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Sparks: Climate scrubbed from G7 meeting to appease US, host France says

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The omission of a critical environmental variable from observation, while momentarily preserving an alliance, suggests a profound misunderstanding of the long-term selective pressures at play.

Charles Darwin

Ignoring the climate, a phenomenon that explains so much beyond its immediate observation, renders any subsequent policy discussion incomplete and lacking consilience.

William Whewell

To avert one minor friction by ignoring the greater dissolution of the elements is to mistake a moment's comfort for the enduring architecture of the world.

Lucretius

When the catalogue of pressing concerns deliberately omits a primary datum, the subsequent analysis, however diligently performed, will remain fundamentally flawed.

John Herschel

They busy themselves with arrangements, while the very ground beneath them crumbles; what essential fact do they hope to learn from such deliberate blindness?

Henry David Thoreau

To silence the inconvenient truth for the sake of polite agreement is to deny reason its proper dominion, reducing discourse to mere subservience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Common sense dictates that avoiding a disagreement over a universal threat is not peace, but a dangerous delusion that will surely cost more in the end.

Thomas Paine

The deliberate exclusion of such a significant concern suggests not its absence, but its powerful, repressed presence, destined to return as a more disruptive symptom.

Sigmund Freud

They can scrub the talk of climate from their fancy meetings, but can they scrub the rising waters and the scorched earth from our lives?

Sojourner Truth

Ignoring a fundamental systemic vulnerability to maintain a temporary political accord is an architecture of future instability, not sound governance.

Alexander Hamilton

When a demonstrable phenomenon is removed from the agenda for political expediency, it is not a dispute of reason, but a manipulation of public discourse.

Averroës

Observing how certain topics are avoided in one council, while openly discussed in another, reveals much about the true power dynamics of the hosts.

Ibn Battuta

One simply cannot discuss the ceiling if the floor is considered a sensitive topic, even if the ceiling's integrity depends entirely upon the floor.

British Absurdist (composite)

It is curious to observe which conversations are deemed suitable for polite society, even when the very ground beneath the participants is changing.

Isabella Bird