Big Oil and Climate Disinformation
As previously mentioned, FAIR is a national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. It’s best known for its weekly radio program “Counterspin,” syndicated across 160 stations.
This week’s broadcast, “Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media,” explores how corporate media issues little honest coverage on the decades-long disinformation campaign that Big Oil is using to cover up what it knows about the climate change catastrophe and its efforts to continue the consumption of fossil fuels indefinitely.
At the same time the industry is pledging to make progress in decarbonizing our transportation sector, it’s increasing drilling in the Permian Basin by a factor of ten, while actively slowing the development of wind energy.
My favorite line from the show: “Right behind hydrocarbons, the second main product of the oil companies is lies.”
Social media is littered with memes like this one, each trying to convince us, that a college education is unnecessary, or more commonly, simply a bad thing.
Not to split hairs, but the 2024 election is not an opportunity to end Trumpism for good, if by the term you mean the hate and ignorance of the many tens of millions of MAGA Americans who carry this terrible infliction around with them.
It would be a better world if what Heraclitus said were true, but it certainly appears that good people can suffer terrible fates and vice versa.
December is a good time of year to remind ourselves that our consumerism as a society is a choice; it’s not a requirement.
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: This climate meeting was all about fossil fuel strategies and alliances to wipe out renewable energy.
This cartoon by “Stines” reminds us that, when they grow up, naughty kids turn into bad adults who have no compunction about destroying the planet’s capacity to support life, if that’s what’s required to make them rich.
Though we Americans tend to learn very little about the political issues that motivate voters in other countries, things elsewhere around the globe seem to make better sense than they do here.
Good job by Jimmy Kimmel here (or, more properly, one of his writers).
Thucydides’ statement here implies that war has been a permanent, 365-day-a-year feature of Western society for at least the last 2500 years.
