Climate Change
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This is Why We Should Stop Calling it Climate Change
https://eand.co/this-is-why-we-s…
How many people knew this? The term "climate change" is actually the invention of a Republican political consultant (you could say propagandist), Frank Luntz.
Luntz was big on pointing out how the choice of words can influence public opinion. He invented the term "death tax" to replace inheritance tax, "off-shore exploration" instead of oil drilling. This is the memo he originally sent to George Bush back in the early 2000s:
"Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate. The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favor of 'climate change'."
Apparently Luntz now regrets all of this and says he's no longer a Republican...but two decades later everyone is still saying the more neutral-sounding climate change instead of global warming.
- "Drill Baby Drill...Let's Go Brandon!"utopian
- All my liberal, well-educated intellectual friends supported this change in language at the time. Not knowing they were being dupednb
- They told me “you shouldn’t say global warming because it implies that if we have a slight drop one year then we don’t have to worry. Say ‘climate change’ ”nb
- Someone probably told them that the term global warming was racist.Chimp
- All marketing. There will surely be an article like and how FB, 'the big lie', etc., was promoted and marketed.formed
- While the D's continue to come up with stupid titles like "defund the police."formed
- Yeah but on the flip side it’s going to be a banner year for my tomatoes!_niko
- I cringe every time I hear “The Big Lie”. They need to hire this guy to come up with something a little more zingier.instrmntl
- Nobody really cared what it’s called. Some simply wanted to address the problem and some chose to ignore it.monospaced
- "Treason and Traitor" would have been a good term to start using.formed
- That's the thing Democrats titles are made by the activist while Republicans have lobbyist.pango
- an idiot says that the DNC coined the phrase "defund the police" to detract from the fact that police are military prepared to murder you without consequence.imbecile
- but yeah, blame democrats because police murder US citizens constantly, fucking idiotimbecile
- only a dimwit of incredible proportions assumes that only the party he/she doesnt like is doing this sort of PR.pr2
- and only even bigger dimwit belives a complex issue like changing climate is settled only because its hot outside in his part of the world.pr2