How to be hypocritical without being hypocritical
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Really? I mean, really? From Global Research:
Fifty oil, gas, coal, and automobile and chemical manufacturing companies and their trade associations formed the Global Change Coalition (GCC), with the help of public relations giant Burson-Marsteller. Its stated purpose was to sow doubt about scientific claims and forestall political efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The GCC gave millions of dollars in political contributions and in support of a public relations campaign warning that misguided efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through restrictions on the burning of fossil fuels would undermine the promise of globalization and cause economic ruin.
However in 1998 most companies jumped ship and the organisation folded in 2000. Now the exact same companies are funding massive campaigns to prove the opposite. The reason is that they got everything they wanted out of the Kyoto Protocol. Globalisation was saved. That is the politics and the science is completely lost behind that kind of money.
Meanwhile, over at Shell’s website. (Propagandhi had an excellent song about Shell’s double standards – “A Public Dis-Service Announcement From Shell” – on 1996’s “Less Talk, More Rock” – check out the lyrics or listen here then listen to the next song on the CD And We Thought That Nation-States were a bad Idea – they segue together).
I see some snowboarding companies doing the same thing now. Cheap Chinese labour, and now they’re proudly touting their green credentials.
Well, better late than never eh? At this rate we might have a chance.
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