It is urgent - Stop listening to the fools

"And the power of money and rogue science continues to promote propaganda to the millions of useful idiots who endorse and support the fake science. And the wealthy shall destroy mankind."

It’s no longer climate change we’re living through. It’s environmental breakdown

To confront environmental catastrophe, we need urgent political transformation. 

In 1962, American playwright James Baldwin wrote that “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Today, his words should give us succour. We need more than ever to face the reality of environmental change.

I’m a researcher at IPPR, a think tank. We have been observing warnings of rapid, negative environmental change from the scientific community. So we decided to understand what that means for our work, for policy, and for politics.

In a report released today, we bring together the latest science on human-induced environmental change and seek to understand how politicians should respond. We conclude that when it comes to climate change, political debate has failed us in three different ways.

Read more; https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/02/it-s-no-longer-climate-change-we-re-living-through-it-s-environmental?fbclid=IwAR3FJXwywnUD-UMgX5n68UhkfacHNytuYTHmMzl8C6uxXBFFXcEcBEEz2Pg