The Huffington Post thinks we’ve all been keeping our climate alarmist views in the closet. Apparently we’re all quietly worried, but we lack the courage to face our friends, and admit our guilty secret.
…if the vast majority of Americans are still not even talking about climate change, we will never break through these obstacles and put irresistible pressure on Congress and every other opponent to stop fighting all reasonable actions to combat climate change and finally take positive action-for the sake of their own children and grandchildren if no one else’s.
So how does this change? How do we change it?
As I have written elsewhere, the model of gay and lesbian Americans “coming out” is a good one. Not perfect but we don’t need perfect. We need action. And what gays and lesbians proved is that one-on-one communication is a deeply powerful tool for creating social change.
The teenager, the mother, the husband, the actress, the Congressman, the Olympian, the football star-all the many people who said simply, “I’m gay,” changed the world. Their world, and our world. By making their issue personal, and taking one small brave step, they moved hearts and minds that may never have opened and changed in any other way.
That is what I believe all of us who are concerned about climate change need to do–in addition to all the other necessary political and practical actions.
For once I’m at a bit of a loss to know what to say. The Huff Post article, which conflates sexual freedom and climate alarmism, has got to be one of the strangest and most desperate theories I have ever read, for why nobody talks about climate change.
Reminds me of that classic Honey Boo Boo gem:
‘Ain’t nothing wrong with bein’ a little gay. Everybody’s a little gay.’
Hey, if gay’s your way that’s OK!
That stigma was put to bed decades ago…
I have to admit I was shocked when my daughter came home from college and broke the news that she has come out as a climate change true-believer.
Yes, we are trying reparative therapy with the counselor at our church.
You brainwashed your child in one set of lies and now you’re surprised to find she’s fallen for another set of lies? You americans really don’t get irony.
And it seems non-americans do not uderstand prevailance of false-flag comments on the internet. And love to generalise.
Sometimes I wear Global Warmists underwear.
Gawd, they make you hot!
The Huff and the Grauniad think that everyone has their ‘inner homosexuality’ inside of them.
Perish the thought that 80% odd of the global population are perfectly happy being hetero and it might become the case that 80% of them were also quite climate skeptic also??
Wow… those people are so far removed from reality I’m surprised they can function day to day.
Oceanic Global Warming is real, and it’s caused by reversing the Carboniferous Era’s carbon sequestration and atmospheric oxygenation at a breakneck speed.But even disounting the CO2, the rate of poisonous gas production by both coal and “clean natural gas” justifies replacing all of that, not by puny solar “renewables” that don’t actually get mucjh renewing, but by nuclear
“For once I’m at a bit of a loss to know what to say.”
Because you don’t understand politics. This is why the site recently posted a paper that triangulated against alarmists, skeptics and deniers… despite how dangerous it is to your goals. They are going to rewrite the history of this debate, and you will lose to a subpar team and never understand why.