Finally getting around to watching Frontline's doc from a year ago on the climate denial industry and the conservative mindset to only trust people who talk their own book is really a pretty funny foible. There's something exceptionally American about the sucker.
It's the murder part of the collective murder-suicide that's being committed that upsets me.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/video/part-two-doubt-the-power-of-big-oil/
The continued insistence that the right way to counter industrial FUD is with hope and optimism really puzzles me.
In my own lifetime pretty much the only thing that has ever motivated America to do anything is fear and uncertainty, usually over entirely imagined dangers.
If my own memory serves the political campaign behind the Montreal Protocol was a horror story, now routinely mocked by climate deniers for being another hoax, despite the industry-crushing cap-and-trade system rapidly imposed to regulate ozone depleting chemicals out of existence.
At least nothing about one's communication style could possibly matter in a world where idiots as bottomless as Matt Walsh can routinely find platforms that size.
#KOSA is another bipartisan bill motivated by a fear and uncertainty racket straight out of the Manhattan Institute and embraced by moderate Democrats on the verge of passing into law that empowers attorney generals to ban LGBT material online under the ever popular false pretense of protecting the children.
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship.
The "don't panic" messaging that our #climate messaging experts have signed onto is not very compatible with anything remotely resembling the urgent action necessary to stop very bad things from happening sooner or later.
https://fair.org/home/humans-might-be-about-to-break-the-ocean-dont-stop-the-presses/
Yes we are building to a mass world demand to end carbon fuels at speed by building sun and wind, at speed. Louder, more calm, every day, until we stop it all, bring it to a stop.
Carbon fuels are wild fire catastrophe, carbon fuels smashed Pakistan like a toy. Carbon fuels pushed US temperatures into 5000 record temperature readings over the week.
5000 record temperatures, in the US alone, over one week.
Carbon fuels are replaceable, we insist.
josh buermann
Kevin Russell