Big Oil and Climate Disinformation
It is said that Big Oil has entered its “Big Tobacco” phase, meaning that it needs to go to ever more obscene lengths to sew doubt into the public’s mind re: the damage its products cause.
It seems that the last 12 months have been quite forceful in erasing much of the doubt that may have existed about the validity of climate science, insofar as most of us have directly experienced the effects of wildfires, droughts, and floods.
Still, the key to battles like the one the oil companies are fighting is constancy. Be like Trump, never admit wrong, never stop attacking the enemy, and never give up.
I envy people who can press on in life without feeling the weight of living among people who readily accept complete garbage as truth. The problem, of course, is that they vote, and elect people who make the outrageous claims that these gullible fools eat with a fork and spoon.
American novelist, poet, and essayist Wendell Berry makes an excellent point here about the moral depravity of people who don’t have the courage to stand up against who destroy our natural environment.
This reminds me of a conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and a televangelist. Tyson was asked, “So we don’t understand dark energy. Couldn’t that be God?”
The cartoon here would be a lot funnier if it weren’t sadly 
If you don’t have a problem with obscene language, but you do have a sense of humor—and you also have at least a passing interest in what 
Americans aren’t too strong in nuanced thinking, i.e., dealing with shades of gray. It is for this reason that the word “socialism” is so terrifying to almost half of the nation.
This comes from Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer Tzeporah Berman.
I was lucky enough to be invited to hear Barack Obama speak at an environmental conference in Las Vegas in 2015. I was amazed to learn how much he knew about the subject, and how disappointed he was that he hadn’t been able to accomplish more during his tenure in office.
I think the idiom is “glossing over” rather than “glazing over,” but that’s hardly the point.
