Rachel M December 27, 2013 Climate change

Denial Tango 2014

This is a great song written by the Aussie group Men With Day Jobs. Thanks to Hot Topic for bringing it to my attention.

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Denial Tango 2014 | uknowispeaksense on December 27, 2013 at 5:21 pm
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Bronwyn on December 27, 2013 at 7:05 pm
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Very clever. Did you happen to see this in the Guardian a few days back?
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/conservative-groups-1bn-against-climate-change
History is repeating itself except, this time, it isn’t the cigarette companies or asbestos miners. Depressing stuff.
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  Rachel on December 27, 2013 at 7:30 pm
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  Thanks, Bronwyn. I hadn’t seen that. There’s more of a link between big tobacco and climate change denial than you might think. Here’s an article which explains how Philip Morris created an astroturf (fake grass roots) organisation in the early 90s called The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition. As well as placing doubt on the science linking smoking with cancer they had other objectives which included aspects of global warming, nuclear waste disposal and biotechnology.
  
  The language the tobacco giants used is also very similar to those adopted by climate change denialist groups. From the same article, here’s a quote taken form an internal memo from Brown and Williamson:
  
  Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.
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    Bronwyn on December 27, 2013 at 9:42 pm
    
    How appallingly disturbing.
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mixedupmeme on December 27, 2013 at 10:56 pm
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Cute
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Make you Fink on Friday | Eco-Crap on December 27, 2013 at 11:23 pm
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[…] is a great song written by the Aussie group Men With Day Jobs. Thanks to quakerrattled for posting from Hot Topic […]
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argentumvulgaris on December 27, 2013 at 11:24 pm
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That’s a beaut. Had to repost that, linked of course.

AV
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  Rachel on December 28, 2013 at 2:02 am
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  Thanks for the link back. It is a great song.
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    argentumvulgaris on December 28, 2013 at 2:31 am
    
    Links help the blogosphere go round.
    
    AV
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