Getting Our Story Straight -- Honestly Framing the Climate Crisis
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Consider this. Unlike politicians from the last century, today's leaders cannot plead ignorance to future tribunals concerning the effects of their decisions. When President Obama sent his emissaries to Durban, South Africa, in 2011 with instructions to preclude any enforceable carbon reductions from taking effect before 2020, Africans marched in the streets and protested, with good science to back them up, that America's first African-American president was sentencing upwards of 150 million Africans – many of whom have nothing to do with the climate crisis - to death. Of course, the corporate media ignored this story, so you may not have known about those demonstrations.
Two years later, when the climate talks moved to Warsaw, Poland, - one of the cities most effected by the Holocaust - the strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in recorded history, "Super Typhoon" Haiyan, became the deadliest cyclone ever to hit the Philippines, killing over 6,300 people. Yeb Saño, a member of the Philippines Climate Change Commission who had broken down while addressing the climate delegates just a year earlier under remarkably similar circumstances, told the delegates: "What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness. The climate crisis is madness."
Madness. Climate Mayhem. Let's start being honest with ourselves. Words have power. Our political leaders and their corporate sponsors are engaged in thermo-chemical warfare on Planet Earth, recklessly placing all life forms at grave risk for the sole purpose of aggregating obscene wealth and power. The solutions to the climate crisis are not complicated...........
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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31372-getting-our-story-straight-honestly-framing-the-climate-crisis
