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"Words Have Meaning" File
Oct. 23rd, 2008 09:29 amHow the federal government of Australia is handing their lack of moisture which more than a few are pointing to as a result of global warming. The first section of a longer article. Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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It's Not a Drought, It's 'Dryness' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
"Federal Government-selected experts want people to start using the word 'dryness' to describe Australia's worst drought in a century. The word 'drought' makes farmers feel bad, says the Government's hand-picked Drought Policy Review Expert Social Panel.
The politically-correct push also aims to make farmers accept that drier weather is here to stay, and is not a temporary crisis,the panel's newly released report, [It's About People: Changing Perspectives on Dryness, a Report to Government by an Expert Social Panel] [PDF] said.
'Words like drought ... have negative connotations for farm families,' the report said. 'There needs to be a new national approach to living with dryness, as we prefer to call it, rather than dealing with drought.'"
monissaw.It's Not a Drought, It's 'Dryness' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
"Federal Government-selected experts want people to start using the word 'dryness' to describe Australia's worst drought in a century. The word 'drought' makes farmers feel bad, says the Government's hand-picked Drought Policy Review Expert Social Panel.
The politically-correct push also aims to make farmers accept that drier weather is here to stay, and is not a temporary crisis,the panel's newly released report, [It's About People: Changing Perspectives on Dryness, a Report to Government by an Expert Social Panel] [PDF] said.
'Words like drought ... have negative connotations for farm families,' the report said. 'There needs to be a new national approach to living with dryness, as we prefer to call it, rather than dealing with drought.'"
