“This is a man-made climate-related disaster. To ignore this ensures our greatest challenge goes unanswered and helps push the world towards catastrophe” a Guardian headline.
Here’re two different people’s views on the Climate Breakdown components of Hurricane Harvey: Glen Barry and George Monbiot.
They both highlight, in different ways, that it’s away past time that those who care about the Earth stop accepting climate denial in its various forms. Firstly, deniers should always be challenged, and; secondly the conspiracy of silence in the media and by politicians must be addressed. Both denials, the active and passive, encourage doing nothing and therefore damage the Earth. Needless to say, we are part of the Earth and are therefore damaged too.
Glen Barry, the more strident of the two, states:
“Abrupt Climate Change: In Hurricane Harvey, Texans Reap What They Sow”
and
“Hurricane Harvey is a man-made disaster that has directly resulted from Texans’ oil addiction, anti-science denial, disdain for common sense regulations, and super-sized lifestyles.”
and
“You can either believe in science or in ghosts in the sky. If you choose solely the latter you open yourselves up to avoidable cataclysmic devastation.”
George Monbiot, less strident but just as forceful:
“The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down”
and
“Reporters and editors ignore the subject because they have an instinct for avoiding trouble. To talk about climate breakdown (which in my view is a better term than the curiously bland labels we attach to this crisis) is to question not only Donald Trump, not only current environmental policy, not only current economic policy, but the entire political and economic system.”
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