Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Deleting the Real Story Behind the Great Canada Fire

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Deleting the Real Story Behind the Great Canada Fire

Click here to access article by Paul Street from CounterPunch.

Street does an excellent job of criticizing mainstream media coverage of the Alberta tar sands fire.

The mass viewing audience is encouraged to conclude that Mother Nature is going off on its own – with no assistance from the human-made Greenhouse Effect cooked up by modern capitalism and Big Carbon.

Of course, this is the only likely response that capitalist media could have to this event and all the others in which capitalism plays a significant role.