Your post inspired this infographic. I cited your framing suggestion along with attribution back to you. There's also a free teleprompter app with an adapted version of the talking points.
GLOBAL WARMING profiteers hide during Los Angeles fire tragedy
Antonia -- this is fabulous. I am an organizer with LeanLeftVt. We are gearing up to get our volunteers engaged in messaging both social media and possibly print (postcards, letters). Would there be any possibility of you putting short posts on Bluesky and Facebook so that we can get our volunteers to repost the messages. We need to get them comfortable using these social media channels and getting the hang of reframing. Thanks!
Hey, Antonia -- We'll do our best to convert your writing to posts so that you can keep up the writing! I realize it was way too much to ask. We'll get it done. Thanks for all of your excellent work.
Thank you, Antonia, for giving me the words to deal with this catastrophe. You are right. One way I deal with problems is to read/learn as much as possible about how it happened and the background. I've been doing a lot of that lately. You are the first person I've read who seems to get to the bottom of our problems and what we can do about them. I intend to be much more vocal (difficult for me), and you have given me the words to be effective.
John Galliard wrote a terrific book, "Fire Weather" which chronicles the 2016 fire that largely destroyed Fort McMurry, a city of 125,000 in northern Alberta. The account of the fire reads as a thriller, but it's woven together with thoughtful insights about how the greed of the oil industry changed our climate to promote these fires.
Thank you for calling it Global Warming and not Climate Change. Climate Change is a euphemistic frame created by Frank Luntz (and paid for by conservatives) to change public perception of the reality of what's happening. Closer to the truth, we should be calling it Global Heating, because that's what it is!
Thanks for pointing that out! I get tired of having to tell people that myself! I've been experimenting with terms like climate destabilization, for the purpose of familiarizing people with the idea of stabilizing the climate. Trying to find terms that help people visualize the solution.
I love all of this except, "We cannot deal with global warming as individuals." Each action we take to reduce climate chaos is less than a grain of sand; but the sand adds up--as anyone who has gotten sand in their swim trunks knows.-- We all have a part to play. And we (Dems) have to model what that looks like. We speak the truth about it and we live like it matters.
The idea that we can solve the problem through individual action was designed to prevent us from bonding together and using our government to take the kind of larger action that is necessary.
Of course our individual actions can help but they can't solve the problem without collective action.
There's actually a terrific interview of Saul Griffith by Ezra Klein, where he talks about the time frame we have and the scale of the problem and why government action is absolutely critical.
Your post inspired this infographic. I cited your framing suggestion along with attribution back to you. There's also a free teleprompter app with an adapted version of the talking points.
GLOBAL WARMING profiteers hide during Los Angeles fire tragedy
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/01/10/global-warming-profiteers-hide-during-los-angeles-fire-tragedy/
Thanks! This is great!
Antonia -- this is fabulous. I am an organizer with LeanLeftVt. We are gearing up to get our volunteers engaged in messaging both social media and possibly print (postcards, letters). Would there be any possibility of you putting short posts on Bluesky and Facebook so that we can get our volunteers to repost the messages. We need to get them comfortable using these social media channels and getting the hang of reframing. Thanks!
I can try, but I'm pretty swamped. I would love to get help from people to convert my writing to posts! Also need help with graphics? I will try!
Hey, Antonia -- We'll do our best to convert your writing to posts so that you can keep up the writing! I realize it was way too much to ask. We'll get it done. Thanks for all of your excellent work.
Thanks so much! Make sure to let me know so I can repost!
How do I find you on Bluesky? I'll repost your Antonia posts! c. ;)
Thank you, Antonia, for giving me the words to deal with this catastrophe. You are right. One way I deal with problems is to read/learn as much as possible about how it happened and the background. I've been doing a lot of that lately. You are the first person I've read who seems to get to the bottom of our problems and what we can do about them. I intend to be much more vocal (difficult for me), and you have given me the words to be effective.
Thank you!!!
This is so good! I hope you will do more of these about this subject. I will share on my Bluesky acct. if I can...
Thanks! yes, please do!
John Galliard wrote a terrific book, "Fire Weather" which chronicles the 2016 fire that largely destroyed Fort McMurry, a city of 125,000 in northern Alberta. The account of the fire reads as a thriller, but it's woven together with thoughtful insights about how the greed of the oil industry changed our climate to promote these fires.
Thank you for calling it Global Warming and not Climate Change. Climate Change is a euphemistic frame created by Frank Luntz (and paid for by conservatives) to change public perception of the reality of what's happening. Closer to the truth, we should be calling it Global Heating, because that's what it is!
Thank you, speaking the truth that most people understand
Thanks for pointing that out! I get tired of having to tell people that myself! I've been experimenting with terms like climate destabilization, for the purpose of familiarizing people with the idea of stabilizing the climate. Trying to find terms that help people visualize the solution.
I love all of this except, "We cannot deal with global warming as individuals." Each action we take to reduce climate chaos is less than a grain of sand; but the sand adds up--as anyone who has gotten sand in their swim trunks knows.-- We all have a part to play. And we (Dems) have to model what that looks like. We speak the truth about it and we live like it matters.
The idea that we can solve the problem through individual action was designed to prevent us from bonding together and using our government to take the kind of larger action that is necessary.
Of course our individual actions can help but they can't solve the problem without collective action.
The truly effective individual action is voting.
There's actually a terrific interview of Saul Griffith by Ezra Klein, where he talks about the time frame we have and the scale of the problem and why government action is absolutely critical.
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/12/16/21024323/ezra-klein-show-saul-griffith-solve-climate-change