Essays by Eric Worrall
“…If the law and the truth are against you, smash the table and scream like crazy”?
When heat records are broken, the climate movement has the right answer – but all the words are wrong
Jonathan Freedland
Saturday 15 July 2023 05.36 AESTThe fossil fuel industry has spent billions of dollars to attract the public. Green activists must learn from its tactics
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It’s happening everywhere – heavy rains in the Bible New Yorkunquenchable Fire in Canada – but humanity does not act as if they are facing a planetary emergency. Severe weather is fast becoming the norm in the US, but Americans tell pollsters it’s a low priorityrate it 17th out of 21 national issues in a recent Pew . survey. Even if the impact is personal, as it were For many Australians as bushfires raged across the country in 2019, attitudes proved stubborn: one study found that among those “directly affected” by a fire, about a third found no connection to climate at all. They are “immovable”.
How is it possible? How can we, like Nero, fiddle while the Earth is on fire? …
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This particular problem, like the climate crisis itself, is man-made – which is simultaneously infuriating and encouraging. Outrageous, because it spawns from a greed that puts huge profits above a habitable planet. Encouraging, because most problems caused by humans can be fixed by them. Join the climate movement – scientists, activists, campaigners who have done so much for a long time to fight this threat. Except, it turns out, They are part of the problem also.
Trouble is, they didn’t convey the threat big enough or in the right way. …
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Not yet “climate change” doesn’t work either. Only “change” is too gentle: it does not indicate whether the change will be negative or positive. It does not happen immediately: it suggests that its consequences will only be felt in the future, when we are feeling them now. That’s why this newspaper has the right to talk about a climate crisis or emergency.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/big-oil-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel-public
“If the truth is against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the truth. If the law and the truth are against you, smash the table and shout out loud.” Carl Sandburg
Jonathan, please stop wasting our time. At least try to be original.
Climate activists have tried changing the words many times and have failed miserably.
In light of all the falsehoods told during the peak of the Covid outbreak, the blatant manipulations, abuses of power, and confusion, more and more people don’t believe the wild claims of disaster. is about to happen again, no matter how you turn it around. put on.
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