The science of climate change is pretty clear at this point: our current path leads to catastrophe. There’s plenty of uncertainty on the details, particularly in how fast and how much carbon reductions could affect the outcome. But that basic fact — status quo means disaster — is not in serious dispute. What if it were an asteroid heading toward Earth? What if it were a foreign power mustering an army to march on our shores? How would the media treat it then?
Answer that question and you’ve answered how it would look to take climate seriously. Just to take a small example: the failure on both the international level and the U.S. level to muster any serious climate policy is inevitably described by mainstream reporters as “a blow to environmentalists,” as though it’s some boutique policy meant to benefit a special interest group. If reporters took climate change seriously, they would say, “the failure to secure serious climate policy makes widespread suffering and destabilization in the latter half of this century far more likely.” I call this the “and thus we’re fucked” principle.
We’ve teamed up with Renee Yohe to give away a personalized version of her memoir Purpose For The Pain—which is out of print. Now, you may be more familiar with Renee than you think. Her story is what inspired the To Write Love On Her Arms movement. A movie about her starring Kat Dennings and Chad Michael Murray comes out this year. She is also pursuing a career in music as her project Bearcat will be on tour with Never Shout Never this spring, and she is working toward releasing an EP through a Kickstarter campaign.
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are so similar.
I’m beginning to wonder if my diagnosis was accurate or not.
Still manic. Still dealing with paranoid hallucinations.
I am not okay.
