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Idiom: Until you are blue in the face
You can talk to some people about the ongoing climate change disaster until you are blue in the face, and they will never accept what you are saying as truth.
Climate change is not a problem we can afford to ignore anymore.
It’s not just a future concern but a pressing issue we face today.
When you say or shout something until you are blue in the face, you have no positive results; you are wasting your time and breath.
As the idiom goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink,” many people fail, or refuse, to understand the dangerous consequences of inaction on climate change.
We can talk about it until we are blue in the face, but if people don’t listen and take action, we will all learn the hard way.
The warming planet is already causing devastating effects, such as the unprecedented forest fires in Canada causing poor air quality in American cities such as New York and Chicago.
Yep, now we can genuinely refer to them as The Big Smoke.
Yet, convincing everyone to take action on climate change remains a significant challenge.
With compelling evidence and persuasive arguments, we can strive to make a difference.
Yeah, right.
You can implore people to accept the urgency of addressing climate change and delve into the various challenges until you are blue in the face.
Most individuals, countries, and societies will only collectively tackle this global crisis at the last minute when their beachfront homes fall into the ocean or their children collapse due to heat exhaustion.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 62.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.