Big money distorts reality by dominating both sides of every debate.(Heartland Inst/Think Progress)

[Luminous Animal]

7. The author of the OP is offering up an analysis of of how narrowly the issue is debated...

because of influence of corporations.

It not just a matter of what is the truth (though important) but how much depth liberal institutions will explore the solutions.

By the same corporations funding a vicious debate moderated by professional lobbyists in their employ, the corporate-financier elite ensure that the public is herded into a matrix of false choices where both real problems and their solutions are non-issues and instead an endless circular debate mired in infinite minutia is conducted. Regardless of which public opinion prevails regarding anthropogenic global warming, the corporate-financier oligarchs have institutions and legislation in place to capitalize, be it big-oil or carbon-credit trading big-banks.