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It’s Time To Call It Climate Crisis, Not Climate Change, Facing The Truth Provides Solutions
When we realize the trouble we are in, we realize the power of taking action
All over Europe, it has already begun. What was known as Climate Change, the unrelenting heating of our earth and all following consequences, is now being called Climate Crisis.
Major publications, and even governments, are now responding. The Guardian Newspaper in the UK has updated their style guide to use the term “crisis” or sometimes, “climate emergency” rather than the more passive “Climate Change.”
Activists in Britain have also persuaded leaders and representatives of many parties to do the same. Extinction Rebellion, using civil disobedience, successfully lobbied to make the point that half measures are not enough to combat the wildlife and climate emergency issues we now face on a global stage.
Gloom and doom are only certain if we hide our heads in the tar sands.
Climate Crisis is more reflective of the number of people dying, the looming economic impacts, the anxiety and fear that comes with swarms of tornadoes, wildfires in the west, floods in low-lying, heavily populated urban centers, and the ever-rising alarm about species disappearing in every kind of habitat.