Selling Hell: Why We Are Losing The Climate [Hoax] Communications Battle

Alarmist ads fail for several reasons. First, there is an incoherent disconnect between the catastrophic problems and the mundane, domestic solutions proposed. Will viewers really believe that driving ‘five miles less’ can save Britain from devastating floods?
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Low carbon living can be sold as sexy, socially desirable and financially prudent without even mentioning CO2 or the planet. People do not buy hell.

After Copenhagen: Can we save the world? | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Capitalism combines an irresistible drive to grow, with an irresistible drive to create waste and pollution. If nothing stops it, capitalism will expand both those processes infinitely.

[Who are the people in this sparse group, and where did they get these professional-looking signs?] | AspenTimes.com

ASPEN — The Aspen Chamber Resort Association put a U.S Chamber representative in the hot seat Tuesday over the national organization's stance on climate-change legislation. He, in turn, challenged the local chamber to get involved in shaping the national group's policy.
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Peter Havel, executive director of the eight-state south/southwest region for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said afterward that he doesn't typically encounter protesters. It appears he didn't in Aspen, either. They gathered after he was already inside the Gant conference room early Tuesday and had dispersed by the time the discussion was finished, according to a local chamber official.