Bill McKibben: It's time for each of us to get involved in the full-on fight between misinformation and truth.
Climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day. If we could only see that pattern we'd have a fighting chance.
The one institution in our society that isn't likely to be much help in spreading the news is... the news. Studies show our papers and TV channels paying ever less attention to our shifting climate. In fact, in 2011 ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox spent twice as much time discussing Donald Trump as global warming. Don't expect representatives from Saturday's Connect the Dots day to show up on Sunday's talk shows. Over the last three years, those inside-the-Beltway extravaganzas have devoted 98 minutes total to the planet's biggest challenge. Last year, in fact, all the Sunday talk shows spent exactly nine minutes of Sunday talking time on climate change—and here's a shock: all of it was given over to Republican politicians in the great denial sweepstakes.
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Bill McKibben wrote this article for Tom Dispatch. Bill is a YES! Magazine contributing editor, founder of 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. His most recent book is Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.