Gas Industry: Layin’ Pipe for 150 Years
February 17, 2022
Amy Westervelt has done some of the best work looking into the psychological weapons that PR professionals have used to perpetuate a “manly” image of the oil/gas industry, even to the point of threatening global catastrophe. I spoke to her a year ago.
More from Amy on the origins of PR, and roots in the fossil fuel industry.
UPDATE:
Climate Denial Crock of the Week 
February 17, 2022 at 5:02 pm
During the 2008 presidential campaign the Republican rallies featured crowds whipped into a frenzy of chanting “Drill, baby, drill.”
The psycho-sexual undercurrent was plain to see. But it largely went uncommented on by the political punditry.
February 17, 2022 at 7:27 pm
my favorite example is the way the famously gay anthem “YMCA” is the theme at every Trump rally along with cartoonishly hyper masculine Trump images, flags and memes.
irony totally lost on the crowds, of course, but extremely revealing.
February 18, 2022 at 10:41 pm
We identified it as ‘Mother Earth’ so maybe this is all our fault…
(of course I don’t think so, but consider the media environment we find ourselves in…)