{"id":228,"date":"2016-03-01T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/?p=228"},"modified":"2016-03-01T04:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:50:45","slug":"discourse-on-climate-change-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/discourse-on-climate-change-and-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Discourse on Climate Change and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t disagree that there\u2019s a problem with the way we talk about climate change, but I do think the problem is practically the exact opposite of what David Roberts discusses in his Vox article about climate change and millennia. Throughout my time in the Program on the Environment, I have found that the \u201cmainstream\u201d doesn\u2019t stress enough that climate change is happening <em>now<\/em>. To me, there\u2019s such a strong emphasis on how climate change and our actions in the present are going to affect future generations. The impacts on future generations are typically cited as the reasons for why we need to act now. It\u2019s problematic to look at climate change as a problem of the future when it already is a problem for many parts of the world and a number of communities. I agree with Roberts when he states that we don\u2019t talk enough about how long carbon dioxide will last in the atmosphere, as this implies that no matter what, the Earth is guaranteed a certain amount of climate change. By solely discussing the future, though, we ignore the environments, people, and animals that are dealing with climate change impacts on a daily basis, whether that be catastrophic storms, decreases in agriculture, or drought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t disagree that there\u2019s a problem with the way we talk about climate change, but I do think the problem is practically the exact opposite of what David Roberts discusses in his Vox article about climate change and millennia. Throughout my time in the Program on the Environment, I have found that the \u201cmainstream\u201d doesn\u2019t stress enough that climate&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/discourse-on-climate-change-and-the-future\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-intergenerational-ethics","tag-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}