The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed

Re:The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you wh... by bee_rider on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:45AM (#40344614)

It just sounds a little dry. I think environmentalists have done a good job drilling the fact that it is a bad thing into us, but in the face of it “climate change” sounds like a sort of generic and neutral process. Global warming was a little better (I think? Or maybe I just grew up knowing it was a bad thing).

Climate Instability sounds sort of clearly bad (I think most people consider instability bad).

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Re:The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you wh... by et-al on Monday May 13, 2024 @12:17PM (#40344947)

If we're workshopping this for you: "climate change" has alliteration and is only 3 syllables compared to "instability" which has a mouthful of 5 syllables.

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Re:The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you wh... by umanwizard on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:28PM (#40347301)

Alliteration has to do with sounds, not letters.

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Re:The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you wh... by bee_rider on Monday May 13, 2024 @04:20PM (#40347931)

Someone else suggested Climate Crisis which is actually alliterative and also sounds bad rather than neutral like “change.”

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Re:The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you wh... by SV_BubbleTime on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:20PM (#40348596)

Seems like you are really interested in marketing.

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Re:The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you wh... by bee_rider on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:50PM (#40348912)

It’s just the way the conversation happened to flow. I think everyone has an opinion on names.

For solutions I’m in favor of really aggressive carbon taxes and sanctions/secondary sanctions against that don’t implement them. But that’s the sort of thing better left to regulators and diplomats.

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