Phonybaloney organizations designed to look and feel like theyre real. Messages honed by Public Relations experts to sound like theyre truthful. Payroll scientists whom polluters can trot out when they need them. The whole thing is big and complicated enough that when you see its parts, you could be fooled into thinking i. T. Not t all connected. But it is just like the mythological hydra many heads, same beast. And this denial beast pollutes our democracy just as surely as its sponsors pollute our atmosphere and oceans. Some editorial pages spread the polluter party line so consistently that it appears theyve gone over and actually joined the apparatus. The climate denial network controls the political arm of the multinational corporations, the socalled u. S. Chamber of commerce. Polluterfunded super pacs target elected officials who dont fall in line. Interestingly, often republicans in an effort to purify the party in a coalfired crucible. The whole deniers castle can look pretty da
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