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The love of money, is the root of all chaos.
Good thing those days are over, eh? Where lobbyists, and deliberate dis-information, and the structural catering to the super-rich — are all things of the past …
Finally, Humanity can make that Quantum Leap, that we’ve been leading up to for centuries …
If only first, we take care of a “few problems” …
Al Gore: 'The rich have subverted all reason'
by Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian; The Observer — 29 July 2017
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“In order to fix the climate crisis, we need to first fix the government crisis,” he says. “Big money has so much influence now.” And he says a phrase that is as dramatic as it is multilayered: “Our democracy has been hacked.” It’s something I hear him repeat — to the audience in the ballroom, in a room backstage, a few weeks later in London, and finally on the phone earlier this month.
What do you mean by it exactly? “I mean that those with access to large amounts of money and raw power,” says Gore, “have been able to subvert all reason and fact in collective decision making. The Koch brothers are the largest funders of climate change denial. And ExxonMobil claims it has stopped, but it really hasn’t. It has given a quarter of a billion dollars in donations to climate denial groups. It’s clear they are trying to cripple our ability to respond to this existential threat.”
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“In Tennessee we have an expression: ‘If you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be pretty sure it didn’t get there by itself.’ And if you see these levels of climate denial, you can be pretty sure it didn’t just spread itself. The large carbon polluters have spent between $1bn and $2bn spreading false doubt. Do you know the book, Merchants of Doubt? It documents how the tobacco industry discredited the consensus on cigarette smoking and cancer by creating doubt, and shows how it’s linked to the climate denial movement. They hired many of the same PR firms and some of the same think tanks. And, in fact, some of those who work on climate change denial actually still dispute the links between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.”
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Al Gore’s new film is called An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Here’s a Review:
Participant Media is back as the key production entity of the Paramount release, which opens the film limited today before going to several hundred screens August 4. Producers are Richard Berge, Diane Weyermann and Jeff Skoll.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017) — Official Trailer
Paramount Pictures
Put it on the To-Do List.