{"id":7514,"date":"2015-04-23T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2015-04-23T07:21:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:21:01","slug":"anti-environmental-archives-launched-on-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7514","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/04\/22\/anti-environmental-archives-launched-earth-day\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already given your treehugger friends a big Earth Day hug today, please don&#8217;t forget! And I am of course more than happy to take all the Earth Day hugs I can\u00a0get!<\/p>\n<p>Why the hugs? Well Earth Day is reason enough I think, but an even better reason is because those working on the front lines to protect the environment deserve it. After all, environmentalists have been the target of ongoing attacks by corporations and special interest groups for much longer than Earth Day has been\u00a0around.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see hard evidence of this history of attacks check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polluterwatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polluter Watch&#8217;s<\/a>freshly launched<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polluterwatch.com\/anti-environmental-archives\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Anti-Environmental Archives.<\/a>\u00a0Here you will find more than 27,000 documents, scanned and indexed into a searchable database, chronicling many of the efforts by corporations, think tanks, politicians and others, to quash environmental efforts to improve our planet and protect the species that inhabit\u00a0it.<\/p>\n<p>Take a scroll through the documents that constitute the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polluterwatch.com\/anti-environmental-archive\/heartland-institute\" target=\"_blank\">Heartland Institute archive<\/a>\u00a0where, for instance you will find this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/1691716-heartland-institute-earthday-1996-newspaper.html\" target=\"_blank\">Heartland Earth Day publication from 1996<\/a>, making some pretty outrageous claims,\u00a0like:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe threat of ozone depletion is exaggerated\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0by well known climate denier and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/desmogblog.com\/s-fred-singer\">tobacco-expert-for-hire Fred\u00a0Singer:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/frd%20singer.jpg\" alt=\"fred singer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGreenpeace claims chlorine poses a major threat to human health. Scientists\u00a0disagree.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day If you haven&#8217;t already given your treehugger friends a big Earth Day hug today, please don&#8217;t forget! And I am of course more than happy to take all the Earth Day hugs I can\u00a0get! Why the hugs? Well Earth Day is reason enough I think, but an even better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[4910,1852,4911,1426,655],"class_list":["post-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-anti-environmental","tag-earth-day","tag-environmental-movement","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}