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

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

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

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

Alexander Hamilton
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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
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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
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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)
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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