Terminology in the climate debate

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 * Dutch: Terminologie in het klimaatdebat

Status
In October 2019 the Climate Emergency Taskforce is preparing a presentation that will be presented during Volt's general assembly. We think de climate threat can be compared to the way in which the UK and the US mobilized their countries to fight against Nazi-Germany. At the top of their efforts they spent 1/3 of their total GDP on their military.

Process the following

 * Research shows that presenting scientific, factual information is often counterproductive and increases resistance to taking effective climate action.

Introduction

 * Climate scientists and organisations from the UN are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation we’re in.
 * In May 2019 the Guardian decided to use the term 'climate crisis' instead of 'climate change' (see article in the Guardian).
 * According to Paul Gilding we should talk about an 'emergency situation'. One of his arguments that we are on a path today for 3.7°C warming. The costs are estimated at $550 trillion. This is more than all the wealth currently existing in the world. See https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_3be3bfab3f3a489cb9bd69e42ce22e7c.pdf for more info. Paul also compares the climate threat with the threat of Nazi Germany in the thirties. It took a while before countries realised that action was needed. Roosevelt decided to spend 30% of GDP to prepare Amerika for the war. Do we also need to declare war on global warming?

Index

 * Presentation emergency situation