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To Save the Earth, You Must Stop Believing and Repeating the Lies of the Planet’s Enemies
How many of the ideological lies of the climate destroyers have you internalized? It’s time to vomit them out.
To save the Earth from climate collapse, you must have a vision and a plan. So far, we have neither and, instead, we believe and repeat lies invented by fossil fuel profiteers and their allies. We justify inaction, defeat, or fantasies that markets and our leaders will save us.
But markets and leaders have brought us to the brink of extinction and are poised to drag us across the finish line. It’s time to cleanse your brain of pernicious lies, and refocus on what needs to be done to meet this crisis.
What are these dangerous lies? Let’s look at the two biggest.
- We are doomed and don’t bother trying to do anything.
Well, it’s true that we are in BIG trouble and that the Earth has been seriously and permanently damaged. It’s also true that some continued degradation is already built in from all the abuse we’ve committed against Nature. But, most scientists are not (yet) saying we are doomed. Indeed, some of the most worried (like James Hansen) are screaming bloody murder for action. Our best guess, then, is that if we are doomed it is not proven so we’d be making a terrible mistake if we don’t GIVE IT OUR BEST…
