we're all losing the information war. the world hates truth and loves lies. we're fucked. it's all over but the shouting.
and the shouting means so little when your voice never hits the speakers. Black-box algorithms and big-tech social media platforms really snuck up on progressive politics.
You basically see two pro-fossil fuel campaigns on social media:
It’s an extremely dangerous two-pronged assault, because any information at all can be catalyzed into inaction:
That’s pretty much what I came to say. The NYT just serves their propaganda in a sophisticated way.
Yup. NYT is a disgrace, it used to be the gray lady, now it's trump's bitch.
Yeap.
Until very recently I was prone to the “better is better, and at least we’re not open fascists” argument. But I’ve come to understand that incremental fascism is just the mechanism used on so-called “liberals”.
Dont give up. Kill your masters.
If you're not willing to do that, you have already given up, please stop panicking over your choice to back our collective suicide and die with dignity.
As the old saying goes "a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets out of bed"
They have an uphill battle on their hands.
The truth has been out of bed since the 80's, the billionaires have just bought the governments of the world.
They be correct. More than half the population are illiterate. You can't inform those that can't read, and worse, can't retrospect.
Those weirdly compressed titles don't help either!
Titles are a problem; they're all that almost everybody sees — click-through rates to articles are around 2.5% of the headline view rates. I try to increase that by using gift links and archived copies of articles; but that has a fairly limited impact on peoples' willingness to click in the first place.
Actually understanding means doing more than reading the headline, and that makes it very hard to get information across.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.