Hi,
I hope as the economies of different countries become
interdependent, people will start questioning where
the products come from. Today people oppose any goods
that abuse human rights, may be in future people will
oppose economies that are causing global warming ?
Sooner the better..
Best Regards,
Suresh.
--- In biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to have been rather effective.
http://www.fair.org/extra/9808/global-smokescreen.html
August 1998
Global Smokescreen
As evidence continues to emerge that global warming is already
occurring (Nature, 4/23/98), the oil industry is gearing up to try to
convince the public that science is still uncertain. Representatives
from the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon, Chevron and from
corporate-backed think tanks got together to produce a Global
Climate Science Communications Action Plan, a copy of which was
obtained by the New York Times (4/28/98).
Part of the plan includes the creation of a $5 million think tank set
up specifically to spread the word that we just don't know whether
global warming is happening or not, or what could possibly be done to
stop it. Another aspect of the plan calls for spending $600,000 to
try to sway the media to the industry point of view that scientific
uncertainties about global warming make it reckless to try to
curtail the burning of fossil fuels.
Here's one point from the plan: Produce, distribute via syndicate
and directly to newspapers nationwide a steady stream of op-ed
columns and letters to the editor authored by
scientists--scientists, that is, who take the industry line on
global warming. Don't look for any of these op-eds or letters to the
editor to mention that they were arranged by the oil industry.
Likewise, when the plan manages to place the industry's hand-picked
scientists on talk radio, or gets them quoted in newspapers, don't
expect to see these sources identified as agents of big oil. The plan
is carefully designed to hide the fact that the main motive is not
the search for truth about climate changes, but protection of the oil
business's profits.
Regular readers of Extra! may be interested to note that only one
journalist is mentioned by name as being particularly likely to do a
story with the oil industry's point of view: That's ABC's John
Stossel.
Biofuels at Journey to Forever
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
Biofuel at WebConX
http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm
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