In her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power, University of Toronto media scholar Hanna E. Morris argues that whether they realize it or not, some climate journalists, obsessed with preserving a self-determined “moderate center,” are deploying some of the same tropes and reinforcing some of the same narratives as the extreme right. Even as they see themselves defending democracy and confronting the climate crisis, these media elites might be contributing to a prize sought by both the MAGA right and the fossil fuel industry: Preventing the emergence of a hopeful, democratic, and class-defying movement against climate change.
Earlier this month, Morris spoke with Drilled about the who gets to choose which climate solutions are “right” and which ones are “wrong,” what the media’s divergent treatment of the Green New Deal and the Inflation Reduction Act reveals about its entrenched biases, and why a sense of fatalism and inevitability seems to pervade so much mainstream climate coverage.
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S12, Ep4: Back to the Water
Energy Transfer has successfully kept a lot of stuff out of the court,
including the tribe's concerns about the pipeline's impact on their
water source and how very valid that concern turned out to be. We learn
about the spills and water issues the pipeline has already caused.
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Coming Soon: Carbon Bros
Coming at you July 25th, Carbon Bros, a cross-over miniseries from Drilled and Non-Toxic.
You’ve heard it from cable news pundits, Democratic strategists, and your favorite YouTuber: young men swung the last U.S. election for Trump. Understanding what’s driving “the manosphere” and how to reach the young men in its grips is on everyone’s mind right now, but we’re zooming in on a different corner of it: the intersection between male grievance culture and climate denial. Why are American men less likely than women to believe in climate change, or take personal or political actions against it? What does their reluctance to deal with the climate crisis have to do with men’s shift to the right in general? And what can be done to reverse it?
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S12, Ep3: The Charge
By this point, Energy Transfer has quietly dropped both Cody Hall and
the other Indigenous activist initially named in the suit, Krystal Two
Bulls, from the case and is focused solely on Greenpeace. So what
exactly is Energy Transfer accusing them of? And what evidence do they
have?
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S12, Ep2: The Trial Begins
Alleen arrives in North Dakota for jury selection and is shocked watching it play out. The judge won't allow recording in the court, jurors who flat-out say they are biased against activists or are directly involved in the fossil fuel industry are put on the jury.
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A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.
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