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Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
Although all public relations professionals are bound by a duty to not knowingly mislead the public, some have executed comprehensive campaigns of misinformation on behalf of industry clients on issues ranging from tobacco and asbestos to seat belts.
Lately, these fringe players have turned their efforts to creating confusion about climate change. This PR campaign could not be accomplished without the compliance of media as well as the assent and participation of leaders in government and business.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with U.K.'s conservative party leader David Cameron advocating renewable energy. this is from a recent speech:
Local councils have a vital part to play in delivering a low carbon future.
We need to waste less energy; to generate more energy locally, and to generate more energy from renewable sources.
Local authorities can make it happen, and I want to give you all the encouragement and help you need.
http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=130791&speeches=1
The more bizarre dance is that of some environmentalists and big-energy industrialists like GE and Shell in promoting sprawling development in wild and rural areas and in trying to sideline people's concerns as "NIMBY."
Wind power is potentially only a very small provider of electricity. It has and will have no effect at all on global warming. Its elusive benefits are easily outweighed by its own many negative impacts.
Your statments are pretty hard to swallow when you see recent announcements from massive petroleum companies like BP spending millions on new wind technology.
They become even more unbelievable when you read reports stating:
"U.S. power producers plan to spend more than $4 billion this year to install a record 3,000 megawatts of wind turbines, enough to supply about 600,000 homes."
Tell me, if the technology is there and it works, why would you want to stick with coal and oil? It makes no economic sense.