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2. Which means the Trump Admin is aiding a terrorist
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 12:00 PM
Sep 2017


In a bold new strategy unveiled on Monday in the Guardian, the US Department of Agriculture – guardians of the planet’s richest farmlands – has decided to combat the threat of global warming by forbidding the use of the words.

Under guidance from the agency’s director of soil health, Bianca Moebius-Clune, a list of phrases to be avoided includes “climate change” and “climate change adaptation”, to be replaced by “weather extremes” and “resilience to weather extremes”.
Trump is deleting climate change, one site at a time
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Also blacklisted is the scary locution “reduce greenhouse gases” – and here, the agency’s linguists have done an even better job of camouflage: the new and approved term is “increase nutrient use efficiency”.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/08/trump-administration-climate-change-ban-usda

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