The Los Angeles Times recently experienced a spate of layoffs, due to plummeting ad sales, weak subscription numbers, and (probably) woke editorial decision-making.
Now, a serious publication interested in enhanced readership and profitability might use this situation as an opportunity for self-reflection and course correction.
However, this is the LA Times, so it will double down. For example, the newspaper recently published an opinion piece from a University of Southern California assistant professor of environmental studies that gave the thumbs-up to the recent vandalism at the Louvre in Paris, France.
Shannon Gibson argues that these antics make less aggressive tactics more successful, as bureaucrats become more persuadable to enact climate cultist policies.
By combining radical forms of civil disobedience with more mainstream actions, such as lobbying and state-sanctioned demonstrations, activists not only grab the public’s attention, they make less aggressive tactics more acceptable and possibly more successful.I study the role of disruptive politics and social movements in global climate policy and have chronicled the ebb, flow and dynamism of climate activism. With today’s political institutions largely focused on short-term desires over long-term planetary health, and global climate negotiations moving too slowly to meet the challenge, climate activists have been radically rethinking their tactics….Criticism of extreme activism often misses a crucial point: Public reaction isn’t necessarily the activists’ end goal. Often, their aim is to influence government and business decision-makers.Objections to acts of climate activism such as the latest food fight at the Louvre are understandable but might miss the point. Protesters’ perceived madness is indeed method.
She really most be enjoying the European farmers protests, then because their activism may make decision-makers more willing to adopt policies that allow agriculturalists to grow the food and raise the livestock that people enjoy eating.
Now, it turns out Gibson is pretty proud of this piece:
However, there is no ability to comment directly on her X-post, as she limited comments to follows or mentions. How much respect is this piece receiving?
I noted that there were a quite a few quote-tweets, so I followed the trail.
When I checked, I realized their thoughts aligned with my own.
https://twitter.com/KaibaXBT/status/1753409224388813236
There are so may science-oriented challenges I could bring-up here as well:
- We are living an a geologic era of glacial expansions and retreats.
- Climate models are flawed.
- Statistics show that “the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations.”
- Carbon dioxide has been 10 times higher than current levels, and life has still flourished on Earth.
But the point I want to conclude with is that it tuition at USC is $67,000 per year. At that price, students should get more from their education than woke activism dressed up as a “studies” program.
I foresee more layoffs in the LA Times‘ future.
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