17 November 2011

Oh BBC, what are you doing ?

A good early woodland run in the dawn moonlight.
To continue the chilly theme, the lack of economic growth is giving many Western governments and their corporate puppet masters the opportunity to let global warming become a lesser priority. And it’s not just governments. The BBC is currently broadcasting an excellent series of documentary programmes, Frozen Planet, about life in the Arctic & Antarctic. The series is due to culminate with an episode about the human contribution to climate change but, in a shameless piece of unprincipled profiteering worthy of David “Snake Oil” Cameron, the BBC has apparently been selling the series to other countries with that last episode as an optional extra, in order to improve sales (ref). Which, as Greenpeace said, would be rather like screening a film about the Titanic but missing out the bit with the iceberg.

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