If
you go to about 29' you will find both Guy McPherson and Kevin Hester
get a mention. Chris Hedges sounds uncomfortable being asked about
abrupt climate change
Chris
Hedges interviewed by Gary Null
Chris
Hedges is one of our nation’s most insightful cultural critics,
social and political activists and investigative journalists. For
almost 20 years he was a foreign correspondent in war zones and
conflicts in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the
Balkans, having reported for The New York Times, Christian Science
Monitor and other news outlets. While at the Times, Chris received
the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on global terrorism. That same
year he received Amnesty International’s Global Award for Human
Rights Journalism. Chris has authored many bestselling books. His
most recent is “Unspeakable: Talks with David Talbot About the
Most Forbidden Topics in America”, a candid conversation on some of
the most important issues and themes of our times that mainstream
media refuses to discuss. Chris’ weekly talk show “On Contact,”
interviews prominent dissidents ignored by the media and airs every
Saturday on Russian TV at RT.com
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Null seems to want to emphasize the quality or state of the uniquely American “consciousness” (“a certain mentality”) as a source of insight into our problem, but Hedges, a very smart guy who knows there is something horribly wrong about the way we Americans have organized our society, seems unable to nail it down. He knows so much, he has the data, but he falls error, as Null does also, to the “narrative” style of instruction designed for children and slow learners, lamenting that good work is being done but nobody has the time or inclination to read it. Hedges' product is an endless compilation of all that is wrong in America; he defines the problem, the iceberg, which is good and useful, but falters when it is time to fix some BLAME, being afraid, as we all are, of self-incrimination. Hedges sees the trees and neglects the forest, the big picture, which ultimately can be nothing else but the question of consciousness. Micheal Mann tried to explicate the problem with his book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, 2016.” Global Warming Denial is epidemic, and not only among Evangelicals but also among those who believe they are well informed and properly alarmed.
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