| However, unlike those companies I personally don't have a decent PR budget to shift your perspective in your daily life. I only have my words and my own actions. I get my information from websites and articles and journals and classes and so on. How much of that was subtly[0] (or not-so-subtly[1]) altered by the investments of the gigantic entities behind energy consortia? People don't care about climate change because their worldview leads to a conclusion that it isn't that big of a deal, that things are overblown, that people are fear-mongering, etc. It certainly isn't helped by the PR against serious thinking regarding climate issues, such that we have this absurd thing where Exxon is more keenly aware of the issues of climate change decades[2] before the average voter is. So they aren't "nice guys" indeed. But I'm sorry: they're way worse than that - and they actually know it. Unlike the average person who might not fully grasp where we're at and what one can do or might be disheartened by the fact that they are but one amongst many, we have people who have been keenly aware of what's to come but can't even begin to contemplate slowing down the growth of their bank accounts for the long-term viability of the ecosystem we live in. The difference between "most people" and those guys is that "most people" would know better than to fuck things up as actively for their kids if they actually were aware of the situation, and if the effect of the "not so nice guys" PR could be to some extent lifted. And the way things have been going, we'll definitely need to continue making the information available and attractive to most people so that we can reach a turning point and force those "not-so-nice guys" to seriously pivot instead of continue posturing. [0] https://below2c.org/2019/11/oil-sector-propaganda-invades-th... and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2019.1... [1] https://www.zmescience.com/science/richard-berman-green-radi... [2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-... |