Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Honest question: It’s easier to see the influence of wealth on information flows than it is to understand, at a fundamental level, what motivates the uber-wealthy to pursue their destructive agendas. Do you think it might be true that they have so integrated the perspective that maximizing /1

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  1. financial flows leads inevitably to the best outcomes overall (i.e. the market is always right, efficient market hypothesis etc. ) that they have become truly blind to what is so obvious to most of us? If not that, then what? /f

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