HGP250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kyoto Protocol, Environmental Policy, Disinformation
17 Dec 2020
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Dioxins, pesticides, chemicals - they said they do not harm. They knew nicotine was addictive, cigarette causes heart diseases etc in the 60s but in the. 80s-90s they calmed all of those were lies. You cant say directly t doesn"t cause caner but you can cast doubt technique. May be hazardous or may not be faltu. They tried to delay e ective policy action - to make more money. Babies born with highest levels of ame retardants. Flame retardants in teh house do not protect against anything. In teh 70s thousands of people were dying from re due to cigarette. They did not want to reproof teh cigarette (self-extinguishing cigarette) so they needed a credible third party to blame. They said re services are they enemies. Planted tobacco industry persona into re services re marshalls. Big tobacco was paying this man 200/hour what re services was thinking was volunteer work.
