I dislike the framing "we're in a climate emergency" because there is nothing meaningful people can do about it, either in the short or medium term. It's the equivalent of a blaring car alarm—people will tune it out. It creates anxiety with no outlet, not a winning political call
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If you see the analogy as useless polemic, I can only invite you to more deeply contemplate the magnitude of the social transformation represented in the call to end slavery (and not achieved—sharecropping and Jim Crow reproduced the slave system through debt arrangements)
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And then you might reflect on the fact that the call to end slavery was framed around a Christian project infused with sentiment that involved heavy moralizing and radical interventions, not practical appeals. And it worked! John Brown was a hero of the Union army!
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