The US Department of Agriculture has forbidden the use of the words ‘climate change.’ This say-no-evil policy is doomed to fail
- Bill McKibben is the founder of the climate campaign 350.org
In a bold new strategy unveiled on Monday in the Guardian, the United States Department of Agriculture – guardians of the planet’s richest farmlands – has decided to combat the threat of global warming by forbidding the use of the words.
Under guidance from the agency’s director of soil health Bianca Moebius-Clune, a list of phrases to be avoided includes “climate change” and “climate change adaptation,” to be replaced by “weather extremes” and “resilience to weather extremes.”
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