Calder om propagandan ...och en 1984-parallell

Yes, global warming "is just propaganda". Nigel Calder visar hur ...slipstenen dras.

"[...] My father Ritchie Calder was a science writer too, but during the Second World War he played a leading part in Allied propaganda against Nazi Germany. He told me quite a lot about the tricks, employed in what was then a good cause. Now I watch them being used every day by the globalwamers. [...] "

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En artikel om Climate Cops och 1984:

"Climate Change: Imagine a society in which children are encouraged to be informants against their families over a phony issue? Imagine no longer.

We're not talking about kids turning in parents who commit serious crimes. We're talking about children tallying up environmental transgressions, such as leaving the water running or the lights on too long.

Sounds benign, almost like a little family fun? That's what NPower, a British electricity provider and creator of the Climate Cops campaign, which has its own Web site, wants the public to think.

But the program has an unpleasant odor. In fact, it is truly Orwellian. Kids are expected to keep diaries in which they record their families' environmental sins — a "climate crime case file" — and are urged to talk about the offenses in their classrooms.

It's just a way to raise awareness of global warming and how waste contributes to climate change, nothing more, NPower says, and children won't really be telling on mom and dad anyway.

Don't be duped. One, the threat of kids informing on their parents is implied and should make anyone uncomfortable. Two, the campaign puts into place a foundation — and a mind-set — that a future informant program could operate on. [...]"

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