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Media Should Dedicate Space to Climate Crisis (mastodon.world)
submitted 1 year ago by neanderthal@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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TLDR: Media needs to do more. News outlets should add climate sections along with the rest of their news sections.

I'd like to see more actionable content like how to convince city governments to do stuff. E.g All the stuff a lot of the urbanists talk about are better in almost every way than the car dependency we have in the US. The NIMBYs are relentless in my area. They organized on next door to show up at a zoning meeting in my area to try and prevent a rezone so a developer could build 4 story condos rather than practically useless offices now that most office stuff can be done remotely.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Several outlets do; I've seen good coverage in:

  • The Guardian
  • The Washington Post
  • The New York Times
  • Le Monde

There are a bunch of tiny outlets which provide specialty coverage:

  • Volts
  • Drilled News
  • Grist
  • Heated
  • Heatmap
  • Desmog
  • Canary Media
  • Carbon Brief

The big thing that's missing has been TV news coverage, where it gets ~1% of news minutes

[-] tylersguides@mastodon.world 3 points 1 year ago

@silence7 @neanderthal

I'll check out those small outlets and consider adding them to my own page.

I meant sites should have a dedicated section or page. Like on a news site along the other sections like World, Opinion, Business, etc, have a link to a climate page. I'll double check those outlets and see if they do that.

I am open to other suggestions for things to post on my own page.

Interesting article regarding broadcast networks. Thanks!

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