new speak, doubleplus ungood... and i too still have my furnace running.
Posted on 06/01/2009 6:04:00 PM PDT by neverdem
Earlier this month a briefing paper for US government officials and environmental leaders on ways to "re-frame" the global warming debate in order to build stronger public support for climate change legislation, found its way into the hands of the New York Times (see Seeking to Save the Planet With a Thesaurus). Re-framing is a technique used by politicians to make radical ideas more palatable to the public by replacing controversial expressions with language that evokes empathy, cooperation, and a sense of interconnectedness. The concept is based on the work of George Lakoff (and others), a Professor of Linguistics at Berkley University and well known adviser to the environmental movement, who believes that if you control the language of a debate then you control the way that people think.
The report obtained by the New York Times had been prepared by the Washington-based public relations firm EcoAmerica. They explained that terms like "global warming" turned people off because they fostered images of "shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice and complex scientific disputes." The report suggested that rather than talking about "global warming" they should be discussing "our deteriorating climate." They went on to recommend that instead of using the term the "environment," they should use "the air we breathe, the water our children drink," rather than "energy efficiency" which made people think of "shivering in the dark," they should be saying "saving money for a more prosperous future," and instead of confusing people with "cap and trade," they should be using terms like "cap and cash back" or "pollution reduction refund."
The report stressed the need for aspirational language and shared ideals like "freedom, prosperity, independence and self-sufficiency while avoiding jargon and details about policy, science, economics or technology."
Of course, there has already been a major shift in the language...
(Excerpt) Read more at scoop.co.nz ...
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This is God having a little laugh at big AL!
Heck, even here in SOCAL it’s been downright chilly for this time of year. Today is June 1st, only 20 days till the beginning of Summer and it’s 61 deg. F right now in Thousand Oaks.
same here.
We should be using terms like communist red SOB egghead pinko fellow traveler com-symp domestic enemy’s.
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new speak, doubleplus ungood... and i too still have my furnace running.
Blackwhite is defined as follows:
“...this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink." —Orwell, 1984
Same here in NORCAL (Bay Area) — very chilly. Had the heater on in the car. Didn’t get past 68 today and 58 now at 8:15 PM.
I think we need to tax ourselves TRILLIONS of dollars to stop this.
After decades of dumping CO2 into the air, you’d at least think we would all have some evidence the planet is heating up, the teensiest little shred of irrefutable evidence before our very eyes. But there’s NONE I can see. None at all. That’s what drives me insane out the commies in Wash DC.
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Cheers!
Straight out of 1984.
“Ignorance is Strength.”
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
It seems as if Orwell was talking about the present state of our Nation.
And every one else loses tons of money and freedom if the leftist liars manage to get their myths enacted into law.
I suppose that's how they get their gravitas. ;~))
We’ve been alternating between furnace and A/C for a few weeks. It’s 40 at night and 80+ during the day.
If this were my house, I would have built it with better insulation.
more insulation, i heard that... my house is 159 years old!
Had the car heater on today. I refuse to run the furnace.
Wow. Because of cc&r’s, do you have to maintain it in original condition except for HVAC, electric, and plumbing, of course, or can you go hog wild and modernize the entire thing? Well, maybe just the inside.
What is that little purple thing? It’s not the dreaded people eater, is it?
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