COURSE: Going Green Unpacked: Media Manipulation, Corporate Power, and Hope for the Built Environment

About this episode

The episode explores the narrative challenges in addressing climate change, focusing on media manipulation and corporate influence.

Welcome to the Gābl Media Continuing Education podcast feed! Each podcast is approved for continuing education credits. Going Green Unpacked: Media Manipulation, Corporate Power, and Hope for the Built Environment AIA CES program ID: GMGG.0011 Approved LUs: 0.50 LU|HSW Prerequisites: None Program level: Entry Advance learner preparation: None What if the biggest obstacle to solving climate change is not the science, not the technology, not the money, but the story we have been trained to believe? In this course session, host Dimitrius Lynch and guest Nikita Reed pull back the curtain on why the climate crisis keeps stalling even as disasters escalate, and why Dimitrius spent hundreds of hours tracing the real engine underneath public confusion. The session reframes climate change as a communications problem built over decades through industry strategy, political incentives, and media systems that learned how to manufacture doubt, blur news with commentary, and keep audiences emotionally busy while policy stays stuck. You follow the historical thread from early environmental writing and regulation into the rise of conservative talk radio and cable news, then into the tactics that…

People in this episode

Host: Dimitrius Lynch

Guest: Nikita Reed

Topics covered

• climate change
• media manipulation
• corporate power
• built environment
• disinformation
• environmental communication

Keywords

• climate crisis
• media systems
• disinformation
• personal carbon footprint
• environmental writing

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Organizations: Gābl Media

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