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Dear Sir,
In response to Michael McCarthy's recent despair over climate change,
Tom Barker is correct to point to the current absence of radical
greens and to the "impotence of a correspondent who can only report"
(letters, 10 March). But the deeper problem is that correspondents do
not even report what they should be reporting.
Where are the reports addressing the unsustainable nature of endless
economic growth on a finite planet? Or drawing links between likely
climate catastrophe and the damaging core practices of global
corporations and investors? Or highlighting the obstructive tactics
of big business to truly sustainable policies? Or pointing out the
billions spent by business and the public relations industry in
promoting unsustainable consumer consumption?
Mainstream media, with its heavy reliance on advertising revenue to
remain afloat, is failing to alert the public to the true nature of
the global crisis we are in. The profit-led media is part of the same
system of state-corporate power that is leading this planet to
disaster -- unless the public wakes up in time.
David Cromwell
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