TC had a video come out on the extra channel that i enjoyed greatly but oh my god the epcot energy ride is 100% big oil propaganda
I didn't want to pile on the channel, i like it a lot and i thought the video was lovely, BUT I NEED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RIDE.
Slapping the corpo's name on something fun is an advertisement for the corpo. That's why they agree to fund it. Advertising a oil corpo is oil propaganda.
Placing oil/gas in equal standing with renewables is propaganda. Exxon has a long history of using green energy to launder its reputation. The attractions from the 90s. they knew that oil/gas is harmful. With as long as the attraction ran with the same videos?? no excuse.
Calling natural gas clean was wild, and also propaganda. It is cleaner i guess, compared to coal and stuff, and it seems like this was written before the latest fracking breakthrough where it got much bigger?? But the show easily ran through fracking increasing without change so... Anyway the extraction of natural gas is unclean and really bad for the location, even if coal is worse. Earthquakes, poisoned water, etc etc.
Acknowledging oil is going to run out does not make it impartial; it both carries the implication that it is a BAD thing, and also that oil can/should be used up til that point and not just left in the ground. This is propaganda. We do not have to use things until they are gone. It is not a waste to leave things alone*.
The choice of the ride being dinosaurs, also a deliberate choice to associate oil with a cool things kids like. I don't actually think single-source things like this can be truly neutral, but to NOT have it be pro oil, it could have been a cool journey through literally any other source of energy.
oil wells immediately followed by farming connecting it to food is propaganda. Doing this with wind turbines instead would still be propaganda, just not supporting the thing actively killing humans.
The tiniest global warming mention (already complained by TC lol).
The video jumped a bit but it felt like it was framing all the cons of renewables at a weight higher that oil, going then maybe oil is running out. Like to this day i feel like ppl still go, oh solar yeah but isn't it expensive?
Anyway propaganda is meant to change your mind, not like focus solely on its subject (oil in this case). It can and usually is subtle and framed in something people enjoy. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, it is an unfortunate side effect of evolving to trust each other.
The Epcot ride comes down holding oil up as a normal option among everything else in a world where the humans ecosystem is being torn apart by climate catastrophe, even in the 90s. Tbh anything that does not portray oil as "something we immediately need to stop using" is pro-oil but i genuinely think the ride was much more positive than that.
*this also bothers me about ranching propaganda as well, when they say the land wouldn't even be used otherwise since it's not suitable for farming. Just leave it alone it's fine ur fine.
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