Because words matter.
Demi Moore, on having children:
Once you hit three, when you’re outnumbered, it’s really, like, what’s the difference between (three or) four or five?
Well, I guess if you’ve already got a vehicle that holds “3 to 5 children,” the exact numbers aren’t too significant. But maybe when couched in terms of ecological footprint, it matters [...]
You read it here first. (Well, unless you read it at Slowly She Turned, but I wrote it there first.)
The phrase “conspicuous consumption” has been around for some time. It describes a cultural value that leads to deforestation, pollution, habitat loss, endangered species… in general, it leads to damage of our only home planet.
Conspicuous [...]
“Climate change could devastate the global economy…if left unchecked. Unless we act now … these consequences, disastrous as they are, will be irreversible.” And so the frame is established: Climate change is a phenomenon that is happening to humans and that needs to be fixed or stopped. We are passive victims in [...]
