Comments on: Get The Candidates On Topic, Please! http://www.diamondcutlife.org/get-the-candidates-on-topic-please/ Sustainable Living: More Joy And Less Consumption Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:46:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: inel http://www.diamondcutlife.org/get-the-candidates-on-topic-please/comment-page-1/#comment-27 inel Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:28:08 +0000 http://www.diamondcutlife.org/get-the-candidates-on-topic-please/#comment-27 Good for you! You are right to call attention to this. The answer is simple: dealing with climate change is a threat to business-as-usual. The public are not encouraged to talk about it as a policy matter. The media, after all, really only supply talking points for people, whether audiences follow a topic in detail or skirt it by reading headlines alone. Last year, the LCV watched TV, tracking numbers of questions about global warming asked on Sunday morning shows. To see the results, and petition the pundits to stop ignoring the top issue of our generation, visit their site <a href="http://www.whataretheywaitingfor.com/" rel="nofollow">What Are They Waiting For?</a> Good for you! You are right to call attention to this. The answer is simple: dealing with climate change is a threat to business-as-usual. The public are not encouraged to talk about it as a policy matter. The media, after all, really only supply talking points for people, whether audiences follow a topic in detail or skirt it by reading headlines alone.

Last year, the LCV watched TV, tracking numbers of questions about global warming asked on Sunday morning shows. To see the results, and petition the pundits to stop ignoring the top issue of our generation, visit their site What Are They Waiting For?

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