Orwell Goes Green

Here’s the obligatory link to the article we will be discussing:

Orwell Goes Green

I will be excerpting it some if you don’t want to read it all, so here we go…

It seems an advertising firm was hired by politicians and environmentalist’s to find how they can sell global warming more effectively to an ever increasingly dubious populous. This firm inadvertently sent their findings out to reporters in an email, and it provides a great illustration of how we are manipulated by politicians and how a NY Times reporter slants bad news for liberals and tries to make lemonade out of the lemons.

 The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.”

The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals…

Well no doubt this image is because that’s basically who is behind the environmental movement in America. So, duh.

Instead of grim warnings about global warming, the firm advises, talk about “our deteriorating atmosphere.”

Yes, our deteriorating atmosphere is much cheerier than global warming.

 Don’t confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like “cap and cash back” or “pollution reduction refund.”

Isn’t cap and cash back much less confusing than cap and trade? Really, what they are trying to imply is that this new huge tax is actually another Obama/Democrat rebate, which is blatantly Orwellian.

Here’s a youtube video of Congressman Dingell of Michigan (D) and Retard Al Gore of Never Never Land (F) discussing the very fact that cap and trade is a tax, a very big tax. Note at around the 1:28 mark Al Gore says he wants both taxes being discussed. What a good little liberal he is, he wants all of our money.

 

 

Now back to the article itself.

…briefing intended for government officials and environmental leaders.

I want to note that the reporter didn’t note who the government officials were. One might assume they were not conservative Republican officials, but it’s not mentioned. Keep this in mind for a little further down.

The answer, Mr. Perkowitz said in his presentation at the briefing, is to reframe the issue using different language.

Yes, we must use Orwellian thought control at all possible times.

“Another key finding: remember to speak in TALKING POINTS aspirational language about shared American ideals, like freedom, prosperity, independence and self-sufficiency…

Just wow. There is nothing independent or free about the environmental movement. It wants to subjugate all Americans and indeed the world into it’s totalitarian idealism of what they and only they believe the Earth needs to survive. These talking points are in direct contradiction of what their true aims are. They say free, they mean enslaved. They say independent, they mean enslaved. When they say self-sufficient and prosperous, they mean them, everyone else they mean enslaved.

Opponents of legislation to combat global warming are engaged in a similar effort. Trying to head off a cap-and-trade system, in which government would cap the amount of heat-trapping emissions allowed and let industry trade permits to emit those gases, they are coaching Republicans to refer to any such system as a giant tax that would kill jobs.

Notice the “opponents” of global warming are Republicans. They didn’t name the government officials earlier as Democrats, but the reporter clearly wants you to know that the global warming opponents are Republicans. I wonder why?

Regardless, the reason global warming is losing is because global warming is opinion not fact, despite what Al Gore says. The further we get from the post-Katrina hysteria the more we see we once again over reacted. Swine Flu anyone? We as a nation freak out about once every 5-10 years over something. We think the world is going to end. This isn’t any different.

We shouldn’t litter, because it’s ugly. We shouldn’t waste energy because it’s costly, but beyond that, meh.

Until Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, and all of the other global warming alarmist’s live in a 900 sq. ft. home and ride their bikes everywhere, I won’t take them or their cause seriously, and no amount of Orwellian speak is going to make me change my mind.

 

Cheers!

 

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