Kathryn Murdoch realizing climate change is antropogenic will not change anything. Fox/faux news or any other conservative source are not going to reverse course.
The fact that political ideology influences anyone's position on a science topic just proves that the people on this planet are not a STEM knowledge based society. And yet it will continue to be included in any article related to science when it should not even be on the page.
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It's clear that there are generational changes coming. It's clear that the the wealthiest of the older generations seem to have taken the attitude "hey I will be dead in 20 years, what do I care? Party on until I die".
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Here's a good visualization about global warming: http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/files/2018/12/spiral_2018_WMO_large.gif
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Welcome to the planet Ms. Murdoch, what's left of it.
Better late than never.
No one knows when enlightenment arrives.
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Jonathan Franzen on climate change:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending
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Despite the naysayers evident in some of the comments here, I say hurray for Ms. Murdoch! May she & her $$$ work as fast as possible to change the destructive and ignorant course we have been on.
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People are really angry with her, but stepping out of a powerful family isn’t easy. I’m sure, her father in law runs the family, and dictates every aspect of their life. Better late than never. I’m sure, it took a lot of courage for Ms. Murdoch to find her voice and assert herself. Give her a chance.
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Some suggestions:
1. Support Senators willing to fund big Green infrastructure legislation. If Republicans will stay in lockstep behind McConnell, then help Dems get a simple majority and encourage them to end the Filibuster. Encourage them all to sign a pledge to use electric vehicles for their campaigns.
2. Support a Democrat for President, and encourage them to sign a pledge to use only electric vehicles in their campaign and once in office.
3. At fundraising dinners encourage legislators to direct the US Military and national intelligence organizations to go green, since they have a massive budget every year anyways. All secret service vehicles should be electric. All postal vehicles should be electric, with solar panels over all postal parking lots. All police vehicles should be electric, with ten-minute supercharging capability. And tell them to upgrade reservoirs like Lake Mead behind the Hoover Dam to energy storage.
4. Invest in companies like Impossible Foods and help them expand.
5. Tell private jet companies you want one that runs on cleaner fuel like electricity or hydrogen, then take your friends on it, so they get inspired to buy or use them as well.
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That's nice! After a quarter-century of the family business slinging FUD at climate science that was powerful to begin with and which has grown only stronger over that time, a member of the Murdoch family is ready to make amends, or donate some money, or something.
What's really striking is that it took a mere 13 years since the former Vice-President's documentary to inspire her into public action.
Perhaps she can donate plaques to the Museum of Natural History in New York commemorating freshly extinct species. Certainly, good signage doesn't come cheap, and there will be plenty of new listings in the years ahead.
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Welcome to civil society, Ms. Murdoch. Now pay your taxes.
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Wow. The angry comments toward Mrs. Murdoch are not productive. We can all reduce our individual carbon footprints and work together for policy reform. Divisiveness and throwing stones will not help us out of this mess.
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Kathryn says “There hasn’t been a Republican answer on climate change,” Actually there is: the Carbon Dividends Plan https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/136
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Two words: Public Relations.
Don't fall for it.
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New Yorker magazine article by Jonathan Franzen September 8, 2019
What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?
The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it.
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After promoting bigotry, attacking climate science, decimating decency and integrity, the Murdoch family PR campaign begins
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I know It's a bit of a detour but can someone explain Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall? And where is she hiding her outrage?
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Wonder if this is a well crafted PR move by The Family...?
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I thought Rodger Ailes created Fox News?
Considering all the evil committed by her Father-in-Law, she going to have to do an awful lot to make amends. Not only has he undermined the consensus on climate change, but the constant lies from his media empire has undermined Western democracy, especially in the United States.
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@No recall
I don’t think she has to make amends for her Father-in-Law. He should be doing that himself
She is not responsible for his horrible attacks on our Democracy.
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If there are climate trials in the future, the Murdochs will be put on trail for the damage they have enabled with their propaganda network (I won't call it a news organization). Unfortunately life like that, bad guys don't get caught and made to pay for the damage they have caused.
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Thank you, Kathryn Murdoch, for taking a stand for the environment. It takes courage to step outside the comfort zone of your own family and stand up for the greater good.
I posted this article on Facebook, specifically because I want my 21-year-old niece to see that there is hope! She's been in despair, posting photos and articles about whales eating copious amounts of plastic, birds and turtles caught in packaging, and the constant damage we inflict on Mother Earth. My sweet niece, immediately shared the post.
We have to show young people that we care, and let them know we are with them in this fight for our planet.
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Most of these greedy billionaires like the Kochs and the Murdochs probably believe that their money can insulate them from any degradation of the earth and resulting chaos that ensues from their financing of scorched earth capitalism. Perhaps a few are realizing that they can run but they can’t hide indefinitely.
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I am not sure Lachlan Murdoch is really as “conservative” as we may think. I believe that once he father departs, we may actually see a major turn about in Lachlan’s perceived “conservative” aims.
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@Adrian Bennett
Lachlan ?! Are you not confusing him with James (Murdoch), who is married to Kathryn? Just saying...
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So nice to see that defective genetics, as in that of the Trumps, is not always dominant. There IS at least one good egg in the Murdoch crate.
Let' see what she can accomplish to make our world, and that of our children, not only survivable but better. She'll come in direct conflict with the destruction of Trump and his "destroy the world for money" cronies. My bet is that she is a lot stronger than they are.
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@RealTRUTH
There's hope that Tiffany might turn out right. Maybe miracles do happen.
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@RealTRUTH - she's married in to the family, so no genetic angle. But we need all the help we can get to deal with our environmental issues, so I wish her and her husband success in countering the damage done by her father-in-law.
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@Rich
Not holding my breath.
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Sounds more like she’s trying to prevent radical disruptions in the political status quo and quiet the discontent her family helped to create. Why not target the real criminals of the climate crisis, large fossil fuel corporations like her father-in-law’s, instead of manipulate voters into her paradoxical “radical centrism?”
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@Daniel Blair, I've long considered myself a "radical structural centrist" so have an affinity for the term. What Ms. Murdock and the centrist democracy reform movements are proposing (open, single-day national primaries; preference voting; an end to gerrymandering; level playing fields for new political parties; and the end of the electoral college - just to begin the list) are broadly supported by likely voters of both major parties. Assigning blame - while important - does little to reform democracies and update decision-making processes. It's not an either/or proposition. We need to be able do both, and to easily shift our collective focus from electoral-process reform to more intelligent, equitable, future-oriented policy, and then back again.
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Luuuuuucy-
You and your family got some explaining to do.
However- better late than never.
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Her efforts won't be enough to save the family's name.
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Ah, yes. A woman whose husband's fortune is based on a tv network that is the #1 climate denier on the planet is stepping out of the shadows on climate change. A more profound hypocrite may not exist, and a more hollow and empty gesture may not be made for a long time. You will forever be stained by FoxNews, as will your children, as will their children. Go away.
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Fox is not a news channel. Its a propaganda channel that's extremist.
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What is so amazing? She and her husband or both liberals.
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ug...rich people...what will they do next?
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BRAVO!!!
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Take Fox News off the air immediately.
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show me the money. they got rich helping destroy the planet.
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First a sixteen year old girl and now a debutante. What a bizarre cult this Progressive Church of Climatology. I'm supposed to feel guilty about sea level rising a possible17 feet by 2300, that is 281 year from now. (Or was it two feet?) I was getting used to feeling guilty for what started 400 years ago and 2000 years ago, now I have to be guilty about the future.
So yet another person who probably used 1000 times more fossil fuel than has answers on how we should live. We couldn't survive without them. And remember only you can prevent the end of the world.
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@JoeG
When you're through blaming the messengers you might give a thought to understanding the message.
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@JoeG - So I assume from your comments that you have no children or grandchildren. Do you care if the next generations have a livable earth? We have many alternatives to fossil fuels and they could be implemented but that will hurt some industries stock price so lets just keep on with business as usual while we destroy the ocean with acidic water and flood our coastlines?
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With the total destruction of current civilization at stake within a few decades I am totally puzzled that humans are so completely paralyzed to act strongly to preserved their lives, whatever their status may be.
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Nice to see a Murdoch on the right side of history. If a Murdoch can change course there must be hope.
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If Ms. Murdoch can accomplish positive outcomes that advances the care and treatment of the environment, more power to her. There are many affluent and well known people who are deeply involved in the issues that affect the environment.
In truth the appeal of challenges to climate change is to masses of people who feel or have been convinced that their economic livelihood or creature comforts will be diminished by the "rattling" of the environmentalists: No coal mining jobs, no fur coats, no beef, no plastic bags, no soda.... And when these ideas are imposed by the elites like Murdock, Bloomberg, or celebrities who, while well meaning, do not live check to check; the common man is threatened and not embracing of the advocacy.
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@USCitizen
Their "economic livelihood / creature comforts" are far more threatened by climate change due to global warming than by insisting on keeping the status quo, especially on most of what you mention. Coal, for example, please check your facts. Deeply toxic and includes gag orders on regional victims and heavy subsidies, in the $trillions.
When it comes to survival, we are all "elites". Facts matter. The planet is reacting to exploitation, looting, and victim blaming, because its laws are not subject to politics or negotiation.
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It's interesting you call out her support for Ranked Choice voting. This seems like a little issue but it's one that would have profound implications for our elections and could radically alter the types of candidates we see as well as the outcomes of state and national elections.
I'd love to see the NY Times take on Ranked Choice as a serious topic and try to educate your readers of the benefits of this system of voting.
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Denial of climate change, environmental collapse, pollution and mass extinctions is now a tribal identifier in the US for Trump supporters, preventing effective actions to address the crisis we all face.
Somehow, this politicalization of science and resulting 'denialism' has to be brought to an end.
The Fox News channel is the main 'news' outlet for this group in the US and could actually accomplish some good by presenting news such as the documented losses in insect and bird populations.
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Thanks for reporting this. I've been interested in the occasional appearance of rational climate and science coverage on Fox, particularly in the "dead zone" of Saturday afternoon. Though it was regional, Fox New England, here was a very fine climate presentation, by any standard, last Saturday. https://www.boston25news.com/news/climate-matters-how-new-england-is-being-impacted-by-our-changing-climate/987355744
As time goes on, reality is going to break in on people who've bought the lies. Fox news, as opposed to opinionators, is not so terrible in the Boston region.
Note also they promoted Neil deGrasse Tyson's series, and they present science for kids on Saturdays as well.
https://www.boston25news.com/news/climate-matters-how-new-england-is-being-impacted-by-our-changing-climate/987355744
I'll take anything we can get. We need the whole world to work together to solve this monstrous problem, and if a few Fox kids get the message, that's all to the good.
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Apologies for including two copies of the link.
I'll take this opportunity, once again, to emphasize that if we are to enact appropriate action, we cannot isolate ourselves with the "choir". It is, sadly, not a level playing field, but the earth is uncompromising and uninterested in politics and self-interest. We have only one life, and only one planet.
Getting along together and working for the common good is not nasty. Democrats are not evil. Socialism is not an ultimate evil, but ,moderated by community, a hopeful and positive way to express our love for humanity and true patriotism.
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I want to thank Kathryn Murdoch for her efforts on behalf of arresting climate change.
This is a battle that must transcend partisan politics, inasmuch a hurricane, flood, or drought does not discriminate in its application.
I find it especially ironic that there many deep red states that are most likely to bear the brunt of the earliest ravages of climate change - and thus it is in these states' interests, most of all, that we do everything in our power to arrest this catastrophic progression.
As regards her husband, it is a shame that his father's network so debased American politics that it led to the election of the charlatan current;y serving as President. If Fox were a respectable voice for a defensible conservative movement, then this country would not be in the awful place it finds itself in. Even though he presently has no relationship with the network, perhaps James will one day, once our current national nightmare is over, have the opportunity to restore a sense of propriety and civic responsibility to that network.
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The rich and powerful will not solve our problems. Once their conscience comes around, it will be too late. Popular organizing is the way forward. The working class and poor people of the world are the first ones to suffer the ills of climate change - the ultra-rich are the last.
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@Ted
You might want to consider Bill McKibben's plea:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-oxygen-on-which-the-fire-of-global-warming-burns
Do go to the original, but here's an extract:
"he last minutes of a football game are different from the rest; if you are far enough behind, you dispense with caution. Since gaining a few yards cannot help you, you resort to more desperate, lower-percentage plays. You heave the ball and you hope, and, every once in a while, you win. So a small group of activists has begun probing the financial industry, looking for chances to toss the kind of Hail Mary pass that could yet win this game. The odds are definitely long, but just talking with these groups has begun to lift my despair."
Fact is, with Trumpistan in charge, big financial institutions are taking a hand and we need them. They can be more rational and reality based than the loyalty-based insiders using power and wealth to get more power and wealth in our government.
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Protecting Earth's resources (water, air, fellow species) for future generations should have never been a partisan issue in the first place. Good for Ms. Murdoch. We need more billionaires to wake up and realize we all breath the same air, and live on the same planet. Literally.
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Looking up this NfP online,, found a vague mission statement and nothings about what is actually being funded or done. Given that the no. 1 issue is "democracy" -- I am not sure that the foundation is not political in nature in which case it should not have an NfP tax status IMO, altho that term may be sufficiently vague. I am not sure why a pamphlet on hurricanes, would be esp. useful, unless it has an extensive bibliography and that could be published online and linked to WikiP.
Self-founded NfPs are like charitable giving IMO. A means of self-aggrandizement (marketing) and tax avoidance.
Airbnb is sponsoring 5 citizen scientists to train and work on Antarctica for a month!! https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellegross/2019/09/26/airbnb-is-offering-five-volunteers-the-trip-of-a-lifetime-to-antarctica/#1f22a68452db
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@Auntie Mame
The hurricanes-and-climate-change fact sheet DOES have a bibliography that links to the primary scientific literature for every fact it provides, and IS publicly available and searchable at https://www.sciline.org/quick-facts/hurricanes
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@Rick
Thank you. Excellent. Next step is a WikiP link.
We need more people like her -- people who put the civic good above their short-term profit -- to speak out on this (and other) issues.
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@MainLaw
Unfortunately, when it comes to the Murdochs and the powerful influence of Fox News and other Murdoch media, the "genie is out of the bottle" whereby a rather significant portion of Americans just refuse to believe the science of climate change and these are the same supporters of Trump and Republicans many of them created by Murdoch's propaganda machine.
One hopes the best for Kathryn Murdoch, however, when it comes to dealing with this vital issue,
America is pretty much now the "lone wolf" in the world in its lack of acceptance of climate change and is no longer being considered by other world leaders as part of the solution, rather now, it has become an enormous part of the problem.
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Yes. This time is our greatest wake-up call and I celebrate anyone who is waking up and taking action.
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Permanently removing Rupert would be the most useful first step.
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I'm glad Ms.Murdoch is pushing for climate action and renouncing part of the Murdoch family's horrendous legacy. But if she was on Environmental Defense Fund's board in 2014, I wish she had pushed harder to end glaring absurdities like the following from the director of EDF's political action arm. "[Senior director at EDF Action Tony] Kreindler contends that Republican control of the House could be just as good for the environment as Democratic control." Grist online, 8/7/2014 https://grist.org/politics/why-is-environmental-defense-fund-spending-1-million-to-elect-republicans/
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Ms. Murdoch is little more than a wealthy socialite with scant knowledge of anything outside a cocktail luncheon. Not a scientist, instead merely opinionated, the gullible Ms. Murdoch gets to play with hundreds of millions, after succumbing to the mind-numbing nonsense of Al Gore, the initial twenty first century apocalyptic purveyor of human extinction, and abject intellectually impoverished narcissist.
Morphing from global warming to climate change “duh”; the climate has fluctuated historically from the dawn of civilization, and harping the “scientific consensus”, the term that says it all regarding where the money and job security reside, not into scientific facts, this entire charade now precludes its own demise with a doomsday deadline, only a scant 13 years away.
Better move fast, Ms. Murdoch, the clock is ticking.
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@Grant And I take it Grant, that you are a scientist, since you are refuting all the science out there. It would be handy when putting someone else down for not being a scientist, and refuting the science out there, that you give us your scientific credentials.
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Oh yes. Scientists don’t know nothing! The trillion dollar fossil fuel industry—spending millions to downplay (they can’t refute) climate change—knows it all!
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Rupert Murdoch is so toxic that when he dies and his right wing media empire unravels it will be the beginning of a less decisive society both in US and UK.
He has a lot to answer for and one of his daughter in laws taking a stand for what she believes is a great start.
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Solve income inequality (worldwide) and solve over reproduction of homo sapiens.. and you will have solved the climate crisis.
But the capitalists and friend do NOT care. It's OK to badly pay and poorly house and feed and otherwise abuse employees in India and China (think what you want but this is economic slavery -- and educational opps are NOT going to solve this altho robots might -- and where is a safety net when people lose there jobs??) -- so long as the stockholders get their dividends. Foxcomm(Apple) in Longhua - worker suicides in"the Guardian" online.
It's OK for Adani (India) to open new coal mines in AUS so as to send coal to India to a facility to produce electricity for Bangladesh! (In the NY Times Magazine, last week.) Jobs. Pollution. Dividends. Bonuses.
I am pro tariffs on all Chinese and imported goods. (We can certainly make clothes and shoes here... the infrastructure demands are nil ) Go back to ceramic mugs and plates for eat- in at all food establishments. (Plastic is a petroleum product.)
Ride sharing... and thermostats set at 68 winter, and 75 summer. Build for density in cities -- makes public transit and amenities (grocery store, etc.) possible. In fact in the USA stop developing and exploiting currently undeveloped land. Rethink land use.
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Rupert and Roger Ailes gave Twitler 2 billion dollars worth of free and open mic coverage per Quant Media in 2016. Rupert has had unfettered access and influence.
Twitler has attacked the EPA, the Endangered Species Act, Tongass National Forest, Bears Ears, Arctic National Forest, auto emissions standards, wind energy, Ag Research, Bristol Bay, the Boundary Waters and the Paris accord.
Mr Murdoch’s protégée is for methane, hydrofluorocarbons, E15, XL & Dakota Access pipelines, cutting the Interior’s conservation budget by 75%, fracking and drilling in 3.4 million acres of public lands in the lower US.
DJT has rolled back 85 environmental rules.
He turned loggers, drillers, miners and robber barons loose on our fragile environment.
No mushroom cloud-yet. Thanks Rupert
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Thank you Ms Murdoch.
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The MUrdochs can do down as the villains that they are, along with the Sacklers and Waltons.
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I love the benevolent overlords. Only billionaires that have their control on raping the public through a heady mix of elite interests and scandal can make environmentalism shine at the expense of their biggest financial revenue streams.
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It would be best if Kathryn became editor and chief of the entire Murdoch media empire. Her voice is being drowned out by a media empire that spews unending nonsense about climate change.
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Imagine a kindlier, gentler kleptocracy.
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@batavicus Perfect. Thanks.
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"Ms. Murdoch said that she actually got the inspiration to take on climate change from that Al Gore talk at the Fox retreat in 2006."
Well, it's 2019. I guess 13 years later to "take on climate change" is better than not at all.
We'll see if Ms. Murdoch is the real deal or all mouth but no chops.
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More power to James and Kathryn !
That family empire needs some radical change and respect for the modern global realities.
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The Murdochs and Fox are among those most responsible for the mess the world currently faces, from inaction on climate, to hate-based politics.
I'd like to see Ms. Murdoch denounce Fox "News" for the heinous propaganda machine it is, and renounce her family's ill-gotten gains. Then I'll believe she's doing everything she can.
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James&Kathryn Murdoch are as big as they get.The endorsement of Kathyrn Murdoch for the science of Climate Change will have a big impact.Greta Thunberg has taken the world by storm on Climate Change.Now it requires the establishment to take it forward.James Murdoch is a powerful man&he is also committed to change&support for environment.Little incidents make big impact.Who would have thought that a speech by former Vice President Albert Gore at a small retreat would change so many minds.There is deep resistance to the idea of Climate Change in many sections.But mow,sections of the automobile industry&hydro-carbon sector are adopting a guarded approach to Climate Change.Kathyrn Murdoch can contribute immensely by changing her own life style&making a statement.It is difficult to estimate whether the business empire of the Murdochs will support Kathyrn.But her own personality&status can go a long way in helping activists in taking the cause forward.Funding is needed to create awareness&media support.The initial steps by Kathyrn Murdoch are focused on raising funds.The important steps that Kathyrn can take is to try to reverse some of the toxic actions in recent years,which harmed the environment.Kathyrn has been active since 2008 in favour of protecting the environment.She says that everyone is aware of the impact of Climate Change.She suggests that the biggest task is to get the USA involved.That is the biggest challenge for Kathyrn Murdoch!But the tide seems to have turned.
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FOX news has done as much to destroy the planet as any other organization, with its constant attacks on science, truth, facts, and its promotion of greed.... One wonders how people like the Murdochs sleep at night, fully aware that that they are actively working to kill the planet in order to enrich themselves. A 'lot of hope' that we will ever recover from this onslaught, as Ms. Murdoch says? Hardly, given the rest of her family. But at least she's showing that some can have a change of heart, even if its only after they've gotten their billions.
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I have no doubt she and her husband are entirely sincere; we are facing an existential crisis and I am terrified for my children and grandchidren and very much aware my generation (in the western economies) has lived charmed lives. But I fault the reporter for not asking them how many homes they have; whether they fly in their private planes; and a series of other questions about their own carbon consumption and about our mutual responsibility to not only invest our money but to put our money where our mouths are by changing our behavior. Greta Thunberg was mocked by some for how she traveled to the US, but she was making an essential point about actions vs. words.
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Interesting side note to this. James Packer, who was in line to take over at Fox when he father stood aside and is, or was, the natural heir to all things 'Murdoch', had a serious disagreement with Rupert which ended with a screaming match between the two and they have barely spoken since.
Consequently, when Rupert stood aside from Fox, it was Lachlan, another hard-right propagandist, who the reins were handed to, not James, who is considerably more moderate and would have shaken up Fox and threatened its position as a mouthpiece for Republican propaganda.
In other words, because of the current situation between James and Rupert, James Murdoch's wife has little to lose from saying what's on her mind and what's on her mind gives an insight into the very different Fox that we would be seeing now had James taken his rightful place at the head of the organisation as had been planned for some time.
Just throwing that in there.
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@Da Bushroo
another story line for 'succession' the tv show. the unshaven brothers look like the actors that portray them. and now a younger woman enters who might be the next mrs. roy.
the plot thickens. and what is more interesting the show or the real family?
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Kudos to Kathryn Murdoch and her husband for working to undo the legacy of James's father and brother, and their vile creations (not just Fox, but similar sources of misinformation around the world).
I don't understand why some of the commenters here are piling onto and mocking her. The approach she is taking will yield more fruit in the medium to long run, by bringing to the cause more donors, more grassroots reform, and more real change than if she publicly disowned the Murdochs and trash-talked them. The latter course might feel good for some, but will be totally worthless from the point of view of driving any change.
From other articles I have read about her, she has been quietly working her influence behind the scenes ever since she got married to James. Remember, she married into the family, wasn't born into it.
More power to her and her husband, I say.
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@Yogi in NJ I get it, if you can't say anything nice...I agree. Somewhat reluctantly but hey, it's a start.
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The Murdoch’s are the true villains in the current world. If humanity survives the climate change, their name will go down in infamy as the prime shaper of the anti climate movement. The so called climate deniers. That’s if we survive. Along with the Koch family, this is the group responsible for the divisive atmosphere toxicly poising our discourse at a time that we need to be talking solutions and actions together.
If a Murdoch wants to break the chains of her family situation and take a different path, welcome.
BTW, I’m amazed how similar this sounds to the current HBO show, Succession.
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In particular, the urgency of the climate crisis jolted her. “I decided to switch everything I was doing,” she said. “I wanted to be able to look my children in the eye and say ‘I did everything I could.’”
We all owe the future of life on this planet everything we can do.
The scale of change coming from runaway climate disruption will hopefully sharpen our focus on the existential threat & hopefully motivate us to seek solutions over divisions.
Fossil fuel consumption WILL end someday, the only variable is who chooses - us or nature.
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@Kevin Greene:
"The scale of change coming from runaway climate disruption will hopefully sharpen our focus ..."
It will be too late by then if you're intending to wait for the scale of change to sharpen your focus. Way too late. The time is now. Plain and simple. The effects are with us and will continue to get worse. We are moving in to the zone of unpredictability as is.
It may already be too late, so don't wait for anything to sharpen your focus. Sharpen it immediately. ;)
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Thank you, Ms Murdoch! If only you could have more influence on James and he on making Fox News less divisive and more truthful. Rupert and Lachlan have fomented hatred and racism and second amendment craziness in the US and chaos here and abroad. Please do what you can to mitigate the damage they have caused. ....not only to the environment but to democracy and cultural norms.
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@Maria B Hi--thanks for your comment, but as the story states, James Murdoch no longer works at Fox.
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@John Schwartz True, but he did for years, and years and years.
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@Maria B: James has nothing to do with Fox. He had a major falling out with Rupert and apparently the two haven't spoken since otherwise James would be running the show at Fox now, rather than that dolt Lachlan.
James is, or was, in line for all things Murdoch. He was the natural heir until the falling out, and we would be seeing a very different Fox now if James would have taken his rightful place as head of the organisation. Instead, you have the stupider Rupert clone Lachlan carrying on his father's dirty work, business as usual. Let the propaganda flow.
Incidentally, Rupert Murdoch can't stand Trump and has stated that he is one of the dumbest people he has ever met. That he allowed Fox to be his mouthpiece, and now Lachlan is doing the same, says a lot about Rupert, and none of it good.
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Like Greta, I don't want platitudes: I want action. Do bold things, and your actions will speak for you. Otherwise, you are just taking up valuable print space.
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I don’t care about her name.
If Ms. Murdock can help the cause, we should welcome it.
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Unfortunately the keys of the kingdom went to the black knight because Rupert considered him the chosen one to continue his assault on American democracy and humanity as a whole, particularly concerning climate change.
When Rupbert hired a political propagandist to create FOX News, his intentions couldn't have been more clear nor his vision more competently realized.
Roger Ailes was a genius at his black art and systematically dumbed down working class voters with misinformation and phony science sponsored by the likes of the Kochs in a creative way that pitted the egg heads (especially climatologists) against the hardworking white viewership who were flattered as being the only Americans with "common sense".
The good brother may atone for the sins of his father, but he lacks the power to correct them.
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A less-kind and perhaps thus more-accurate version of this story can be found at The Intercept:
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/29/james-rupert-murdoch-philanthropy-fox-news/
The very rough numbers seem fairly clear with a few googles to clarify that James' fortune is in the $500M neighbourhood. They've given a fifth of a percent of that to the anti-defamation league after Charlottesville, and their foundation has given a percent or two more to a list of a dozen-odd recipients. Can't find by google if they routinely travel by private jet, along with the rest of the family.
This is OK, but it's still, as The Intercept points out, about handing back a few percent of your takings and declaring yourself a Good Person.
She says she wants to be able to look kids in the eye and say she did "everything she could" - well, a few percent is not that.
Without even getting into sackcloth and ashes or anything really painful, not really "everything" but "a whole lot, the world will be impressed and you'll be a hero", that would be like:
1) Try 80% of your wealth, some $400M. Harsh, but hey, you'll still be worth A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. So it's not that huge a sacrifice.
2) This is even worse: publicly break with your family. It doesn't have to get personal. "I love Dad, but that Sean Hannity nutcase is a conspiracy theorist; Tucker Carlson is an open racist who helped make Charlottesville happen". Sean and Tucker are not family.
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@roy brander: Why do you think James is not running Fox now and Lachlan was put in charge??? And she has broken with her family, as in what she has now publicly stated is counter to Rupert's propaganda.
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How do ypu spell "greenwashing." The hokum is in line with their evil empire.
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Hypocrite. Where has she been for the past 20 years?
The only thing she can do that matters is to fight with her husband for control of Fox and if they get it to then shut down Fox News.
Just shut it down.
Fox News is the Ministry of Propaganda for every wrong belief, for all the hate, for all the ignorance in this nation and the world.
It has done incalculable damage in and to this world.
That is the Murdoch legacy and she comes way late to the game to change that legacy of malodorous destruction of truth, decency and democracy - and the planet as it turns out.
And they can take 90% of their fortune and give it away to those working for climate change.
They'd be well able to manage on what's left.
The rest is crocodile tears.
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@Carl Zeitz
People evolve.....and give credit where credit is due....some people take time to understand,digest complicated issues, especially when our “leaders” promote lies and lobbyist’s policies. Many Failure Trump supporters have jumped the Trump cult’s train, they were conned and took time to realize that, don’t condemn people who take a while to understand the issues.
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@Carl Zeitz: One final time before I get out of here.
James Murdoch, her husband, has nothing to do with Fox. It was intended for him to take over until he and Rupert had a major falling out, at which point the new heir to the Fox throne became the imbecilic Rupert clone, Lachlan.
Bottom line: Lachlan Murdoch is currently running Fox. James Murdoch has nothing to do with Fox or his father at this point since their falling out.
And out.
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Is this real or part of “Succession”?
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Passing multilevel selection tests is a function of processing complex relationship information with sufficient Reach Speed Accuracy Power & Creativity.
(Multilevel because, per our powers, we need functional relationships in-&-across Geo Eco Bio Cultural & Tech networks.)
When you lie for decades, you can win the short term, even the presidency — & make billions.
Longer term, your offspring will harvest "premature and perverted death."
Part of the Horror of biology is that fundamental, selected, and conserved relationship code is: Fitness is > Truth.
From cognitive scientist, Donald Hoffman:
"Fitness and truth are utterly different things."
"Organisms that see the truth go extinct when they compete against organisms that don't see any of the truth at all ... and are just tuned to the fitness function."
"Perception is not about seeing truth; it's about having kids."
F>T works for relationship interface in the local environs we were originally coded for. Doesn't work for the alien, unprecedented and exponentially more complex global environs / relationships we continue to generate by way of our species numbers, powers and concomitant reach.
Our cultural coding also doesn't work in our novel environs.
eg
Ya can't do selection in-&-across the networks with world culture's dominant information processing mechanism or app: people deploying monetary code.
The app's information processing specs are far too weak.
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Our biological & cultural coding are non-selectable.
Or we could as a society, you know, decide not to have people who have the capacity to destroy the planet. It's good, I suppose, that we have billionaires who don't want to destroy the planet - most high profile ones are so upfront about their desire to do that that they're openly talking about fleeing to Mars - but you know, maybe in the first place don't let individual people accumulate enough power for purely selfish ends that they end up destroying the world? It works in fantasy novels!
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Cracks in the Murdoch fortress?
Just like cracks in the Trump/GOP fortress.
Bothe are welcome good news.
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If a member of the Murdoch family is involved in an organization, audit its books and double check the criminal backgrounds of its staff.
As with the Mercers and the Kochs, nothing the Murdoch family touches is morally untainted.
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For start, give back all those dirty money from your family, then we can talk if you have good faith in this matter or is just to boost the personal profile.
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A Murdoch tackling climate change. Please.
The climate change denial, deliberate misinformation and propaganda spewed forth by Fox News and other News Corp outlets has much to answer for when it comes to public confusion and misunderstanding about the fact and seriousness of this problem.
She is part of the problem, not the solution.
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@Andrew
The atomic scientists’ Doomsday Clock Bulletin added:
“Intentional corruption of the information ecosystem on which modern civilization depends...”
to climate change and nuclear war as existential threats to humanity.
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Her family in law razed forests and dumped heavy chemicals in the water to print garbage.
Can they devote their vast resources to reforesting the world?
The damage to the water systems can’t be fixed as the water mixes with water, and there is no way to filter all of it. Reforestation however could help a lot because trees absorb ground water and release it filtered.
If they did this for the rest of their lives, we could all benefit and their legacy restored.
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Great, more billionaires and their solutions. They've done so much for us!
If these Murdochs were truly interested in halting climate change, there are so many better things that they could be doing with their money and time. For one, supporting political candidates who propose solutions at the scale of the problems we face -- yes that means an aggressive Green New Deal. Or they could take the techno-utopian route and fund promising research and startups in the space. Or they could just give all their money to projects in Project Drawdown.
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Can’t wait to see next seasons Succession to see how it all turns out!
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@Greenman Looks like Shiv, er, I mean Kathryn, is finally breaking away!
Ms. Murdoch; your family has done more to destabilize Democracy in the USA, Britain and Austria than any other family in the world. Any light that comes out of that is great but it doesn't do much good righting the damage your family has done to our society and government.
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@Roy Hill The Trump is a vile concoction of Koch money and the Murdoch Noise media. The real deep corrupt state.
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@Roy Hill I'm sure you mean Australia - and you're absolutely right.
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Good for Ms. Murdoch. Many people have been working on the climate crisis (I prefer the Guardian's term) behind the scenes, but of course she gets in the NYT because of her famous name. The effort, however, is laudable, though awfully late when measured against the damage to the planet thus far and the negative impact of her family's business. It initially sounds good to hear about lots of rich people starting foundations, but I wonder where the funds go. Sometimes I think they should put their egos aside and contribute to established organizations staffed by experts working on the same issues.
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@JLD
Yes, but it's a great conversation starter-- "My family foundation .. " (And you can have friends and family employed in same.)
BTW the Clinton Foundation is now closed.
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@Auntie Mame And so is the Trump Foundation!
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Another person that Al Gore woke up about the threat of climate change. Gore got many people to get involved in the issue but it hasn't resulted in turning the corner and really addressing the problem. The speech by leaders at the UN earlier this week were mainly disappointing. Rupert Murdoch is right up there with Exxon and the Koch brothers of why more action has been lacking in the US. At this point I think an increasing concern is that the world leaders are going to turn to geoengineering as a solution to global warming.
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They privatized the profits and now they want to socialize the costs.
Much too little, much too late.
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(Intended Audience: The wives and daughters of the carbon barons & the carbon-sponsored politicians)
I truly fear for the future safety of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the owners, board members and executives of the oil, natural gas, coal and pipeline companies and their sponsored political “leaders.”
As living conditions on our planet become unbearable due to the severe, relentless impacts of Climate Change, generations of devastated citizens around the world will ask: “Who is most directly responsible for this existential catastrophe?”
When these citizens look around, they will find many of the culpable carbon barons and carbon-sponsored politicians have already passed on to whatever afterlife awaits them. But the direct descendants of the carbon barons and the carbon-sponsored politicians will still be here. And there will be no escape – not even behind their gated communities – from the wrath of billions of incensed citizens on every continent.
For the carbon barons, it all comes down to one essential choice to be made RIGHT NOW: harvest their carbon assets and sacrifice their descendants – or – strand their carbon assets and save their descendants?
For the carbon-sponsored politicians, it also comes down to one essential choice to be made RIGHT NOW: continue to dither on Climate Change legislation and sacrifice their descendants – or – pass sweeping and meaningful Climate Change mitigation legislation and save their descendants?
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Great. I’m a conservative, but strongly believe in climate policy.
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Does she fly to these conferences in a private jet?
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I commend her on her work, but let's be honest here...
Fox News is one of the main reasons that our country is so divided and Donald Trump is in office. Most Fox News viewers have been brainwashed into believing that global warming isn't even real!!
I'm glad she cares, but it's hard to get past the fact that her Father-in-Law is largely responsible for destroying our nation!
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Really? I am pleasantly shocked and surprised. Murdochs are not stupid. They understand and know very well the science of climate change. But Rupert is too old to change. Moreover he is more interested in his business than the future of the world and mankind. Lachlan is a young man who believes his business interest is more important. May be James and his wife are better human being. I hope they will take active role in climate fight.
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It’s gonna take an army of disaffected Murdoch spouses to offset the lies and sleaze perpetuated by Rupert, Lachlan, James et al. While I laud her efforts, it might be time better spent trying to teach her wayward family about common human decency.
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Please, please don’t call right wing science deniers ‘conservative’. Call them ‘so-called conservatives’ if you must, but there is nothing conservative about denying an existential threat. How about “right wing radicals co-opted and disinformed by the fossil fuel industry.”
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@DrBaBa You got it - exactly! The founder of the political philosophy of "Conservatism" - Edmund Burke - wrote: "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little". I'm pretty sure that means he'd support all countries seeking to lower their greenhouse gas emissions, though only a fraction of total global emissions.
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Finally, a Murdoch who acts on behalf of us all instead of fostering divisiveness. Thank you Kathryn M!
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The damage the family Ms. Murdoch benefits from has done to the environment and the free world is breathtaking. Money and energy would be better spent on repudiating Fox false news narratives, Fox stoking hate and Fox climate change denials. Shame on all of them.
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@Rose
Yeah, I was imagining a rival well-funded major Murdoch network that serves to debunk Fox News, segment by segment, with facts on a daily basis. Something like, “Today, these claims were made ‘elsewhere’, which are aimed at influencing these leaders to support x policies. Let’s review them one by one, analyze the facts, and speak with the actual people doing the research...” The Murdoch name behind it would give it credibility with the gullible masses.
We need a truly independent news channel that’s not siloed to public television news hours and that serves facts, not cultural and spiritual warfare. In fact, we desperately need an answer to Fox News. Through it the Murdoch family has the blood of all of humanity on their hands. During the most critical inflection point in human history, that family singlehandedly destroyed the comity of our institutions and kneecapped our nation’s ability to respond to the greatest threat to humanity, while Rupert Murdoch laughs all the way to the bank.
History will hold the Murdochs responsible for genocide. Only head-on public confrontation, widespread scientific education of the masses, and dedicated information warfare equal to that of Fox News will blunt its effects and barely begin to absolve family members’ complicity. Holding coffee klatches with other oligarchic spouses ain’t going to cut it.
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If people like these, with their land holdings, bunkers, private jets and contingents of personal security, worry about the future of Earth, then the rest of humanity ought to be terrified.
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You can’t use the profits from the primary sources of climate change, Fox and most other Murdoch owned outlets and think somehow that makes sense. We know from history that Fox personalities will claim anything they are told, irrespective of their seemingly tick solid beliefs. So forgive me if this seems disingenuous. You belong to the family that is single handily destroyingvthe planet and the western democratic order. ,
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Reshape the single most destructive force in our country? Good luck; I suspect George Conway would have a better chance at achieving an epiphany for his wife. At least there, unlimited money and power aren’t involved.
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James and Kathryn Murdoch owe their great wealth to the destruction of civil discourse in America and the world. Their family has attacked enlightenment values respecting truth and science. They have made a mockery of journalism. They have sown great evil in the world. It is impossible to imagine widespread climate change denial and a Trump presidency without the degradation of decades of Murdoch media.
If the Murdochs which to cleanse their souls, they must give their entire fortune to the cause of fighting Fox, the Republican party, and those who deny the reality of climate change. All of it. Every last penny.
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Good for the couple! The public should cut them some slack, especially when James Murdoch has tried to extract himself from the tyranny.
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It's the least she can do. I won't give her tons of props for staying silent all these long decades as the earth simmered and Fox News snickered. Finally, 40 years--no, even longer than that--after the scientists have been sounding the clarion call about global warming, a few Americans (not nearly enough) are waking up to the disaster that WE perpetrated. Yes, we.
The United States Military alone emits more green house gas emissions than many countries. We, and Europe, are largely at fault for worldwide ecocide. Meanwhile, the Murdochs and the .0001% of their ilk (Koch, et al) spread dastardly lies to confuse the middling-educated populace of our country.
Have you read the latest IPCC report? It's harrowing. People are joining the bandwagon now when it's way too little, way too late. Simply stated: we are, for the *most* part, and billions of other beings are, for the *most* part, doomed. But hey, thanks Katy.
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Good for them. I hope this helps.
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It's about time to shake the stronghold of Murdoch's disinformation empire...to satisfy corporate friends afraid that the reality of climate change may affect their pocketbooks (shameful as it sounds, true; and a disgrace for the rest of us). Hats off to Kathryn Murdoch...provided she can gather the will to change for the better. Besides, it would be the prudent thing to do.
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I admire this woman and hope she can garner support for solving a climate crisis that is worsening more rapidly every single day.
It is hard to fathom the nature of those people who are profiting financially from denying climate change. Even if they are morally incapable of caring about how climate change is causing masses of human beings to suffer, can't they see that their progeny will not be able to escape the horrors that they themselves are creating on this planet? How much money, luxury and power in the here and now is enough for them?
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@Katrina Chicago -- We are NOT going to escape to Mars is the final word from a majority of Science experts. We will all live or die, here. PERIOD. That is what the elite rich must come to believe in their bones before we START to push in another direction TOGETHER.
I don't believe James Murdoch is anywhere near committed to an overall progressive agenda. He's no where near his wife's political position as a self-described "moderate radical." But hanging out with her and Al Gore and other strong advocates for our planet are likely to be pushing him to the far-left from his father and Lachlan's far-right radical positions.... There is a bit of hope, and intrigue about the what if James attempts a return after his father’s death.
As a family member, James is a beneficiary of the trust that holds controlling stock, which cannot be sold to outsiders. Last year, James tried to sell the stock to Lachlan in order to make a full break, but Lachlan declined.
A Fox News under James Murdoch could still be conservative, but would almost certainly be less intransigent on issues like climate change. At a crucial moment, in 2016, when Roger Ailes was pushed out of the company over his treatment of women, James favored a more traditional news executive, the CBS president David Rhodes, for the job. Instead, his father took the helm for a time, and the network moved more solidly into a position of supporting Donald Trump.
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@Katrina Chicago
Closing down Fox News would be the best solution to climate change since their followers would then have to find somewhere else to hear fake news everyday about climate and everything in between.
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@Katrina Chicago: You need only listen to DJT to get a glimpse of one type of the sociopathy of the rich, which shapes their shockingly antisocial, destructive behavior.
Remember how surprised he was about Prince Charles's concern about the climate crisis? "[Prince Charles] doesn't have to worry about future generations unless he's a very good person who cares about people."
The concept of caring about others who will inherit this mess -- even when those others share his genes -- is alien to DJT et al. Hence "sociopathic," because humans are hardwired to want our genes to continue to be passed down -- hardwired to want our descendants to thrive.
I'd even argue that we're hardwired for empathy, because our survival depends on cooperation -- yet the rich, who disadvantage everyone else by blithely taking far more than they could ever need, clearly have been raised in a way that has beaten the empathy out of them.
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"Quadrivium" doesn't mean "crossroads. It's the four subjects of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. With the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) they make up the original seven liberal arts. Given that the Foundation promotes scientific understanding to remedy public misunderstanding, the name is apt.
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When the gravity of climate change is weighed - mass extinction; most of this family should be charged with crimes against humanity for their role in manipulating our democracy. Ms. Murdock’s efforts are commendable for someone who married into such power. I’m skeptical at best of results as everyday Fox News is on the air spouting denial makes this most import for the survival of all life on earth impossible.
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Every public and private voice engaged in spreading the word on climate change is valuable. When someone is as connected to wealth and power as is Ms. Murdoch, their voice is automatically amplified.
Thanks to Ms. Murdoch for coming forward with her thoughts and actions on climate change. It will take every effort by those of us who care to establish effective laws to help protect our planet
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Mrs. Murdoch may call her family name a "double-edged sword" but I would like to see her swing it more forcefully against the climate denialists at Fox News.
Mrs. Murdoch and her husband got rich from a network that is overwhelmingly dismissive of climate change and actively disparages climate scientists. Fox is one of the reasons the US sits on its hands while the effects of climate change become more obvious every month.
Mrs. Murdoch should use her position to call out this irresponsible network. It may be the most important work she can do to help save the planet.
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Thank you. We need more people of means and influence to make people aware of the gravity of climate change.
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A good step toward 'democracy reform' would be lifting the artificial cap of 435 members on the house of representatives. One rep per 30k or 50k citizens would still fit in buildings existing in DC, would more closely align to expectations of the house of reps from when the constitution was written, would solve problems with the electoral college, and would reduce the cash value of each legislative seat, both in terms of cost to run and benefits to stay.
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Agreed, but that will only impact the House. What about the Senate, an even bigger bottleneck at this point?
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@APS
Sounds great until you calculate the cost in salaries and benefits, not just for the reps but for their staffs. And then there is the cost of office space and furnishings, plus all the traveling they will do on the taxpayers dime. Don't forget pensions they receive after even one term.
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Welcome aboard and thank you for your voice.
Climate disaster is a non political event. It IS happening right now and effecting everyone. So we need to all put political differences aside and address this problem.
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Just because one carries the name, doesn't mean they share the same family ideology. Ms. Murdoch is her own person, and she stands tall.
Thank you for taking on the fight to help turn around this battle on climate change. Your voice needs to be heard.
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I have voted Republican most of my life. On this issue the lack of acceptance of the science of warming is outrageous. First there is denial yet we now have ships passing where there was once only ice, permafrost melting, glaciers disappearing and oceans warming. Then there is the rationalization that climate has always fluctuated. And finally, there is the unbelievably childish question as to why we should take action when China is the biggest polluter. I ask why can't we, the nation that has never failed at an undertaking we rallied behind, take a global leadership position on renewable energy? Why can't we see that we may be living in a time that very well could end very badly for life as we know it while we do nothing? Kudo's to Ms. Murdoch.
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@Charlie
With the "buying power" that the US has, you can say to all nations that we will not buy products from countries that don't pull their weight in climate initiatives. If all countries do this, then the change begins!
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@Charlie
On the most important issue of our time, you have voted wrong most of your life. I hope you will never again vote for the party that has produced a slow moving, unstoppable disaster for the world.
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Republicans have spent the last 40 years denying climate change, allowing corporations to pollute and obstructing all policy discussions...including a war on family planning - not sure how you can be for republicans and concerned for climate because the republican agenda has always been “drill baby drill”
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The love of money has always been at the root of all evil, especially in the U.S., but power is just as important to the self-designated "masters of the universe." To concede the need to change our "values" to combat climate change means some rich and powerful people are going to be less important and less influential and also that countries like India and China have to slow their economic growth.
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@R. Anderson They don't have to slow their economic growth if they switch to low/no carbon electric generation.
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Ms. Murdoch would do well to join the thousands of volunteer lobbyists who contribute time and enthusiasm to the bi-partisan Citizens Climate Lobby. CCL proposes revenue-neutral, Carbon Fee and Dividend legislation allowing immediate implementation and minimal bureaucracy.
All revenue from a direct and steadily-increasing
fee on carbon at the wellhead and national borders is returned directly to American households.
The added price on carbon makes alternatives less expensive than fossil fuels, thus stimulating innovation, clean energy investments and job growth without burdening low and moderate income families.
The Energy Innovations and Carbon Dividend bill (HR 763 2019) is widely recognized as the fastest was to meet the goals of the Paris Accord and beyond.
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@Tom Wilson
I keep hearing about the carbon tax going back to the people. Why don't they use that money to further decrease the carbon in the atmosphere? Like planting trees, utilizing new inventions like making roads and roofs into solar generators? Make it totally transparent for all to see. We would all (We the People) benefit from the decrease in electrical costs and the decrease in atmospheric pollution.
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@Joyce Benkarski
Because a Republican controlled Senate would never approve such a tax. It also opens the door for competing interests to spend decades fighting over the spoils...funding nuclear, retraining coal miners, reimbursing oil company investors for their losses?. Who makes those decisions? By raising the price on carbon and putting $ in the hands of consumers, this stimulates the economy and allows market forces to develop and implement technologies that will meet our energy needs without carbon.
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The verb form of the word conservative is to conserve, a verb which was embraced by Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Rachel Carson and others.
There's no reason why that word should always be associated with denying, lying, and with protecting financial interests at all cost to the planet.
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@Beverly Yes, this. It annoys me very much when the term is used as it is in this article. It is necessary that there be at least two parties capable of forming government, and where there only two, it is totally unsurprising that they should be "conservative" and "progressive" in relation to another, and warrant the designations "the conservative side " and "the progressive side" "of politics", but these designations do not determine anything about the philosophical or ideological nature of the actual parties representing these "sides of politics" in a given polity.
For instance in country A, "the conservatives" might be generally adherents of "Conservatism"(ie the political philosophy of Edmund Burke), but in country B they might be generally adherents of "Liberalism"(ie the political philosophy of John Locke). Republicans are adherents of neither. They are "Movement Conservatives" (or as I like to call them "Libertarian Conservatives"). Burke's Conservatism is not anti-government or for very small government.
It is not at all necessary that the conservative side of politics, or the Republican Party specifically, be anti- belief in human-caused global warming: and it very harmful to the cause of changing this deplorable situation to suggest that such is the case. Elsewhere, "conservatives" of parties representing "the conservative side of politics" believe in AGW and seeking to combat it. The peculiar nature of the current GOP and of its supporters needs pointing out.
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One woman's good work is newsworthy only because of her last name. Sadly and incredibly, she's a lonely voice among her peers.
Puzzling to me is why most of the billionaire class has allowed itself to be dominated and mostly silenced by the Kochs.
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@wmferree Thanks for your comment, but I would say she is newsworthy for the 13 years of commitment to these issues that people never really heard about because of her customary silence, and the potential for her initiatives because of the resources and personal connections — what one person called her "convening power" — to her cause. And yes, the name is important. But she is her own person, and doing genuinely interesting things.
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@wmferree I don't think that's true. Gates and Bloomberg are progressive activists.
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The people who have benefitted the most from spreading misinformation and stoking toxic partisanship are living to see the consequences. It isn't pretty.
This article provides a much needed glimmer of hope. We desperately need to pave a way for climate change not to be a partisan issue. Mrs. Murdoch is in a unique position to help.
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I am so pleased to read that Ms. Murdock is now airing publicly her views on climate change. Surely there are more conservatives who hold similar views. Hopefully they will also be courageous and speak out. For too long they have let the conservative powers that be control them.
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Maybe she should discuss this issue with her Father-in-law who created Fake News. He’s literally been working to destroy the case of climate change. Another family who has to be in the limelight no matter what.
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