Here's one example I've found interesting. Wall street came up with this idea of carbon credits, an idea that will give them a whole new method of making money off the public. One specific connection is the Rockefeller foundation. They fund several studies and expeditions with the specific goal to study climate change. Of course originally, it was global warming, but it's changed to climate change for some reason. They also fund TV education specials where climate change is studied.
There's several problems with this kind of funding:
<ul><li> The mere existence of the project gives the desired results credibility. Humans are so easily swayed if money is backing the project. It's the ultimate peer pressure. </li>
<li> When the purpose is to study a specific issue, the researchers better come up with some stuff that agrees with the funding purpose. Researchers will be very selective with which observations are considered and displayed. </li>
<li> The goal of the study is to convince the public that there's a problem and that wall street (politicians) have the solution. </li></ul>
I always have to laugh when they show a lonely polar bear hunting on floating ice chunks. Then we here the narrator say how sad it is that the polar bears habitat is melting away because of climate change. That kind of tactic is presented to our children and youth who accept it as the way to interpret the observation.
