Adam McKay, the director of Don't Look Up, says: "Remaining calm about climate change will kill us"...
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Anyone insisting that you “calm down” about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes at our doorstep.

When you express alarm about how rapidly the climate is warming, the “calm down” crowd will correct you with the most remedial facts. They believe that for you to be so bothered when they are not, there must be a fundamental misunderstanding on your part.

“You do know the global warming temperature is taken from a multiyear average, not single extreme heat events, right?” they will say, like a bemused uncle gently letting the kids know that elephants don’t actually talk like they do in story books.

But be careful. Because by mentioning any of this you are committing the greatest sin there is for the “calm down” crowd: stating the obvious.

So adverse is this group to stating the obvious that after a while, “the obvious” or the “semi-obvious” pretty much never gets stated at all.

The oil industry and their attendant financial institutions’ almost preposterous hold on the government and its elected officials?

An economic system that has nurses paying a higher functional tax rate than billionaires?

A world climate plan that after hundreds of forums, treaties, and “net-zero pledges,” still saw emissions reach their highest levels ever this past year?

All of it risks not only upsetting the “calm down” guy’s well-developed delicate late-twentieth-century aesthetic taste, but worst of all, it might just get “the people” riled up or in the worst of all possible outcomes, actually demanding change and accountability.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.levernews.com/remaining-calm-about-climate-change-will-kill-us/

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