…the nightly news broadcasts covered the royal family more than seven times as much as they covered climate change in 2012? What if I told you that the Kardashian family — who seem to amount to royalty in America these days — earned more than 40 times the coverage given to ocean acidification, often referred to as climate change’s “evil twin,” over a recent 18-month period?

Simply put, the press is falling down on the job. If we, as a people, continue to pay more attention to fairy tales than reality, it will spell our doom….

Chip Giller, founder, Girst (via om)