Perhaps people took the gloom-and-doom climate change narrative “literally” because Nat Geo’s first line of the video was, “This is what climate change looks like.” To boot, the words “climate change” were even emphasized, highlighted in the magazine’s signature yellow.
“In retrospect, National Geographic went too far with the caption,” says Mittermeier. (You think?!)
The “fake news” narrative was viewed by over 2.5 billion sets of eyes, becoming the magazine’s most viral video in their history.
And wouldn’t you know it, Mittermeier says she’d do it again if she had the chance, since, essentially, the images pushed a supposed larger truth.
“The photographer says that her image became another example of ‘environmentalist exaggeration,’ but added that her intentions were ‘clear’ and that if she had the opportunity to share ‘a scene like this one’ again, she would,” reports Fox News.
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