There’s a reason Naomi Klein begins her climate masterwork, This Changes Everything, with a search for “the stories that got us into this mess.”36 Australian science writer Gillian King collects climate metaphors on her blog, craftily wielding them to reframe key climate debates and combat misinformation. To bring out the futility of trying to outs

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the Green New Dealers, the Fridays for Future people. I hold them to a higher standard of honesty, and I want them to expand their definition of being green to include what we’re doing to the other species on the planet; to talk a little less about climate and a little more about solvable problems. So far, only Extinction Rebellion has been willing

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This emphasis had made sense in the 1990s, when there seemed to be a good chance that the world would take collective action to curtail carbon emissions. By 2015, however, it was clear to me that collective action had failed and would continue to fail. Meanwhile, what remained of the natural world was in worse trouble than ever, as every nation pur

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