Are we all fucked?

[Blackout]

Dude, you can't accuse Astfgyl of ridiculous conspiracies in one thread and spew a whole load of conspiracies in another when it fits in with your narrative.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Marketing is not a conspiracy, sorry to break it to you. Marketing works, as evidenced by the amount of money the most successful corporations in the world pour into it. QED. Rupert Murdoch is a real life person, and I really am genuinely sorry to have to break that tragic news to you.

[Trev]

Sure all that video amounts to is just some auld lad giving out about the youth of today, "read a book, go outside, get some exercise",same as all the generations before, and will be in the future

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Rupert Murdoch is a conspiracy theory?

[Blackout]

It's more the "brain washing techniques" I take umbridge with. If I was to accuse the media of brainwashing regarding climate change I'd be quite rightly ridiculed.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The big difference is that the "brain washing techniques" are pretty much an accepted reality. There's even a journal about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_%26_Marketing

Modern marketing works by hacking your affective emotional responses. The media also does this a lot. Remember Charlie Brooker's Newswipe? It was basically all about that. The difference in what we're talking about is that using these techniques to scare people about climate change is one (bad) thing; using it to sell products no one needs, something that is actually exacerbating climate change, well that's another (worse) thing.

[Blackout]

So greta is a tool of Mass Media to enact carbon taxes?

[open face surgery]

Greta Thunberg is a convicted pederast.

[ochoill]

Rupert Murdoch is a conspiracy theory?

Greta Thunberg is a convicted pederast.

These two simple posts have made my day

[astfgyl]

Jaysus lads it was just a funny video and the old chap has a point. All the kids marching for climate change but most unwilling to put in the hard yards of actually changing their own lifestyle. It's the virtue signalling shite again as I see it. To be honest, all I see with any of it is marketing. Greta Thunberg - marketing, kids marching for climate change - marketing, companies pretending to give a fuck - marketing, governments getting elected on a green ticket - marketing, and so on..

Sure all that video amounts to is just some auld lad giving out about the youth of today, "read a book, go outside, get some exercise",same as all the generations before, and will be in the future

I've been giving out about the youth of today for at least a decade now, so I can empathise with the fella to a degree.

Dude, you can't accuse Astfgyl of ridiculous conspiracies in one thread and spew a whole load of conspiracies in another when it fits in with your narrative.

Outside of the actual conspiracy thread I started, I can't think of any I've posted.

[son of the Morrigan]

Greta Thunberg is a convicted pederast.

Brilliant, going around giggling like a schoolgirl since I read this.

[astfgyl]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/27/jefferies-on-the-carbon-challenges-in-electric-vehicle-manufacturing.html

Bit more of what I was getting at around electric cars not being the silver bullets they are presented as. Well not yet anyway, I'm not saying they are a bad thing or anything either just that they are worth casting a critical eye on. Not quite convicted pederast level of a critical eye, but all things marketed to us as "Green" have to be dissected because marketing and profit never sleeps, and there will be a lot of shite to wade through in the next few years as this movement goes through the gears.

[Eoin McLove]

I think that electric cars are a step in the right direction but only if they can make the production of electricity clean, green and renewable. So as you say, it's only one part of a much bigger picture and not a silver bullet.

Reforestation on an industrial scale across the world is going to be essential too.

[astfgyl]

Wonder why the reforestation isn't being pushed as one of the main pillars of carbon capture? In fact, hemp captures quite a bit during its' extremely fast growth cycle and can be used for all sorts of purposes after the fact, such as building materials, biodegradable packaging, and loads of other "green" and renewable applications.

[astfgyl]

https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/brazils-jbs-global-meat-processing-operations-paralysed-by-cyber-attack-media/

This one has quite the reach, South America and Australia so far.

What was it that Klaus Schwab was saying about a cyber pandemic? He's got the fucking prescience!