There is never NOT going to be a global crisis this century—repeated pandemics, wars over energy, and accelerating climate chaos is pretty much guaranteed in the next decades.
Global leaders must not use these crises as excuses. The world must phase out fossil fuels anyway.
Yes it's fiendishly hard. But we don't get this time over again.
At this point, the climate crisis *is* a short-term consideration.
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Even if fossil energy has enabled all the development of the past 200 yrs—and even if safe energy is intermittent & cannot power some things we love, like flying—it STILL seems 100% worth it to me to have life on earth continue rather than end. I mean, come on!
I like steel skyscrapers and summer trips to Paris just like the next girl. Not sure they're worth dying for, tho.
The idea that the thing people working on climate CANNOT TOUCH is "our way of life" seems super weird to me.
Wow these two paragraphs together really give the game away.
The NYT really doesn't want to admit that racist speech is hate speech.
Instead they accuse progressives of making people of "good faith" uncomfortable for "challenging" people in ways they might find "offensive."
People should be allowed to be racists, damn it!
They should be allowed to "take take unpopular but good-faith positions on issues that society is still working through" without fearing "cancellation."
I wonder who defines "good faith" in these cases?
To me, someone acting in good faith would *welcome* being called out for inadvertent racist behavior and would not double down in ways that would require "cancellation."
One of my least favorite forms of climate commentary is dunking on climate activists for being stupid and/or wrong about climate politics when the pundit, himself, is stupid and/or wrong about climate politics.
Take this @mattyglesias substack attacking Sunrise....
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First of all, Yglesias accuses "the left" of believing that "there is a latent desire among the mass public...for sweeping climate-related change."
Seriously? Literally no-one believes that.
Did he not see Don't Look Up? Has he not read any climate comms scholarship?
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One of the biggest challenges facing the world is the fact that the American electorate is only weakly committed to climate action, even as the number of people who are alarmed and concerned about the climate crisis continues to grow.
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"We have left the decades of [science] doubt and denial behind, and we have entered the era of 'blah blah blah,' as Greta Thunberg so succinctly puts it.
Climate communication must evolve to adapt to this new era."
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"First, it should seek to inspire the majority who are concerned and alarmed about the climate crisis to adopt the kind of committed, even revolutionary fervor that can lead people collectively to replace our current stakeholders with leaders who will transform our systems."
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I would love to see proponents of using solar #Geoengineering, rather than complaining about cancel culture & calling for the protection of "science" from politics (I mean, lol), actually address the reasoned claims about geoengineering these scientists are making👇
First, they argue that "First, the risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known."
Is this not true?
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Are proponents of using solar #Geoengineering claiming that the risks *can* be fully known, or that we should develop and deploy technologies to dim the sun without fully understanding the risks?
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