Exaggerate much?
In a two-hour video posted on YouTube in 2021, Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam looks directly into the camera as he imparts a message to young people about the supposed reality of future climate change.
“What we are talking about here is a murder project,” he says calmly, “which is going to destroy the lives and livelihoods of your generation.”
The scientists fighting back against the climate doomers
Climate messaging has been an absolute fiasco, much the same as Covid-19 public health messaging: inconsistent, contradictory, illogical, irrational, incoherent and frequently not true. It has become so bad that it has become a turn off – see: Climate: What we are doing to address climate – Coldstreams.
Fear is the most effective tool of propaganda messaging. Today, social media enables doomers to blast their doomerism non-stop. Journalists source much content from social media, and since every click on their stories is measured, they know what they need to do to get more clicks – sensational fear porn works great for that!
The result is entire generations believing things that are not true – but whose beliefs, if translated into action, will harm and kill actual people, just as public health policies ignored the harms in favor of hypothesized benefits that did not occur.
