Policy names invert the environmental damage they enable

Evidence

In the George W. Bush administration’s linguistic ecological camouflaging (Salant, 2003), the distant vision of the hydrogen-powered “Freedom Car” powered by “Freedom Fuel” was intended to deflect the public’s attention from the need to reduce carbon emissions by increasing fuel efficiency in the here and now. President Bush’s proposed rewrite of the Clean Air Act, named “Clear Skies,” was intended to spare the power industry from upgrading plants to reduce pollutant emissions. An initiative that favored the timber industry with liberal logging privileges in national forests was dubbed “Healthy Forests.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2686 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Euphemistic names let dispersants double as biocides compounding harm — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 830; Political administrations rename damaging policies with positive-sounding labels to obscure their real effects — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2686; Worthy-purpose framing legitimizes environmentally harmful practices — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2630 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Political administrations rename damaging policies with positive-sounding labels to obscure their real effects #expands (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2686