of perceived climate hypocrisy—those who call for change while still flying and eating hamburgers, who probably perceive that politics does offer a more productive path than lifestyle choices, which even multiplied across like-minded communities would have only small or intermediary impacts. But the growing hypocrisy of the truly empowered—corporations, nations, political leaders—illustrates a far more concerning possibility, all the more alarming for being so familiar from other realms of politics: that climate talk could become not a spur to change but an alibi, a cover, for inaction and
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