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Climate optimism has been a disaster. We need a new language – desperately
The Guardian ^
| September 21, 2017
| by Ellie Mae O'Hagan
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.
Its 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 hasnt happened.
In Britain weve 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 its 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 weve 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 wont be one.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; journalism; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Literally advocating for Newspeak.
Wow.
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posted on
09/21/2017 8:41:03 AM PDT
by
Luircin
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dear Ellie,
Life sucks and then you die.
XOXOXO
Chgogal
P.S. No matter what we do Mother Nature is going to slap us around. Nothing you can do about it except die.
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posted on
09/21/2017 8:48:24 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
To: HotHunt
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posted on
09/21/2017 9:01:49 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Good one. Ain’t that the truth.
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09/21/2017 9:13:16 AM PDT
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posted on
09/21/2017 9:30:52 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“too near because we make it worse with every minute act of our daily lives”
NO dear, YOU “make” nothing!
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posted on
09/21/2017 9:37:01 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...n Britain weve seen floodwater inundate entire villages; a pub that became a thoroughfare for a swollen river..." I think the author is correct, because these things that have never happened in recorded history, things like this are happening all the time now.
/s
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posted on
09/21/2017 9:39:35 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They’re truly getting desperate
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posted on
09/21/2017 9:58:47 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The twit that wrote this drivel...
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posted on
09/21/2017 10:08:10 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: rlmorel
You're right. It is well documented in our computer models that before industrialization and elevated CO2 emissions there were no floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, warm winters, cold summers, wildfires or any other kind of bad weather. The Earth was a perfect paradise.
(Don't listen to that old curmudgeon, Hobbes.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Could the language of emergency work? It has never been tried. LOL where has this idiot been living.
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posted on
09/21/2017 10:16:46 AM PDT
by
usurper
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“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———”
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Maybe if most of NOLA wasn’t built on swampland it wouldn’t have been submerged.
.
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posted on
09/21/2017 10:19:36 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: Slyfox
“Global Cooling? We are all gonna die.
Global Warming? We are all gonna die.
Climate Change? We are all going to die.
Planet X? We are all going to die.”
You missed the last line...”We need totalitarian socialism now!”
To: aquila48
She looks like she might have the intellect God gave a tsetse fly, but I doubt it.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Apparently, the new language they need is "Claymation", as in this example:
That medium seems to be more easily understood by young children, AGW believers and others who operate more on "feeling" than intellect.
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posted on
09/21/2017 11:59:54 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
L
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posted on
09/21/2017 12:04:34 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He who controls language controls much. Conservatives need to get on top of these things.
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posted on
09/21/2017 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
Bellflower
(Who dares believe Jesus?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oh my gosh....I think I lost 20 IQ points trying to work through that bit of logic. And I can’t spare the points at my age.
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posted on
09/21/2017 6:59:06 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/22/2017 4:09:21 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Bellflower
He who controls language controls much.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,
' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |
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posted on
09/22/2017 4:13:55 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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