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Tami Demayo's avatar

Great article, Quico! Would a tl;dr version such as the following help propagate this even further?

If you live in a poor country on the edge of agro-ecological viability, you are now experiencing a climate crisis.

If you’re a well-off person living in a rich country, you may be anxious about climate change. But you are NOT experiencing climate crisis.

Yet climate activists want your support.

They know it’s hard for you to truly care about people far away and not yet born.

So, they try to make climate change feel like an imminent crisis for you. (such as linking every domestic weather disaster to climate change)

It doesn’t work.

You probably tune out the catastrophist agenda because it feels—and is—dishonest. It might even turn you against the climate movement.

What might work?

1. An honest portrayal of the climate crisis and the people actually impacted

2. Practical, cheap, scalable solutions, such as carbon dioxide removal (CDR)

Marine photosynthesis —via seaweed or photosynthetic plankton— is the only pathway to cheap, scalable CDR technology on offer.

Wouldn’t you want to hear more about that?

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Stephen Penningroth's avatar

I think Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, “Laudato Si. Care for our common home,” got it right. If we think of our fellow human beings as our brothers and sisters, then empathy and compassion follow. Perhaps Pope Leo will be able to build on Francis’ efforts to bring together climate and what I think would be called prophetic religion (as opposed to sectarianism).

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