As a local councillor I receive a regular magazine from the Local Government Association called "First". Like many other trade magazines it regularly incudes articles on climate change. In the latest issue it has given it a lot of one-sided propaganda, starting with its front page with an image of chimneys pouring out black smoke.
One article inside begins "In 2019 the policy debate on carbon reduction changed for good, with the publication of the Committee on Climate Change’s report Net Zero, and rising citizen interest in climate change through the school climate strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests." and so on -you get the picture. And so a few more brains are "washed" into accepting that it is inevitable that we must all reduce our carbon footprint by having an electric car and lose our gas central-heating and cooker. You can read the magazine yourself here.
While it is certainly true that the people who write in these magazines seem to be on-message and a lot of councillors resigned to this, I don’t believe the majority of the public are convinced. Most of them are totally disengaged. They are not members of Extinction Rebellion nor have they been involved in school strikes (or their children). No, the policy debate could easily change if a movement against the present policy got activated.
There are a few individuals who actively write letters refuting the climate scare, but we need many more. The fact is that unless people rebut these scares the policies will become inevitable.
One article inside begins "In 2019 the policy debate on carbon reduction changed for good, with the publication of the Committee on Climate Change’s report Net Zero, and rising citizen interest in climate change through the school climate strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests." and so on -you get the picture. And so a few more brains are "washed" into accepting that it is inevitable that we must all reduce our carbon footprint by having an electric car and lose our gas central-heating and cooker. You can read the magazine yourself here.
While it is certainly true that the people who write in these magazines seem to be on-message and a lot of councillors resigned to this, I don’t believe the majority of the public are convinced. Most of them are totally disengaged. They are not members of Extinction Rebellion nor have they been involved in school strikes (or their children). No, the policy debate could easily change if a movement against the present policy got activated.
There are a few individuals who actively write letters refuting the climate scare, but we need many more. The fact is that unless people rebut these scares the policies will become inevitable.
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February 9, 2020 at 01:30AM
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