• yucandu@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Fun fact: The reason we call it climate change and not global warming is because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to stop using phrases that they felt might scare the American populace.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange

    While you’re worried that “global warming” might sound too confusing to people who exist in the winter, the capitalists were pretty sure it was the phrase that was actually going to scare the working class into action.

  • fenrasulfr@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I live 200km from the fires of Bordeaux and we still had a lot of smoke from those fires. I can’t imagine how bad it is close to those fires. And with another heatwave hitting France today those fires won’t stop anytime soon.