What’s Your Reaction to this Advertisement from the Heartland Institute?
Oh my God. Please tell me this isn’t true – that it’s a bad dream. I don’t live on the same planet with people who would run an ad like this one from the Heartland Institute, do I?
For those who may not know, Heartland (an appealing name for “real Americans,” isn’t it?) is an elite group of the wealthiest, most powerful and most ruthless people on Earth. And this ad is the level of abuse they’re willing to perpetrate on “commoners” — people who lack the luxury of an education that would be necessary to recognize it for the pure garbage it is.
I’ve seen a lot of disgraceful behavior in my 56 years crawling around this sad planet, but I honestly cannot recall anything more shameful.
It’s ridiculous; no people of sound judgment would be influenced by it. On the other hand, the fact that many people believe that Obama was born in Kenya is proof that there are plenty of people who lack sound judgment.
They probably agree with Hitler or al-Qaeda and their propaganda methods that were used against Jews etc. and are copying them. The power of large resources on the media and funding campaigns even though they instigate the killing of millions of kind people… If your voice is not heard it has no effect. If your voice is heard by the politicians and you are not funding their election, then the politicians use your tax dollars against your helpful scientifically correct ideas…..
A few powerful greedy people can kill the country and planet without enforced regulations to support consumer and citizen protections and sustainability.
The counter attack for this stuff looks like this. The attack comes from billboards in the sky down, the counter attack comes from the social network ground up.
http://www.upworthy.com/this-is-how-you-kill-an-attack-ad?c=la2
The truth is almost always somewhere in the middle. Ignoring the stupidity of that billboard campaign and its propagators, there is a case for those who say climate change is cyclic. However there’s enough good science out there to make it wise not to take chances with our World, and to treat it well. If we look at some vast gas reserves that are now making coal look uneconomic, and that have the capability to replace petroleum based transport and heating fuels, we can see that our efforts developing fuel are not alone,but may not be economically viable when competing with gas at $2mmbtu. Regrettably the same companies will benefit from the gas as they do now from the oil.
As Frank said, no people of sound judgement would be influenced by this. Too bad people of sound judgement are such a tiny minority.
On a lighter note, this is just one more thing I have in common with Ted Kandinsky. Others are the same initials, and we both studied complex analysis in graduate school. Ted may have been a sociopath (not something we have in common), but he was a smart guy. No wonder he “believes” in global warming.
To Believe is with out fact but to consider true. Facts exist. Religion is a belief system, science is not. Protocol is used in studies that quantify the results of tests. How many Religions are in the world? How many agreements are involved in Climate studies? We have come to a fairly short list of items on the table of Climate Change. Far less agreements exist in Religion, as a matter of fact the world is divided by Religion. Is the world divided by Climate Change? Is there a special media causing mantras in denial? who owns that media and who pays that media to press agendas? How much has been spent on such campaign? Are all countries in on this ? Do you believe in conspiracies? or are you based on Media Mantras, have you actually studied the issue in a class and have a certificate?