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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:00 AM

The rhetoric of slavery and climate change

Then: Abolition would wreak havoc on the economy of the South. Now: Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol would punish all Americans.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:09 AM

    The impacts of climate change are not abstract

    Global warming is causing drought, wildfires, and catastrophic weather right now. It will cause even more misery in the future. The people affected by these conditions are more likely to be poor and live in less affluent countries, but that doesn't make them abstractions.

    Take a look at the two pro-slavery quotes in this article, and you'll see that both of them consider the slaves to be abstractions. We know that this does not mean that real people weren't being harmed by slavery.

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