Advertisements like Energy Transfer Partners' "Our Lives Are Petroleum" campaign, which has been running since 2021, also serve the purpose of shaming people into keeping quiet on climate unless they have successfully rid their own lives of hydrocarbons. The logic goes: if you use a phone or drive a car, or really, if you live in the modern world at all, you're the problem. Not the companies that have worked for decades to make their products seem indispensable and block any alternatives to them...
Monday, April 15, 2024
How to spot five of the industry’s biggest disinformation tactics
"Basically it's a propaganda campaign," said Brown University environmental sociologist Robert Brulle. "And you don't have to use the words 'climate change'. What they're doing is they're seeding in the collective unconscious the idea that fossil fuels equals progress and the good life."
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