Why We Need New Words for Nature
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 pool of carbon that really matters is life itself, as our friends at ETC Group say.4 The larger crisis is actually the erosion of biological and cultural diversity, and climate is just one particular dimension of that. It’s both a cause and consequence, but it’s not actually the thing we should focus on. What we really should focus on is the fu
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