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"ON A RECENT episode of Fox Business show
Mornings with Maria, American
Petroleum Institute (API) CEO and president Mike Sommers said that:
“... the most important environmental movement in the world is the American
oil and gas industry.”
Commented author and climate activist Genevieve Guenther on Twitter:
'... a super absurd example of oil and gas companies appropriating and
weaponising the language of climate advocates for their own greenwashing.'
Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how
fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and
fend off action.
And because public perception and awareness of the climate crisis are, at least
in part, driven by how we talk about it, the fossil fuel industry has "used
language to create smoke and mirrors and false impressions around what they’re
really doing", according to Christine Arena, author, expert on climate
disinformation and former executive vice president at public relations (PR)
firm Edelman. (Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following
revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and
associations.)
PR firms — or “the enablers,” as Arena calls them — have played a key role in
exploiting communication and manipulating language to their advantage, all
while working on behalf of the fossil fuel industry and using a tobacco
industry playbook. Ultimately, they’ve been using it to obstruct climate action
— a longtime goal of the oil, gas and coal industries."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
