The Trump administration's solution to climate change: ban the term

In a bold new strategy unveiled on Monday in the Guardian, the United States Department of Agriculture – guardians of the planet’s richest farmlands – has decided to combat the threat of global warming by forbidding the use of the words.

 ‘Also blacklisted is the scary locution reduce greenhouse gases.’ 

Under guidance from the agency’s director of soil health Bianca Moebius-Clune, a list of phrases to be avoided includes “climate change” and “climate change adaptation” to be replaced by “weather extremes” and “resilience to weather extremes.”

Also blacklisted is the scary locution “reduce greenhouse gases” and here the agency’s linguists have done an even better job of camouflage: the new and approved term is “increase nutrient use efficiency”.

Read Bill McKibben’s comment on The Guardian - “The Trump administration's solution to climate change: ban the term.”