Climate Change Story-Telling

The most significant enemy of the politically progressive green are Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and social media - this according to the article “Climate Change Has a Joe Rogan Problem” published by the left-wing magazine The New Republic. They want to take you back to an earlier day where ABC, CBS, NBC and NPR ruled the news. Certainly, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, and the New York Times would receive invitations and exemptions into their story-telling alliance.

While Reuters claims that the legacy media has, in the recent past, expanded their coverage of climate change, “smaller outlets around the country haven’t kept pace”. My article of February 2023, “Traditionalism” will explain the reason for this, most notably in the paragraph that reads:

“People in big cities see more of the crime and corruption and deem the need for protection from the government, although the irrational ones think law enforcement needs to be defunded. As well, they observe the dirt, debris, and filth and assume government needs to make their world clean and orderly. More government is incessantly the city’s answer – in the rural precincts the answer comes instead with self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and when need be, community collaboration”.

It is without doubt that what Reuters’ identify as “traditional media”, or those I name above, have become so partisan to the left that city-dwellers are their primary draw. The image of the US 2024 presidential election map below shows the influence of cities and nearby urban areas on the eventual result - counties in red went Republican while the blue counties voted Democrat.

The general election of April 28, 2025 in Canada looks much the same. Elections are often controlled by voters in the Greater Toronto (GTA) area. It has 59 seats (Members of Parliament) in the House of Commons out of a total of 343 within the entire country – a political party with the most seats then selects its leader as the Prime Minister. The Greater Toronto area constitutes only 0.071% of Canada's total land mass, yet it has a significant degree of domination over federal elections. It habitually votes for Canada’s Liberal party – almost 35% of the seats (172) required to have a majority ruling party come from this area.

It should be noted that, unlike the United States, Canada has federal representation in parliament by five (5) political parties as noted below:

• Liberal Party of Canada

• Conservative Party

• Bloc Québécois (representatives from the Province of Quebec only)

• New Democratic Party

• Green Party (a single seat from British Columbia)

With the exception of the Conservative Party, the remaining four lean left. If the Liberal party fails to acquire a majority as happened in the last election, other parties can join in to create the majority condition – it is known as a coalition government. This was the situation in the 2021 elections when the New Democratic Party united with the Liberal Party.

Canada’s leading news outlets, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (television) and the Globe and Mail (newspaper), are headquartered in Toronto and lean heavily left. Again, like the US, this is why Canada’s legacy media collaborate under the climate change banner.

The Reuters article first mentioned above is to brand climate change and journalists who embrace it as victims of societal traditionalism and technology. How dare one get their news outside of the legacy media who endorse the fear and true target of climate change – which is influencing the way people vote.

You will note that the majority of pieces from the legacy media never contain sound climate science (mostly because they wouldn’t know any or care), but merely an attempt to persuade people using the political purpose behind it.