A couple of fracking billionaires have targeted kids for climate disinformation. It's an upsetting trend in education.
debunking — and tertiary textuality — readers’ comments — make this a messy and fascinating mélange that speaks to what’s at stake as the fossil fuel industry experiences an existential crisis.We”ll start with the falsely named PragarU animations, which are meant to be instructional technology that guide students toward a keener understanding of the natural world and their place in it.
In one clip from a PragarU animated video, a child utters, “I just hear that solar and wind are the way to save the planet.” A male with white lab coat, bushy mustache, and round glasses responds, “Unfortunately, many of the people who talk about how great they are for the environment give misleading information and leave out very important facts… For starters, even when the sun shines bright, and windmills spin fast, wind and solar just aren’t powerful enough to power the modern world.
The video is logically constructed, which makes it really, really scary. It sets up an “if, then” argument, a hypothetical syllogism, that acknowledges climate claims but immediately refutes them . The “important facts” that the fracking billionaires want kids to know are in themselves disinformation pretending to illuminate disinformation. Blatant and dangerous disinformation sets up convoluted opinions framed as truths and contestsPartial truths are deceiving yet persuasive.
And, duh, the renewable under discussion is not “windmills:” it is “wind turbines.” Using an anachronistic term calls to mind Dutch wooden shoes on small community inlets rather than the root word “turbo” and its associations with technology and power. For example,comprise an 80m tall tower, a nacelle for the generation equipment, a hub, and 3- 55m long blades. When vertical, the tip of the turbine blade reaches 140m. In total the rotor diameter is 112m.
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