The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay…
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.Recycle. Fly less. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. Eat less meat.
Meanwhile, they've blocked efforts to regulate or price carbon emissions, run PR campaigns aimed at discrediting But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals.Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think "guns don't kill people, people kill people") or greenwashing (think of the beverage industry's "Crying Indian" commercials of the 1970s).