{"id":306733,"date":"2024-03-10T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T08:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306733"},"modified":"2024-03-10T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T08:17:44","slug":"burn-hollywood-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306733","title":{"rendered":"Burn, Hollywood, Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Irina Slav on energy<\/a> Substack is described as \u201cAll things energy. Challenging the dominant narrative because facts matter\u201d.   Her latest article<\/a> \u201cBurn, Hollywood, burn\u201d calls out the blatant indoctrination and propaganda associated with Hollywood today.  As always when you dig deeper it is all about money for the shills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her introduction, Slav expressed a concern that is common to many of us here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of days ago, in a conversation with David Blackmon on X, I unthinkingly commented that we\u2019ve reached peak idiocy in the transition narrative. David wisely reminded me that we keep getting proven wrong in this by the narrative constantly discovering new peaks to strive for and conquer. Alas, I couldn\u2019t disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my work here I\u2019ve mostly focused on calling out the climate indoctrinators in the media, in politics, and, occasionally, in schools. But there is an indoctrination channel I have so far steered clear of, for reasons of mental self-preservation. I get angry about things, you see, and I don\u2019t really like being angry. When I saw this article on Rolling Stone<\/a> a while ago, however, I got too angry to bother about disliking being angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article is a symphony of climate propaganda done absolutely openly and eagerly, with an unshakeable conviction that amplifying climate catastrophism is the right thing to do. Through all means necessary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She explains how this article is evidence of the incessant indoctrination of the masses regarding climate change.  Earlier the emphasis was on social justice but now there is a shift:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That was the social justice stage of the indoctrination drive. Now, we seem to have reached the next stage, which is all about climate change, a distillate of social justice issues, if you will, since every single problem we have today can be traced back to climate change by the eager narrative pushers. Why so eager, you might ask? Well, because there\u2019s money and fame in it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The most revealing part of her article for me was her description of the organization called Good Energy<\/a>.  She describes it thusly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Said organisation exists with the sole purpose of making climate change a central topic in movies and TV shows. Because it\u2019s important, of course. The most important topic ever. And these gracious people are there to guide film folk on the journey to internalising this so they can make more climate change-centric movies and TV shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt: \u201cWe aim to make it as easy as possible to weave climate into any aspect of a story. Applying the Climate Lens\u2122 to your narrative can reveal complexities in character and setting, add conflict, and unlock touching, funny, and surprising storylines \u2014 all of them backed by climate science, psychology, and lived experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally, while helping writers, directors and producers \u201cweave climate into any aspect of a story\u201d and why not every single aspect of a story, they\u2019d make some money from this because these consulting services are not free. Indoctrination is a mission but that doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t be a business at the same time, and how cool is that!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Good Energy \u201cLibrary of Experts<\/a>\u201d is interesting for a couple of reasons: the wide range of expertise disciplines that claim a link to their work and climate change and the number of individuals who loyal readers here might recognize like Dr. Peter Kalmus<\/a>.  Slav goes on to expose a potential driver for their concern about climate change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of money, the Daily Sceptic<\/a> has done a great job in exposing the financial backing of Good Energy and similar organisations or shall I say formations because it certainly sounds more appropriate. You won\u2019t be surprised to learn that this backing<\/a> comes from climate obsessed billionaires. Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Sierra Club pop out among the list of backers, along with the Walton Family Foundation and One Earth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She takes an optimistic view of this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sad as all this may be there is a silver lining and that silver lining lies in the fact that propaganda has never, ever produced quality art of any form or quality entertainment. Good art and good entertainment tell stories, invoke various emotions, and, if done really well, result in some form of catharsis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate propaganda does not tell stories. It only aims to invoke one emotion and that\u2019s fear. It hammers in a message disguised as a story that is so solid and unwieldy it defies interpretation. You can only swallow it whole. Or ridicule it, of course, because it is ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since climate propaganda in film \u2013 and in literature, too \u2013 is so rigid, it\u2019s doomed to failure, just like the identity politics trend in literature. The reason for this is that while there may be many people with a mental age of four when it comes to discriminating between art and propaganda, there are many more who instinctively sense the difference and sooner or later shun the latter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I hope she is correct.  I tend to be a bit more pessimistic because I think that the inevitable reality slap of the insane transition policies may occur after irreparable harm.  I encourage you to read all of her article and consider subscribing to her Substack.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roger Caiazza blogs on New York energy and environmental issues at\u00a0Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York<\/a>.\u00a0 More details on the Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act are available\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and an inventory of over 370 articles about the Climate Act is also available.\u00a0 \u00a0This represents his opinion and not the opinion of any of his previous employers or any other company with which he has been associated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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