A Chapter from the OpChemtrails Information Booklet
The Royal Society in the 2010
document titled “Experiment Earth? Report on a Public Dialogue on
Geoengineering “asserts that “public attitudes towards geoengineering
should be a critical factor in considering the future of geoengineering.”
It is well known that agencies have been perfecting ways to manipulate the
public for some decades; incidents such as the Gulf of
Tonkin preceding the Vietnamese War, the
Nayirah
testimony and programs such as Operation Mockingbird only
further demonstrate a willingness to induce the general public.
Documentation detailing ways to better understand (and
therefore control) public perception of geoengineering proposals are well recognised;
including discussions, forums, information gathering, and networking between key
stakeholders, all to determine the soundest ways to frame geoengineering
programs when it finally comes time to inform the general public and begin the open implementation of said programs.
The document Public understandingof solar radiation management [3.4.
Conspiracy theories], details findings that include “2.6% of the subjects
believe that it is completely true that the government has a secret program
that uses airplanes to put harmful chemicals into the air, and 14% of the
sample believes that this is partly true.” “Conspiracy
Theory” is a disparaging term used to vilify and ridicule the very people
it is used to describe. By examining responses to different terminology and by
using focused terminology in documentation they are “no longer lucidly [expressing] the nature of things, but rather
[obscuring] and [distorting] them” (Chilton,
2); below is another example of this, taken from the same document [4. Discussion].
The word supporter has a positive
connotation, whilst the word detractor has a negative
connotation; when you search both words often (as below) supporters and shown
in green and detractors in red.
Ultimately this conveys the message that supporters of
geoengineering are more agreeable
and those against or critical of geoengineering are defiant.
This is further demonstrated when looking at the Cambridge Dictionary: synonyms,
related words and phrases.
Nobody wants to be seen as
opposition and many studies have determined that human beings do not like to be
singled out, ostracized or socially rejected, this is a key component used to sway public opinion on the topic.
Being labelled a conspiracy theorist or a ‘detractor’ will almost certainly
influence whether or not people object to or consent to geoengineering.
What They Want to Know
How widespread is public knowledge of geoengineering and SRM?How does the public perceive geoengineering and SRM?
How the seriousness of climate change affects individuals views on geoengineering?
What are key areas of concern, perceived trade-offs and risks (table 5 below)? I.e. what is the public more willing to accept
The role/opinions of specific groups/communities i.e. environmentalists, economists, media.
Beware the Geoengineering Salesman
Documentation
Public Engagement on Geoengineering Research: Preliminary Report on the SPICE Deliberative Workshops
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-VlNHZzhSVVlCMmc/view
Experiment Earth? Report on a Public Dialogue on Geoengineering (2010)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-OFU4SElkYTFvRTg/view
Beware the Geoengineering Salesman
Things we are hearing and seeing that show they are testing
the waters with regards to public response include:
Sales pitch: Geoengineering may be one
possible response to climate change.
What They Really Mean: They’re going to emit/spray us with chemical
& metal particulates to save us [example: To
Fix Climate Change, Scientists Turn To Hacking The Earth]
Sales pitch: Using media and imagery to
depict apocalyptic version of climate change.
What They Really Mean: We need to geoengineer the planet or we
are all going to die [example: COP21:
Can we avoid climate apocalypse?]
Sales pitch: Saying that it is
accidental rather than intentional.
What They Really Mean: Oops we didn’t realise it was happening [plausible deniability] [example: Airplane
Contrails May Be Creating Accidental Geoengineering]
Sales pitch:
What They Really Mean: We are just going to ignore the fact that aviation is having a detrimental and largely ignored impact on climate and weather systems and it is not adequately represented in any of our climate models [example: As the
effects of global warming begin to frighten us, geoengineering will come to
dominate global politics]
Documentation
Public Engagement on Geoengineering Research: Preliminary Report on the SPICE Deliberative Workshops https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-VlNHZzhSVVlCMmc/view
Experiment Earth? Report on a Public Dialogue on Geoengineering (2010)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-OFU4SElkYTFvRTg/view
Opening up the societal debate on climate engineering: how newspaper frames are changing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-X053YzhMZzFGQ1k/view
A Review of Deliberative Public Engagements with Climate Geoengineering
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-d3lkRENxc2IxX2s/view
Cognitive Epistemic Lock-in and Geoengineering
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-U2NaX2x5SDFDd3c/view
Deliberative Mapping of options for tackling climate change: Citizens and specialists ‘open up’ appraisal of geoengineering
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-NnpjRzhfVHBheGM/view
Examining framings of geoengineering using Q methodology
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-bzZtWUNhOFk3TTg/view
Socio-psychological determinants of public acceptance of technologies: A review
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-LWQ3R2VVU3hua2M/view
Public understanding of solar radiation management
The International Legal Framework for Climate Engineering
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxU9tnVzYv2-N0pEdUhMdEVQMHM/view
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