all 17 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Seriously. Climate change is the most useless term, it doesn't have the necessary oomph. Call it climate destruction.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I think The Guardian has committed a few years ago to call it the 'climate crisis' (they also have a dedicated category page with the title). But yeah, language matters. I tend to use climate catastrophe.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I like the name climate crisis. It's formal sounding but conveys the direness of the situation much better than climate change.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I'm with you, I've started referring to it with this name. It's apt, we're in a current crisis not a situation that we will only see effects from generations from now. I talk to a lot of people who seem to think this is a next generation problem, even the current young generation.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    When I look at the weather app on my phone and it tells me of an “excessive heat warning”…. Yeah.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    But that's like everyday.

    Shit we had an excessive heat warning in the middle of winter last year... It was like 90 fucking degrees. 2 weeks later we had snow!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    "Hottest month on record" is a massive understatement when there have been 24 consecutive days hotter than any recorded before July 3 this year.

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Era of global boiling sounds very reassuring. When are our policy makers going to actually start acting?

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think we will see much in serious action until lots of people start to die and even then some will still drag their feet.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I really hope this isn't the case but I have a feeling you might be right. Why don't we act preemptively instead of firefight (literally in this case) after the fact.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Since the media makes excuses for the rednecks who shoot up malls ("they're suffering from economic anxiety!"), I should get a free pass to slap the ever-loving shit out of a Koch brother, on account of my climate anxiety.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Don’t look up.

  • source