Believing in the Media

The journalism culture is a political one which is not conducive to the problems of global warming.  The media remains mostly silent as articles published on this front remain few and far between.

A year ago, ExxonMobil spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on anti-climate action groups before the Copenhagen conference. This money was used to enable hired groups to to make a lot of noise about how taking action on climate control would cause massive job losses, among other detrimental issues.
According to the BBC ExxonMobil's campaign changed the minds of the British people who were polled before and after the the media blitz.  Before the blitz, 85 percent of the people polled believed that global warming was a fact.  After the disinformation blitz, the poll showed only 75 percent believed in global warming.
Recently a BBC poll showed only 26 percent think "climate change is happening at all.

Robert C. Koehler, in his article When We Grow Up We Will Fall in Love with Earth:

      " We have to begin thinking and organizing ourselves beyond the arbitrary     constraints of nations and beyond our current, resource-devouring economic system. We have to imagine a global culture that does’nt pit humanity against nature or itself, that transcends the diminished goal of individual or national dominance and sees success only as something measurable if there’ s a loser."

We, as people of the earth need to become media literate so we can sort through and discern for ourselves the real stories.  The stories about global warming are about a thing that is currently happening and its ramifications effect every living thing on our planet.  When we take everything we hear from the media without researching to find the whole picture, we remain ignorant and passive.