{"id":4899,"date":"2012-06-13T05:39:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T05:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2012-06-03T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T16:39:25","slug":"year-3-month-6-day-13-sexy-sadie-you-made-a-fool-of-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-6-day-13-sexy-sadie-you-made-a-fool-of-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 6, Day 13: Sexy Sadie&#8230;You Made A Fool Of Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/may\/30\/companies-block-action-climate-change\">The story finds a few legs in England<\/a> (not much Stateside, though \u2014 gee, I wonder why?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Some of America&#8217;s top companies are spending heavily to block action on climate change or discredit climate science, despite public commitments to sustainable and green values, a new report has found.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of 28 Standard &#038; Poor 500 publicly traded companies by researchers from the Union of Concerned Scientists exposed a sharp disconnect in some cases between PR message and less visible activities, with companies quietly lobbying against climate policy or funding groups which work to discredit climate science.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are in line with the recent expose of the Heartland Institute. Over the years, the ultra-conservative organisation devoted to discrediting climate science received funds from a long list of companies which had public commitments to sustainability.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bitch, bitch, bitch.  All ya ever do is bitch.  Sent June 3:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can remember the launch of the &#8220;New Nixon&#8221; in 1968 \u2014 a cynical public relations gambit that provided a discredited politician sufficiently shiny new trappings to get him elected president of the USA.  H.L. Mencken famously noted that &#8220;no one ever went broke underestimating the American public,&#8221; an observation verified by countless advertising campaigns in the ensuing decades.  <\/p>\n<p>When major American corporations make public statements about the seriousness of climate change, our first instincts should be ones of suspicion: are their words supported or undercut by their actions in the policy domain?  The Union of Concerned Scientists&#8217; report confirms yet again that the &#8220;corporate persons&#8221; exerting such disproportionate influence on US governance are morally deficient hypocrites driven entirely by greed.<\/p>\n<p>As an intensifying greenhouse effect brings us perilously close to a planetary emergency, we cannot afford to let capitalism run amok, crassly savaging Earth&#8217;s resources in the service of profit.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story finds a few legs in England (not much Stateside, though \u2014 gee, I wonder why?): Some of America&#8217;s top companies are spending heavily to block action on climate change or discredit climate science, despite public commitments to sustainable and green values, a new report has found. An analysis of 28 Standard &#038; Poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[467,680,861],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}