climate arson
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[edit]- (derogatory) Intentional acceleration of climate change.
- 2019 September 4, Joe Cortright, “Highway to Hell: Climate denial at the TRB”, in City Observatory[1]:
- The Transportation Research Board, nominally an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is engaged in technocratic climate arson with its call for further highway expansion and more car travel.
- 2020 September 9, Paul Waters-Smith, “Trump’s Corrosive Values Will Spread”, in Current Affairs:
- The administration’s gleeful climate arson and ‘let the weak perish’ coronavirus response in particular signal that their worldview is even darker than self-interest alone.