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Thursday, February 07, 2008
The Suzuki-Nexen-Marqui Axis of Confusion
Oil industry firm Nexen works the oils sands. Money from Nexen goes to David Suzuki. As a result of the donation, David Suzuki gives Nexen the title "Nature Defender" in the same year Nexen announces a major expansion in oil sands development.
Nexen pays online marketing firm Marqui to say oil is good.
David Suzuki pays the same online marking firm Marqui to say oil is bad.
Makes sense? Of course not. Here's a diagram that probably doesn't help.
If you click on the diagram, it gets bigger, and you can study it more closely. I doubt it will help you make sense of this though.
What makes the least sense to me is why anyone pays attention to David Suzuki.
But if you really want to try and puzzle this out, the full story with links to the supporting material is at Angry in the Great White North. Good luck.
Addendum: I've suggested an explanation of how this works, but it's too cynical, even for me. But here goes.
Maybe this has less to do with the environment and more to do with David Suzuki being a player of sorts in the oil industry. He makes noises, the oil companies pay him off, he alters his message in some way and then sells enviro-friendly titles with his name attached. The oil companies tolerate, even encourage, David Suzuki's environmental message since Suzuki has to be credible in his role as environmental crusader if the oil companies are going to get their money's worth from the labels like "Nature Defender" that they buy from Suzuki. Meanwhile, same public relations firm handles messaging for both sides, making sure that the agreed upon positions are communicated properly. After all, neither side profits if the deal were to fall apart.
Like I said -- very cynical.
Posted by Steve Janke on February 7, 2008 | Permalink
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Dr. St. Suzuki has become the Jesse Jackson of climate hysteria. Just another shakedown artist who has abandoned all sense of rational thought.
I have a bookshelf full of books forced on my by my high school teachers back in the 80s. "Fate of the Earth", "Entopy", etc. Most of them preached doom and gloom 20-25 years in the future.
Well, here we are, 20-25 years in the future, and still here, and doing well.
Posted by: James Goneaux | 2008-02-08 8:36:20 AM
Mr. Suzuki has abandoned scientific rationalism in favour of partisan oratory. He knows the facts, but must have viewed Al Gore's success with climate change intellectual fraud and now believes that this is the better way. However, some of us are still based in facts and cannot follow where he leads.
Posted by: mgw | 2008-02-08 10:02:07 AM
Suzuki is what he is, an elitist, former scientist turned entertainer/ propagandist/ anti-human Gaia fundamentalist.
The useful idiots of the rent-seeking corporate world are far more evil than Suzuki. They will do and say anything if it improves the next quarterly bottom line. Don't ever count on these folks for principled support of capitalism, freedom, property rights or sound science. And don't expect any improvement while the business world exists in such thoroughly mixed economies. Mo Strong come to mind?
Posted by: John Chittick | 2008-02-08 11:23:22 AM
david suzuki can suck my fuckin cock
Posted by: dayton | 2008-03-13 11:20:33 AM
no he will suck mine
Posted by: curtis | 2008-03-13 11:42:00 AM
Stop it. This isn't a gay chat room.
Posted by: dp | 2008-03-13 11:46:14 AM
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