The safe upper limit for atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is 350 parts per million. The current level is 390 ppm, which is way too high. This dangerous level leads to ice melting, climate disruption and ocean acidification. Scientists are urging decision makers to act and bring the level down to 350 ppm.
The media is treating climate change more as a political issue rather than a scientific one. The presentation of the subject is therefore “balanced”, even though there is overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet is dangerously warming up. Worse, science is losing the media war to conservative lobbies.
Many Mauritians seem to be obsessed with neutrality. You can’t openly say you are pro-MMM or pro-Labour without being viewed as some biased retard. You can no more express yourself on the Palestinian issue or the 9/11 without being tagged as an Islamist fanatic or an Islamophobe. It now seems a newspaper cannot openly endorse [...]

