How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows Climate Town

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Max Kennerly
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LANDMAN is ripe for this because it routinely has Billy Bob Thornton go off on wholly-untrue pro-oil rants.

His most famous one is about wind turbines not offsetting any carbon over their 20-year life cycle. In reality, they're fully offset within an average of 5.3 months.


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‪Kevin M. Kruse‬
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I think it's time the left start getting angrily political about routine stuff in TV shows and movies.

"It's an *outrage* that Dutton Ranch doesn't have solar panels!"

"They cast a man to play Jack Reacher?!?! What?!"

"None of the Fast and Furious cars are EVs? NONE? I thought this was America!"
8:58 PM · May 16, 2026

LANDMAN is ripe for this because it routinely has Billy Bob Thornton go off on wholly-untrue pro-oil rants.

His most famous one is about wind turbines not offsetting any carbon over their 20-year life cycle. In reality, they're fully offset within an average of 5.3 months.

— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) 2026-05-17T00:58:32.086Z

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1. "The Good Place" embracing factory farmed chicken

I notice it all the time. This bonehead crying about a bee in beef and then shoveling low quality meat into his maw in “Beef”. His character arc fit.
I can’t remember how Denny ended up in “The Citadel”. He was one of the most likable people in the book. I read it when I lost my mom - was obscurely comforting.

By contrast in the movie “The Discovery” Mara Rooney’s character wonders if animals have an afterlife (correctly) saying they really deserve it. I immediately liked her. Till then she just had the surface sheen of quirkiness.