Media release Extinction Rebellion Tasmania, 4 September 2020
When Murdoch lies, our future dies!
On 4 September at 1pm, as a part of Nationwide actions against the News Corp empire, Rebels disrupted the office foyer of the Mercury with bad live music to mimic the trash that comes from the corporate media instead of reporting the climate and ecological emergency.
Australian media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, works with corrupt governments across the globe to spread misinformation around the climate and ecological crisis to secure the election of fossil fuel funded politicians. His own son has trashed him for his corrupt role in the destruction of the planet.
If the Murdoch media supported government continues us on the trajectory of business as usual, it means our future dies. Climate science predicts that much of Australia will be uninhabitable due to extreme weather events and ultimately mass starvation and billions of deaths before the end of the century. On top of that, we have a 90% chance of seeing civilization collapse within the coming decades.
“95% of the giant kelp in Tasmania has been destroyed and nipaluna/Hobart is a tinderbox waiting to go up in flames by climate induced bushfires and News Corp continues to promote business as usual which is killing us”. – Claire Burgess, Extinction Rebellion Tasmania.
Extinction Rebellion Tasmania demands that governments urgently tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions such as the media to communicate the urgency for rapid change to meet net zero emissions by 2025 and halt biodiversity loss.
BREAKING: Rebels disrupted the office foyer of the Mercury with bad live music to mimic the trash that comes from the corporate media instead of reporting the climate and ecological emergency. Australian media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, works with corrupt governments across the globe to spread misinformation around the climate and ecological crisis to secure the election of fossil fuel funded politicians. His own son has trashed him for his corrupt role in the destruction of the planet. If the Murdoch media supported government continues us on the trajectory of business as usual, it means our future dies. Climate science predicts that much of Australia will be uninhabitable due to extreme weather events and ultimately mass starvation and billions of deaths before the end of the century. On top of that, we have a 90% chance of seeing civilization collapse within the coming decades.Extinction Rebellion demand that the Murdoch media do it's job and report accurately on the climate and ecological emergency.
Posted by Extinction Rebellion Tasmania on Thursday, September 3, 2020
