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Legacy fossil fuel industry sticks to deception, critics say
Original: A legacy industry selling outmoded outmoded, hazardous products and facing cascading energy modernization sticks to what
Commentators argue that a legacy industry built on hazardous, outmoded products is responding to cascading energy modernization by falling back on what it knows works: deceit. The deliberate spread of misinformation, they say, creates a communications challenge for politicians trying to talk honestly about the energy transition in an atmosphere intentionally clouded by the industry itself.
Why now: The fossil fuel industry's history of deceptive messaging as clean energy advances remains a live debate among climate communicators and politicians.
Evidence
- A legacy industry selling outmoded outmoded, hazardous products and facing cascading energy modernization sticks to what it knows works-- deceit-- and creates a communications challenge for politicians. Puzzle: how to talk effectively in an atmosphere of intentionally created… · SkepticalScience@scicomm.xyz · 4
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