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Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice
The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement
The biggest success of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced the conversation about the climate crisis to centre on science.
- Amy Westervelt
- The Guardian
It’s not that we didn’t need scientific research into climate change, or that we don’t need plenty more of it.
Or even that we don’t need to do a better job of explaining basic science to people, across the board (hello, Covid).
But at this moment, “believe science” is too high a bar for something that demands urgent action.
Believing science requires…