[TheClimate.Vote] April 8, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Richard Pauli richard at theclimate.vote
Wed Apr 8 07:36:18 EDT 2020 

/*April 8, 2020*/

[Oil fails]
*U.S. to become net petroleum importer again amid oil meltdown*
The new forecast from the Energy Department's independent statistical 
arm comes as oil prices hover in mid-$20s per barrel.
The United States is likely to become a net importer of crude oil and 
petroleum products later this year, undercutting President Donald 
Trump's touting of the U.S. as achieving "energy dominance" under his 
administration.

The new forecast from the Energy Department's independent statistical 
arm comes as oil prices hover in mid-$20s per barrel, about one-third 
the price at the beginning of the year. The economic slump from the 
coronavirus pandemic that has choked off fuel demand and a flood of oil 
from Saudi Arabia and Russia have driven prices down, which Trump said 
last week has "ravaged" the U.S. energy sector...
more at - 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/us-becomes-net-petroleum-importer-amid-oil-meltdown-172661
- - -
[opinion in text and audio]
*Armageddon in the Oil Patch*

    Don't take my word for it. "We are on the verge of a major collapse
    [of the oil industry]" says former energy secretary Rick Perry. "The
    oil patch is falling apart," says the mad-hatter investment guru Jim
    Cramer. When it's finally getting through to intellectual giants and
    perpetual cheerleaders such as Perry and Cramer, something is
    definitely going on.

    The immediate crisis has been triggered by the massive worldwide
    decline in demand for oil from the economies crippled by the
    coronavirus. The decline -- or "demand shock" as it's being called,
    is on the order of 20 million barrels a day. Led by Russia and OPEC,
    major oil exporters have been slashing their prices to try to hang
    on to a piece of the shrinking market. Whether intentionally or not,
    they are now selling oil at prices that are below the cost of
    production for US oil frackers...

more at - http://www.dailyimpact.net/2020/04/07/armageddon-in-the-oil-patch/
- - -
[Drilled podcast]
*There Will Be Fraud: New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As 
Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe*
Drilled is one of the few narrative podcasts about climate change. In 
2018 when journalist Amy Westervelt was covering multiple climate 
lawsuits, she had the idea to put the story of climate change, and 
climate denial, into a true-crime framework. Season 1 (November 2018) 
focused on the climate research conducted by oil companies and when and 
how they shifted from studying the problem to denying it. Season 2 
(April 2019) followed a community of crab fishermen as they became the 
first industry to sue Big Oil. Season 3 (January 2020) chronicles the 
100-year history of fossil fuel P.R. campaigns and ties them to the 
propaganda we still see today. At least four more seasons are planned 
for 2020 and 2021. What began as a limited-run 8-part series has become 
the most-listened to podcast on climate change and, as of January 21, 
2020, a multi-platform climate accountability reporting project that 
keeps industry honest on climate via investigative reporting across web, 
newsletters, and podcasts. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your 
podcasts!
The HEATED podcast is a 6 episode, limited-run series that shows how 
COVID-19 and the climate crisis cannot be separated. In a series of 
up-to-the-minute interviews with Bill McKibben, Mary Heglar, Anthony 
Rogers-Wright, Kate Aronoff and others, HEATED's Emily Atkin connects 
the dots on how two of the most pressing issues of our time are really 
one and the same.
There Will Be Fraud: New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As 
Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
23 min
https://www.drillednews.com/podcasts



[meanwhile wildfires]
*Wildfires rage across Maine on Monday*
Whipped by high winds and dry conditions, brush fires break out in more 
than a dozen locations, including Biddeford, Casco, Limerick and Camden...
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/04/06/wildfires-rage-across-maine-on-monday/



[vital, thoughtful video interview]
*Interview with climatepsychologist Rosemary Randall about corona times, 
climate action and the heart of carbon conversations*
KlimaatGesprekken
This interview was done on April 6th 2020, when there had been about 
three weeks of 'social distancing' or societal lockdown in both the UK 
and the Netherlands and most other European countries.

The interview was done by Manu Busschots of KlimaatGesprekken 
(klimaatgesprekken.nl) and more information on Rosemary Randall and 
carbon conversations can be found here: rorandall.org/ and here 
carbonconversations.co.uk/
https://vimeo.com/404622271


[Naomi Klein interview]
*Mehdi Hasan and Naomi Klein on Coronavirus Capitalism*
Streamed live 3 hours ago
The Intercept
The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan speaks with Senior Correspondent Naomi Klein 
about coronavirus capitalism and the selective use of emergency measures 
to offload risks onto workers and families, while the people who are 
relatively more secure get no-strings-attached bailouts.
Coronavirus Capitalism -- and How to Beat It: 
https://youtu.be/niwNTI9Nqd8 by Naomi Klein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV-TZlu6MdE



[Video meeting]
*How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism*
Streamed live on Mar 26, 2020
Haymarket Books
March 26, 2020
Sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Leap, Debt Collective, and Democratic 
Socialists of America

The current crisis is laying bare the extreme injustices and 
inequalities of our economic and social system.

We are in a battle of visions for how we're going to respond to this 
crisis. We will either be catapulted backward to an even more brutal 
winner-takes-all system -- or this will be a wake-up call.
Ideas that were dismissed as too radical just a week ago are starting to 
seem like the only reasonable path to get out of this crisis and prevent 
future ones.
We need to use every tool that we have that allows us to hear each 
other's voices, to read each other's words, to see each other's faces, 
even if it's just on screens, to stay organized and stay connected. We 
have to create spaces where we're able to deliberate and strategize 
about what it means to protect our neighbors, our rights, and our planet.
We have to have the confidence to say this is the moment when we change 
everything.

Naomi Klein
@NaomiAKlein
https://naomiklein.org/

Astra Taylor
@astradisastra
https://www.whatisdemocracy.info/

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
@KeeangaYamahtta
http://www.keeangataylor.com/

Lia Rose
@liarosemusic
https://www.liarose.com/

Haymarket Books
@hayamarketbooks
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/
See the video - https://youtu.be/5lxwLHRKaB0?t=572


[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming  - April 8, 2003 *
In the New York Times, climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer declares:

    "The threat of global warming, first raised in 1896, has outlived
    many foreign policy crises. Our failure to deal with it is starting
    to bear a bitter harvest not only in rising seas and intensified
    rainstorms, but also in disruption of long-standing alliances, and
    interference with other foreign policy objectives. It is well past
    time for U.S. leaders to put the climate problem at the center of
    America's domestic and international agendas."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08iht-edoppen_ed3_.html

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