Last week, California sued Big Oil for deceiving a public about the climate crisis.

The suit is part of a rising strategy to make those most responsible.

Pay. Putting a face to that can be hard, and that's what these lawsuits are doing.

They are connecting the dots between the perpetrators and the people who are affected.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone,

a shadowy network of think tanks is seeking to turn the public against climate activists.

The think tanks push the messages that the companies want to be out there,

but don't want to be affiliated with. Plus, how radical climate activists were deemed

the leading domestic carer threat in the US in the 90s and early odds, despite not hurting anybody.

There was a real fear, called the green scare, that environmentalists were stocking the woods

in the shadows ready to go off on the system and entire society. So, coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

This week, New York City hosted the 2024 United Nations General Assembly.

The topics were wide-ranging among them, Ukraine, of course, and pandemic prevention,

and unavoidably climate change.

Thousands of people have been killed in catastrophic flooding in Libya.

Catastrophic infernos now marking the deadliest wildfire in modern US history.

Canada, not California, is suffering from disastrous fires right now,

and it's making the entire Northeast look like the surface of Mars.

humanity has opened the gates of hell.

That's United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres,

known in international policy circles for not mincing his words.

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