Charles Moore told Nick Robiuson last Saturday that what he particularly objected to was the BBC "preaching".
Am I wrong in thinking that, in the wake of Greta Thunberg's guest-editorship of Today on Monday, BBC Radio is taking its "preaching" on climate change to new levels of intensity?
Three out of the five headlines on tonight's Radio 4 Six O'Clock News related to climate change (Australia, Indonesia, Norway) with a fourth story appearing unannounced, courtesy of the BBC's environment (activist) analyst Roger Harrabin.
Add that to Today's ongoing focus on the issue (Zambia today), plus programmes throughout the day on how climate change is creating "a boom town for rats" and "our psychological relationship with the climate crisis" - and tonight's In Business ended by telling us that next week's programme would look at how Zimbabwean farmers "are struggling to adapt to climate change", then I do think that there seems to be a sharp ratcheting-up on the BBC's focus on 'the climate crisis'.
If so, and if it continues, Greta and Extinction Rebellion will be proud of them.
The "science is settled" (even though South Asia and Eastern USA have been suffering record-breaking cold weather) and now it seems the "politics is settled": Greta is Great and we all have to decarbonise by 2025 even though that will inevitably lead to economic meltdown, extreme poverty, collapse of the NHS and millions of early deaths within 5 years.
ReplyDeleteStill, as Rob Burley says, the BBC is impartial...isn't it?...it is, isn't it?
As Mick Jagger says - 'When I'm drivin' in my car, and the man come on the radio He's tellin' me more and more about some useless information Supposed to fire my imagination'.
ReplyDeleteI get the sense that the BBC are driving a divisive agenda again, using climate change and global warming as their vehicle. Before long, denial of 'the science' will be attributed to far-right Leave-voting English national populism. Exempt from criticism will be all those enlightened city-dwellers who are sold on the ideas of XR, backed up by a stream of experts.