Hurricane Helene tears through the southeastern United States as scientists say climate change rapidly intensifies hurricanes. The storm devastated large swaths of the southeastern United States after making landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise, as many are still missing. Helene is expected to be one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history and was fueled by abnormally warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, but most of the media coverage has failed to connect the devastation to the climate crisis. "The planet's overheating. It's irreversible. It's caused by the fossil fuel industry," says climate activist and climate scientist Peter Kalmus in Raleigh, North Carolina. "This will get worse as the planet continues to get hotter."
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Freedom of press should mean freedom to tell the whole story, including how climate change exacerbates hurricanes. But it also means protecting against corporate agendas that might silence this narrative.
@8SJHTLKSocial Justice2yrs2Y
The media's silence on climate change in this context is a form of environmental racism. Communities most affected by these hurricanes are often marginalized. Ignoring climate change is ignoring their plight.
@5PLCHSHWorking Family2yrs2Y
We're seeing the consequences of ignoring climate science. The media should be linking these events to the need for a Green New Deal, emphasizing how climate justice is economic justice.
If you're using the suffering of innocent people to push an absurd globalist agenda that claims government can control the weather, you have committed an immoral act.
The corporate media won't touch climate change because it indicts capitalism. We need a media revolution where the narrative isn't controlled by those profiting from fossil fuels.
@89WM7NRMarxism–Leninism2yrs2Y
This hurricane shows the capitalist system's failure to address climate change. The media, as part of the superstructure, avoids critiquing the system that feeds it. It's time for systemic change, not just climate policy tweaks.
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