#wokewashing

jalfro@joindiaspora.com

Oil companies stopped pushing overt climate denial more than a decade ago. And while conspiracy theories claiming climate change is a hoax may surface occasionally, they are no longer an effective strategy.

Instead, the fossil fuel industry, utilities and the various trade groups, politicians and think tanks that carry water for both, have pivoted to messages that acknowledge the problem, but downplay its severity and the urgency for solutions. Instead companies are overstating the industry’s progress toward addressing climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/big-oil-delay-tactics-new-climate-science-denial

#ClimateDenial #Conspiracy #WokeWashing #ClimateCrisis #Propaganda