MEDIA USE HURRICANE HELENE TO FUEL CLIMATE AGENDA
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Put all the politics aside because I watch George Bush flail at this, you know, I've seen |
| 0:06.2 | Clinton's flail, I mean everybody seems to flail, you know, and what is it? Why is it? I feel like in the military they learn how to go into any like it's immediate. We're under attack. Handle it right away. Like immediate forces. Why don't we have that for disasters? I mean it seems like |
| 0:24.9 | there's this this balance between command and control. I mean we don't want |
| 0:28.6 | full Soviet Union command and control but yeah but it does seem like a disaster is a complex thing. There's a lot of moving parts and obviously nothing goes as planned, but it seems like we should be removing this red tape. |
| 0:41.0 | At this point, we had had Katrina everything since then and we're still |
| 0:45.8 | dealing with this. We're having FEMA come out with headlines saying we just |
| 0:49.6 | sorry we just don't have the money for this at this point maybe sometime in the future |
| 0:54.0 | this is absolutely unacceptable and one of the things I want to talk about is |
| 0:58.1 | Americans need help in the South now and one of the big issues are these large corporate media |
| 1:06.8 | institutions, these outlets, are taking their time or using their platforms to push |
| 1:12.4 | narratives instead of giving updates and |
| 1:17.2 | an aid and trying to direct aid to these to this area. |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.8 | What am I talking about? |
| 1:23.2 | In case people missed it, take a look at this clip. |
| 1:25.6 | All right. |
| 1:26.6 | Hurricane Helene made landfall Friday in Florida's Big Ben fueled by abnormally warm water |
| 1:32.2 | in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 1:33.9 | Greenpeace posted on social media that, quote, |
| 1:36.7 | Hurricane Colleen must be a wake-up call for climate justice. |
| 1:40.9 | Hurricanes draw energy from that warm ocean water and as that climate |
| 1:45.2 | change causes sea surface temperatures to rise, the energy available for these |
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