Today we’re gonna look at Method number 9: Leaflets, Pamphlets, and Books.
And I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking “Oh, leaflets are so 1700’s”.
And I’ve been there, you’re walkin’ down the street and some yahoo gives you a leaflet and you’re like “Ah, dude, no thanks,” and he’s like “Oh, come on take one”, and even if you take one, you’re like “Okay, where’s the next trashcan”, right?
Leaflets are, by and large, bullshit. You gotta have a repressive regime or something where it’s really daring to hand out leaflets, otherwise people don’t want a leaflet.
I mean, if you’re gonna do a leaflet, it better be eye-catching, it better be funny right from the get-go.
When the Nazis invaded Poland they distributed a bunch of leaflets saying “Oh, the Germans are so great, look at all we’ve achieved.” So the Poles took that leaflet, and using the same exact design they created a biting satire. So the Germans thought it was their leaflets people were reading! “Oh, look, there’s our leaflet again,” but they didn’t realize that what people were reading was “Oh, Germans are dorks!”
If I was gonna use leaflets, I would hand ‘em out to people who were walkin’ into fossil fuel companies or Koch brothers think tanks or, even the network news organizations or their local affiliates – they need to know how bad climate change could really be. All most people have heard about climate change is “Oh, in a hundred years it could be 3 degrees warmer.” Big whoop! Why not try “In a hundred years it could be 18 degrees warmer. In 20 years it could be 3, 4, 5 degrees warmer!” No one knows, this has never happened before, people don’t know how fast it’ll unfold. Scientists are giving their cautious best guesses. Cautious! And more and more evidence shows scientists have been underestimating this. Besides, what if you were 5 degrees warmer and had a temperature of 103.6 degrees and people were all “Big whoop”, and you’d be all “YEAH, big whoop, get me to the hospital, bitch!”
So the news organizations need to report on what’s really happening because no one knows it, people are seriously uninformed! Therefore you hand out fliers outside news organizations, you get the oil employees to understand who they’re aiding and abetting, you get the think tank secretaries to realize they’re working for a bunch of the ideologue jerks who are essentially destroying to the world for her kids…or his kids. There are plenty of rugged guys who work as secretaries. No disrespect.
Also, you could leaflet government bureaucrats at the Department of the Interior or the State Department, people who can green light or slow down fossil fuel requests, and leaflet state government bureaucrats who approve things like fracking permits too! Let ‘em have it with how bad climate change could be, but always be sure point out that practically all the climate scientists got your back!
Another example is about books, which are quasi worthless because a lot of people have written a lot of books about climate change, “It’s happening!” “It’s a hoax!” Whatever! Books take a long time to read so you’re basically only gonna get people who agree with you to make that time commitment.
The book example I like was in the 18th Century this Russian guy N.G. Chernyshevsky wrote this book in prison called What Is To Be Done, and the censor thought it had already been approved by other censors so he just green-lit it and it got published and then became a blueprint for how to do a revolution. Very cool, right?
Well, just so happens that I’m hoping this blog kinda helps the climate movement that way. I mean, in my own humble polar bear way, this is why I’m doing this!
So, there ya go, that’s method number 9, Leaflets, Pamphlets and Books. Tomorrow we’ll do method number 10: Newspapers and Journals.
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