Political Perspectives on 08/10/11

Categories:

Environment

Program:

Political Perspectives

Air date:

Wed, 08/10/2011 - 9:00am - 9:30am

Short Description:

Christine Shearer visited a native Alaska village where climate change is destroying their island.

Host Marianne Barisonek talks with Christine Shearer about her book Kivalina: A Climate Change Story."

Kivalina is a small Native Alaska community that is suing twenty-four fossil fuel companies for thier contributions to climate change and for creating a false debate around climate change. Christine Shearer talks about the history of the "Product Defense Industry" and how it is distorting the media landscape on climate change.