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Canada bet heavily on hydro as a means of cleaning up its carbon footprint; it is the third-largest hydroelectricity producer in the world. But with the climate becoming markedly drier in recent years, Canada’s utilities are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars to diversify their grids, in some cases leaning on power plants fueled by gas or coal to meet mushrooming demand.
I read up until the word “narrative”. Anyone using that word is way too influenced by corporate controlled media to be taken seriously.
I will die on this hill, because I’ve studied the evolution of right wing propaganda over the past 30 years.
Remember “Fair”, and “Balanced”? Remember “slant”? Remember “bias”? Remember “partisan”? “Narrative” is the new black, and it serves the exact same purpose- to convey the idea that everything is a matter of personal opinion, there is no right or wrong, and by extension there is no objective reality.
The purpose is to create a general sense that nothing you hear on the news is to be trusted, because everything is presented out of some hidden agenda, and since everyone has an agenda and everyone is obviously a miserly selfish narcissist like conservatives who ever only think about themselves, then why should you trust anyone?
Republican Agenda 101:
“Scientists say that a comet will annihilate all life on Earth one week from now.”
“Yeah they say that, but I heard that they are suicidal. They want the Earth to be destroyed! Did you know that they are also gay trans monsters who eat your babies at night? How can you trust them?”
“But the science…”
“That science was made by rich fat cat academics in the pockets of the government.”
“Actually, private corporations have far more inf…”
“*snicker* Oh great another nut conspiracy communist fascist democrat! What did I tell you, mob, they are all the same”
It’s so classic it’s not even funny anymore.
Everything is presented with an agenda, though. That’s literally the job of the editorial board: to make sure what they’re publishing is within the agenda of the publication and the publisher.
News outlets have used jargon and targeted exclusion of facts in order to present a certain take on a story without highlighting that they’re editorializing for as long as there have been news outlets.
It’s totally fair, and healthy even, to question the motivations behind the choices made in writing or presenting the news. Just deciding that some writers or publishers are impartial while refusing to examine how they actually present stories is just picking a team and going to bed.
Sometimes the agenda at play is valuable and pro-social. That doesn’t make it not an agenda.
why would you believe anything different?
You can only stretch facts so far before it becomes an obvious lie. Not everything is a matter of personal opinion.