cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60051791
A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”
Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.
This is double-plus-ungood.
A new leadership that was going to remove big government and stop telling people what they can or can’t do
Why can’t they just use them anyway? Like, who the fuck cares, there’s no rule of law anymore anyway.
Just need to find synonyms or some other coded language or simply spell it out. Work around these stupid rules.
So, what words are allowed? Are there any agricultural terms left for the agriculture department to use?
This is only “baffling” if you’re a total fucking moron who hasn’t been paying attention.
This headline is making my head hurt.
