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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by dillondoyle on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:34PM (#26189781)
I like Climate Catastrophe, because that's what we are in.

Frank Luntz brags (exaggerates) about changing the vernacular to benefit the GOP/deniers - we should do the same to scare people into accepting and understanding the current reality.

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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:32AM (#26192433)
Catastrophizing doesn't work. It fuels extremism at worst and at best breeds distrust in experts. Covid19 has been a fantastic study on how not to handle global catastrophes.
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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by dillondoyle on Friday February 19, 2021 @11:44AM (#26194929)
Just because we can't handle the catastrophe doesn't mean we are not in one (multiple)
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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:31PM (#26195516)
Sure. But getting everyday people to panic will actively hurt efforts to deal with these problems. People get really stupid, shortsighted, violent, and desperate when they feel like the world they know and benefit from is slipping away from them.
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