{"id":397147,"date":"2019-02-25T06:54:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/shifting-the-discussion-on-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2019-02-25T06:54:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:54:02","slug":"shifting-the-discussion-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/shifting-the-discussion-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting the Discussion On Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I think we need to omit talking about carbon emissions when discussing climate change. This is what I see the mainstream media limit the discussion to. It\u2019s why the Democratic Green New Deal is all the rage these days.<\/p>\n

This new deal\u00a0focuses<\/a>\u00a0on two items: carbon emissions and jobs which is what mainstream climate change discussions have always been about. It\u2019s the implicit understanding in mainstream liberal circles about hammering on carbon emissions while keeping up global production. The ultimate oxymoron that no matter what the temperature of the earth is this model will continue to devour all life on the planet.<\/p>\n

When a species food source is taken away they starve to death hence why\u00a041%\u00a0<\/a>of global insect populations have declined over the past decade. That\u2019s what happens when you devour a living planet for profit all while spraying it with chemicals regardless of how many parts per million of carbon are in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

I understand the Green New Deal would change \u201cAmerican society\u201d but herein lies the problem. Our addiction to Nationalism. Our addiction to the mass capitalist electronic screen press that lets us imagine and feel like we are part of this big kumbaya American community.<\/p>\n

This \u201cimagined community<\/a>\u201d as Benedict Anderson has called it lets the top 1% of income earners in America garner in\u00a022%<\/a>\u00a0of all national income. We must not be identifying and imagining ourselves as Americans especially since this…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair I think we need to omit talking about carbon emissions when discussing climate change. This is what I see the mainstream media limit the discussion to. It\u2019s why the Democratic Green New Deal is all the rage these days. This new deal\u00a0focuses\u00a0on two items: carbon emissions and jobs which is […]<\/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-397147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}