For the environmental sector, seemingly gaining ground in the fight for hearts and minds, this evolution of the climate wars has been a dislocating experience.
对于环境部门来说，似乎在争取人心的斗争中获得了优势，气候战争的这种演变是一种错位的经历。
Not only are progressive campaigners being forced to defend themselves against charges of elitism, but theyre having to do so within the confines of privately run walled gardens such as Facebook, where profit-seeking algorithms determine whose voices speak loudest, and those seeking to push culture-war narratives find fertile ground.
As an example of what the new battleground looks like, climate activists point to the gilet jaunes (yellow vests) movement in France which began as a protest against fuel tax rises but expanded into a broader critique of economic injustice imposed by haughty technocrats and power outages in Texas last winter that were erroneously blamed by many American rightwing pundits on the failures of wind power.
Over the course of just a few days in February, millions of internet users were subjected to disinformation about the blackouts, including a viral image of a helicopter supposedly being sent to de-ice a frozen Texas wind turbine, which was actually taken in Sweden many years earlier.
