HeyJaredChanging language in the #climatecrisis
How the climatecrisis is changing language, and how we can change language to fight for climate
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Our metaphorical climates (opens the original)
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English speakers have been using the term ‘climate’ metaphorically for over 350 years. Within 100 years of climate coming to mean ‘prevailing weather conditions’, the word comes to be used figuratively for the idea of collective shared attitudes or opinions among a community or nation.<div class="
One sticky, misleading turn of phrase (opens the original)
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They’re good at what they do, no doubt about it. Scientists are not trained in rhetoric or propaganda. The strength and the consistency and the repetitive of the messaging was so strong. This is a quote from a climate scientist who we can now say, thanks to a newly crafted verb for the ages, got well and truly ‘murdoched’.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhla!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.am
Big fossil's war on our hearts and minds (opens the original)
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I wrote a piece a few months back wondering why our putatively progressive Federal government has done no sustained campaigning on linking fossil fuels to climate breakdown. I linked to a recent report by the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group which wrote:anti-climate-action propaganda and disinformation networks have grown into multibillion dollar permanent campaigns, largely funded by fossil-fuel interests and their all
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