Fenton urges the climate community to speak of pollution – a word everyone gets – and to settle on the image of a “blanket of pollution trapping heat on Earth”. Every oil and gas emission makes that blanket thicker – and all that trapped heat helps cause floods and start fires, he says.
I’m pretty sure most people “get it” now. We are entering an era of consequences. The issue is really our broken political system which prevents our institutions from taking action, and unchecked neoliberalism, which has the express intent of disempowering people.