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Title: Changing Reality With Words
Post by: rangerrebew on February 22, 2019, 03:21:35 pm

Changing Reality With Words

Victor Davis Hanson  February 21, 2019 / 21 Comments

The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy “wetlands.” Fetid “dumps” are often rebranded as green “landfills.”

Global warming was once a worry about too much heat. It implied that man-made carbon emissions had so warmed the planet that life as we knew it would soon be imperiled without radical changes in consumer lifestyles.

Yet in the last 30 years, record cold spells, inordinate snow levels, and devastating rains have been common. How to square that circle?

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Title: Re: Changing Reality With Words
Post by: Fishrrman on February 23, 2019, 02:25:28 am

Didn't Mr. Orwell have something to say about this subject....?