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social challenges with climate being mentioned as just one aspect of the wider situation likewise in 2009 when johan rockström and colleagues published their influential paper a safe operating space for humanity they signalled nine major areas of ecological concern with climate change being just one amongst these what then has changed in our understanding that now makes climate change feature as a uniquely important ecological challenge with all the others meriting so much less public concern and potentially even being exacerbated by climate focused measures that neglect their wider ecological impacts given that no particular new climatological or ecological insights between 2017 and 2019 can account for this we have to look elsewhere iii in 2019 climate emergency was declared word of the year by oxford dictionaries from within academia federica cittadino 2019 noted that the expression used increasingly in the media including the guardian newspaper has been chosen as a substitute for climate change in order to better convey the urgency of global warming what had spurred this it had been in august 2018 that the world s media drew attention to the school student greta thunberg and her climate strike in sweden by 25 th january 2019 thunberg was addressing the world economic forum in davos declaring that our house is on fire more specifically she stated according to the ipcc intergovernmental panel on climate change we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes in that time unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place including a reduction of our co 2 emissions by at least 50 one might imagine that the powerful people assembled in davos could have apprised themselves of the ipcc s 2018 summary for policy makers without needing to listen to a 16 year old s dramatic but contentious take on its headline points the event had the look of a rather contrived enactment of speaking truth to power so where did this understanding of truth about climate change come from as it happens thunberg s noted house on fire speech echoed the opening words of a 2016 strategy document produced by the psychologist margaret klein salamon called leading the public into emergency mode which advocated a wwii scale climate mobilization salamon 2016 3 salamon s argument was that the climate movement must fully adopt the language of immediate crisis and existential danger we must talk about climate change as threatening to cause the collapse of civilization killing billions of people and millions of species salamon 2016 21 salamon was co founder in 2014 of an advocacy organisation called the climate mobilization tcm which aimed to build support for a national mobilization to address the climate emergency and she is executive director of the climate emergency fund cef as a psychologist rather than a natural scientist her expertise lies not in assessing the material threats that might be posed by climate change but in understanding how perceptions of threat can be produced the way we respond to threats by entering emergency mode or by remaining in normal mode is highly contagious imagine the fire alarm goes off in an office building how seriously should you take it how do you know if it is a drill or a real fire those questions will be predominantly answered by the actions and communications of the people around you particularly people designated as leaders if they are chatting and taking their time exiting the building you will assume that this is a drill if people are moving with haste faces stern and focused communicating with urgency and gravity you will assume there is real danger and exit as quickly as possible salamon 2016 14 thus in 2016 she crafts the message that thunberg was later to make famous at that time the deputy director of tcm ezra silk claimed we need to go on to an emergency war footing like right now the climate is already dangerous we re already in an emergency later in the year the national platform committee of the us democratic party approved the amendment proposed by tcm activist russell greene to lead a global effort to mobilize nations to address this threat on a scale not seen since world war ii romm 2016 greene had argued that the us should move first in launching a green industrial revolution because that is the key to getting others to follow and because it is in our own national interest to do so greene 2016 the one concrete environmental objective mentioned is to draw down carbon sharply on the path to 100 clean renewable energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions greene 2016 by the end of 2016 another lobbying organisation called we don t have time had declared we are going to build a global grassroot community to hold all our leaders responsible when on 20 august 2018 thunberg began her school strike their ceo the swedish entrepreneur ingmar rentzhog was as thunberg recounts among the first to arrive he spoke with me and took pictures that he posted on facebook she adds that she had briefly been a youth adviser to them but on discovering they used my name as part of another branch of their organisation that is a start up business she severed her connection with them indeed in november 2018 a public offering of shares in their business was launched with a prospectus boasting that they had attracted significant attention from international media spread the hashtag wedonthavetime on social media and established contacts with opinion leaders activists policymakers and scientists certainly the promotion of the emergency message has had enthusiastic support from sections of the business community that see it as a profitable opportunity an opportunity supported by un advocacy of trillion dollar investments in the new sector afp 2019 this makes less mysterious why the powerful gathered in davos did not mind having truth spoken to them by a young school striker and why the owners of the world s media had allowed such a decisive projection of thunberg onto a global stage for while it is often claimed that big business is aligned with fossil fuel interests in opposing green alternatives the fact is that policies supporting the growth of carbon markets have strong support as bryan walsh puts it for all the agita over the influence of shadowy conservative philanthropists like the koch brothers the cap and trade campaign was backed by powerful progressive foundations that donated hundreds of millions to environmental groups between 2008 and 2010 and those philanthropists like their conservative counterparts had highly strategic and disciplined aims walsh 2011 a 2011 editorial in nature magazine notes that environmental groups in favour of cap and trade mobilized 229 million from companies such as general electric and other supporters to lobby for environmental issues and matthew nisbet suggests that the promotion of cap and trade may have been the best financed political cause in american history nisbet 2011 see also worldwatch 2014 122 these developments can be traced back at least as far as the 2007 8 crash for instance in 2007 the rockefeller brothers fund announced with the support of president clinton their commitment to the climate campaigning organisation 1sky rockefeller brothers fund 2007 part of its core mission was to call for the transformation of the u s energy priorities to create a clean energy future philanthropy news digest 2008 in 2011 it was merged into fellow rockefeller funded campaign organisation 350 org founded in 2007 by bill mckibben which has led the campaign for divesting from fossil fuels max blumenthal observes since the rockefeller brothers fund answered 350 org s call to divest from fossil fuels in 2014 the foundation s wealth has increased substantially as the washington post reported the rockefeller brothers fund s assets grew at an annual average rate of 7 76 percent over the five year period that ended dec 31 2019 and as mckibben himself notes the institutions that divested from fossil fuel really did well financially because the fossil fuel industry has been the worst performing part of our economy even if you didn t care about destroying the planet you d want to get out of it because it just loses money this sets in salutary perspective the notion that promoting a policy of net zero carbon emissions whose implementation depends on the existence of carbon markets from which huge profits can be derived is a matter of speaking truth to power iv speaking truth to power as it happens is a theme hammered home in the promotional video for an organisation called covering climate now that has played a key role in getting the world s media to promote the language of climate emergency nisbet 2019 launched in april 2019 by the nation and the columbia journalism review in association with the guardian as a non profit organization its purpose was to create a new playbook for journalism relating to the climate challenge its guide to making the climate conversation urged journalists to link stories about extreme weather events to climate change as a matter of routine practice because e ven in the absence of explicit attribution data it s accurate to say that climate change is making extreme weather more common and more severe it provided sample language for making the connection in line with which the guardian then issued a memo updating its own official style guide the term climate change said the paper s editor in chief katharine viner sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is catastrophe for humanity instead the preferred terms are climate emergency crisis or breakdown carrington 2019 this linguistic shift amplified across the news media appears to have played a crucial role in activating the mobilization that the campaigners had been clamouring for and big investors had been supporting by april 2020 salamon could boast on the website of we mean business a coalition representing according to cory morningstar 2019 477 investors with 34 trillion usd in assets that the campaigning had led more than 1400 global governments to declare a climate emergency we mean business 2020 according to a survey by undp and oxford university published in 2021 64 of people in 50 countries said that climate change was an emergency undp and university of oxford 2021 according to the climate emergency declaration website as of february 2024 2 355 jurisdictions in 40 countries have declared a climate emergency populations covered by jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency amount to over 1 billion citizens v evidently then while there was no significant new scientific discovery during the past twenty years that dramatically shifted human understanding about the causes costs or benefits of climate change and no significant public debate was entered into about its relative importance or urgency compared to other issues of development on the one hand or ecological protection on the other there was a significant shift in business sentiment regarding the sectors in which future investment would be most profitable and there was a shift in language used to discuss climate concerns that served to generate public support for that new putatively greener business direction the drive to declare a climate emergency has been rather successful i have presented in critical terms the fact that investors in green technology who stand to reap substantial profit from it have been playing a key part in achieving that success but i anticipate the objection that this does not necessarily mean it is a bad idea for the wider public so allowing the assumption that it could indeed be the win win situation they claim a question is how a democratic public would be able to arrive at a considered judgement to this effect for the situation today is one in which the possibility of public deliberation about whether it is really a good or bad idea is in practice being quite systematically pre empted people who try to raise questions about the simple policy direction imposed are branded as climate change deniers even though in many cases they are deeply committed environmentalists with a good understanding of climate change indeed many of the people cited above because they have presented critical questions or commentary have been stigmatised as climate deniers sometimes with dark insinuations of being sponsored by the fossil fuel industry this has served as a pretext for disregarding their questions and comments such a response is encountered not only in the press and social media but also to some extent within academic discussion this is a problem for society because it locks us into a policy direction that is not responsive to discovery or debate and on a basis that is less clear and certain than its proponents would have us believe vi as a postscript i recognize that as things stand there is a good chance the question pursued in this article itself may be classified as climate denial i nevertheless hope that any genuine error or oversight in it will be pointed out by readers in the comments section below it is shared as a working paper intended to be part of a chapter in the book i am currently writing on propaganda and the university responses to comments will be incorporated in the book with due acknowledgement share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more print opens in new window print like loading posted in environment propaganda uncategorized tagged climate climate change democracy environment global warming ipcc 2 comments the spies charm offensive insulting our intelligence posted on december 17 2022 by timhayward in recent times the heads of british spy agencies have taken to the media and social media to engage in public relations activities 1 advertising particularly their role in protecting the public against disinformation but what should the public make of this is this the proper role of intelligence agencies can they even really fulfil it continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more print opens in new window print like loading posted in constitutional politics disinformation free intelligence intelligence and security services media political philosophy propaganda uk government uncategorized 6 comments questioning the official story about official stories a role for citizen investigations posted on december 11 2022 by timhayward official stories according to the official story about them are nearly always true the nearly gets mentioned just because on rare occasions an official story is acknowledged to have been wrong as for instance with iraq s falsely alleged weapons of mass destruction in 2003 but that s considered an exception to the rule and to extrapolate from it to a more pervasive mistrust is to be foolish ill informed or even a dupe of hostile propaganda in fact diagnosing 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