Everything is already political
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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Climate change isn’t just about the weather. It’s about the shit we all do as humans - burning squeezed dinosaur juice and other fossil fuels - that is causing global warming and the extreme as fuck weather we’re now seeing, feeling, smelling and fleeing (until there’s nowhere left to flee to).
And that most definitely is political, Florida man.
Because climate change is already a do-or-die political issue and Republicans are on the "die" team, so if you actually care about the world being on fire vote for a Democrat.
That's the argument from the piece. Nothing new, interesting, or likely to be persuasive to anyone whose mind is not already made up on the issue of climate change.
Still just an opinion. They should have been politicizing it after Hurricane Katrina. Every hour the news should spend at l ast 5 minutes doing a climate update.
I used to have a subscription to the NYTimes, which I eventually outgrew a couple years ago.
I will say that there are few columnists in the paper that I agreed with as regularly as Paul Krugman. He's kind of a rare creature, I think. Most people wildly over-estimate their own empiricism, but Krugman seems like the outlier who really does look at math and then say, "Hmm... it looks like the data says this thing I taught to hate is effective at fulfilling my goals. I guess I support that now." And he's never been a radical, which I think gives him credibility.
So good for him. I'm glad he's out there, like Casandra, calmly explaining with a chalkboard to mainstream centrists why bringing a giant wooden horse gifted by your enemies into your guarded city is very unwise. I hope it breaks through from some people.
That was a good article. I meant “still” in the sense that it shouldn’t just be an opinion. They should have given him the front page. At some point, decorum and norms have to give way to the emergency we’re experiencing. He’s respected, so maybe he can make a difference.
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