Sobering article. The red flags are there, waving in our faces. The scary part about the science being wrong is that it may have underestimated how quickly the planet will warm. What then?
“The Only People Panicking Are the People in Charge” - elite panic means that the people in charge are more interested in the status quo than actually solving problems. "In today’s corporate culture major PR firms promote crisis management as a necessary business expense. Whenever something bad happens to a corporation, often its first move is not to deal with the actual problem, but to manage the negative perception caused by that problem." - from Toxic Sludge is Good for You 2002. And so they manufacture mild. They manufacture doubt. They manufacture consent.
Yep! Glad to see David Brooks saying sensible things! The idea of pushing fossil fuels just to upset scientific elites is really bonkers. At least oil companies can do it just based on greed.
Sobering article. The red flags are there, waving in our faces. The scary part about the science being wrong is that it may have underestimated how quickly the planet will warm. What then?
“The Only People Panicking Are the People in Charge” - elite panic means that the people in charge are more interested in the status quo than actually solving problems. "In today’s corporate culture major PR firms promote crisis management as a necessary business expense. Whenever something bad happens to a corporation, often its first move is not to deal with the actual problem, but to manage the negative perception caused by that problem." - from Toxic Sludge is Good for You 2002. And so they manufacture mild. They manufacture doubt. They manufacture consent.
Yep! Glad to see David Brooks saying sensible things! The idea of pushing fossil fuels just to upset scientific elites is really bonkers. At least oil companies can do it just based on greed.