Talking To the Public: the Biggest Enemy To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions

Lasrick writes: "Lucien Crowder is fed up with the notion that solutions for climate change would be easier to enact if only the public (especially the American public) understood the science better. Crowder looks to nuclear disarmament advocates as a model, as the move to reduce nuclear weapons has seen comparatively greater success even without public awareness and understanding: 'Indeed, in the nuclear and climate realms, desirable policy often seems to flow less from public engagement than from public obliviousness. Disarmament advocates, no matter how they try, cannot tempt most ordinary people into caring about nuclear weapons—yet stockpiles of weapons steadily, if still too slowly, decrease. Climate advocacy provokes greater passion, but passion often manifests itself as outraged opposition to climate action, and atmospheric carbon has reached levels unseen since before human beings evolved.'"

Comments

Re:Translation: Let's FORCE it on them!

[BasilBrush]

Hippies always start with education. But it never takes long for them to turn to laws and court cases to force their point of view on the rest of us.

Rednecks are hard to educate.

So it's now time lie and cheat?

[bobbied]

So, because your argument is too hard for the public to understand, you got to go underground?

Because you are loosing the sound bite war it's time for subterfuge?

It's stories like these that give me hope, not that the man made global warming crowd might win, but that they realize that their argument doesn't seem to be winning the debate. They tried the direct approach, lying through people like Al Gore, and then got caught cooking the evidence. Now it's time to end the direct propaganda war and head into an insurgency conflict? Take it to the streets guys, but this is indication that you are loosing...

I hope the strategy catches on, I'm tired of listening to them, plus I don't think they will be successful in the world of subterfuge...

PS.. Bye Bye Karma.... Here come the shrill climate change zealots to mod me down..