Sunday, June 4, 2023

Using euphemisms or calling a spade a spade?

These days we hear a lot about “climate change”. Then we hear a lot about a symptom, but not so much about its cause that is “use of fossil fuels”. 

I think we should prefer the later name, get used to its sound and refer to it instead of going with just climate change, its indisputable consequence. 

Just calling it C02 emissions won’t do the job either. We must keep in our mind’s eye constantly refueling our cars, the planes that crisscross our skies, the coal or gas that is used for electric generation, cement factories or me, riding a chairlift in winter. Fossil fuels are destroying our planet, that's it.


Sure Exxon-Mobil or Koch Industries won’t like that moniker and may get upset, but I feel that calling a spade a spade is preferable over hiding behind symptoms instead of their cause, or following the herd of political correctness. 

Do you agree, and are you ready to change that expression any time “climate change” comes to you mind or out of your mouth?

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