<div>The Trump administration's solution to climate change: ban the term | Bill McKibben</div>

The US Department of Agriculture has forbidden the use of the words ‘climate change’. This say-no-evil policy is doomed to failIn 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”. Related: Trump is deleting climate change, one site at a time Continue reading...