Continuing growth, insofar as it increases human environmental impact, is in conflict with the environment. ‘Green growth’, if it increases the absolute size of the economy, is an oxymoron. Environmental limits are discountenanced, a pretence made possible because they are difficult to specify in advance. The consequent weakness in public discourse, both moral and intellectual, has worsened into contradiction as it has become ever more studiously unadmitted. It is obscured with language that is misleading or self-contradictory, and even issues from institutions that exist (and are relied upon) to respect correctness. At its most conforming it gives rise to overshoot, by which statements meant to sound authoritative are in fact open to ridicule. Such untruthfulness perpetuates climate change inaction, and in a kind of direct action those using such language, contrary to their public or professional duty, could be asked to justify themselves in plain English.

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气候变化不作为和意义

持续增长，只要它增加了人类对环境的影响，就会与环境发生冲突。“绿色增长”，如果它增加了经济的绝对规模，就是自相矛盾的说法。环境限制被贬低，这是一个伪装，因为它们很难提前指定。随之而来的公共话语的弱点，无论是道德的还是知识的，已经恶化为矛盾，因为它变得越来越刻意不被承认。它被误导性或自相矛盾的语言所掩盖，甚至被存在（并依赖于）尊重正确性的机构的问题所掩盖。在最一致的情况下，它会引起过冲，这意味着听起来很权威的陈述实际上很容易受到嘲笑。这种不真实使气候变化无所作为，