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The coal industry front "organization" called americaspower.org features a blog by "balanced energy" flak Joe Lucas, who cautions his readers about over-dependence on wind power (http://www.americaspower.org/News/Behind-the-Plug/Gone-With-The-Wind, 3/15/08) This is the same man who, in an interview with the Advocate, said carbon dioxide -- also the gas that humans breathe out -- isn't a contributor to global warming because if it were, he rationalized, "the government would have to ask us all to stop breathing." (http://www.greenwashing.net/, 3/15/08) This raises the question of titles. Technically Lucas is "ABEC's vice president of communications." Or according to another bio online, he's "the Executive Director of Americans for Balanced Energy Choices." Should citizens who are interested in exposing the industrial propaganda of the greenhouse gas emitting industries also adopt impressive sounding names and titles? Would it lend authority to their work? |