Member-only story
Without This Advice on Propaganda, You Will Continue To Live in Fear and Division
Lessons for climate change drawn from Peter Pomerantsev’s fascinating book, ‘This is Not Propaganda”
Lenin said there are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen.
The latest IPCC report notes disinformation is slowing climate action in North America. In the same week, Putin shut media, jailed protesters and attacked Ukraine.
You may also be feeling all the information flying around. It’s a 24-hour news cycle dream. It had me thinking about war’s best friend, propaganda.
So I finally picked up the essential book by Peter Pomerantsev, This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality.
Why we’re post-fact and how did we get here?
“But if the need for facts is predicated on a vision of a concrete future that you are trying to achieve, then when that future disappears, what is the point of facts? Why would you want them if they tell you that your children will be poorer than you? That all versions of the future are unpromising? And why should you trust the purveyors of facts — the media and academics, think tanks, statesmen?
