Column: The two types of Climate Change
There are two types of climate change.
There is the climate change of the opportunistic, power-hungry fear-mongers who leave trails of private plane exhaust around the globe and whose life will not change regardless of action on behalf of the planet. Change is for this person to talk about, benefit monetarily from, but not actually have to do anything different.
This climate change is about self-righteous lecturing and does not exist within the realm of reality. It exists as though things like logging are for recreation, like shooting hoops, and electric cars run off the Right-Side-Of-History Enthusiasm.
Then there is the rebranded climate change of the user groups aware of the need to be stewards of Earth and what happens when we aren’t. It’s not a simplistic, one problem, one solution discussion and it’s not devotion to dogma. It starts with looking at a glacier, seeing where it was, seeing where it is, and wondering what’s going on and what can we do.
