(((Cindy Weinstein)))Thank you @stevesilberman for sharing this.
Lorraine
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Mostly concerned about climate change. Though still enjoy life; reading, weaving, family, community & dog. Always aiming for consensus rather than a fight. #XR #climatechange #climatejustice
Bread and CircusesThe estimable Umair Haque, with one of his strongest and most devastating pieces...
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“We Should Stop Calling It Climate Change — And Start Calling It Extinction"
Climate change? The climate isn’t changing. It’s heating. Rapidly. Faster than at any point in hundreds of millions of years. It’s heating so fast that this is the stuff entire geotemporal boundaries are made of — “ages” in geological history. So fast that it’s shattering scientists’ worst predictions — and making reality look like a sci-fi movie.
Do you know who invented the term “climate change”? Frank Luntz. The Republican “strategist.” Why?
In the early 2000s, Luntz rebranded global warming as “climate change” because it sounds far, far less dangerous, problematic, severe, worrisome. The usual network of right-wing think tanks and media outlets immediately — as if by design — began to use it. And the rest is history. By now, all of us use a term that a Republican strategist came up with to make global warming sound less dangerous, and wonder why we can’t fix the planet.
Too many of us have fallen for a branding campaign. One designed to pull the wool over eyes about, oh, only the most urgent issue on Earth, on which your life and prosperity very much depend, too. Just ask the 5 million people a year dying of climate cha — global warming. Oh wait, you can’t, because they’re dead.
Sorry to be harsh — but I feel we have to speak honestly about such matters. Because, of course, there is no doubt about what’s happening to the planet. It’s not cooling, it’s warming, it’s not natural, it’s profoundly unnatural, as in human-made, and even at that, made by a certain lifestyle of rampant overconsumption, sprawl, greed, and materialism.
And here we are, just two short decades later. The planet has heated dramatically. People are dying from killer heat. We need a whole new vocabulary to describe how rapidly and badly the temperature’s rising. “Summer” doesn’t quite mean what it used to. It’s now a time of mortal danger for people, whether from “heat domes” or “megafires” or “megafloods” or “megafires” and so on.
And yet we’re still using the vocabulary of global-warming deniers to describe all this: “climate change.”
It’s not “climate change.” It never was. It’s “global warming,” yes. But even more than that, it’s Extinction.
Extinction doesn’t mean “all the life on planet Earth dies,” it means that mass extinction happens on a scale we have yet to comprehend — across the planet, to all life, millions of species, in every biome and ecology. It means ecosystems collapse, and with them everything we rely on, from the bees that pollinate the plants that provide us with the resources we need and the air we breathe, to our supply chains being destroyed by mega-weather. It means millions and millions of people die from the resulting chaos and collapse that ensues. And our civilization, and everything it entails — economy, society, democracy, culture — is hardly likely to survive an event like that intact.
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#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #Extinction
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Anatol StefanowitschEin Problem im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs um die Klimakatastrophe ist, dass wir uns in verschiedenen Phasen der Trauer um den Planeten befinden: Die Mehrheit ist noch in der 1. Phase (Leugnen), die CO₂-Abhängigen bewegen sich gerade in die 2. Phase (Zorn, gerichtet gegen die Klimaaktivist*innen), die Politik steckt seit 30 Jahren in der 3. Phase (Verhandeln) fest, die klimabewegte Jugend steht vor der 4. Phase (Depression und Leid). Bis wir in der 5. Phase (Akzeptanz) sind, brennt die Erde.
Fen CThere's a point in the corruption & degradation of a country's politics where nothing short of a #big_reset ("break glass in emergency") will do any good.
IMO the "U"K🇬🇧 is well beyond that point.
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Pete@denny if BBC News had journalistic integrity they would look at the language the government are using and compare it with what Nazi Germany used in the 1930s, and bring in a few political and social scientists and anthropologists, and experts in hate language and the rise of fascism, and come to some reasonably objective conclusion. Rather than attacking the person.
GeorgiaI'm speechless over this attempt to censor the truth about wildlife decline. What the hell, BBC? Stop pandering to far right sensibilities and #AirTheFinalEpisode !
#Wildlife #nature #conservation #biodiversity
WinstanleyRT @AlexTaylorNews
The Germans, who know a thing about fascist language say : "wehret den Anfängen" - look out for the beginnings
@GaryLineker
is right to point out that today's anti-migrant language can be such a "beginning"
The nazis started dehumanising people bit by bit, day by day, for years
Radical Graffiti
Jon WorthIt shouldn't be news
But as von der Leyen once flew from Wien to Bratislava, it is
And that she took a train to London is progress of sorts...
