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    ‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds
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    ‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds

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    2. ConanTheAquarian on

      In a dissenting report the new Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, claimed the inquiry had been biased, writing: “The heart of this inquiry’s approach has been to supress [sic], ridicule and silence anyone who expresses different views from the current scientific consensus.”

      And there’s evidence the report is accurate.

    4. SaltyPockets on

      The problem is that the denial machine has an easy time of things when politicians who aren’t outright denying anything are still acting like it’s not that serious.

      I’m looking in Labor’s direction here. Yes, the government has done some great stuff in moving to renewables, but it’s also approving new coal expansions all over the place and new oil and gas projects too.

      I get that we can’t just wave a magic wand and be free of fossil fuels, but this behaviour seems completely at odds with reducing carbon output and leaves you with the distinct impression that either they don’t *really* believe it, or they think it’s not really as important as short term income.

      So it’s all very well sneering at the LNP (and we still should!) for their record on this, but team red are really only paying lip service as well.

    5. Rush_Banana on

      We were told that renewable energy will lower our power bills and yet they keep going up.

    6. Savings_Dot_8387 on

      There’s really no point, the denialists just throw the same language back the other way and their supporters act like it’s just as valid even though it has no data to support it because “it feels true” to them.

    7. Muzorra on

      There was an interesting bit of reporting not so long ago about what happens if solar or wind farm development starts looking to set up somewhere in country areas. Whole areas are spammed with the usual scaremongering. Then if anyone opts to host some of these facilities the owners are shamed on social media. Not just regarding the evil energy technology (although that’s part of it) but all sorts of smears will start showing up online and in neighbours’ letterboxes, trying to get people shunned from the community. They’ll dig up dirt, or just make it up, harass, threaten, you name it. All so that no one else wants a wind farm on their property. It’s not worth the hassle.

      It’s easy to forget sometimes that we haven’t won this yet. It looks like the tide has turned as the evidence becomes overwhelming, as renewable installs become vast. But these people are happy to turn whole communities into paranoid witch burning villagers if they can slow this down for a day.