Cable news is ignoring the climate crisis

The climate crisis is an existential challenge for human civilization―and every day without action is an opportunity lost. Yet the national news networks ignore it every night.

Tell News Divisions at ABC, NBC, and CBS: "Cover the climate crisis with the urgency it deserves." SIGN THE PETITION! The climate crisis is an existential challenge for human civilization―and every day without action is an opportunity lost. Yet the national news networks ignore it every night. Tell corporate media to cover the climate crisis with the urgency it deserves. Sign our petition. Media Matters just dropped their 2020 assessment on how the major broadcasters on both sides of the political spectrum have covered the climate crisis over the past year. It's bad. When Media Matters evaluated corporate media coverage, they found that it had actually dropped rather than increased — from 0.7% of network airtime in 2019 to a dismal 0.4% in 2020. Even the increasing onslaught of climate-change-related disasters in the U.S — the devastating fires in the West, the cold wave that tore through the South, haven't pushed the networks to give global warming the priority it deserves. Tell ABC, CBS and NBC it's time to put the spotlight on climate change. Sign our petition now. With the pandemic taking the front page almost daily, one might think that any other issue, including climate change, belongs on the back burner. But the roots of the COVID-19 crisis can be directly connected to the climate emergency, and major broadcasters repeatedly failed to make that clear to their viewers. The exploitation of natural resources, as well as the constant encroachment of humans further and further into animal habitats, not only destroy precious carbon absorbing forests that help stabilize the Earth's climate, but also bring us in closer contact with wild animals that often have diseases our bodies are ill-equipped to fight, including COVID-19. Tell major broadcasters to do their jobs and educate the public about the threat of climate change. Sign the petition. Thanks, Mike Phelan Progress America Paid for by Progress America.   Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Progress America, please click here.