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Naomi Klein's challenge to the NYT bombshell on climate
Sat, 4 Aug 2018 19:04:24 -0700
Writing on behalf of the ruling class in the leading organ of its
educated faction, Rich blames all of us for passing up the last
opportunity to fix climate change. He thus reinforces the myth of a
"human nature" on which capitalism justifies its existence.-mm
Anyway, read and respond to Rich at
nathan...@nathanielrich.com <mailto:nathan...@nathanielrich.com>
Klein writes in The Intercept:
And yet we blew it — “we” being humans, who apparently are just too
shortsighted to safeguard our future. Just in case we missed the point
of who and what is to blame for the fact that we are now “losing earth,”
Rich’s answer is presented in a full-page call out: “All the facts were
known, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.”
Yep, you and me. Not, according to Rich, the fossil fuel companies who
sat in on every major policy meeting described in the piece. (Imagine
tobacco executives being repeatedly invited by the U.S. government to
come up with policies to ban smoking. When those meetings failed to
yield anything substantive, would we conclude that the reason is that
humans just want to die? Might we perhaps determine instead that the
political system is corrupt and busted?)
This misreading has been pointed out
<https://thinkprogress.org/scientists-slam-new-york-times-climate-story-for-whitewashing-role-of-big-oil-and-gop-63fbc3a85b09/>
out by many climate scientists and historians since the online version
of the piece dropped on Wednesday. Others have remarked on the maddening
invocations of “human nature” and the use of the royal “we” to describe
a screamingly homogenous group of U.S. power players. Throughout Rich’s
accounting, we hear nothing from those political leaders in the Global
South who were demanding binding action in this key period and after,
somehow able to care about future generations despite being human. The
voices of women, meanwhile, are almost as rare in Rich’s text as
sightings of the endangered ivory-billed woodpecker — and when we ladies
do appear, it is mainly as long-suffering wives of tragically heroic men."
Read it all at
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/
<https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/>
Writing on behalf of the ruling class in the leading organ of its
educated faction, Rich blames all of us for passing up the last
opportunity to fix climate change. He thus reinforces the myth of a
"human nature" on which capitalism justifies its existence.-mm
Anyway, read and respond to Rich at
nathan...@nathanielrich.com <mailto:nathan...@nathanielrich.com>
Klein writes in /The Intercept:/
And yet we blew it — “we” being humans, who apparently are just too
shortsighted to safeguard our future. Just in case we missed the point
of who and what is to blame for the fact that we are now “losing earth,”
Rich’s answer is presented in a full-page callout: “All the facts were
known, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.”
Yep, you and me. Not, according to Rich, the fossil fuel companies who
sat in on every major policy meeting described in the piece. (Imagine
tobacco executives being repeatedly invited by the U.S. government to
come up with policies to ban smoking. When those meetings failed to
yield anything substantive, would we conclude that the reason is that
humans just want to die? Might we perhaps determine instead that the
political system is corrupt and busted?)
This misreading has beenpointed out
<https://thinkprogress.org/scientists-slam-new-york-times-climate-story-for-whitewashing-role-of-big-oil-and-gop-63fbc3a85b09/>by
many climate scientists and historians since the online version of the
piece dropped on Wednesday. Others have remarked on the maddening
invocations of “human nature” and the use of the royal “we” to describe
a screamingly homogenous group of U.S. power players. Throughout Rich’s
accounting, we hear nothing from those political leaders in the Global
South who were demanding binding action in this key period and after,
somehow able to care about future generations despite being human. The
voices of women, meanwhile, are almost as rare in Rich’s text as
sightings of the endangered ivory-billed woodpecker — and when we ladies
do appear, it is mainly as long-suffering wives of tragically heroic men."
Read it all at
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/
<https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/>
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