Posted on 12/02/2014 3:04:23 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
... To grasp climate change, you have to think in terms of species and their future. To know how things have already changed, you have to remember how they used to be, and so you may not notice birds disappearing from the skies, or hotter weather or more extreme storms and forest fires. You need to look past the sparrow and see the whole system that allows — or allowed — the birds to flourish. The swallows, the chinook salmon, desert tortoises, manatees, moose and us. Addressing climate means fixing the way we produce energy. But maybe it also means addressing the problems with the way we produce stories.
Over all, climate change tends to be reported as abstract explanations about general tendencies and possible outcomes. It’s a difficult subject to tell and to take in. The scientific side is complicated. Understanding it requires the ultimate in systems thinking: the cumulative effect of all of us burning coal and oil impacts things far away and yet to come. A lot of it is hard to see.
Climate change is everything, a story and a calamity bigger than any other. It’s the whole planet for the whole foreseeable future, the entire atmosphere, all the oceans, the poles; it’s weather and crop failure and famine and tropical diseases heading north and desertification and the uncertain fate of a great majority of species on earth.
And so we should seek out new kinds of stories — stories that make us more alarmed about our conventional energy sources than the alternatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
rubbish
we have no dinosours in our back yard - thank you climate change
we have no dinosours in our back yard - thank you climate change
But it’s much safer now. :-D
And all the sheeple lap it up. What do most east coasters know about a chinook salmon other than they’re supposed to have a knee jerk reaction to man’s impact on ‘nature’.
Jawohl Herr Goebbels.
Didn't even CONSIDER writing stories that tell the truth, did you?
I agree. It's a calamity and the biggest lie ever told.
thanks for the chuckle...I needed that!!
If you search for this author, you will find that she is not a scientist. This article is about an imaginary situation which is not real. The earth is 4.6 billion years old. No one remembers how things really used to be. This is just plain silly.
Doesn’t the NYT believe in evolution? Don’t they believe that something will evolve to take the place of defunct species?
Can see the religious apocalyptic aspects of these liberal true believing cultists in this. (Climate change is EVERYTHING!).
And, I’m sure she’s a Darwinist Evolutionist but thinks like a static Creationist with respect to Darwinian theory That’s the irony.
Also, the convergence is clear - Hillary or whomever is the Dem nominee are running on this.
War on Women failed.
Dear NYT, it is called global warming. Climate change is called weather.
Check out the “writer’s” Wikipedia page. A real treat. (You’ll be pleased to know she is the source of the term “mansplaining”.)
I once met a guy from Africa that insisted flying dinosaurs still exist, said he had seen them and decades ago his father had given some remains to European scientists in the years after world War two
Werd.
All NY Times readers know about salmon is that it goes with cream cheese on their bagel while browsing the Sunday Style section.
Too complicated = Leave it up to us experts we know best
“The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet.”
“I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don’t think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, ‘tomorrow could be too late, let’s do now what we need to do’.”
“I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet.”
—Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005
Bin Laden blasts US for climate change
CAIRO – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.
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