In a two hour special, PBS Frontline tackles what the award winning series calls the most important issue of our time. (Promo above.) The special program airs Tuesday night in most US markets, check your local listings.
"I have reported on the Cold War, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the rise of Al Qaeda, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," says producer Martin Smith. "But nothing matches climate change in scope and severity."
From the press release:
The world needs to dramatically cut the carbon emissions responsible for wreaking havoc on the planet's climate, according to Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, whose organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize. "If we don't take action immediately, we face a crisis," Pachauri tells Smith. "Climate change is caused by human actions, and we need to do something about it. The sooner we realize that, the better."
With that sense of urgency in mind, Smith traveled to 12 countries on four continents to investigate whether major corporations and governments are up to the challenge. HEAT features in-depth interviews with top policy-makers and with leading executives from many of the largest carbon emitters from around the world, including Chinese coal companies, Indian SUV makers and American oil giants. The report paints an ominous portrait. Despite increasing talk about "going green," across the planet, environmental concerns are still taking a back seat to shorter-term economic interests.
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"...whether major corporations and governments are up to the challenge."
The answer is "no", and the consequences are going to be devastating.
The technological solutions already exist. The people want to use them.
Business and government are obstacles to progress. They hire lawyers to fight change, they propagandize to dis-inform people, and they engage in anticompetitive practices to shut down entrepreneurs that have workable solutions.
If Americans want to persist in believing we're some kind of mix of John Wayne and Joe the Plumber, and that we'll never have to face the consequences of our actions, then we're toast.
We will yearning for the good old days when the market meltdown was our worst problem.
Unfortunately, there are problems that match global warming in scope and severity. Global warming only makes those other problems worse. Solving the former, even in the unlikely event that it occurs, will not solve the latter.