“What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?”
Rex Tillerson, former Exxon Mobil CEO
The Broken Brick Initiative is working to create a web-based accountability program focused on climate change policy in the United States. Advocacy groups, corporations, paid journalists, sympathetic politicians, and reactionary activists continue to question scientific evidence, confuse issues, and sabotage an effective response to the growing climate change disaster.
It’s time to hold people accountable for what they say and what they do. Climate of Denial is a Broken Brick Initiative project to document the men and women who deny climate change. Through its online knowledge-base, Climate of Denial profiles those who stand in the way of responsive public policy. The initiative:
- Tracks climate change deniers, including public officials, business representatives, paid academics, media personalities, and co-opted non-profits.
- Documents organizations and businesses that fund climate change denial.
- Explores the links between climate change deniers, funders, and political advocacy groups.
- Crowd sources the efforts of climate change deniers locally, nationally, and globally.
Climate of Denial is a crowd-sourced website designed to ensure that the work of climate change deniers does not disappear down the memory hole. When someone asks, ‘Who is responsible?’ Climate of Denial will provide at least part of the answer.