How language can turn down the temperature of heated climate change discourse
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The world is burning. Death Valley, Calif., shattered the record in July 2023 for the hottest temperature on earth. Meanwhile, July 2023 is now the hottest month in recorded history and scientists have noted heat waves are 1,000 times more likely with climate change. The effects of this heating are myriad and inter-connected. However, one underappreciated…