Does Time's Cover On Global Warming Go Too Far?
 Friday, April 18th, 2008

 

Time Magazine (who's partnered with CNN) has just released their April 28th issue, and the cover of the magazine is a Photoshopped version of the United States Marines and U.S. Navy corpsman who raised the United States flag on Mount Suribachi - the iconic photo by Joe Rosenthal that has it's own place in history from the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.  With one huge difference:  in Time's version, the Marines are raising a tree, and the issue is dedicated to global warming.

The story calls green "the new red, white and blue," and has some Veterans upset over the swap from a symbol of a World War to the "war" on Global Warming.

Time's Managing Editor, Richard Stengel, told MSNBC yesterday that "There needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change."

"It's an absolute disgrace," Iwo Jima veteran Donald Mates told the Business & Media Institute.  "Whoever did it is going to hell.  That's a mortal sin.  God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor."

A member of the American Veterans Center added, "Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United States.  The Japanese Empire in February of 1945, however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history.  War analogies should be used sparingly by political advocates of all bents."

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