Not that Big Oil and conservative politicians haven't engaged in propaganda, but the propaganda works because it's what the audience wants to hear anyway.
Some of the audience may want to hear it and spread it, but that doesn't mean that a lot of ordinary people, who have no wish to hear it, buy into it, too. The propaganda works. Period.
That the whole audience wants to hear it is just a continuation of Myriad's claim that the ordinary consumers are frenzied shoppers who can't let go of their addiction.
People may fall for scams like the one in Denmark about 'carbon-neutral' Xmas trees, but it's a scam nonetheless, and there is really no reason why they would buy those more expensive 'carbon-neutral' Xmas trees if they didn't believe the lie.
The "global warming is a hoax" message seems to be a predominantly U.S. phenomenon, but there are other flavors.
Big Oil's market is the whole planet, and as documented earlier today Big Oil's troll army is
aciive everywhere.
"New technology will soon solve the problem" or "it's up to the bad people whose fault it is to clean up their act" or "a portion of the energy you use is renewable so you're no longer part of the problem" or even, "it's too late and we might as well just deal with the consequences."
Myriad continues his anti-consumer propaganda and improves it with a bit of hyperbole: Nobody has said that solar and wind energy is solving the problem
soon, but unlike Myriad's anti-consumerism, it
is actually solving the problem whereas his attempts to make people focus attention on consumers only serves to prolong the transition.
But Myriad is adamant and repeats his old, stale strawman and the usual shrieking:
It's all the same message in the end: "there's no reason for you to change a thing." But as can be seen in this thread, any contradiction of that key point, in any of its forms, will be met with shrieking denunciation from one quarter or another.
No matter how many times Myriad repeats the lie, nobody in the thread is saying,
"there's no reason for you to change a thing." What
I have been saying and still say is:
Change the source of energy you use! Use wind and solar instead of fossil fuels! If the products you consume are manufactured, transported etc. by means of wind and solar energy, that consumption doesn't emit CO
2.
Myriad will not doubt continue to lie about this because his main concern is to limit consumption, not CO
2 emission.
So we get his
soon lie again, this time as
quickly:
The idea that renewables and new technology will quickly arrest or reverse climate change is prevalent on many levels outside the U.S. where the "it's a hoax" propaganda doesn't have traction.
It doesn't matter how many times I stress that the change that
is actually happening isn't happening
soon, quickly or fast enough. Myriad doesn't let go of the
"soon" and
"quickly" lie.
That climate change is a hoax is a lie that has its fans
everywhere, not just in the USA, but the fossil-fuel and auto-manufacturing industries are more powerful in the USA than in most other places and the U.S. political system with its PACs and super PACs and corrupt politicians makes it easier for those industries to be the actual deciders of the country's energy politics.
And the use of the word
renewable isn't a particularly Asian or Middle Eastern phenomenon. Take a look at fossil-fuel advertising in the USA!
