Anybody else going to catch A Fierce Green Fire on PBS tonight?

[ellenrr]

9. so true..

I always note that a single puppy found in a garbage can will engender tons of support and interest, and $ for the vet, and of course, people fight over who will adopt it.

But the misery of millions of animals in our society doesn't engender much attention at all.

And yet, if the mass media gave attention to the big picture, to the dying biosphere, instead of to the individual whales, I think this would change peoples' attitudes.

I guess it is a question of which came first-
incompetent nincompoop media
or
ignorant, bored, distracted, entranced by celebrity public.
?