Sentences with phrase «politics of fear»

It is my view that this industry has, through the «politics of fear» which it has promoted, acted against the interests of the public.»

Call it the «tobacco - model;» and, it's not one wit different from the British tax on tea: The blood, sweat, toil and sacrifice of the productive is going to this evergreen army of Western bureaucrats whose justification for existence is that they used attorneys, courts, juries and the politics of fear and envy to gain a choke hold over sectors of the economy.

The scientist is either a victim or a propagandist of the politics of fear.

This is the politics of fear.

So where are the denunciations of the politics of fear employed by greens?

We think the politics of environmentalism are prior to the science, but that it is expedient to the existing political establishment, as are any other forms of «the politics of fear».

Indeed, by drawing on the dangers of terrorism to justify environmental politics, Becker merely demonstrates how Environmentalism and the War on Terror are united in their deployment of the Politics of Fear.

According to many commentators, conservatives are now ascendant because they have invoked the politics of fear.

The «climate change causes war» argument is the nexus of the two main preoccupations of risk - and security - obsessed politics, also known as the «politics of fear».

The surprising outcome of the politics of fear is that it produces more of what its agents claim to eliminate.

The price of the politics of fear is the trust in public institutions of all kinds and their advice, be they corporations, scientific bodies and advisers, independent regulatory authorities, government departments, and politicians.

On the eve of the U.S. elections, a number of pundits and leaders — including Pope Francis — continue to warn Americans against an undefined «politics of fear,» while simultaneously spreading the fear of the nebulous enemy of «global warming.»

It is obvious that the IPCC deals only in the politics of fear and from the beginning was never driven by truth and honesty.

Most surely we must learn that the Leftists» climate porn and politics of fear will not heat homes and run factories that provide jobs.

That is to say the politics of fear demands not only that we accept austerity, but that we accept fewer political and civil freedoms, and that we put up with a government whose legitimacy is solely premised on the claim that it — and only it — can see us through some crisis.

A politics of fear demands that we sacrifice normal ways of life and our ambitions for the sake of survival.

The politics of fear will make you happy.

During the other most recent expression of a politics of fear, the War on Terror, countless attempts were made to make Saddam Hussain «Hitler», thus casting the leaders of the Coalition of the Willing as the Churchill or Roosevelt of the 21st Century.

On the other, I see people in the «real world» throwing of a tyrannical «dogma» and ignoring the cynics and the politics of fear.

So much coverage is morally biased towards one side that it borders on a politics of fear.

The politics of fear coached in scientific terms with a semi «clarification».

This is not just the politics of fear (which by the way is used far more by the right to promote war and secrecy and torture than the left to promote environmentalism) but politics by misrepresentation.

So why is it «politics of fear» when scientists state, even understate in the most cautious possible manner, the consequences of warming, but it's not «politics of fear» when pundits loudly proclaim that any solution would be too expensive?

Gourevitch has a point about the «politics of fear,» but historically speaking, when has a major national initiative not been motivated, at least in part, by fear of a bad outcome?

One possible way to not be indicted for a «politics of fear» approach is to take the «politics of hope» approach — I recommend Paul Hawken's recent «Blessed Unrest,» which not only offers an education about the background of the sustainability movement, but which also expresses the certainty that such movements are gaining adherents and growing worldwide.

QUOTE: «I think the best explanation as to why the «politics of fear» isn't working is simply because nobody has taken the time to map out and publicize the worst case scenario of global warming (perhaps it would be better put as «global heating»?)

So if quiet warnings are ignored, and the politics of fear is as empty as pornography, what is a message on climate risks and responses that is true to the science, but also effective?

I think the best explanation as to why the «politics of fear» isn't working is simply because nobody has taken the time to map out and publicize the worst case scenario of global warming (perhaps it would be better put as «global heating»?)

Alex Gourevitch, a doctoral candidate in political theory at Columbia University, proposed that environmental campaigners were using a «politics of fear» to scare people into action.

Conversation between artist Mark Titchner and filmmaker Adam Curtis, whose documentaries The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear have influenced Titchner's practice.

Conversation between artist Mark Titchner and filmmaker Adam Curtis, whose documentariesThe Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear have influenced Titchner's practice.

He is the first to declare his bid in a race expected to be dominated by him and former party president Tim Farron, who has expressed anger that the election was fought «on the politics of fear».

Now, with an age of unrest dawning, Labour will never win back the trust of the fearful by whipping up the politics of fear.»

In his victory speech, Snell said voters had «chosen the politics of hope over the politics of fear».

With Mair's trial now over, it's time to realise that pushing a politics of fear and resentment against immigrants is not a cost - free action.

«New York became the Empire State due to the contributions of immigrants from every corner of the globe and we will not let the politics of fear and intimidation divide us.»

Liberalism is not faring well against the politics of fear.

Nick Clegg came out fighting against Ukip today with a scathing attack on Nigel Farage's party for engaging in «the politics of fear».

It's the politics of fear at its worse.

The politics of fear, as practised in Britain by Labour, is ultimately self - defeating.

We've sent a strong message that the politics of fear are not welcome in London.

Democrats called on Americans to reject what they called the politics of fear and division of the GOP and elect Hillary Clinton during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

I'm humbled by our students» and staff's defiance of the politics of fear, and I would like to thank themand their families, the board of trustees and all friends of AUN, for keeping the AUN dream alive.

The politics of fear that we have seen during the referendum campaign, and the worrying rise in hate crime since the result, have dramatically demonstrated the threat to the values of unity, diversity, and solidarity which underpin much of the UK's international development work.

David Cameron today accused Tony Blair of using the politics of fear to cover up his failures in nine years as prime minister.

On Thursday, 15 of his fellow Catholic clerics (all male) took another sloshy step into the muck and mire of the politics of fear.

For a long time, he says, the Right has promoted «a toxic politics of fear and resentment, sometimes brewed with a tinge of racial animosity.»

On other occasions Trudeau has answered questions about Trump by saying Canadians «reject politics of fear and division» and also of «intolerance and hateful rhetoric.»

It has been a politics of fear this whole time.

And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «At a time when people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only get worse before they get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»