The General Electric owned National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is sponsoring its annual “green week.” During this week NBC uses its programming to propagandize its viewers in ways that will promote the fiscal health of it’s parent company. GE is probably the leading corporate component of what can best be termed the eco-industrial complex. This is the network of companies that benefit from environmental regulations restricting consumer
choice and the environmental groups that do their bidding ostensibly in the name of improving the environment but in reality in an attempt to social engineer American lifestyles. This includes the ethanol industry and companies like ADM and more recently entrepreneur/rent seekers like T. Boone Pickens. GE is a major manufacturer of things like wind turbines and fluorescent light bulbs. Hence, the more global warming alarmism GE can promote the fatter its bottom line gets. William Yeatman over at the cooler heads digest puts it this way:

GE is a world leader in the production of clean energy goods and services that people don’t want to buy, like compact fluorescent light bulbs. That’s why it spends millions every year to convince the Congress to pass laws like last year’s energy bill, which forces consumers to buy compact fluorescent light bulbs.

Generally speaking, Americans don’t like being told what to do, so GE uses “Green Week” to propagate global warming alarmism and frighten Americans into accepting rules and regulations that force them to buy GE products.

Yeatman’s post is quite insightful and can be found hear in its entirety.