Hour long speech on the U.S. cultural denial of global warming. I changed the word usage of "American" to "U.S. cultural" as the use of "America" to describe just one country on the entire continent named after Amerigo Vespucci, a usage that infuriates citizens in Central American and South American countries. The U.S. is the only country on the planet to my knowledge that is confused about its name and has multiple names: U.S., U.S.A., America, the States, and maybe more. Perhaps reflective of the confusion and delusion of U.S. culture about SO many issues, such as race, the lack of genetic markers for race, refusal to truly face the multi-generational fallout from the holocaust of the enslavement of Africans and the mass murder and displacement of Turtle Island's indigenous peoples, as a start. I bring up this point here as the speaker is a major intellectual and thus should know better. Click on the link below to get to the video and go all the way to the end for some important points she makes about the politics behind the denial.
The back story on U.S. cultural denial of global warming
12 years ago
