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Kasey's avatar

I love this: "The notion that the planet’s climate is too complex to understand and outside of human control is unacceptable, just like the notion that men are born men and stay men even if you surgically mutilate them to look more like women." So true.

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Kallias's avatar

I would call attention to another layer of linguistic innovation towards these ends: The semi-recent transition from "climate change," to "climate crisis," in media. This phrasing performs an end run around criticism of climate change (of course the climate is changing; that's what it does) by embedding the assumption of an emergency in need of urgent action into the discussion, before any debate ever occurs.

Unless this is recognized for what it is, a bid to determine the state of exception justifying unlimited expansion of state power, those who try to argue against the "climate crisis," are doomed to fail before their first counterpoint: They will have already accepted the framing that such a crisis might exist. Exactly what the high priests of the state want them to do.

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