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Executive Summary
Many industries have been recognized as directly and indirectly causing climate and ecological degradation.
So far, however, the advertising industry has largely escaped accountability.
This report attempts to remedy the omission by looking at... the consumption-driving work & spend cycle... encouraged by advertising and... implicated in causing various forms of environmental damage ...similar dynamics occur for other products, services & experiences. This... supports the conclusion that if humanity hopes to make progress in addressing and reversing climate and ecological degradation, it would be prudent to rein in and change the practices of the advertising industry.
Authors
Authors: Tim Kasser, Ph.D.,
with Emilie Tricarico, David Boyle, & Andrew Simms
Tim Kasser is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Knox College, US, author of several books including Hypercapitalism (2018) and The High Price of Materialism (2002), and co-editor of Psychology and Consumer Culture (2004). He is a research advisor to the Badvertising campaign.
www.timkasser.org
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| REGISTERED LOBBYIST & SERIAL CLIMATE BORE |
Just this weekend in addressing the G20, President Trump stated that the Paris agreement “was not designed to save the environment. It was designed to kill the American economy.”
It looks like Kerry agrees with Trump’s assessment of the effect of the Paris agreement
STEVE MILLOY is a passionate advocate for Asbestos, DDT, Creosote and such other good things in life as can afford lobbyists to defend them. As the doyen of
The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC),
formerly
The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition
Created by : "APCO Worldwide, a communications consultancy with expertise in crisis management, handling sensitive political issues, lobbying, media relations, coalition building, opinion research, market entry, corporate social responsibility, and online communication.
APCO's designed strategies for TASSC aimed at establishing TASSC as
'a credible source for reporters when questioning the validity of scientific studies" and to
"Encourage the public to question – from the grassroots up – the validity of scientific studies'.
HE HASN'T AUTHORED ANY VALID SCIENTIFIC STUDIES, BUT HIS BANK ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HEAVILY DECORATED FOR ADHERING TO THE NATION'S COAL & OIL LOBBYISTS IN TIME OF CLIMATE WAR, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT
On Monday, the Utah Department of Public Safety announced members of its Aero Bureau—while performing a count of big horn sheep in Red Rock Desert in the southeastern portion of the state last week—came across a large metal monolith in the remote region...
Who, or what, might have placed the 10- to 12-foot structure in the middle of the desert is shrouded in mystery. DPS spokesperson Lt. Nick Street said that the monolith was assembled using stainless steel and pop rivets, suggesting human origins, but making it hard to guess its age.
" the material it's made out of it hasn't weathered—it was meant not to,"
The monolith's location will remain classified, DPS said, for fear that people will endanger themselves by trying to hike to the isolated structure."It is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from, "
CLIMATE POLICY: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20 NOVEMBER INAUGURAL DAY MINUS 60
THE WORK OF LEGATES, A WORLD FAMED
POLAR BEAR IMPERSONATOR
AUTHORITY ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF DELAWARE, HAS BEEN CITED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge
WASHINGTON — The White House has removed the scientist responsible for the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s premier contribution to climate knowledge and the foundation for regulations to combat global warming, in what critics interpreted as the latest sign that the Trump administration intends to use its remaining months in office to continue impeding climate science and policy.
“The Trump administration is ‘listening to the science’ by clearing out the anti-science promoters of extreme climate scenarios. These moves are long, long overdue,” he said.
“It might be a short-term appointment... If he only directs it for two months and a week, then he may not get very far, but let’s see what can get done in two months. Maybe the next administration will throw it all away, but maybe some changes will be adopted, who knows,”
“They’re trying to just do a takeover of all this stuff so they can control the National Climate Assessment thinking,” said Judith Curry, a former chairwoman of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in an interview Monday.
One of the new political hires was Dr. Legates, a professor at the University of Delaware’s geography department and now a deputy administrator at NOAA who has worked closely for years with climate denial groups and has argued that carbon dioxide “is plant food and not a pollutant.”
I'm just a small frog from a large pond.
`When we save the frogs, we're protecting all our wildlife... Vertebrate species... have backbones... Invertebrate species are spineless creatures like jellyfish, sponges, tape worms, leeches, sea urchins, insects, and members of Congress...
The Boiling Frog Party seeks... to have the thermostat turned down slightly on the global hot tub we all share, before we all croak.
The Boiling Frog Party is concerned about global warming... and the disturbing habit of Peruvian street vendors sticking live frogs in blenders.
