{"id":1258,"date":"2019-03-27T04:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:01:49","slug":"energy-department-just-banned-the-most-important-phrases-needed-to-address-climate-change-including-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Energy Department Just Banned The Most Important Phrases Needed To Address Climate Change—Including “Climate Change”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it 2017 or 1984? Two months into Trump\u2019s presidency, we\u2019re already asking ourselves that very question. According to Politico, an Energy Department administrator advised staff members to avoid the terms climate change<\/em>,\u00a0emissions reduction<\/em>,\u00a0and Paris Agreement<\/em> in all forms of written communication. It was this past Tuesday that Department of Energy\u00a0employees reportedly learned of the ban in a more formal setting, after casually avoiding climate-related language following Trump\u2019s inauguration. That same day, Trump repealed the majority of former President Barack Obama\u2019s environmental regulations via a slew of executive orders.<\/p>\n

Beyond setting a horrifying precedent, removing climate change<\/em> from governmental communication presents several technical challenges. For starters, employees at the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy might be wondering what to call their place of work (in addition to worrying about the state of their jobs). In reference to this problem, Sierra Club climate policy director Liz Perera said in a statement, \u201cWhat exactly is this office supposed to call itself now? The International C****** office? Ignoring the climate crisis will not make it go away, will not create jobs in the booming clean energy economy, and will not make our country great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following Tuesday\u2019s meeting, DOE staff members told Politico that senior officials advised them not to use climate-related language as it would cause Energy Secretary Rick Perry a \u201cvisceral reaction\u201d and would potentially offend White House advisers. In response to these claims of a severe lack of professionalism, DOE spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler said, \u201cNo words or phrases have been banned for this office or anyone in the department.\u201d Still, with climate change deniers filling top White House positions, it\u2019s not hard to imagine restrictions of speech have been suggested, if not formally enforced.<\/p>\n

On a state level, such bans have been enforced with little backlash. Consider the handful of times Republican Governor Rick Scott allegedly pushed for climate-related language bans in Florida, a state whose very existence hangs in the balance because of rising sea levels. Banning words may seem innocuous\u2014or even childish\u2014at first, but denying reality has already put us in serious danger. It shouldn\u2019t require our coastal communities drowning for us to realize the power of language.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it 2017 or 1984? Two months into Trump\u2019s presidency, we\u2019re already asking ourselves that very question. According to Politico, an Energy Department administrator advised staff members to avoid the terms climate change,\u00a0emissions reduction,\u00a0and Paris Agreement in all forms of written communication. It was this past Tuesday that Department of Energy\u00a0employees reportedly learned of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}