Coming Soon: The Mad Men of Climate Denial

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

Earth Sciences, True Crime, Science

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Big Oil gave Hitler propaganda tips decades ago and their PR machine has only grown from there. This season we dig into the history of fossil fuel propaganda and the few "Mad Men of climate denial" who shaped it. Coming January 2020.

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0:00.0	Coming up on the next season of Drill.
0:02.5	Fake News
0:10.0	You are fake news.
0:11.6	How the fake news is saying we're fake news.
0:13.6	Fake news are the Russian witch hunt.
0:16.8	We got a whole big combination.
0:18.8	Remember back in season one when I said all this stuff that we think of as new today?
0:24.3	Fake news, information wars, the whole American propaganda machine.
0:29.2	Was actually developed by fossil fuel interests.
0:32.0	This season we're going to prove the hell out of that theory.
0:35.6	Fake news, that was invented by this guy.
0:38.9	Mr. Rockefeller listened to me patiently, pleasantly and calmly until I'd finished my
0:45.7	eloquent presentation of why you should do what we recommended.
0:49.4	Ivy led better Lee was the world's first publicist.
0:53.6	In that clip he's talking about one of his early clients, John D. Rockefeller and
0:58.4	Standard Oil.
0:59.6	Among other things, Lee invented the press release and the idea that you could put anything
1:04.4	you wanted into them.
1:05.7	He famously defined facts as simply my interpretation of what happened.
1:10.5	And he provided some key PR advice to a rising politician in Germany.
1:23.1	But Ivy wasn't the only member of the slick-haired horn-rimmed
1:27.5	tweed suit club for climate Nile. There was also Daniel Edelman.
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