dioxide waste in the atmosphere \u2013 won’t be due for full repayment before 2020, according to the plan from Durban.\u2019<\/p>\n
This \u2018ecological debt\u2019, Carrington added, \u2018will inevitably transform into a new economic debt dwarfing our current woes. […] Cleaning up the energy system that underpins the global economy is inevitable, sooner or later. If not, true economic armageddon \u00a0awaits, driven by peak oil, climate chaos and civil unrest.\u2019<\/p>\n
Friends of the Earth were permitted their token quote in the Guardian, scant reward for decades of soft-pedalling its criticism of the corporate media: \u2018This empty shell of a plan leaves the planet hurtling towards catastrophic climate change.\u2019<\/p>\n
Unfiltered by corporate news editors, the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a statement pointing out that, in Durban, the world\u2019s governments: \u2018by no means responded adequately to the mounting threat of climate change. […] It’s high time governments stopped catering to the needs of corporate polluters, and started acting to protect people.\u2019<\/p>\n
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<\/a>UCS added:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u2018Powerful speeches and carefully worded decisions can\u2019t amend the laws of physics. The atmosphere responds to one thing, and one thing only \u2013 emissions. The world\u2019s collective level of ambition on emissions reductions must be substantially increased, and soon.\u2019<\/p>\n
In \u00a0a powerful article on Independent Online, based in South Africa, there were stronger messages still. The environment group Earthlife, Africa said the decisions resulting from the Durban summit would result in a 4o<\/sup>C global average temperature rise which would mean an average increase of 6o<\/sup>C-8o<\/sup>C for Africa. This would lead to an estimated 200 million deaths by 2100.<\/p>\nNo wonder that Nnimmo Bassey, chairman of Friends of the Earth International, said: \u2018Delaying real action until 2020 is a crime of global proportions.\u2019<\/p>\n
He continued: \u2018An increase in global temperatures of 4\u00baC, permitted under this plan, is a death sentence for Africa, small island states, and the poor and vulnerable worldwide. This summit has amplified climate apartheid, whereby the richest 1 percent of the world have decided that it is acceptable to sacrifice the 99 percent.\u2019<\/p>\n
Karl Hood of Grenada, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States<\/a>, responded to the Durban deal with damning words: \u2018Must we accept our annihilation?\u2019<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/proutistuniversal.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/newspeak_cover.jpg\" "\\"newspeak_cover\\"")
<\/a>The Eightfold Nay: The Great Unmentionables Of Climate Coverage<\/strong><\/h3>\n
<\/a>UCS added:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u2018Powerful speeches and carefully worded decisions can\u2019t amend the laws of physics. The atmosphere responds to one thing, and one thing only \u2013 emissions. The world\u2019s collective level of ambition on emissions reductions must be substantially increased, and soon.\u2019<\/p>\n
In \u00a0a powerful article on Independent Online, based in South Africa, there were stronger messages still. The environment group Earthlife, Africa said the decisions resulting from the Durban summit would result in a 4o<\/sup>C global average temperature rise which would mean an average increase of 6o<\/sup>C-8o<\/sup>C for Africa. This would lead to an estimated 200 million deaths by 2100.<\/p>\n No wonder that Nnimmo Bassey, chairman of Friends of the Earth International, said: \u2018Delaying real action until 2020 is a crime of global proportions.\u2019<\/p>\n He continued: \u2018An increase in global temperatures of 4\u00baC, permitted under this plan, is a death sentence for Africa, small island states, and the poor and vulnerable worldwide. This summit has amplified climate apartheid, whereby the richest 1 percent of the world have decided that it is acceptable to sacrifice the 99 percent.\u2019<\/p>\n Karl Hood of Grenada, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States<\/a>, responded to the Durban deal with damning words: \u2018Must we accept our annihilation?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/a>The Eightfold Nay: The Great Unmentionables Of Climate Coverage<\/strong><\/h3>\n