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  • From: <fdnokes@hotmail.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fw: New Cumberland BC Cumberlander Article:Howshould the world respond to climate change?
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:31:38 -0800


Were there no such thing as climate change, would it make sense to burn the forests of the world?
No, of course not.

F


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From: "Toby Hemenway" <toby@patternliteracy.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:53 AM
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fw: New Cumberland BC
CumberlanderArticle:Howshouldthe world respond to climate change?


fdnokes@hotmail.com wrote:
It has brought out how completely infiltrated a person can
be (as I was) with notions of political correctness.
I am grateful for having had the chance to witness this.
At risk of belaboring a thread, once again I'm having just the opposite
reaction. It seems very politically incorrect to argue with heat and
passion with someone about climate change. It seems very politically
correct to call for tolerance and to be respectful of views no matter
how destructive they are.

For propaganda to be effective, it must do two things: It needs to get
to the target audience without their realizing that it is propaganda,
and it needs to trigger an instinctive response in that audience that
renders them ineffective or compliant, whether that instinct is
anti-semitism or the sacred cow of tolerance. I'd say that article has
been effective propaganda.

Again, the evolution debate is a good example: Science-based education
has been compromised in our schools because the creationists have been
very effective at playing the "balance" card, which is a plea for
tolerance. Educated people keep thinking that the debate can be won on
the merits of the science, as in AGW, and it won't be. It's a political
issue, and the better strategist will win. So while we argue morals,
they put out obscene rants by Glenn Beck and the other henchmen, and the
forests burn.

At any rate, it's fascinating to me to see how differently we can view
the world.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com

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