By Steve Sailer
07/27/2018
There are few phrases in contemporary sociopolitical rhetoric more delightful than the demand that We Must Have a Conversation About … or, more colloquially, Can We Talk About …
And the topic usually turns out to be one that we’ve all heard endlessly about for years from The Megaphone.
For instance, from the NYT opinion page:
The British, of course, are notorious for never ever talking about the weather. For example, when a Royal attends a ribbon-cutting ceremony, it’s considered bad form to make small talk with him or her about the weather instead of offering the Royal your personal theory on who is Prince Harry’s actual dad.
Something looms in the background of our spectacular summer. Time to bring it into the light.
You’ll be shocked, shocked to discover what this Conversation is supposed to be about.
By Adam Corner
July 27, 2018
Mr. Corner is a climate communications specialist.
I bet you still can’t guess …
Let’s be clear: That map is a sea of red because the climate is changing. But in Britain we have been stuck — save for a few exceptions that prove the rule — with the no-single-weather-event-is-caused-by-climate-change rhetoric that is not only scientifically outdated (attribution studies can tell us just how much extreme weather events are caused by climate change), but increasingly feels like an abdication of moral responsibility.
Wow … climate change. That really came out of the blue sky. Which reminds me, We Must Have a Conversation About …
“Can we talk about …”
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