AThere is a secular who lived in black summer forest fires in Australia and the Covid-19 crisis in the United States. We have seen directly how science in modern societies is under siege of a “anti-anti-virus” more than a misleading information of weapons that undermine our ability to confront these Azaj.
There are five primary forces connected behind the attack on science and reason. We call them “Five Ps”: Plutocrats, Petrostates, Pros (like promoters paid for science control), and advertising-with important exceptions- Media. Together, she was born with an ideal storm of anti -self -threatening information now.
A thorny network of actors including Bluetocrats in the United States and Australia, along with Bruce, liberal technology, and Petrostates such as Russia and Saudi Arabia Fund and anti -deception, with ideological motives. They collectively use armed social media, podcasts, and right -wing news news as preferred tools. The goal is to immerse the public with fossil -friendly advertising that undermine climate work or public health measures, including vaccinations. Scientists are often depicted as enemies or bad guys. The public of public opinion is very important to the informed vote.
When Mike was in Australia during the black summer in 2020, he warned of the threat that the climate denying the Murdoch Empire pose the media with its dominant influence on the media scene. However, despite this negative media environment, the Australian people have proven that they are noticeably flexible in misinformation campaigns.
This does not mean that Australian politicians are completely on board with the necessary measures to avoid catastrophic warming. Mike and his colleagues Chris Wright (not the CEO of climate fossil fuel appointed to the US Department of Energy by Donald Trump, but the climate policy expert at the College of Business Administration at Sydney University) criticized the previous coalition government for its racist resistance to its imbalance. Australia ranked last among United Nations member states in climate ambition under the Alliance base. The current Labor Party government continues to criticize its support for expanded fossil fuel infrastructure.
However, unlike the United States, which has proven to be particularly vulnerable to anti-science information (after the 250-year-old government has now been elected, Australia-which was standing at a crossroads four years ago-chose to take a different path. It was elected a government that respects science and mind, even if It is somewhat short Its obligations (such as 43 % reduction in carbon emissions by 2030). Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz, at least, admitted climate change like An existential threatWhile Donald Trump rejected it as a deception.
The division is crying equally when it comes to the Covid-19 epidemic. The numbers tell the story. Consider Texas, where Peter lives and works. It has almost the same population as the entire nation of Australia. But by September 2022, 90,000 Texas died of Kovid 19 (Perhaps approximately 40,000 Those who rejected Covid vaccinations after they were widely available). This is nearly four times the total number of Australian Covid-19 death.
What explains the varying path of these two western countries when it comes to accepting science and science sciences based on science? A number of decisive factors allowed Australians to elect a more climate government despite complete immersion with climatic misinformation by Murdoch media and other conservative news. Certainly, the permanent legacy of the black summer was a worker. But there were also several main features of the Australian elections: mandatory vote, the absence of partisan distribution and preferential vote or “arranged option”.
In the United States, the party distribution was established, for example, a, a, a, a, a, a, a. Gallup survey Last year, I found that 61 % of the United States adults were concerned about the climate crisis. However, US policies are currently defined by a party This denies The primary presence of climate change.
While there is a modest step In some states Towards voting to choose the ranking, major changes in the American electoral system, such as compulsory vote, will be likely to vote in the short term. It includes a more applicable method to attack the problem in its source: the well -organized and funded misinformation machine.
In April 2021, Mike was among a number of witnesses, including former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnboul, who I spoke Against the Marduch Meroesh Machine during the Australian Senate Diversity. Later that year, the Labor and Greens Party called for an official investigation into the “dangerous monopoly” of the Murdoch Media Empire. The reviews that monitor the media that are monitoring every two years ongoing now, with The first report Issued earlier this year.
The Australian Broadcasting Company has also connected the Murdoch Empire, as it has broadcast a two -part documentary series Fox and the big lie On the noisy objections of Marduk.
Since we are in detail in the science of our book under the siege, no media entity to spread climate and mislead the anti-science information from Covid-19 from Fox News. As far as they paid the price of their promotion of lies regarding election machines and voting for the year 2020, it is time for clothes that attack science and scientists to pay the price of the threat they constitute for human civilization.