The Tennessee Valley Authority Produced a Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks. Top Researchers Call it ‘Dishonest.’  - Inside Climate News
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A 35-page booklet distributed in a public meeting by the Tennessee Valley Authority about coal ash is filled with “lies” and misleading information, according to coal ash researchers.   The booklet, titled “Know the Facts: Coal Ash,” did not include any TVA branding or author information, but the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy says TVA employees […]

And I saw this on the same day I saw this article about conspiracy theories around the increasing number and range of ticks - because ticks are getting more common and more widespread because of climate change, but if you’re a loyal conservative, and you believe climate change is a hoax because all the people you trust are telling you it’s a hoax, there must be some evil conspiracy spreading those ticks, right?

And I’m thinking about how the fucking capitalists (because the TVA is a federally owned utility company) are telling people that coal and oil are safe and healthy and aren’t hurting anybody or anything. And how, when we go back to '60s level of smog and yellow domes over our cities, and cancer rates skyrocket from the coal ash blanketing towns, people aren’t going to believe the TVA lied to them - they’re going to believe some evil left wing conspiracy is poisoning them. Probably fluoride and vaccines. Not clean coal and renewable natural gas, no sir, I’m a loyal American, and I love my coal burning power plant!

Create a crisis, blame your enemies for the crisis, convince the people to support your policies to fix the crisis, your policies cause more crises, repeat.

I cannot believe how long that strategy has been working.

The American people are not fit to govern themselves.

  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 days ago

    people aren’t going to believe the TVA lied to them - they’re going to believe some evil left wing conspiracy is poisoning them.

    They don’t believe the truth because they are the targets of a sophisticated, orchestrated information attack, designed to saturate the information environment with enough disinformation and misinformation that diverts attention away from the truth and toward an endless cycle of meaningless culture war bullshit. My parents were immersed in it their whole lives, and it hurt them their whole lives, and they went to their early graves not understanding why the system wouldn’t reward them for their loyalty. They just thought they hadn’t worked hard enough or been smart enough, or just weren’t lucky enough. Or that the Muslims, or the queers, or the blacks, or the socialists had by some poorly-defined contrivance, damaged society enough that the honest hard-working folks like themselves couldn’t live without constant acute anxiety about food and housing safety. They were so confused, and sad, and angry their whole lives. I wish I could have saved them from that. Still trying to save the living.