THE LAST WORD. Let me fulminate! Pound the pulpit! Shout at the shaking sinners! The End is Near! The Apocalypse isnt a Movie! Batten down the hatches! Our consumption is consuming us! ---None of this works. We are at the end of the impact of persuasion, memes, great graphics and punchy slogans. We now read the last word from the scientists in this new report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The science can be seen straining at the outer limits of their rhetorical map, with phrases like, severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems. And if you read The Guardian piece below, it is noted that the UN officials wanted to go farther, with phrases that actually said outright that we will die. Conservative forces edited that level of preaching. But coming as it does after the Big Vanilla Smoothie of the Peoples Climate March, this report seems a rebuke to moderates who still think we can have a movement without direct action. Earthalujah!
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:25:33 +0000
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