Friday, April 20, 2012

The media's 25 wackiest environmental quotes-in honor of Earth Day

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4/19/12, "Earth Day Special: The Media's Top 25 Wackiest Environmental Quotes," NewsBusters, Geoffrey Dickens

"On the May 24, 2006 Today show, then co-anchor Katie Couric prompted former Vice President Al Gore, “What do you see happening in 15 to 20 years or even 50 years if nothing changes?...Even Manhattan would be in deep water?Gore responded: “Yes, in fact the World Trade Center Memorial site
  • would be underwater.”...
The following collection of 25 quotes represents the worst of the media’s environmental pandering culled from the MRC’s archive:

25. Billions of Lives At Risk


Will Billions Die from Global Warming?”

ABC’s on-screen graphic from the January 31, 2007 Good Morning America.

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24. Who Needs Tanks, When You’ve Got the EPA?


“And yet, Congresswoman Schneider, in 1989, fiscal 1989 as we say in America, the Environmental Protection Agency got $5.1 billion dollars and the Defense Department got $290 billion dollars.

  • What’s that tell us about our priorities?”

ABC anchor Peter Jennings on the September 12, 1989 Capital to Capital special “The Environment: Crisis In the Global Village.”

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23. $6 a Gallon Gas Will Save the Earth!


ABC News reports from Paris that gas is "$6 a gallon to discourage guzzling...a lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe"...(video clip)...


via Climate Depot

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