What we need instead is a climate version of the Serenity Poem. God grant us the courage to electrify the things we can, the serenity to accept emissions from the things we can't, and the wisdom to pursue carbon sequestration and geoengineering projects that make a difference.
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The long lag time with climate impacts means that even if humanity disappeared tonight, we'd have decades of heating ahead of us. So no matter what policies we adopt, "the world is burning!" climate journalism has a bright future. Every year the hot takes will get hotter.
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This is the kind of climate coverage I find vexing. It's like constantly telling someone "get scared—you have incurable cancer!" instead of talking about what it means in practical terms, letting the patient know what to expect, and helping them learn to live in this new realitypic.twitter.com/4OpLbuh7tV
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Apocalyptic climate coverage is only going to encourage denialism and apathy, as well as a backlash once people notice that their lives go on pretty much as before in a warming world. We have a chance to get this right and channel people's alarm in a more constructive direction.
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I’m sorry that you can’t burn more fossil fuels and create utterly terrible indoor air quality for yourself, but the thing is that the only way we can even limit the awful damage here is via a huge array of different policies including quickly phasing out gas for cooking/heating.
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Well, climate change might solve that issue for you
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Thoughts and prayers.
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Gas stoves are bad for other reasons, but also methane is a very potent greenhouse gas and the distribution infrastructure is shockingly leaky.
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Yet fixing that infrastructure doesn't feature - instead, offload the efforts to the general population. Because profits.
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We're toast. I've been worrying about this sort of thing since the Reagan admin and we've gotten no closer to even approximating the level of international coordination required.
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you should be using wildfires to bake your sourdoughs as nature intended
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