by Zach Bigalke

Created on: March 11, 2008

There is only one way that advertising and propaganda denoucing the reality of global warming could be effective... it would have to begin reversing the ominous and perilous trend on which the earth has already been set. Swaying all the minds in the world will fail to be effective in staving off the effects of global climate change from having adverse effects on our lives and the continued livability of the planet. Humans can fool themselves all they want and attempt to sway popular opinion toward a fantasy interpretation of our current situation...

Benjamin Disraeli once quipped, "There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics." Numbers can be manipulated to illustrate almost anything. A lot of the quasi-science on which the naysayer argument is centered is the fact that there is not a total WARMING effect from this all. But the fact of the matter is that we are in the midst of a global CLIMATE CHANGE, in which the greater variance in temperature and the increasing severity of storms is indicative of the detrimental effects human consumption have had on the environment...

What is propaganda but, as Merriam-Webster states, "the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person"? The propaganda against global warming/climate change is mere idea and rumor; there is no concrete information, no SCIENCE, behind this science fiction. Our aggregate global temperature IS rising, the ice caps and glaciers ARE dissipating, and tsunamis and hurricanes and earthquakes ARE causing greater damage. This is irrefutable TRUTH, whether we like the weather or not...

Propagandists are working for both environmentalists and for global-warming denouncers... but all their work will do nothing to reverse the pattern of destruction. We can delude ourselves into believing that everything is going to be all right, that we can keep consuming at our present rate and be all right. We can, likewise, use up our resources in trying to convince others that there IS a problem. Until our resources are going to SOLVING the issue, NOTHING is effective...

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