{"id":3724,"date":"2010-07-16T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:57:13","slug":"bringing-both-sides-for-conservation-marketplace-from-american-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2010\/07\/16\/bringing-both-sides-for-conservation-marketplace-from-american-public-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing both sides for conservation | Marketplace From American Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, an energy company advises their customers on how they can conserver energy and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2010\/07\/15\/pm-bringing-both-sides-for-conservation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conservatives angrily ramp UP their energy usage<\/a>&nbsp;in protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussion then turns to how best to appeal to conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is BS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple thoughts here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Teddy Roosevelt was a conservative AND a conservationism. He was also pretty progressive and helped build our national park system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Republicans today only see national parks as a place to take their assault rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. The word &#8220;conservative&#8221; and &#8220;conservation&#8221; come from the same source. At least, in the traditional sense. You can&#8217;t say they mean the same thing today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. With their love of oil companies, and hate of the environment, and dismissal of things like &#8220;peak oil&#8221; and &#8220;climate change&#8221;, how the hell do you plan to appeal to folks that aren&#8217;t even reading the same book, much less the same page as the rest of us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. I imagine some of these conservatives are full-on Rapture Bunnies that think that if we destroy the Earth, we&#8217;ll MAKE God prepare the End Times. Or some crap like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short, these aren&#8217;t rational people. Anyone who wants to run up a light bill as a political statement is an idiot. Anyone who thinks oil companies are their pals and isn&#8217;t a board member on one, is a fool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I appreciate the view that everyone should conserve, but some folks are just too into their kool-aid cups to be spoken to on this issue. Trust me, it ain&#8217;t the marketing folk&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, an energy company advises their customers on how they can conserver energy and&nbsp;conservatives angrily ramp UP their energy usage&nbsp;in protest. The discussion then turns to how best to appeal to conservatives. Which is BS. A couple thoughts here. 1. Teddy Roosevelt was a conservative AND a conservationism. He was also pretty progressive and helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}