Obstruction would never have been as effective as it has been without the help of the PR industry and the willful ignorance of the media. Today, Melissa Aronczyk, of Rutgers University, and Max Boykoff, of the University of Colorado, join us to walk through why getting a handle on the media's role in climate obstruction is critical to solving the problem.

The book Climate Obstruction: A Global Survey, is available from Oxford University Press here, and will be available for free download beginning October 14th.

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