Comment on Biden’s State of the Union Defines Climate Action as Common Sense

Biden’s State of the Union Defines Climate Action as Common Sense

At this point, it’s become cliché to talk about how difficult it is to wrap our brains around the enormity of the climate crisis. Yes, we get that we don’t get it, everyone says, and we probably never will. But it’s still worth dwelling, for four or five indulgent seconds, on the sheer complexity of the thing we’re dealing with, a complexity that touches every country and every element of life, from arctic crustaceans to sex; that helped bring about a whole new term hyperobject to describe it; that for all our lectures and books and radio interviews, still leaves many of us feeling like we keep missing some elusive point. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In some ways, that complexity works pretty well for us writers—it’s our job to explain the world, but also to bring out the dilemmas and contradictions in those stories, their diversity of viewpoints, and their endless, fascinating details.

 

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