Sentences with phrase «climate old kind»

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With an issue like human - caused climate change, or the devastation of ocean - roaming species like bluefin tuna, it seems again that the old kind of framing doesn't work any more.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

By the time the institutions of the old paradigm have fallen over the fuel, food, water crisis will be so acute that there will be little resource of any kind left over to devote to the climate crisis that may well finish us off as a race.

The distinguished Professor Bengtsson had been very kind to the young Mann in his early career, but in his current incarnation as the Tony Warmano of climate change Mann is too crude and banal an operator to resist gleefully dancing on his old friend's grave.