Calm down, we are told. You're scaring people. There's nothing to be alarmed about. Our leaders have concepts of a plan for Green Growth, for sustainable capitalism. It's all going to be okay!
God forbid you point out to the calm-down guy the numerous conflicts of interest and moral hazards that have constellated around him or her for the past 30 years, a spirograph of wrong turns and straight up disasters his “calm down” crowd has cheered and supported.
Dark and soft money, advertising revenue, speaking fees, future jobs, board seats, university endowments, awards, hiring preferences, social media reach, financial markets, poll numbers, and on and on.
How can the “calm down” expert not see all this?
The oil industry and their attendant financial institutions’ almost preposterous hold on the government and its elected officials?
An economic system that has nurses paying a higher functional tax rate than billionaires?
A world climate plan that after hundreds of forums, treaties, and “net-zero pledges,” still saw emissions reach their highest levels ever this year?
But be careful. Because by mentioning any of this you are committing the greatest sin there is for the “calm down” crowd: stating the obvious.
All of it risks not only upsetting the calm-down guy’s delicate late-twentieth-century aesthetic taste, but worst of all, it might just get the people riled up, or in the worst of all possible outcomes, actually demanding change and accountability.
FULL ESSAY -- https://www.levernews.com/remaining-calm-about-climate-change-will-kill-us/
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