#PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil #LiteralVehicleCarPluginHybridElectricVehiclePHEV i.e. #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveConfirmation #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFunctional #LiteralPetrolDieselCoalElectricityGeneratorPortable

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Addendum this meme is presumably, intended to promote a #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism / anti #PhenomnEnergyFuelCarbonNeutral agenda i.e. it is more wasteful to generate electricity from #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil.s than simply using fossil fuels in the first place.

#WebsitePragerU #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchMarkMills ^[DeSmog] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDOI-uLvTnY&t=2s #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil #PhenomnMining #PoliticsStatusQuoBias #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFunctional #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskPhysical #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial #MetaphorVersusWestEastChina #ToponymRussia #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilNaturalGas #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMinnesota #PhenomnMiningCopper #PhenomnMiningNickel #LiteralSubstanceElementRareEarth #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #CauseActivismEnvironmental #LiteralVehicleCarPluginHybridElectricVehiclePHEV #MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment

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Addendum the clip intends #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism through seeking to dismiss efforts to mitigate #PhenomnClimateChangeAnthropogenic consequence through positioning it as unattainable #NarrativeUtopianismTechnological i.e. unrealistic/impractical/make-believe/pure-fantasy. The clip #TheoryDeterminismFatalistic.istically contrasts this perspective - with what it offers as - #PhenomnRealityObjectiveReality i.e. #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute #MetaphorPeriodizationAnthropocene ^[Wikipedia]

#CatchcryTrumpTrain #ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionBigLie #InvectiveFuckJoeBidenFJB #CharacterisationWeaknessLaughingStock #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #LiteralFieldEconomicsInflationGasPrices

"This is a cat 994h. It burns 1800 gallons of fuel in a 12 hour shift. This machine is required to move 500,000 pounds of earth in order to get the minerals needed for one single telsa car battery. In whose world does this type of math and green new deal make sense?" ^{[fact-checked] [fact-checked]} #BrandCaterpillar ^[Wikipedia]. #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilDiesel #PolicyGreenNewDealGND #BrandTesla #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial

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Context "Have you seen the one about the big trucks that burn 1800 gallons of diesel to make just 1 electric car? Yeah - that one's a lie. ... that post up there has already been debunked by an entire cottage industry of fact-checkers who will point out that the diesel calculations for the big mining trucks is wrong, the amount of dirt moved is wrong, and speak to the fact that those minerals, once pulled from the ground to be used in batteries, can be indefinitely recycled, meaning that initial carbon expense is only paid once, whereas a fossil fuel has a carbon cost to get from the ground, a carbon cost to refine, a carbon cost to transport, and a carbon cost to burn ... and, of course, once it's burned, you can't reuse it. You have to go get more." https://electrifynews.com/featured/busting-the-lies-about-big-trucks/

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Addendum how reassuring knowing that we can simply continue as we were, burning #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil and relaxing in the knowledge that doing so is helping the planet... #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism #TauntBigOil ?

#PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil #LiteralVehicleCarPluginHybridElectricVehiclePHEV i.e. #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveConfirmation #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFunctional #LiteralPetrolDieselCoalElectricityGeneratorPortable

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Addendum this meme is presumably, intended to promote a #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism / anti #PhenomnEnergyFuelCarbonNeutral agenda i.e. it is more wasteful to generate electricity from #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil.s than simply using fossil fuels in the first place.

#IRLActivistGretaThunberg versus #ToponymAfricaCentralDemocraticRepublicOfCongo and #PhenomnMiningCobalt #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskSocial

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Addendum this meme is presumably, intended to promote a #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism agenda i.e. it is more ethical to mine (and therefore use) #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil than it is to mine/use #PhenomnEnergyFuelCarbonNeutral. #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy #PhenomnMiningArtisanal

#LiteralVehicleCarPluginHybridElectricVehiclePHEV i.e. #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism #MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskSocial

#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyOliverDowden #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation #PhenomnClimateChange #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism #PhenomnPopulism

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Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianRowenaMason "The Tory chairman has denounced what he claims is a 'painful woke psychodrama' sweeping the west and sapping its confidence, arguing that people should not be 'obsessing' over pronouns or 'trying to decolonise' maths. Oliver Dowden, a senior Conservative and former culture secretary, made the remarks on 'cancel culture' in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a rightwing US thinktank. Dowden said 'woke' ideology was a 'dangerous form of decadence' at a time when 'our attention should be focused on external foes'." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/14/oliver-dowden-says-painful-woke-psychodrama-weakening-the-west

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Supplementary #WebsiteTheConversationAurelienMondon and #WebsiteTheConversationAlexYates "Calling the far right 'populist' keeps us in our inertia. To activate the appropriate sense of urgency needed to defeat these trends, we must be honest about the kind of politics that we see in front of us. If the far right proudly wears the badge of 'populism', we must ask how it helps them. They know it grants them legitimacy. Why, then, should we play into the hands of extremists whose loathing of democracy has been repeatedly demonstrated?" https://theconversation.com/the-word-populism-is-a-gift-to-the-far-right-four-reasons-why-we-should-stop-using-it-224488 ^{[academic source]} #PhenomnPopulism #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE

#PhenomnBrexit #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphDanielHannan #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyDavidDavis #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyLiamFox #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyDouglasCarswell #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyMichaelGove #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJohnRedwood #AdvocacyUKEuropeanMovement

#BrandTesla #SloganLevellingUp #LiteralVehicleCarPluginHybridElectricVehiclePHEV i.e. #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFunctional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9BVA8IAcQo #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #PhenomnClimateChangeGlobalWarming  #2021_UNClimateChangeConferenceCOP26 #TheoryAbsurdismBureaucraticComplacency

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Context feels like #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism / an effort to #MetaphorMuddyTheWaters to me: "addition by the way just so everyone knows here's a cool little fact you know that as carbon dioxide levels rise plants can grow in drier environments drier environments semi-arid like deserts like like the sand banks on oceans and lakes stabilising that as well and so because the carbon dioxide levels have risen the plants can close their pores the breathing pores and so they don't evaporate water as much and so an area the size of Alaska has greened in the last couple of decades" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9BVA8IAcQo&t=124s #LiteralSubstanceGasCO2 #ToponymAmericaNorthUSAlaska

#BrandKopjesKattenoppasDavidHouwen ^[LinkedIn]

#TauntBigOil #TheoryPerformativeActivismWokeWashing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/big-oil-delay-tactics-new-climate-science-denial #BrandExxonMobil #BrandChevronCorporation #BrandBritishPetroleumBP #BrandRoyalDutchShellPlc #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #PhenomnDiscoursesOfDelay / #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism #PhenomnClimateChange #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #IRLScholarRobertBrulle: "the "lion's share" of ad dollars were directed not toward denial, or even toward the industry's products, but toward pro-fossil fuel propaganda - campaigns that remind people over and over again about all the great things oil companies do, how dependent we are on fossil fuels, and how integral the industry is to society." rulle, R.J., Aronczyk, M. & Carmichael, J. Corporate promotion and climate change: an analysis of key variables affecting advertising spending by major oil corporations, 1986-2015. Climatic Change 159, 87-101 (2020). ^{[academic source]} #EDUUSCornellUniversityArXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04217 #CauseFeminism #TheoryClimateEngineeringGeoengineering #TheoryDragonsOfInactionSystemJustification

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Supplementary #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianAjitNiranjan "Europe should ban space mirrors, cloud whitening and other untested tools being touted to reflect the sun's rays, the European Commission's scientific advisers have said, but said the door should be left open for research into their development. The scientists said the risks and benefits of solar radiation modification (SRM) - also known as solar geoengineering - were 'highly uncertain'. They called for an EU-wide moratorium on using it as a way to offset global heating.... Critics argue that geoengineering does not address the root problem of heat-trapping pollutants that smother the Earth - making them at best a temporary fix while they are in use - and say they could also wreak havoc on the weather. 'Even if some of these proposals could address the symptoms of climate change, they do not address the cause,' said Barbara Prainsack, chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. 'Presenting them as solutions could damage the efforts that are already under way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.'" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/09/eu-should-ban-space-mirrors-and-other-solar-geoengineering-warn-scientists

#TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #PloyManufacturingDoubt_ #EpistemologyAgnotology

#OrgIntlUNIPCC https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/ And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z149vLKn9d8

#VlogJoeRoganExperienceJRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiwsv51Il4k #LiteralVaccinePassport #BrandBlackRifleCoffeeCompanyEvanHafer #PloyManufacturingDoubt_ #EpistemologyAgnotology

#PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #AdvocacyUKClimateExitAKAClexit (so called, 'CLimate Exit') https://clexit.net/ i.e. #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism

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Context #WebsiteDeSmog ^[DeSmog] #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #OrgIntlUNSDG

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Supplementary #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyNetworkModelDiagram ^[DeSmog]

#PhenomnBrexit #2020_BrexitBattalionMediaCorpsDinner as per higher-res version: ^[jpg] #MagazineUKTheSpectatorKateAndrews ^{[Muckrack] [LinkedIn]} also previously 'Head of Communications, Research Fellow' at the #AdvocacyUKAdamSmithInstitute - significantly both are considered 'opaque' in terms of the transparency: https://www.transparify.org/#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1542370621837_22607 via ^[tweet] #IRLDogmatistHughBennett ^[LinkedIn] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphRogerBootle #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphDiaChakravarty ^[Muckrack] #MagazineUKTheSpectatorRossClark #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJanetDaley https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/janet-daley/ #MagazineCountryLifeTiffanyDaneff https://www.tiffanydaneff.co.uk/ #IRLConsultantAlexDeane #MagazineUKTheSpectatorJamesDelingpole #NMUKGBNewsMichelleDewberry #AdvocacyUKLeaversOfBritainSuzanneEvans #IRLBusinesspersonRoccoForte #IRLJournalistCharlotteGill https://www.thearticle.com/contributor/charlotte-gill #BrandNewsCorpUKTalkMikeGraham #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphMadelineGrant #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphLiamHalligan https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyLucyHarris #BrandNewsCorpUKTalkJuliaHartleyBrewer #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTomHarwood https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/tom-harwood/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisterHeath https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allister-heath/ #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDanHodges #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKateHoey ^[DeSmog] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphChristopherHope https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/christopher-hope/ #WebsiteBrexitCentralJonathanIsaby https://brexitcentral.com/author/jonathan/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphSherelleJacobs ^[Muckrack] #AdvocacyUKPoliteiaSheilaLawlor #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesDominicLawson https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/dominic-lawson #MagazineUKTheSpectatorJamesLewisohn https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/james-lewisohn #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesRodLiddle ^[Muckrack] #IRLPrivateCitizenAliciaLiddle #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyMirrorCaroleMalone https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/carole-malone/ #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesIainMartin https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/iain-martin #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCharlesMoore https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/25/boris-succeeded-others-failed-accepted-logic-brexit/ #IRLJournalistTimMontgomerie ^[Muckrack] #IRLBusinesspersonHelenaMorrissey #IRLBusinesspersonJonMoynihan https://brexitcentral.com/author/jon-moynihan/ #IRLPrivateCitizenPatriciaMoynihan #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesIsabelOakeshott #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphPatrickOFlynn https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/patrick-oflynn/ #BrandNewsCorpUKTheSunTonyParsons #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisonPearson https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allison-pearson/ #TalkbackRadioLBCAndrewPierce #IRLBusinesspersonOlgaPolizzi #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyAnnunziataReesMogg #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesMattRidley #IRLComposerTimRice #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJulietSamuel https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/juliet-samuel/ #MagazineUKTheSpectatorWilliamShawcross #MagazineUKTheSpectatorHarrietSergeant #IRLReligiousLeaderAlexanderSherbrooke #MagazineUKTheSpectatorLionelShriver #MagazineUKMoneyWeekMerrynWebb #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTimStanley #WebsiteGuidoFawkesPaulStaines #OrgClassifPPUKReformUKPartyLtdFKATheBrexitPartyLtdRichardTice #IRLScholarRobertTombs #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCamillaTominey #WebsiteConservativeHomeMarkWallace ^{[Wikipedia] [Muckrack]} #BrandNewsCorpUKTheSunDavidWooding #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister

#IRLHistoricalFigureAlbertEinstein #AdvocacyUSBulletinOfTheAtomicScientists #PhenomnClimateChange

#NewspaperUKBrdshtMetro pro #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUKDemocraticUnionistPartySammyWilson

#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyLiamFox #WebsiteGuidoFawkes #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #IRLScholarChristinaPagel

response to tweet by #IRLJournalistAlanPoirier about #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilCoal and #ToponymAfrica_ #AdvocacyCACanadaFriendsOfScience https://friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=1 https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2017/10/21/saving-the-planet-on-the-backs-of-the-worlds-poor/ #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyFoundation #PhenomnColonialism

Overt #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveConfirmation - using #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAbduction of ligitimate life-expectancy date from #WebsiteOurWorldInDataMaxRoser https://ourworldindata.org/about and https://www.maxroser.com/

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Context "the inactivists - a loose coalition of fossil-fuel interests, conservative ideologues and supportive politicians and journalists - seek to redirect responsibility for the problem away from the fossil fuel industry and towards individual consumers, as well as developing nations in the global south. When solutions to the climate crisis are proposed by inactivists, they tend to be timid and unambitious, with faith in future (as yet unrealised) 'green' technologies held up as a reason to shy away from serious structural changes now." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/inactivists-tangling-up-the-climate-crisis-in-culture-wars-manston-airport-kent #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism https://www.isdglobal.org/ #IdentityGlobalSouth #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyCraigMackinlay #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJulianKnight #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartySteveBaker #OrgUKClimateChangeCommitteeCCC https://www.theccc.org.uk/about/ #PhenomnClimateChangeAnthropogenic #PolicyDecarbonisationZeroCarbon https://youngfoee.eu/news/climate-myth-2-its-all-china-and-indias-fault/ #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #AdvocacyUKInstituteForStrategicDialogueISD #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyNigelLawson https://seanforachange.medium.com/how-a-wealthy-uk-thinktank-is-spreading-climate-denial-through-facebook-ads-abc52390df47 And https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/02/nigel-lawson-climate-sceptic-organisation-funders #IRLEconomistNeilRecord i.e. #WebsiteDeSmog ^[DeSmog] And #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyNigelVinson "Both are linked to a free-market thinktank, the Institute of #AdvocacyUKInstituteOfEconomicAffairsIEA, which has admitted taking funding from fossil fuel companies and has also argued against climate change mitigation". #IRLBusinesspersonMichaelHintze #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyForumGWPF http://www.thegwpf.org/global-warming-policy-foundation-launches-campaigning-arm/ i.e. #WebsiteNetZeroWatch / https://www.netzerowatch.com/who-we-are/ #CatchcryCostOfNetZero #AdvocacyUKNetZeroScrutinyGroup https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/misinformation-and-propaganda-campaign-on-net-zero/ #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyExpressJamesMurray #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyFoundationBennyPeiser #MetaphorWarfareCulture #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #IRLWriterAdamCorner https://adamcorner.uk/

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Supplementary #IRLFilmmakerAdamCurtis #2014_OhDearismII ^[commentary] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR6KZPMdWrU "our defeatist response to contradictory narratives" #PhenomnVideoEssay #PloyManufacturingDoubt_ #PolicyEconomicQuantitativeEasingQE ^[Folksonomy] #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladislavSurkov #PhenomnTrustworthinessMistrust

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"Habermas sees the modern public sphere as, in many ways, the victim of its own success. As it expanded far beyond its original basis of educated male property-owners, material inequalities could no longer be set aside, but rather became the subject of public debate (1962 [1989: 127]). And this debate was no longer a matter of rational-critical analysis of state action by the assembled public, but of negotiation between interest groups which bypass public reason. Instead of the approximation of society to the ideal type, what emerged was an impoverished pseudo-public sphere, lacking its original capacity for rational-critical discourse, easily manipulated by states, corporations, and interest groups using the techniques of 'public relations' (1962 [1989: 176, 236]). Its role now, as in the feudal era, is to acclaim decisions which have already been made." ^{[encyclopædia]} #IRLPhilosopherJurgenHabermas #TheoryThePublicSphere #PoliticsFeudalism ^[Wikipedia]

#MemeFickiFiona i.e. #TauntLeftThe versus #CharacterisationRightWing + #SymbolEmblemFlagUSOldGloryConfederate #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship #PloyManufacturingDoubtApathy

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Addendum this music video: #2024_TomMacDonaldMeVsYou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najeyO0CuXw reminds me of the same sort of argument, centring the belief that political difference (in this case between #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty.s and #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP.s) is opposite but equal - cancelling each other out i.e. a #ReasoningFallacyZeroSumThinking. ^[Wikipedia] The point that 'politicians are all the same' also feels very #BehaviourDefeatism.ist (saying something about the lack of #PhenomnAgencyEmpowerment that is presumably, felt by those who are making the statement). The obvious question to ask is about who benefits from this position i.e. who's interests does disengaging from politics serve? I'm thinking here of #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump's misjudgement where be infamously told the #OrgSyndicateMilitiaUSProudBoys to #PleaStandBackAndStandBy and then followed on by condemning #CauseAntifa in relation to #PoliticsNationalismWhite violence at the #2017_UniteTheRightRally in #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaCharlottesville, where he sought to #BehaviourNormalisation.e (and therefore, #BehaviourTrivialisation.e) the violence with his statement: "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides" ^{[fact-checked]}

#AdvocacyCACanadaFriendsOfScience #IRLDogmatistMichelleStirling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXYyCWX2uYY summarises her contra argument to a a paper by #IRLScholarSethWynes #IRLScholarKimberlyNicholas, which reveals issues with Canadian secondary science curricula https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218305 Significantly, Stirling's paper https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3428789 and video clip seek to #PloyManufacturingDoubt_ #EpistemologyAgnotology about the certainty of scientific consensus that #PhenomnClimateChange poses severe risks to human and natural systems. And the 'Friends of Science' organisation is a classic example of #TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing ^[Folksonomy] #PhenomnRealityFalsifying

"One container ship puts out the pollution of 50 million cars; A large container ship emits the carbon dioxide (CO2) of 20,000 cars." #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial