Time to stop having "wars on"
Now that the right wing has been shown to be wrong on Global Warming - (adding another item to the long list of Right Wing/Tory failure and stupidity - from slavery to suffrage to civil rights, the Right is always Wrong. ) Here our friends and enemies at the NYT give us a piece on global warming/climate change but call the human response to it a "war on warming."
It is not a war. War on warming implies some mysterious, dangerous force is threatening us and we must fight back. Climate change is not that mysterious anymore. We caused it - not some climate terror cell from Venus. It is very dangerous. But what we need to do is change, not fight. We need to communicate, move away from conflict - (even moving away from using war metaphors) - and toward community and compassion and intelligence. And we need to do it quickly. The truth of climate change is going from inconvenient to catastrophic.
Ten things you can do right now - here. (PDF)
It is not a war. War on warming implies some mysterious, dangerous force is threatening us and we must fight back. Climate change is not that mysterious anymore. We caused it - not some climate terror cell from Venus. It is very dangerous. But what we need to do is change, not fight. We need to communicate, move away from conflict - (even moving away from using war metaphors) - and toward community and compassion and intelligence. And we need to do it quickly. The truth of climate change is going from inconvenient to catastrophic.
Ten things you can do right now - here. (PDF)
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