I wrote a (long, maybe too long) case against climate hushing. Much of it attempts to methodically rebut the hushers' (generally quite weak) arguments. But it also makes the affirmative case for why talking about climate is so critically important. In the midst of a heat wave that's already killed tens of thousands of people across Europe and India in the last week, I think it's worth a read. "When white moderates complained in similar fashion about the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King criticized their 'mythical concept of time' in Why We Can’t Wait. We can’t wait when it comes to climate change, either. In the end, this is about whether we are able to maintain organized civilization on this planet. To push the line—now dominant across the corporatist wing of the Democratic Party—that we shouldn’t discuss climate change is not only morally wrong; it carries water for the fossil fuel industry and the forces that got us here in the first place." bostonreview.net/articles/wh…