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Where do you get your news? In how much depth did they cover this week's stories of flooding in Oman, Iran and China including the deaths, houses swept away by floods and destroyed by mud slides and 20,000 people relocated from their homes? It's a similar level of catastrophe to the recent flooding in Germany and fires in Canada, but the coverage in most news sites has been dramatically less. This is not unusual. It happens over and over again.
I only hear about these things because I look at non-Western news sources, follow environmentalists on social media and actively do google searches from time to time. Cleverly, the Western media does sometimes file reports on these stories so they can't be accused of not covering them, but give no prominence to the coverage (typically making the stories not visible from the home page of news websites) so most people won't see them. Because most of the effects of climate change are happening in poor countries and the media is mostly ignoring it, it means climate change is already much worse than most people think. https://www.aljazeera.com/.../cyclone-shaheen-approaches... https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1235771.shtml
I only hear about these things because I look at non-Western news sources, follow environmentalists on social media and actively do google searches from time to time. Cleverly, the Western media does sometimes file reports on these stories so they can't be accused of not covering them, but give no prominence to the coverage (typically making the stories not visible from the home page of news websites) so most people won't see them. Because most of the effects of climate change are happening in poor countries and the media is mostly ignoring it, it means climate change is already much worse than most people think. https://www.aljazeera.com/.../cyclone-shaheen-approaches... https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1235771.shtml