So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

The media—stenographers to power.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

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