Bill Moyers on the environmental movement
Oct 14
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Really interesting speech by Bill Moyers on the state of the environmental movement and how journalism has/can affect it.
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This is an especially choice quote and hits the nail on the head about global warming:
“The President’s contempt for science – for evidence that mounts everyday – is mind boggling. Here is a man who was quick to launch a ‘preventative war’ against Iraq on faulty intelligence and premature judgment but who refuses to take preventive action against a truly global menace about which the scientific evidence is overwhelming.”
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