Breaking Down Climate Misinformation with Amy Westervelt and John Cook
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:25.4 | This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. |
| 0:28.3 | Spreading climate misinformation is a favorite tool of fossil fuel companies looking to protect |
| 0:33.4 | their bottom line. |
| 0:34.9 | Whether they're arguing climate change isn't real, therefore we should |
| 0:38.1 | act. Or climate change isn't caused by humans, therefore we should act. Or solutions won't work. |
| 0:44.2 | Therefore we should make. Companies use advertising and mass media to spread these messages, |
| 0:49.0 | and in some cases want to defend their actions as protected free speech. This idea that, you know, if it's something that connects to policy I want to see, |
| 1:00.6 | then it doesn't have to play by the same rules. |
| 1:04.6 | But we can counter these false arguments through critical thinking and education. |
| 1:09.2 | If we want a public who are resilient against misinformation, |
| 1:14.2 | we need to build up their ability to spot these types of fallacies. Fossil Fuel corporations have |
| 1:22.1 | spent decades casting doubt in public about climate facts that their own scientists validated in company research. |
| 1:29.4 | These tactics have included a concerted effort to recast political speech, banned and regulated |
| 1:35.2 | in some contexts, as protected free speech, giving corporations more leeway in broadcasting their |
| 1:41.7 | messages. This week's episode is a special collaboration with Amy Westervelt, an award-winning journalist |
| 1:48.0 | and creator of the podcast Drilled. |
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