“The term natural gas does not explicitly convey the fossil origins of such gas, leading to potential misunderstandings and hampering policy-making,”

  • masquenox@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s a good idea. Words are extremely powerful - by dictating what something is called, you can frame a given narrative as this or that before any education on said narrative has even occured. People think it’s nitpicky, but it’s not - they pay propagandists a lot of money to come up with words.