http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MstRTnDSjz0&feature=player_embeddedHow to communicate the Urgency of Required Global Joint Action to Mitigate the Deadly Deleterious effects of Global Climate Change
NOTE: NONE of the above will work when attempting to reason with a propagandist defending (overtly or covertly) the fossil fuel dirty energy status quo.
WHY? Because. not only are these sell outs being paid to prevaricate, twist facts, push duplicity and seed people with fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), they are part of a group that watches EACH OTHER. These people KNOW that the INSTANT they question the crap they are paid to push, their careers are TOAST. So-o-o they REFUSE to think, period. Only catastrophic climate disaster in these people's back yard will bring them around to reason.
WHY? Because their security is based on money. When the fossil fuel industry no longer can provide that security blanket because, e.g. the insurance won't cover the destruction of their house or they lose a loved one to pollution related cancer, THEN they wake up and smell the coffee.
So these people can be reached ONLY after the fossil fuel industry throws them under the economic bus. IOW, EXPERIENCE (BAD experiences), not words of logic or scientific facts will get these people to understand the threat to human civilization of global climate change. I am certain there are quite a few people in New Jersey that have started smelling the coffee.
However, people without an agenda CAN be convinced by logic and scientific facts. Most people are in that camp. That is why millions of fossil fuel, dirty energy, profit dollars are funneled to propagandists to instill FUD in us; Any REAL, HONEST exposure to what is going on out there will make us oppose the burning of fossil fuels.
Now you can see why the Koch Brothers, a big part of the Big Oil Propaganda machine, has spent over 65 million dollars in the last decade to invent fake grass roots organizations (astro-turf
) to give people the idea that the common person BENEFITS from the burning of fossil fuels and it is just silly to get "hysterical" about "uinproven science" or pollution causing cancer "scare tactics" along with crocodile tears about how "your loved ones will suffer and millions will die of hunger"
if the burning of fossil fuels is banned.
The best way to deal with propagandists is to undermine their lies by exposing their methods.
A failed propagandist (Big Oil stops funding them because they aren't getting "results") is a potential convert to fact based scientific reasoning and data. Any propagandist that switches to defending the biosphere instead of Big Oil provides more hope for humanity. Pass it on.