George Marshall on how "progressive civil society organisations pay virtually no attention to climate change" -

"Progressive organisations do not merely sideline or underplay climate change: they actively censor all mention of it from their materials. Internally they argue that it is outside the area of issues relevant to their work. Publicly they do not deny the importance of climate change: they don’t say anything about it at all.

In doing this they are reflecting a wider social denial strategy, noted in several academic studies. The large majority of people, whilst noting that climate change is a serious issue, will admit to never talking about it in their daily life. They are managing the problem by actively excluding it from what sociologists call their ‘norms of attention’. Ironically this strategy mimics a common social response to human rights abuses: when asked, people admit that they heard the screams in the night or they noticed that people had disappeared, but, through a socially negotiated compact, they never discussed what they know to be happening with each other."

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In his post George's backs up the claim (quoted at the beginning of the post you're reading) that "progressive organisations do not merely sideline or underplay climate change: they actively censor all mention of it from their materials"

Toban Black
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=200)