Posted on 09/21/2017 8:05:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Climate change is both too near and too far for us to be able to internalise: too near because we make it worse with every minute act of our daily lives; too far because until now it has been something that affects foreign people in foreign countries, or future versions of ourselves that we can only conceive of ephemerally.
It’s not surprising, then, that some years ago climate activists switched to a message of optimism. They listened to studies that showed optimism was more galvanising than despair, and they began to talk about hope, empowerment, and success stories. They waited for some grand extreme weather event to make the final pieces fall into place. Maybe the submerging of New Orleans would be it; maybe some of the rich white people who were battered by Hurricane Sandy would use their privilege to demand action. Maybe Harvey or Irma would cause us to snap out of our stupor. It hasn’t happened.
In Britain we’ve seen floodwater inundate entire villages; a pub that became a thoroughfare for a swollen river. This is what catastrophe on our doorsteps looks like, and perhaps it’s time we link these images to climate change with as much gusto as the fossil fuel industry denies it.
Could the language of emergency work? It has never been tried with as much meteorological evidence as we have now, and we’ve never had a target as clear and unanimous as the one agreed in Paris. The one thing I know is that the events of the last few months have changed the game, and this is the moment to start debating a new way to talk about climate change. It may be that if the time for a mass movement is not now, there won’t be one.
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She’s equating ‘weather’ with ‘climate’.
A fundamental Category Error.................
Socialism has been a disaster. We need a new language – desperately
Global Warming? We are all gonna die.
Climate Change? We are all going to die.
Planet X? We are all going to die.
The radical left has nothing. They must continue to create false crises. These power-mad fools totally ignore the realities of our climates which have been changing since the earth was formed. It is a multi-billion year “disaster”..(chuckle). What a farse.
The doomsday cultists are predicting their gods will destroy us any day now....
“People aren’t buying the con, so we need to rename the con!”
It isn’t Three Card Monte anymore. Nope. We’ll rename it “Triple your Luck!” Yeah, that’ll work!
“...a pub that became a thoroughfare for a swollen river.”
…which speaks to the stupidity of people who build on the watersheds of creeks and rivers. Austin, TX has this happen every time there is an 8” rain that inundates the bars built along Shoal Creek. Don’t blame the climate for this nonsense.
Hopefully, the government will buy out the land downstream from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs in Houston, so that 5000 homes are not rebuilt on the floodplain, only to be destroyed by a future flood caused by the opening of the floodgates.
Oooh, I know, I know... Klimate Kittenz.
lol
yep... natural disasters never happened prior to the industrial revolution!
ROFL
I wish these idiots could hear what we hear!
Marxist speak for “no one is buying our garbage anymore so we need to change the terminology and maybe they’ll buy that.”
Ping.
Funny the libs always point out that weather is not climate when it snows on their global warming events. If the weather does anything bad they scream about climate change. Weather is climate when it suits their agenda.
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