The pre-propaganda seems be changing from global warming and rising sea levels to
"extreme weather events" this summer.
This summer I can't open the news and hear about "wildfires", heatwaves, record temperatures, hailstones, bursting volcanos and floodings.
Here just a selection of extreme weather events on CNN in the last month:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/europe/i ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/us/hawai ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/travel/sicily-airpo ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/europe/i ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/asia/new ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/us/hawai ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/americas ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/travel/heatwave-tra ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/europe/e ... index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/02/asia/sou ... index.html
Just a selection of the superlatives used:
- Extreme heatwave
- Unrelenting heat wave
- Deadly heat wave
- Record broken
- Italy burns under "Pizza oven" effect
- Terrifying wildfires
- Tourists describe horror of White Island eruption
- Thousands evacuated
- Hailstones the size of tennis balls rain down on Italy
In my private life, I've noticed it as well. I recently vacationed in Southern Europe and received four red alert notifications via SMS, warning of thunder, heavy rain, strong winds, and heat. However, none of these predictions came true. It was windy for a day, I heard no thunder, it wasn't excessively warm, and the "heavy rain" was just a few hours of rain at night.
It's "funny" how these events are presented not from a climate perspective but more from a surprised journalist's viewpoint: "What an extreme disaster! What on earth is happening?"
Now slowly the connection is made from ALL sides that it's caused by man made climate change:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how- ... the-world/
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in- ... -heatwaves
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/cl ... me-weather
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58073295
https://earthjustice.org/feature/how-cl ... me-weather
https://www.ifrc.org/press-release/clim ... -100-times
From a propagandistic perspective, it's very intriguing.
From one moment to the next, we
no longer hear about global warming or rising sea levels. This summer, the focus is fully on
"extreme weather events". The topic is everywhere; just check for yourself by opening any news channel, be it international or local. It's pervasive. It's impossible to avoid hearing about it, whether on the internet, TV, from people on the streets, or the radio. It's like an extensive branding campaign.
What's interesting is that this type of propaganda creates a greater urgency to act. As Jacques Ellul wrote about propaganda, there needs to be a buildup for people to accept: first, the idea that humans influence their environment, then the notion of long-term disastrous effects, and now the concept that calamities are happening NOW because of us. We see a buildup in urgency here, and I wouldn't be surprised to see strong governmental actions in the next two years, such as extreme weather lockdowns "to keep us safe".
It seems like a strategic move for the international elite. After the flu, this might be an effective tool for them to consolidate international power and "unify" us.
I'm taking more an observational view here on the propaganda, than on the validity of their claims, I think what we see now if that every outlier in the weather is now claimed to be an "extreme weather event".
The heavy wind wouldn't even be in the new 10 years ago, maybe in the local newspaper: "Last Friday a tree fell over because of the wind" with a picture of the firemen. Today the same event in the national news media. It's framing.
I have a background in marketing and propaganda, so I'm always intrigued and a little bit enthusiastic when I see these large changes in messaging and framing happening in real life.
From a moralistic point of view, it's ofcourse deeply harmful to the souls of people. A natural human feeling like fear and desire for security are completely gamed to serve the agenda of a few people. Leading to a wide array of mental problems people in modern society are suffering from.