Channel: Hot Mess

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Description: PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: to.pbs.org/DonateMESS ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Today, lawsuits are positioning climate change as this generation's smoking: it pollutes the air, it’s caused by burning chemicals we buy from a handful of huge companies, and it’s dangerous to human health. Fossil fuel companies are being taken to court just like tobacco companies were, because of what they knew and when. Should they be forced to pay for damages from climate change? And can you even sue specific companies when we’ve all benefited from the industrialization that oil and coal made possible? Hot Mess T-shirts!: store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt Connect with us on: Twitter: twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: facebook.com/hotmesspbs References: bit.ly/2CZG9gq ----------- Host: Talia Buford, ProPublica Writer: Ellen Airhart Creative Director: David Schulte Editors/Animator: Matt Donaldson Producers: Stephanie Noone & Amanda Fox Story Editor: Alex Reich Editor-In-Chief: Joe Hanson ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM Stock images from shutterstock.com Thanks to the funders of Peril & Promise for supporting PBS Digital Studios. Peril & Promise is a national public media initiative from WNET telling human stories of climate change and its solutions. Learn more at pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise