Climate change moralizes weather, putting a potential Pulitzer Prize in every storm. The opportunity to connect a topic of daily conversation to almost any political agenda is also too good to pass up. Like a car alarm no one turns off, this framing can't stay effective forever.
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But it works for the time being, and it puts Mother Nature at the service of any cause whose proponents can write a grammatical sentence. It's a weird cultural moment between denial and whatever form of acceptance we settle on after internalizing that the situation is unfixable.
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Replying to @Pinboard
It’s not unfixable, though. The solution is and always has been: stop burning fossil fuels.
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even reducing emissions to zero tomorrow wouldn't fix it
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It can be fairly bad, or utterly obliterating. The difference matters a lot.
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That is true. But it is also unfixable, and I don't think the public discourse has caught up with that
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