Saturday, March 28, 2009
Environmental Propaganda
Chapter Nine in Toxic Sludge deals with the idea of “going green.” One section of the chapter that really surprised me was the “good cop/bad cop” part. It is really hard to believe that, given all we know today about climate change, there are still anti-environmentalists out there who believe “that ecological crises don’t exist, that corporations are really protecting and improving the natural environment, and that environmental activists…are ‘eco-terrorists’…and the latest incarnation of the communist menace” (126). I really wonder how these people are convinced that our environment is not in dire need of help. So called “environmental PR” is propaganda that is put out there to then try and persuade the general public that environmental problems do not exist. However, with the tactics we learned in unSpun, we can hopefully see through this propaganda and search for the facts on our own.
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I agree. There are many ignorant people who believe we can just use and abuse our planet as we wish. However, for as many "save the planet" propaganda campaigns there are "ignore the planet" campaigns which means there is propaganda spewing from both sides of the fence. Yet this book helped me also see the transparency of some propaganda filled adds.
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