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It was not agriculture per se that is to blame; many indigenous people domesticated plants and animals without causing significant environmental changes.

The problem begins with the emergence of societies organized into classes and castes in which the idea of accumulation of wealth and the centralization of power becomes acceptable. The higher classes could live in luxury and extravagance, detached from the suffering caused to others.

The cancer is the naturalization of social superiority, entitlement, and privilege, as well as the ruler's divine rights and ownership as a source of enrichment and power reinforcement.

It was the naturalization and glorification of imperialism and colonialism, which means the triumph of sociopathy and psychopathy over empathy and compassion, and the adoption of monotheist religions separating the human race from nature that made us believe that we are separated from nature.

European rulers thought they had the divine role of civilizing the world as justification for the imperialist plunder and hegemonic control.

The naturalization of imperialist civilization, not agriculture, brought us to the Capitalocene.

Capitalism is a cancer in the web of life, and imperial colonialism is how it spreads the metastasis.

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How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html