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What’s Missing From Most Stories About Climate Change

The manufacturing of consent

Aunty Jean
4 min readDec 20, 2022
Photo by Nohe Pereira on Unsplash

“Follow the money,” and you will discover the truth, the propaganda, the misplacement of responsibility. You’ll be told that human beings are naturally selfish. That the choices of the masses have led us to our current crisis, not the choices of the corporate elite.

We have been led to believe that the only choices we have are the choices that are presented to us by the ruling elite. We have been fed the lies for so long, that the result has been a blindness to the truth.

Constant stories of scarcity due to our selfish ways are told, to manufacture the belief that individuals are hopeless and helpless, and that we have to rely on the “experts” for solutions.

Such propaganda was manufactured to provide consent for those who rape the Earth, for those who tell us that “green” solutions are not viable. That we have to search other planets for solutions. We are warned that fossil fuels are the only viable option right now, so we have to pay more, use less, and accept our fate.

What if we awakened to the propaganda? What if we listened to the real experts — indigenous peoples? People who have for generations worked in harmony with the Earth and are providing solutions that will never be told in the corporate…

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Aunty Jean
Aunty Jean

Written by Aunty Jean

Constantly curious, dog-loving, politically progressive, book-loving, vegan lady. I want to keep learning every day, exploring other points of view.

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