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This article fails to mention how much money and effort Big Oil has put into ensuring these misconceptions exist. Remember the "your personal carbon footprint"
by jameskilton 1y ago
This article fails to mention how much money and effort Big Oil has put into ensuring these misconceptions exist.
Remember the "your personal carbon footprint" marketing push of the early 2000s? Yeah that was paid for and run by Big Oil. They understood that pushing a "liberal" message that was obviously bullshit was a great way to hamstring the conversation, and we're still dealing with the ramifications of that.
- chneu 1y agoNot just big oil. The beef and cattle industries also spend hundreds of millions every year spreading misinformation about the health and environmental benefits of beef/dairy. The beef and dairy industries blatantly lie, misquote research, and use social media to push nonsense myths/alternate histories. The YouTuber Climate Town recently did a video on the dairy industry. The video outlines very clearly the mass misinformation campaigns by the dairy industry and how they captured young children. Rollie has shown in a few previous videos how industries in America influence the public. Beef/dairy, quite literally, have hired the same PR people as big tobacco and big oil to push their messaging. This has extended to social media in a pretty big way.