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The Climate
The state of the climate affects every living thing on the planet including the one human race left.
Why do politicians use such words as “fight” and “battle” when it comes to overturning the ravages of the decades of neglect of the earth’s biosphere? Are they speaking without thinking as many politicians seem to do or do they really think they are fighting and battling? The words fighting and battling are nonsense phrases in the context of the climate. In other words, bullshit. Mean nothing talk. Empty rhetoric.
I would love to hear a politician use a sentence such as; My government is initiating positive action that I personally will guarantee will hold the emission of carbon gases at their current level for our country. Concurrently, I will pass legislation that will reduce carbon emissions by 25% per decade for the next 50 years.
No garbage words. No bullshit. No weasel words. No fake promises. Just a factual statement outlining a positive plan. That is a statement that I, as a citizen and a voter can pay attention to.
We need to start using phrases such as “reducing”, “minimizing”, “conserving”, “capping”, “holding”, and “eliminating.” Get rid of all this fighting and battling terminology. They are mean-nothing, fake words. These words seem to indicate an enemy. But, there is…
