Thread by @SteB777

With every other issue, when governments/politicians/the media want to change public attitudes, they use fear.

Yet, bizarrely with climate change and it's dangers, they tell us they mustn't spread fear, because it is counter-productive.

I say, this is blatant gaslighting.
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https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1941136780625142210

I say the reason that governments/politicians/the media don't want to communicate climate change dangers with the fear tactics, they use to change public attitudes and opinion, with every other issue, is because they don't want the public to demand climate action
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Just think about it for a moment. With every other issue from drugs, smoking, crime, obesity, and now with immigration, terrorism, threats of other powers, the left, what tactics do they reach for, but fear tactics, because it works?
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Yet, sagely, we are told fear tactics won't work to change public attitudes over climate change, people will switch off, become paralysed, so governments/politicians/the media all downplay the dangers of climate change.
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Has this downplaying the dangers of climate change worked? Well, hell no!

The public have become indifferent to the dangers of climate change, don't think about it too much, and mistakenly think the economy is more important.
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I say, this big lie, is no accident. It is now clear that governments, politicians and big business, never actually wanted to address the climate crisis, only to pretend they wanted to address, and then break their pledges.

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Surely, it is no coincidence, that 33 years after pledging to address the climate crisis at the 1992 Rio Earth, it is clear that our politicians lied, and they never any intention of phasing out fossil fuel burning. That is why they have made people, indifferent to the danger.
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Can anyone name any other major issue, where governments/politicians/the media have thought it was necessary to take action, and change public attitudes, but where they have deliberately, downplayed the dangers?

I can't think of any. Am I missing something?
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I say, this false claim, that we must downplay the dangers of climate change, to supposedly get the public behind climate action, is the biggest orchestrated lie, and instance of gaslighting, in human history.
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Let us look at a parallel, the ongoing genocide, war crimes and humanitarian crisis, in Gaza. Western governments/the media, support Israel, so they dispute it is genocide, don't show the child, and indeed adult victims, and there is an orchestrated attempt to downplay it.
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Funny how, when Western governments/politicians/the media, don't want the public to demand action over the genocide in Gaza, that they use exactly the same downplaying tactic, they have used with the climate crisis.
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In fact, these are very close parallels. The only types of protest, governments are trying to suppress in a very orchestrated and oppressive way, are climate protests, and protests about genocide, in Gaza.

I suggest this is not a coincidence.
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Governments and the media, especially, Western countries, are actively trying to suppress activists, from alerting the public about these crises, to stop the public demanding action. Protests, are a way to circumvent the oligarch owned media, suppressing public awareness.
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The circumstantial evidence, is very strong. For the last 33 years, our governments, corporations and the media, have in a very orchestrated way, been deliberately downplaying the dangers of climate change, and falsely claiming they had technofixes to the climate crisis.
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All to make the public indifferent to the climate crisis, so that the public wouldn't demand climate action, and to stop it becoming a big political issue, in elections.
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This is epic lying and gaslighting, because with every other danger or hazard, governments/politicians/the media, use blatant fear tactics, to change public attitudes - EXCEPT with regard to climate change.
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If anyone disputes what I say, please cite any other example, where governments/politicians/the media, have wanted public attitudes to change, but where they have not primarily used fear tactics, to change public attitudes?
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Please don't claim, I've restricted anyone responding to my question, by making it so only accounts I follow, can respond. Just quote repost my question, if you can cite exceptions to what I've said.
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