[TheClimate.Vote] November 10, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/November 10, 2018/

*CLIMATE CHANGE CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY FIRES IN CALIFORNIA* 
<https://psmag.com/news/climate-change-continues-to-intensify-california-fires>
JACK HERRERA
Residents of Malibu, California, woke up Friday morning to mandatory 
evacuation orders as extreme winds pushed the raging Woolsey Fire over 
the hills toward the oceanside city. As the members of the famously 
affluent community packed up their cars and fled, news broke that the 
Camp Fire, burning on the northern end of the state, had claimed at 
least five lives.

The Woolsey and Camp Fires mark a continuation of unprecedented burning 
in California, a trend that seems unlikely to end: The particular 
conditions that have turned the Woolsey and Camp Fires into infernos 
have only been intensified by the effects of climate change. As Kate 
Wheeling reported for Pacific Standard last year:

California has two distinct fire seasons: the summer season, when hot 
temperatures dry out vegetation providing fuel for wildfires; and the 
fall fire season, when hot, dry Santa Ana winds blow in over the 
mountains from the desert. Research shows that global warming is making 
both of them worse.

In Northern California, intense drought conditions and dried-out 
vegetation have turned the area around Chico (just north of Sacramento) 
into fuel for fires. And in the south, hurricane-strength Santa Ana 
winds are propelling the Woolsey Fire toward the ocean, endangering the 
houses and people caught in its way.

Scientists report that both dry conditions and extreme winds are being 
intensified by climate change, meaning that California may face even 
larger crises in the future. "California is only expected to get hotter 
and drier," Wheeling reported last year. "As such conditions become the 
new normal, California could become a perpetual tinderbox."
https://psmag.com/news/climate-change-continues-to-intensify-california-fires


[good lecture, bad situation]
*Most Important Graph in the History of Humanity | Dr Roger Hallam | 
Radical Think Tank* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3YZt74w8Vw>
Going South
Premiered 23 hours ago
Lifted from a longer presentation at http://youtu.be/WgFc4Zhvjtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3YZt74w8Vw


[very big deal]
*Federal Judge RESCINDS Presidential Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline!* 
<http://indigenousrising.org/federal-judge-orders-kxl-presidential-permit-vacated/>
Posted on Nov 9, 2018
Keystone XL pipeline permit rescinded!
Indigenous Environmental Network scores win in legal battle against the 
Trump administration.
Bemidji, MN -- On Thursday, November 8, 2018, United States District 
Judge Brian Morris, issued a landmark ruling in favor of the Indigenous 
Environmental Network (IEN) and the North Coast Rivers Alliance (NCRA), 
and other groups in the litigation to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Judge Morris's 54-page Order overturns the Trump Administration's 
approval of the KXL Pipeline and issues an injunction stopping all 
construction of the tar sands project. Judge Morris ruled that President 
Trump violated federal environmental laws when his Administration 
claimed that the KXL Pipeline was consistent with the public interest. 
Judge Morris ruled that approval of the KXL Pipeline violated the 
National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"), and the Administrative 
Procedure Act because:
(1) President Trump disregarded prior factual findings by former 
Secretary of State John Kerry that the KXL Pipeline would unjustifiably 
worsen climate change,
(2) failed to conduct an adequate survey of Native American cultural 
resources that would be harmed by the pipeline,
(3) failed to provide adequate modeling of potential oil spills and 
their impacts on water resources,
(4) failed to analyze the cumulative effects of this project on 
greenhouse gas emissions, and (5) failed to address the effects of 
current oil prices on the viability of the project.
The injunction against all construction work will stand until the Trump 
administration can complete a supplemental review on the 5 points 
mentioned above...
http://indigenousrising.org/federal-judge-orders-kxl-presidential-permit-vacated/


[video - presenting solutions]
*Climate One Let's Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit* 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3TyOR2bYJE>
Climate One
Published on Nov 8, 2018
On the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), we started the 
conversation about how solutions could be led by states, cities, 
businesses and NGOs.
The Paris Climate Accord was successful in bringing together the entire 
world around a common goal. But as Gina McCarthy points out, "We need to 
get together and figure out how you address and drive solutions to 
climate that actually end up in not just a cleaner and healthier and 
more sustainable world, but one that's more just."
Join our conversation with Marisa de Belloy, Gina McCarthy, Bill 
McKibben, Tom Steyer and Gloria Walton
This event is in partnership with Cool Effect, Capital Public Radio and 
in affiliation with the Global Climate Action Summit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3TyOR2bYJE


*UK scientists risk prison to urge action* 
<https://climatenewsnetwork.net/uk-scientists-risk-prison-to-urge-action/>
October 31, 2018, by Alex Kirby

A group of British scientists and their supporters is willing to risk a 
prison term to press governments to tackle climate change and 
environmental crisis.

LONDON, 31 October, 2018 − A growing number of British academics, 
writers and activists say they are ready to go to prison in support of 
their demands for action on the environment.

Scientists are not normally renowned for their political activism, and 
the UK is hardly a hotbed of determined and risky protest against its 
rulers. But, if this group of nearly 100 British scientists and their 
backers is right, all that may be on the brink of changing.

Today sees the launch of ExtinctionRebellion, which describes itself as 
an international movement using mass civil disobedience to force 
governments to enter World War Two-level mobilisation mode, in response 
to climate breakdown and ecological crisis.

The group is launching a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK 
government "for criminal inaction in the face of climate change 
catastrophe and ecological collapse" at the Houses of Parliament in 
central London.

"We need ExtinctionRebellion as part of the mosaic of responses to the 
extremely precarious situation we now find ourselves in"

 From today it promises "repeated acts of disruptive, non-violent civil 
disobedience" if the government does not respond seriously to its 
demands, and says "there will be mass arrests."

"Now is the time because we are out of time. There is nothing left to lose."

The group's demands include the declaration by the UK government of a 
state of emergency, action to create a zero carbon economy by 2025, and 
the establishment of a national assembly of "ordinary people" to decide 
what the zero carbon future will look like.

Based on the science, it says, humans have ten years at the most to 
reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero, or the human race and most 
other species will be at high risk of extinction within decades.

"Children alive today in the UK will face unimaginable horrors as a 
result of floods, wildfires, extreme weather, crop failures and the 
inevitable breakdown of society when the pressures are so great. We are 
unprepared for the danger our future holds."...
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/uk-scientists-risk-prison-to-urge-action/


[still good data display]
*US midterms 2018* 
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/nov/06/midterm-elections-2018-live-results-latest-winners-and-seats>
*live results* 
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/nov/06/midterm-elections-2018-live-results-latest-winners-and-seats>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/nov/06/midterm-elections-2018-live-results-latest-winners-and-seats


[Duluth News Tribune]
*Reader's View: Ignoring climate change is folly* 
<http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/letters/4526010-readers-view-ignoring-climate-change-folly>
By James J. Amato, Duluth on Nov 7, 2018
How long can one person keep his head in the sand about climate change? 
President Donald Trump, on "60 Minutes," claimed that climate scientists 
have an agenda. He was right. Their agenda is to find out the truth 
about climate change to try to prevent any catastrophic consequences to 
future generations. Does anyone really think the vast majority of 
climate scientists suddenly decided to abandon their integrity by 
engaging in a vast plot to destroy our economy? Only a paranoid mind 
like Trump's could conceive of such a ridiculous idea.

This display of idiocy comes right after Hurricane Michael devastated 
the town of Mexico Beach in the panhandle section of Trump's beloved 
Florida. That was only the latest in a series of devastating storms to 
hit our country in recent years. There was Katrina in New Orleans in 
2005, Sandy in New York in 2012, and Harvey in Houston in 2017. All were 
massively destructive storms resulting in major losses of life. This is 
just what global warming would predict, since warmer ocean water is the 
engine that fuels a hurricane's growth.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just issued 
a report endorsing the view of the vast majority of scientists that 
human activities are playing a major role in climate change and that we 
must restrict the burning of fossil fuels.

The short-term profits of the energy companies do not override the 
necessity of preserving a clean and healthful environment for future 
generations.

The question of whether human activities contribute to climate change is 
not a political or philosophical question. It is a scientific one. It 
would be the most reckless folly imaginable to gamble with the future of 
the planet by ignoring what the climate scientists are telling us.
James J. Amato
Duluth
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/letters/4526010-readers-view-ignoring-climate-change-folly


[or maybe smarter]
*Why are some women "news avoiders"? New research suggests one reason 
has to do with emotional labor*
"News avoidance appeared to be a strategic choice to conserve both 
emotional energy and time, in order to better fulfill demanding 
responsibilities, especially caretaking.""
By LAURA HAZARD OWEN @laurahazardowen Nov. 8, 2018
The idea that news and politics are in the male sphere, with domestic 
duties relegated to women, might feel outdated. But these beliefs are 
alive and well for many, and the act of consciously avoiding the news 
comes with a hefty component of gender dynamics, new research suggests.

In interviews with lower- and middle-income women in the U.K., 
professors Benjamin Toff and Ruth Palmer found a "clear division of 
labor" that "helped sustain gender gaps in news use."

News consumption fell off the to-do list completely as the women juggled 
jobs and childcare. They often outsourced news consumption to male 
partners or family members. And they "tried to conserve their own 
emotional energy" by avoiding news -- in order to better "fulfill their 
responsibilities to others."
The group of research subjects is small, but Toff and Palmer's paper 
"Explaining the gender gap in news avoidance: 'News-is-for-men' 
perceptions and the burdens of caretaking" (published online last month 
in Journalism Studies) raises interesting questions about the gender 
dynamics of consuming or avoiding news.

Their findings are a reminder that efforts to increase interest in and 
consumption of news need to account for a dizzying array of factors, 
including ingrained sexism in the news industry that affects which 
topics are considered "newsworthy" and long-held societal expectations 
that women act as caretakers. Toff and Palmer acknowledge that the 
people they interviewed "fall at the extreme end of the news consumption 
spectrum" -- there aren't that many people who actively identify as 
"news avoiders." But these women's perspectives, the authors write, "act 
as a magnifying lens to help identify gender dynamics that we suspect 
influence consumption patterns among more typical media audiences."...
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/why-are-some-women-news-avoiders-new-research-suggests-one-reason-has-to-do-with-emotional-labor/


[Great beings are trees]
*Tree Teachings: How Fossil Fuels and Climate Change Are Altering the 
Global Forest* 
<https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/10/29/Tree-Teachings-Global-Forest/>
By Andrew Nikiforuk, originally published by The Tyee
November 7, 2018
The world's most ancient trees are failing.
And their demise is telling us something about the dramatic impact of 
climate change on the natural world, says famed botanist Diana 
Beresford-Kroeger.
The tree expert, who is also a medical biochemist, is clearly concerned, 
if not shaken.
"It appears that the ancient forests are more vulnerable," she says. 
"They have been around for more than 1,000 years and something is 
happening to them."
These trees provided food, shelter and medicines for civilizations more 
ancient than the Romans and "are the backdrop to nature."
In her bestseller The Sweetness of a Simple Life, Beresford-Kroeger 
described the global forest as "a molecular memo" that harvests one 
carbon atom at a time and "pulses that sweet gas we call oxygen, needed 
for every single breath we take."
But the most ancient denizens of this forest are now dying and disappearing.
The botanist, who has been studying the health and importance of global 
forests for decades, rhymes off one example after another.
She begins with evergreens in the Atlas Mountains across northwest Africa.
For thousands of years cedar forests mixed with oak and juniper in the 
mountains have served as reservoirs for the entire region, ensuring 
flowing water for its rivers.
But warmer temperatures have dried up groundwater in mountain catchments 
and the blue cedar forests now are shrivelling.
"In the Atlas Mountains some of the evergreens are turning to dust right 
in front of the eyes of the Berbers," says Beresford-Kroeger.
Drought has concentrated the region's 800,000 livestock, which has added 
to the deforestation. The illegal logging of valuable cedars has also 
taken a toll.
"In the mountains the people worry that as they lose a forest, they will 
lose the little water they have."
Lebanon's great Biblical cedars are suffering a similar fate.
In one historic grove where Jesus is believed to have revealed himself 
to his followers after his resurrection, it used to snow and rain 105 
days of the year.
Due to man-made climate change the trees can now only count on 40 days 
of moisture.
Climate change has also tipped the balance in favour of the cedar 
web-spinning sawfly, a pest unknown to science until 1998.
Global warming has brought earlier snowmelts that allow the insect to 
emerge just in time to munch on new cedar shoots. In the last decade the 
bug has killed nearly 10 per cent of Lebanon's Tannourine forest.
Other primal and iconic trees are floundering too.
In Africa the great baobabs, or "upside down trees," are dying in en 
masse, says Beresford-Kroeger.
Drier weather swept in by climate change is killing African baobabs in 
great numbers. Photo by Roburq / CC BY-SA 3.0.
The pharaohs prized the baobab, one of the world's oldest flowering 
plants, for its medicine, including one that could alleviate a fever.
Over the last 12 years, about 70 per cent of some of the oldest living 
baobabs between the ages of 1,500 and 2,000 years have perished.
One tree named Homasi by the San people in Namibia started growing 
during the collapse of the Roman Empire.
It continued to grow through the Industrial Revolution.
The gargantuan tree, whose leaves and fruit fed people and livestock, 
grew to a height and girth of 32 metres.
But after blooming at the end of the rainy season in 2005, the great 
tree died.
Drier weather swept in by climate change likely killed six other brother 
trees in a grove of seven in just a two-year period, say scientists 
researching the die-off.
"We don't even understand the physics of these baobab trees and they are 
dying," adds Beresford-Kroeger.
Scientists now blame the mass die-off on climate change, or what one 
Romanian researcher describes as "an unprecedented combination of 
temperature increase and drought in southern Africa, over the past 10 to 
15 years."
Bacteria and fungal pathogens are also besieging ancient trees, because 
climate change abets the spread of plant diseases in a variety of ways. 
In New Zealand a fungal pathogen is suffocating 2,000-year-old evergreen 
Kauri trees -- an event researchers clinically refer to as "Kauri-dieback."
The fungal pathogen reduces New Zealand's most famous native tree to a 
ghostly skeleton.
Like the yellow cedar on Canada's West Coast, the Kauri tree is prized 
by the Maori as a sacred and strong wood for carving and boat building.
The Kauri belongs to a family of ancient conifer trees that once created 
a mighty global canopy during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
"In California, 'sudden oak death' has beset ancient oak trees," adds 
Beresford-Kroeger. She even spotted the beginnings of an outbreak while 
walking through the Muir Woods nearly a decade ago.
The fungus responsible for the die-off is related to the phytophthora 
fungus that the caused the devastating 18th-century potato famine in 
Ireland.
Sudden oak death has now killed millions of trees in California, Oregon 
and Washington states.
"Climate change," explains Beresford-Kroeger, "is adding more carbon 
dioxide to the atmosphere, which in turn makes it more acidic with 
carbonic acid."
These subtle changes in atmospheric chemistry affect the behaviour of 
pathogens in ways science barely understands.
"Pathogens, often in the form of tiny spores invisible to the eye, can 
move more easily thanks to climate change," says Beresford-Kroeger.
Plant researchers have long warned that changes in temperature regimes, 
atmospheric chemistry and drought induced by climate change can modify 
the incidence and severity of plant disease epidemics as well as disease 
pressures on agriculture.
As a result climate change can also rewrite the evolution of plants and 
pathogens, adds Beresford-Kroeger.
"What we have in the air is a lot more carbon dioxide and a lot less 
oxygen."
"We are going into an area of experimentation we have never experienced 
before," she says. "The climate changed 200,000 years ago but there 
weren't a lot of people around. Air, water and soil -- all of them are 
shifting under our feet."
Beresford-Kroeger is particularly concerned about the soils that anchor 
the global forest.
The greenhouse effect, she fears, is having a deleterious effect on the 
fertility of soils and their capacity to hold carbon due to irradiation 
of soil organisms by ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B wave lengths. These 
waves help degrade plants and may also release more carbon into the 
atmosphere.
"This might impact us much sooner than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere 
and no one is really addressing this issue," adds Beresford-Kroeger.
She also worries about the fate of the "totally unique" boreal forest, 
which covers northern Canada and much of northern Europe and Asia.
It is what Beresford-Kroeger calls a "frugal" forest, yet it captures 
and holds nearly one-third of the world's carbon dioxide.
Lichens in the boreal forest and compounds from aspens release aerosols 
that help to sterilize the air in the spring and which invite us all to 
have "spring fever."
She notes that even Russia's Vladimir Putin has described the Boreal and 
the Taiga of Siberia as "the ecological shield of the world."
"That is exactly what it does for the planet," says the botanist 
emphatically.
Yet the most recent forecast for the boreal forest is grim.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that if global 
temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees in warming, more wildfires, pests and 
heat-related die-offs would overcome southern portions of this forest 
system.
Forty years ago Beresford-Kroeger says that she first started to see the 
effects of climate change disturbing and affecting plants and soils in 
her own 160-acre research garden and arboretum.
This explains why she is still writing and talking about climate change, 
and the risks it poses to the forests that built and sustained the 
world's civilizations.
"We have to curb our consumption and be rich in what we don't want," she 
says directly. "It is important to start with the education of people."
The hopeful botanist has a bold plan to diminish the impact of climate 
change and it, of course, consists of planting trees and respecting 
natural limits.
Her global "bioplan" calls upon ordinary people to plant one native tree 
every year for six years in their own neighbourhoods.
The plan, if adopted around the world, could reduce carbon dioxide in 
the atmosphere by 25 per cent from about 400 to 300 parts per million.
"That will buy us some time."
But the bioplan also represents a plea to recognize how forests are 
connected to all living things.
"The bioplan tells us," she writes in The Sweetness of a Simple Life, 
"that one cannot remove the forests of Borneo and Sumatra and expect the 
orangutans to live. Nor can one remove the temperate rainforests of the 
west coast of Canada and see salmon coming back to the rivers."
What the death of ancient trees are now telling us about climate change, 
concludes Beresford-Kroeger, is that we must "make a daisy chain of 
people willing to improve our lot."
And that of the global forest, too.
"We must and we can do it."
https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/10/29/Tree-Teachings-Global-Forest/


[thoughtful consideration]
*Embracing Inconvenience* 
<https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-11-07/embracing-inconvenience/>
By Martha Davis Patton, November 7, 2018
My simple Boulder apartment overlooking Flagstaff Mountain is tiny--and 
maybe unusual. People are most welcome, but less welcome are pretend 
people--Siri and Alexa, for instance--as well as most other agents of 
"convenience." What I consider "convenient" may be skewed by recent life 
in China and the chance to step outside my familiar box, the opportunity 
to adapt to living with fewer conveniences. Upon return to the US some 
years ago, it wasn't too hard to imagine continuing to live with fewer 
conveniences, which for me include living without a car and an air 
conditioner and more. So at what crazy price have I embraced 
inconvenience? For what inconvenient truths? And for whom?

Here is just one of many ways--my particular way--to embrace 
inconvenience. There's little room on my tiny kitchen counter for a 
microwave, but, strangely perhaps, I don't really miss a microwave's 
promise of  saved time and trouble. I've whipped up stuff with a whisk 
or spoon, not owning an electric mixer or even a hand egg beater. I make 
drip coffee one cup at a time with a little tea strainer. This might 
seem weird by US standards, but I witnessed plenty of cooks in China, 
many of whom were superb, make do without a lot of electronic gear. 
There, I rarely heard the pulsing of Cuisanarts or the whirring of 
electric blenders. Instead, I'd hear the rat-a-tat-tat of vegetables 
being chopped on scores of chopping blocks throughout my apartment 
complex at roughly five o'clock each day, followed by the collective 
zzzz of greens hitting hot oil, and I'd smell strong and soft flavors 
wafting in from dozens of other open windows. Just a few sharp knives 
sufficed in each little kitchen. Little was wasted; most dishes were 
delicious. I learned to love the sensory supercharge. Here, what I chop 
may not be particularly exotic--mostly onions, garlic, mushrooms, 
peppers, cabbage and this or that--but I enjoy the colors, the smells, 
the sounds, the occasional variety. At least some sensory stimulation. I 
enjoy it.

I don't have a lot of stuff period, electronic or not. Instead of seeing 
how much I can fit into 500 square feet, I think of my apartment as a 
little architectural poem, with each object selected, valued, weighed. 
Do I need it? Really? Does it fit in the harmony of this little space? 
What's here is intentional; everything counts. White space and fresh air 
and light matter almost as much as the stuff. I like being in this space.

Likewise, my grocery shopping is limited to what fits into a hand held 
bag and to the weights that my shoulder can bear for the mile or two 
home--if I venture at all beyond Alfalfa's next door. Perhaps my grocery 
shopping is more European by having to shop frequently and locally. 
Fresh food for fresh use. Or so I like to think. I'd flunk the foodie 
test, but I like shopping frequently and close to home.

Sometimes, with or without a bag of produce over my shoulder, I stroll 
along Broadway, taking in the shadows cast by the mountains, and find 
myself keeping abreast of rush-hour traffic. While I'm looking closely 
at, say, crabapples nearing budburst or the human parade all around me, 
car drivers are staring blankly at dozens of tail pipes in front of 
them. Occasionally, I get to the next cross walk about the same time as, 
say, an FF1 bus that's just been playing tag with me up Broadway. 
Instead of being cooped up in a car, I can feel the base of my spine and 
the working of my glutes--and am so grateful to be moving. I'm fit, and 
I admit that I like the feeling. I'm curious and my senses are 
constantly stimulated. I think the way to know a place intimately, mile 
upon mile, is to travel on foot. I know and love this place. I enjoy 
walking.

So, isn't this account of radical simplicity a bit romanticized--and a 
little bit too self-congratulatory?

For sure. It so happens that the simplicity I've chosen is just that--it 
is something that I've chosen. I'm lucky. Choosing simplicity isn't 
always possible, again, as I observed among a few western Chinese 
peasants whose poverty was so imposing and so constraining that they 
never ventured far off the path from bare mud home to rice paddy, where 
villagers seldom had the luxury of dwelling on the mists rising from 
distant mountains. Sometimes minds were imprisoned in illiteracy and 
deadening routine.  Here, along Boulder Creek, I see unshaven homeless 
men trundling along with a simple backpack and bed roll. I see forty men 
bed down on Thursday nights with only a blanket separating them from the 
sanctuary floor of St. Andrews. These same individuals live so simply 
they don't see doctors or dentists. Twenty-four year-olds are missing 
teeth. Fifty-three year-olds look seventy. Some die young.

So, I don't want to pretend otherwise: Convenience is indeed worth 
something--a good measure of it is needed for wellbeing and for our 
humanity to flower. Radical simplicity if a byproduct of poverty or 
brainwashing is no joy.

I'm lucky, of course, that I've reached a time in my life and am in a 
position to choose the simplicity I embrace--and to eschew the 
"conveniences" that I find so dull and mind numbing. I chose this 
minimalist lifestyle. I choose what I keep with me and what I let go 
of--and I have plenty of options to choose from in the first place. This 
is a luxury. I get it. And it's a lifestyle made even more possible at a 
stage of life when I no longer have the time pressures imposed by 
extensive family and work responsibilities. Living like this would not 
have been easy twenty or even ten years ago when fully employed, when my 
boys were home and my ailing mother was not far away.

But maybe Timothy Wu is right, when he claims that we in the fast moving 
digital age are too often tyrannized by convenience. He doesn't deny 
that a measure of convenience afforded us enough leisure to celebrate 
our humanity, but he laments what he calls the "second wave" of 
convenience, a wave of virtual convenience that has come to stifle our 
engagement and actually limit our individuality and humanity. Amen! I 
embrace technology and some smart phone conveniences, but I don't need 
Siri or Alexi or my cell phone or FB algorithms to do all of my thinking 
or to help my already-atrophying mind and muscles to atrophy more. I 
don't want to be disengaged from primary living any more than I already 
am in the name of convenience. And yet, I fear, lots of affluent 
Westerners are.

This lack of engagement with the very tissue of experience is lamentable 
enough for individuals today. Much more frightening are the consequences 
for the whole next generation: The price of a century of such pursuit of 
convenience is a century of consumption, of waste, of lost resources, 
and the demolition of sustainable practices. Because of that, climate 
change is here and is threatening everything in a future once taken for 
granted. The potential chaos awaiting us is so hard to imagine that many 
just don't--don't imagine, don't try to make significant shifts in 
lifestyle. But adapting our lifestyles is possible if we allow ourselves 
first to imagine the consequences of not immediately taking action to 
stabilize a changing climate--and then to imagine the consequences of 
adapting, sometimes joyfully, to life with fewer fossil-fuel-driven 
conveniences. We don't have to succumb to a failure of imagination.

Some of my acquaintances must think I'm an extremist. What sane 
individual would limit herself to walking and taking mass transportation 
if she could just drive a car? Who would avoid taking airplanes when 
long-distance travel by bus or train is inconvenient to the nth degree?

Here's my main point: Whatever personal, sensory, and observational 
pleasures I get out of many of these inconveniences are relatively short 
term; I'd like to think the long term benefit of embracing inconvenience 
is leaving my granddaughter and her generation a future, a sustainable 
future. A sustainable future, of course, is in question--partly because 
too many of us have had a failure of imagination. Too many of us find it 
too inconvenient to imagine the implications of what climate scientists 
having been telling us, for instance, in the IPCC's recent Global 
Warming report. But we can--we really can imagine and live with fewer 
"conveniences"--and even like it. At the risk of being an outlier today, 
I'll continue to take the long way, the inconvenient way, for you, 
Julia--and for your generation.
References
Global Warming of 1.5 degree C. IPCC.
Sumner, Thomas. Changing Climate: Ten Years After an Inconvenient Truth.
Wu, Timothy. The Tyranny of Convenience. NYT Op Ed.
from https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-11-07/embracing-inconvenience/


[A Paul Beckwith video rant]
*Herculean Climate Rant to Rouse Humanity* 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q>
Paul Beckwith
Published on Nov 8, 2018
I am only wearing a T-Shirt in this RANT as I walk to school in Ottawa. 
Problem is that we are in November, and I am at at latitude 45 N and it 
is a balmy 10 C (50 F). Dude, where is winter??
I chat on Rapid Climate Change, Arctic darkening, Hope vs Hopelessness, 
Compassion, Resilience, Stoic Stoicism, CDR, SRM, Iron Salt Aerosols, 
Marine Permaculture Arrays, Sulphur, Biomimicry, Trees, Artificial 
Cement, Sucking Carbon from the Sky and Water, and a lot of other 
cooling things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q


[Peter Wadhams]
*Peter Wadhams on Our Last Ditch Hope* 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wsmyng2HIo>
UPFSI
Published on Nov 8, 2018
Welcome to http://ScientistsWarning.TV <http://ScientistsWarning.TV/> 
where Peter Wadhams and I discuss the grave threats to human survival, 
from Trump's pernicious attack on Nature, to the Paris Agreement 
mightily kicking the can down the road. And Peter discusses what he 
considers our last ditch hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wsmyng2HIo


[Wikipedia entry for Wadhams]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wadhams


[The Mash Report - video/humor]
*Rachel Parris on the Environment | The Mash Report* 
<https://www.facebook.com/thedailymash/videos/vb.28373121592/1938494476238338/?type=2&theater>
Should we just give up and let the world burn? Rachel Parris investigates
[In the UK] Watch BBC Two's the Mash Report here: https://bbc.in/2yPutsU
https://www.facebook.com/thedailymash/videos/vb.28373121592/1938494476238338/?type=2&theater


*This Day in Climate History - November 10, 2014 
<http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/gop-majoritys-slick-politics-356204611684> 
- from D.R. Tucker*
On MSNBC's "The Ed Show," Sen. Ben Cardin, Lee Fang and Tiernan 
Sittenfeld discuss Sen. James Inhofe's impending return as head of the 
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/gop-majoritys-slick-politics-356204611684


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