On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss coverage of the catastrophic floods that hit the Nepal-Tibet border, killing more than 1,200 people, with thousands still missing.
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Jonathan Mingle writes: "This is a sign of a new, disorienting danger in cold mountain zones: the rapid destabilization of glaciers and permafrost that can remake entire landscapes in the blink of an eye. The processes leading to these cascading failures are complex, but the hidden hand behind them is human-caused climate change. Our fossil fuel burning is pulling down the world’s highest peaks."
Guest:
Jonathan Mingle, journalist and author of Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity and Survival on the Roof of the World and Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future
Resources:
The New York Times: Mountains Are Coming Undone
The Guardian: Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn
The Guardian: Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadowed a future of climate disaster
Inside Climate News: Climate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready?
