Newt Gingrich: Trump “…huge TV show called ‘Leading the World’?”
Brent Griffiths, “Gingrich: ‘Weird’ for Trump to Produce ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ as President,” Politico, December 9, 2016, http://www.politico.com/?blogs/?donaldtrump-administration/?2016/?12/?newt-gingrich-trump-celebrity-apprentice-232441.
Trump: “I’m not firing Sean Spicer…”
Ashley Parker and Robert Costa, “?‘Everyone Tunes In’: Inside Trump’s Obsession with Cable TV,” Washington Post, April 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?politics/?everyone-tunes-in-inside-trumps-obsession-with-cable-tv/?2017/?04/?23/?3c52bd6c-25e3-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html?utm_term=.4685f374ef85.
Donald Trump’s “comeback party”
Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), 206.
Fake News, Alternative Facts, and the Big Lie
Donald Trump implies Ted Cruz’s dad had a role in assassinating JFK
Nolan McCaskill, “Trump Accuses Cruz’s Father of Helping JFK’s Assassin,” Politico, May 3, 2016, http://www.politico.com/?blogs/?2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/?2016/?05/?trump-ted-cruz-father-222730.
Kellyanne Conway: “alternative facts”
Eric Bradner, “Conway: Trump White House Offered ‘Alternative Facts’ on Crowd Size,” CNN.com, January 23, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/?2017/?01/?22/?politics/?kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/.
Politico: “White House staffers do much of their lying…”
Ben Schreckinger and Hadas Gold, “Trump’s Fake War on the Fake News,” Politico, April 23, 2017, http://www.politico.com/?magazine/?story/?2017/?04/?23/?trump-loves-media-reporters-whitehouse-215043.
Obama: deportations of roughly 2.5 million immigrants without documents
Serena Marshall, “Obama Has Deported More People Than Any Other President,” ABC News online, August 29, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/?Politics/?obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/?story?id=41715661.
Barack Obama: “added enough new oil and gas pipeline…”
White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by the President on American-Made Energy,” press release, March 22, 2012, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/?the-press-office/?2012/?03/?22/?remarks-president-american-made-energy.
The Apocalypse Show
March: more than 1,500 civilian deaths from US-led coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
Chris Woods, Director, Airwars.org, personal correspondence with author or her research assistants, May 5, 2017: “In total there were 1,782 to 3,471 alleged civilian deaths from 166 separate claimed Coalition events during the month.”
Wilbur Ross: “after-dinner entertainment”
Lauren Gambino, “Trump’s Attack on Syria Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ Says US Commerce Secretary,” Guardian, May 2, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/?us-news/?2017/?may/?02/?trumps-attack-on-syria-after-dinner-entertainment-wilbur-ross-commerce-secretary.
MSNBC host Brian Williams: “beautiful”
Stephanie McNeal, “Brian Williams Called the Missiles That Bombed Syria ‘Beautiful,’?” Buzzfeed, April 7, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/?stephaniemcneal/?those-beautiful-missiles?utm_term=.bt1wzo2kR#.cmx8D03V6.
CNN and first Gulf War logo and theme music
Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds., Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994), 202.
2003 Iraq invasion called “Shock and Awe”
“IRAQ/ SHOCK AND AWE,” video, 7:55, CNN.com, March 21, 2003, http://collection.cnn.com/?content/?clip/?370017_359.do.
Hollow Man
Trump: “the most beautiful…you’ve ever seen”
Tom Phillips, “Trump Told Xi of Syria Strikes over ‘Beautiful Piece of Chocolate Cake,’?” Guardian, April 12, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/?us-news/?2017/?apr/?12/?trump-xi-jinping-chocolate-cake-syria-strikes.
PART II HOW WE GOT HERE: CLIMATE OF INEQUALITY
James Baldwin: “I imagine that…”
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), 101.
CHAPTER 4
The Climate Clock Strikes Midnight
More than 90 percent of the Great Barrier Reef: “mass bleaching event”
United Nations Environment Program, “Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Corals Worst Ever, Scientists Say,” UNEP.org, April 26, 2016, http://web.unep.org/?stories/?story/?bleaching-great-barrier-reef-corals-worst-ever-scientists-say.
Ocean temperatures increased one degree Celsius
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “Global Climate Report—January 2016,” National Centers for Environmental Information website, January 2016, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/?sotc/?global/?201601.
One billion people around the world rely on the fish sustained by coral reefs for food and income
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “The Importance of Coral Reefs,” March 25, 2008.
Martin Harvey, “Coral Reefs: Importance,” World Wildlife Fund website, accessed May 14, 2017, http://wwf.panda.org/?about_our_earth/?blue_planet/?coasts/?coral_reefs/?coral_importance/.
Rob Nixon: “slow violence”
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).
James Black: “the general scientific agreement…”
Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song, and David Hasemyer, “Exxon: The Road Not Taken,” InsideClimate News, Sept. 16, 2015, https://insideclimatenews.org/?content/?Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken.
Shannon Hall, “Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago,” Scientific American, October 26, 2015, https://www.scientificamerican.com/?article/?exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/.
Company lavished $30 million on think tanks spreading doubt about climate science
“Exxon Knew of Climate Change in 1981, Email Says—but It Funded Deniers for 27 More Years,” Guardian, July 8, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/?environment/?2015/?jul/?08/?exxon-climate-change-1981-climate-denier-funding.
Mobil took out full-page ads in New York Times casting doubt on the science
Green Culture: An A to Z Guide (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2011), 371.
ExxonMobil under investigation by attorneys general for alleged deceptions
Justin Gillis and Clifford Kraussn, “Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General,” New York Times, November 5, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/?2015/?11/?06/?science/?exxonmobil-under-investigation-in-new-york-over-climate-statements.html.
Truth Time
Samuel Beckett’s famous line “Try again. Fail again. Fail better”
Marc O’Connell, “The Stunning Success of ‘Fail Better,’?” Slate, January 29, 2014, http://www.slate.com/?articles/?arts/?culturebox/?2014/?01/?samuel_beckett_s_quote_fail_better_becomes_the_mantra_of_silicon_valley.html.