Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Wed, 08/10/2011 - 9:00am to 9:30am
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.