Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute
“I’ve built a life here in the pot.” “No one else is jumping out.” “Surely, it can’t get any hotter, right?” “If I jump out, who knows what I’ll jump into. . .it could be worse.” Who are we bargaining with? The water? The pot? The rising temperature? We’re bargaining with ourselves, of course. Irreconcilable parts of ourselves are furiously negotia
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I’m not alone in having reached this conclusion. But there continues to be a reluctance to broadcast it. Some climate activists argue that if we publicly admit that the problem can’t be solved, it will discourage people from taking any ameliorative action at all. This seems to me not only a patronizing calculation but an ineffectual one, given how
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