It bowls me over that we've reached a place in our discourse where the issue is supposedly two-sided: climate change is real, or climate change is not real. It infuriates and bewilders me that we've reached a point where stating facts (on this and other issues) looks like taking a political side.
I work in international development. After the 2016 election, a couple of firms I worked with discreetly decided to stop mentioning climate change in proposals to USAID and State, afraid that appointees would discourage A&A specialists from signing grants or contracts that acknowledged the reality of climate change, even as the people in countries we work in are facing massive consequences - up to and including death - because of climate change.
It bowls me over that we've reached a place in our discourse where the issue is supposedly two-sided: climate change is real, or climate change is not real. It infuriates and bewilders me that we've reached a point where stating facts (on this and other issues) looks like taking a political side.
I work in international development. After the 2016 election, a couple of firms I worked with discreetly decided to stop mentioning climate change in proposals to USAID and State, afraid that appointees would discourage A&A specialists from signing grants or contracts that acknowledged the reality of climate change, even as the people in countries we work in are facing massive consequences - up to and including death - because of climate change.