Has a nyone noticed how hard it is to find out what’s a ctually contained in the green new deal? I mean, sure you or I could find it in the congressional record, and come up with our own summeries. Its not secret knowledge the way the Meuller report or the TPP was supposed to be.
Its just suprising how all the media seem to focus on how people are reacting to the concept, without probing the a actual content. Would the green new deal make a difference? Or is it too late for that?
And now that Ive been taught the idea of stratigic framing in media coverage, I see it everywhere. This story gets it half right, in this idea of peak indifference. Scientists probably wont have to work as hard to get people to understand whats happening, as the weather keeps getting more extreme.
But the whole idea that there is ever a time that’s “too late” to act, thats coming from a broken frame. Its too late to act when there are no more people. Its too late to act when we lose the needed infrastructure to burn fossil fuels any more.
It is too late to act for the honeybees, the monarch butterflies, the starfish, the tropical beetles… but they wont be missed by the likes of Chevron or Big Coal.
Everytime I hear the phrase, “too late to act” I think about James Watt, Reagan’s secretary of the interior. For him, it was too late the day he entered sunday school.
The whole idea of “too late to act” presupposes that there is a class of people whose interests are served by doing nothing about the problem. And depending on when you were born and if you have or want kids, maybe their math is the correct math.
Which is morally bankrupt. You might as well say its too late to push vaccinations because things are only ever going to get worse from here on out.
Please, stop promoting hopelessness. Stop hypothesizing the “too late to matter” moment. If that moment ever happens, we’ll all be too busy trying to survive, to notice.
