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The Book "Don't think of an Elephant" by George Lakoff covers how the term "climate change" has been pushed by those with a status-quo agenda, to reduce the urg
by ptaffs 4mo ago
The Book "Don't think of an Elephant" by George Lakoff covers how the term "climate change" has been pushed by those with a status-quo agenda, to reduce the urgency and engagement with "global warming". The linked article uses both, but global warming more dominantly, including "heating" in the headline.
- tchock23 4mo agoBlame Frank Luntz: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494419307376 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02724...
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoI always thought climate change was just a more accurate term, because global warming implies that everywhere gets warmer, which isn't necessarily so.
- gdulli 4mo ago"Global warming" was bad branding because stupid/dishonest people smugly use any instance of unusual cold weather as an argument against it.