CLIMATE URGENCY, EMERGENCY ANTHOLOGY 2, October 30, 2024
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-climate-urgency-emergency.html http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake: “Emergency” became consensus five years ago. Before then, a warming world was comfortingly called “global warming” or “climate change.” Then “climate catastrophe” or “climate calamity,” certainly not comforting labels, were recognized. And now “climate emergency” takes precedence, or “chaos,”at least among scientists and the well informed populace. Two examples from 2019: Brenda Looper in her column in the mainstream newspaper Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette (“Weighty Words,” 12-11-19, 7B) wrote about this rapid evolution of the language used to describe the increase of atmospheric […]