Commentary: ABC’s Global Warming Program

ABC News has advertised that a program on global warming will soon be aired, hosted by “Good Morning America” anchor Diane Sawyer. The promotional message spoke of how “we are going to lose our home” if we don’t “change our ways.” It seems quite ironic that such programs are surrounded by advertisements encouraging Americans to buy new vehicles, large televisions, and other energy-consuming devices at least partially made from oil-based materials. No doubt many will watch ABC’s lipservice to global warming on their fifty inch plasma TVs, with their thermostats set to 72 degrees and their new 300-watt personal computers humming in the background as they do at all hours.
Perhaps we would be better served to leave the television off during Diane Sawyer’s global warming program, rather than trying to believe that idle consumerist talk of such problems will do anything to solve them. A great deal of emissions would be prevented by the amount of electricity saved from turning them off and the consumption eliminated by rejecting the inducement of TV advertisements to make unnecessary purchases. With even the supposed “guru” of global warming prevention driving about in a Cadillac and living in a huge mansion, the seriousness of all this political and media talk are concerningly brought into question. Mere lipservice to the issues of global warming and energy depletion will hardly prevent us from meeting a dire future we are ill-prepared for.

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