Desdemona's 6-Step Cycle of Doom

[Barrett808]

This occurred to Desdemona in the shower:

1. Environmentalists propose protections.
2. Industry dominates the debate and compromises government.
3. Inevitable catastrophe occurs.
4. Environmentalists are blamed.
5. Industry shifts all costs of remediation to government.
6. Repeat Step 1.

Desdemona's 6-Step Cycle of Doom

[MisterP]

1. don't forget "past disaster used to shill for new polluting technology"

note all the clamoring for nuke power recently after the gusher, or the blaming of Chernobyl for "fear" of nuclear power (which, furthermore, makes 0 sense, since it's a reasonable fear)

in 2022 they'll be blaming Deepwater Horizon for causing "irrational fears" about oil that led to a LNG disaster, or whatever

[Barrett808]

2. Good one. n/t

[MisterP]

3. got it from this jaw-dropping article:

http://www.cracked.com/funny-2360-the-1980s/

every other week or so they directly draw upon JunkScience or QuackWatch or some other under-the-radar corporatist crap-volcano meme-spewer

Penn and Teller also use "humor" to shill for corporations

[TexasObserver]

4. Is this another one of those bicycle threads?

He's going the distance. He's going for speed.