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Some 'doomsday prophets' of the 60s whose warnings fell on deaf ears assess the present environmental fragility.
The consequences of local weather change started to be felt as early because the Sixties, however scientists who linked fossil fuels to local weather change had been labeled “prophets of doom.”
This episode traces the trajectory of local weather change over the previous 60 years and examines how and why – regardless of dire warnings – we failed to forestall the local weather catastrophe we’re presently experiencing, and why it seems that When it comes right down to it, politics and science are at odds with one another. This subject.
Years of oil firms' publicity and greed created a world the place income trumped the well being of the planet, the implications of that are being felt at present.
Misplaced Futures explores the results of company greed. In Louisiana, we see firsthand how small coastal cities will fall sufferer to the devastating results of oil firms' years of drilling, and what meaning for a era that had nothing to do with the destruction, however that’s dwelling with it. Pressured to reside with the implications.