Horsemen of The Apocalypse - Global Warming, & The Energy Moguls who are Putting Profits Before the Truth with Dick Russell

Aired Thursday, 17 August 2017, 7:00 PM ET

Horsemen of The Apocalypse - Global Warming, & The Energy Moguls who are Putting Profits Before the Truth with Dick Russell

The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis. And yet they have put their profits and careers ahead of the health and welfare of the world’s population—and even their own children and grandchildren. How do they explain themselves to their offspring, to the next generations that must deal with the environmental havoc that these men have wreaked? This week, Dick Russell, author of Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth – and What It Means for our Children joins Sandie to discuss:

~ The complex sordid web of lies and cover-ups of fossil fuel corporations and their henchmen
~ How the misuse of wealth and power is undermining democracy, threatening the health of the planet, and neglecting our moral responsibility to future generations.”
~ The rebellious descendants of the fossil fuel families who are trying to make a difference toward a more sustainable world
~ The alternative energy sources that are now more than cost competitive with fossil fuels

About the Guest: Dick Russell

Dick Russell is an environmental journalist and author of thirteen books on subjects ranging from natural history to the assassination of President Kennedy. His latest book, Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth – And What It Means to Our Children, written before Trump came to power, and which is edited and introduced by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Russell, Russell reveals the sordid truth about the energy moguls most responsible for the climate disaster our civilization is facing.

Russell’s book, The Man Who Knew Too Much, about a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, was hailed as “a masterpiece of historical reconstruction” by Publisher’s Weekly. An environmental activist and lecturer who has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, Russell writes a regular blog on the Trump administration and the environment. His early years of traveling across Europe and Africa are the subject of a 2017 documentary, “Hitchhiking to the Edge of Sanity,” which premiered in April at the Kansas City Film Festival. His 2014 memoir, “My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism,” will appear in an updated paperback version in November.

His website: www.dickrussell.org