{"id":352068,"date":"2018-03-14T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/notes-on-terminology\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T06:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:58:02","slug":"notes-on-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/notes-on-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100455\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100455\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-12-at-10.32.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"369\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by bixentro | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>Climate Crisis<\/em><\/strong><strong>, Not \u201cClimate Change\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/02\/someone-tell-a-reporter-the-rich-are-destroying-the-earth\/\">next-to-last <em>CounterPunch<\/em> essay<\/a> (\u201cSomeone Tell a Reporter: the Rich Are Destroying the Earth\u201d) elicited a smart criticism from a senior scientist:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPlease stop using the phrase \u2018climate change.\u2019 I am a 78-year-old, Ph.D. physicist who has been talking about the CLIMATE CRISIS for more than 35 years. To me, the mild, innocuous sounding phrase \u2018climate change\u2019 is like experiencing fingernails scratching on a blackboard! To show how silly the phrase is, would you ever consider renaming the \u2018opioid crisis\u2019 by calling it\u2019 \u2018opioid change\u2019 instead? It does sound kind of silly! George Monbiot was on Democracy Now at the end of August and he said it beautifully! Calling what is happing to the earth \u2018climate change\u2019 is like calling a foreign invasion \u2018unexpected guests\u2019. Go George! George likes \u2018climate breakdown.\u2019 I always use \u2018climate crisis\u2019 although the real description is \u2018climate catastrophe.\u2019 I urge you to abandon the phrase climate change and use the more descriptive phrase Climate Crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The physicist is 100% correct. We\u2019re talking about the Greenhouse Gassing-to-death of life on Earth (a crime that will make the Nazis look like small-time gangsters), speeding us to the unlivable benchmark of 500 carbon parts-per-million by 2050 if not sooner. \u201cClimate change\u201d just doesn\u2019t quite capture that. It\u2019s like calling a full-scale coronary attack&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/13\/notes-on-terminology\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by bixentro | CC BY 2.0 Climate Crisis, Not \u201cClimate Change\u201d My next-to-last CounterPunch essay (\u201cSomeone Tell a Reporter: the Rich Are Destroying the Earth\u201d) elicited a smart criticism from a senior scientist: \u201cPlease stop using the phrase \u2018climate change.\u2019 I am a 78-year-old, Ph.D. physicist who has been talking about the CLIMATE CRISIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}