Source: Inequality.org
by Sam Pizzigati
“Over 3,000 migrants fleeing from poverty and conflict, the Council on Foreign Relations recently noted, died last year trying to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. Those deaths made barely a ripple in most of the world’s major news media. But this summer one single tragedy on the Mediterranean has been making globs of global headlines. On Monday, August 19, amid a fearsome sudden storm, a boat deemed ‘unsinkable’ sank off the coast of Sicily’s Palermo. Seven of the 22 people on board perished. What made this sinking so newsworthy? The ship that sank just happened to be a luxury sailing yacht that sported the world’s tallest aluminum mast. And the casualties from that superyacht’s sinking just happened to include the high-tech CEO once hailed as the ‘British Bill Gates.’ That chief exec, the yacht’s owner Mike Lynch, had envisioned this voyage as a celebration over a decade in the making.” (08/30/24)
https://inequality.org/great-divide/on-our-climate-challenged-planet-only-some-deaths-really-matter/