319: Climate Conspirituality

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Climate reality keeps colliding with denial, erasure, and rebranding — across media, politics, and religion. Temu conspiritualists weave melted stories about the origins of wildfires, while the high-class guys run meditation-and-regenerative-farming spectacle backed by Exxon money. Julian’s on that angle.

Derek will be telling us about how climate journalism is collapsing faster than the climate itself with mass environment reporting layoffs at NPR, CBS, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. Trump gutted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. EPA webpages have been scrubbed of human-caused warming language.

Are religious institutions doing any better? In 2015, five world religions — Jewish, Catholic, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist — independently issued climate statements ahead of the Paris COP21 talks. Matthew looks at how they struggled to challenge the global economies they depend on.

Show Notes

What Is Happening to Climate Journalism?

Where Climate Coverage Goes to Die

How will NPR layoffs affect climate stories?

CBS axed its last climate reporting pillar

How do you report on the weather when data is disappearing?

NOAA stops tracking cost of extreme weather and climate disasters

NOAA monthly media calls on climate change suspended

EPA websites now downplay link between humans and climate change

A Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis Rabbis Against Climate Change 

"Laudato Si'": Encyclical Letter on Care for Our Common Home 

Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change 

Hindu Declaration on Climate Change The Time to Act is Now: A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change  

"Laudate Deum": Apostolic Exhortation to All People of Good Will on the Climate Crisis 

Al-Mizan: A Covenant for the Earth (full text PDF)

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