The climate story must balance talk of urgency with hopeful and creative ideas if we are to inspire positive change"Hell is coming," one weather forecaster tweeted this week, warning not of further political turmoil but of the hottest heatwave in decades that's advancing across continental Europe. Extreme weather events like this remind us that climate change is not a remote and distant threat - but a reality that is already taking an unacceptable human toll.In recent months, Extinction Rebellion and the school climate strike have turned up the heat on the climate debate. They've both done an astonishing job of getting the climate change back on the public and political agendas. Their warnings of impending apocalypse, disruptive tactics and robust demands that others "tell the truth" about climate change have made huge waves. Parliament has declared a climate emergency. The Guardian has updated its own editorial guidelines to use language that accurately reflects the threat that climate change poses. Continue reading...
We're stuck in a climate disaster movie - it's time to rewrite the script | Nicky Hawkins
26. června 2019 13:00
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/26/climate-disaster-script-urgency-change
Zdroj: The Guardian