Chuck
04-24-2008, 05:50 PM
It's not seen as a you can see it, bread-and-butter issue (http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Power_Generation_smokestack_emissions.jpgEvan Thomas - Newsweek - April 24, 2007
By the time this is not longer an "elite" issue, it may get much worse - Ed
In the summer of 2006 I went to see Congressman Rahm Emanuel (http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Rahm+Emanuel), who was running the Democrats' successful effort to regain control of the House of Representatives. I had been reading a great deal about global warming in the mainstream press ("Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid" warned Time). So I asked Emanuel, how are the environment and global warming playing out there in the heartland? Is it stirring voters? No, he replied. In the 2006 congressional elections global warming was virtually a nonissue, he said, a low-priority item way behind the war and the economy and old staples like education and health care. Global warming is an issue for the elites, he said, not for the average voter.
That's still true. The mainstream media continues to write urgently about global warming. Last month NEWSWEEK asked on its cover (http://www.newsweek.com/id/130624) which candidate will be the most green. On Sunday the New York Times Magazine produced a special issue (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20Act-t.html) on how to reduce your carbon footprint-from changing your light bulbs to walking more to eating "slow food." Any reader of old-line mainstream media-the traditional news source of the upper middle class-would think that the country is rallying to a crisis.
… http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Power_Generation_smokestack_emissions.jpgEvan Thomas - Newsweek - April 24, 2007
By the time this is not longer an "elite" issue, it may get much worse - Ed
In the summer of 2006 I went to see Congressman Rahm Emanuel (http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Rahm+Emanuel), who was running the Democrats' successful effort to regain control of the House of Representatives. I had been reading a great deal about global warming in the mainstream press ("Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid" warned Time). So I asked Emanuel, how are the environment and global warming playing out there in the heartland? Is it stirring voters? No, he replied. In the 2006 congressional elections global warming was virtually a nonissue, he said, a low-priority item way behind the war and the economy and old staples like education and health care. Global warming is an issue for the elites, he said, not for the average voter.
That's still true. The mainstream media continues to write urgently about global warming. Last month NEWSWEEK asked on its cover (http://www.newsweek.com/id/130624) which candidate will be the most green. On Sunday the New York Times Magazine produced a special issue (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20Act-t.html) on how to reduce your carbon footprint-from changing your light bulbs to walking more to eating "slow food." Any reader of old-line mainstream media-the traditional news source of the upper middle class-would think that the country is rallying to a crisis.
… http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652