[✔️] May 23, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Mon May 23 09:55:48 EDT 2022
/*May 23, 2022*/
/[ Water, water everywhere, but... //] /
// *CARTA: Anthropogenic Global Water Insecurity*
1,220 views May 21, 2022 Humans have adapted to meet their water needs
across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations.
Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is
critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to
meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic -
or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human
health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water
challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how
development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to
water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can
unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion.
[6/2022] [Show ID: 37908]
https://youtu.be/44kmeql7wdY
/[ Richard Heiinberg - audio and transcript https://youtu.be/XRp_3HnbLs8] /
*The Climate Crisis is a Social Crisis | Richard Heinberg*
May 12, 2022 Richard Heinberg, senior fellow at Post Carbon Institute,
on the dangerous lack of social cohesion which threatens our global
capacity to collaborate in the face of the climate crisis. We discuss
energy rationing, political division, the effect of increasing economic
inequality, and the knowledge gap between the public and leaders.
We’re living in the anthropocene — a geological period defined by the
impact of human activity on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.
Essentially, it’s our behaviour that’s at the root of the problem. But
so often this isn’t addressed as the root. Our economic system claims
tech will save us from ourselves—but imagine we do find a silver bullet,
do we have the social cohesion in place to implement that solution, or any?
Transcripts available for everyone:
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/transcript-the-climate-crisis-is?s=r
Richard’s devoted his life to understanding the crisis and its
solutions, authoring 14 books and hundreds of articles on the topic.
Richard’s a big picture thinker, and he believes it is our behaviour and
our current political division which is the real threat to climate progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRp_3HnbLs8
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/[ clips from the transcript ]/
*Transcript: The Climate Crisis is a Social Crisis*
Available to everyone
*[00:20:57] Richard Heinberg: *It's tough because we've, we've put
it off so long that the choices are really difficult. You know,
there, there's no way forward that's peaceful, that's equitable,
that doesn't involve a climate catastrophe, that doesn't also
require, you know, massive redistribution, you know, just basically
canceling a whole lot of debt for people at the, toward the bottom
of the economic pyramid and taking a bunch of wealth away from
people at the top and using it to, you know, build the kind of
infrastructure we'll need for a lower energy and more sustainable,
uh, way of life.
That's ultimately that's, that's what would have to happen. How we
get there, god knows, you know, I mean the, the, the... When you put
it that way, you know, there are a lot of people who would say,
yeah, that's, that's right, that's what we need to do. But when you,
when you ask, you know, who is, who in public life is, is calling
for that? You know what politicians are calling for it? Nobody
because they're just too, - it's a minefield out there
*[00:22:11] Rachel Donald:* Hmm. I think it's also, um, inherently
divisive as a, as a concept, which isn't necessarily a bad thing,
it's just stating the truth of the matter, because what I found so
interesting to see a few years ago was, um, a chart detailing global
wealth. And to realize that me, my friends, you know, all of us,
that are earning more than what we would consider very, very meager
sums of money, we're in the 1% globally.
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**Well, there's a policy that I think would be really helpful and
I've, I've actually written about that lately and it's, uh, it's cap
and ration. And the word ration is not very popular these days.
People don't like the idea because of course it brings to mind the
idea of scarcity. But that's the reality. We are entering a period
of scarcity and rationing is the most rational way of dealing with,
with scarcity. And it has a long historical, you know, a precedent
for doing that successfully. Rationing hasn't been successful every
time it's been tried, but, you know, uh, in Britain, after world war
II, people were better nourished under food rationing than they had
been before the war, and better than they were after food rationing
ended in the 1950s.
Yeah. And that's pretty typical. As its, food rationing is, is, is,
is used not only as a way of dealing with scarcity, but also as, as
an antipoverty measure in many places, like the U.S has food stamps
uh, and that's, that's basically a food rationing program. Nobody
calls it that, but, you know, that's, that's what it is, and it
keeps, you know, several million people, uh, from starving to death.
It's, it's a very successful program. Nobody would want to cancel it.
Well, we're going to have to do something like that with energy,
because energy is the, is the master resource. On a day-to-day
basis, of course, it's not as important as, as food and water, but
energy is what enables us to produce and deliver our food and water.
Uh, so if we don't have energy then basically all modern society
falls apart very quickly. And we are, because of climate change, and
having to deal with that, and because fossil fuels are finite and
depleting, we are approaching a period of energy scarcity. And we're
starting to see that already with, with oil as a result of the
Ukraine invasion, the international energy agency is saying that
Russian, about 3 million barrels a day of Russian oil are probably
going to not be available to the market, and there are no likely
sources for replacing that much. So the international energy agency
has just published a 10 point, uh, set of, of, uh, things that
policy makers to take up from, you know, uh, banning, uh, driving on
Sundays to, you know, incentivizing people not to fly in airplanes
and all these sorts of things that are kind of emergency efforts.
But over the long run a much better policy would be energy
rationing, and that can take, uh, several different forms. A British
economist named David Fleming came up with a really good set of, uh,
policy recommended recommendations he, he called tradable energy
quotas. And there's been quite a lot of study of that. He, he came
up with the idea of back in the 1990s, but, uh, it's, it's still
being studied and discussed and I it's, it's one of the best I've
seen so far.
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/transcript-the-climate-crisis-is?s=r
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/[ more from Richard Heinberg, writing ]/
*Museletter #350: The Failure of Global Elites*
https://richardheinberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/museletter-350.pdf
*The Failure of Global Elites*
"If I were to offer some advice for elites, it would be as follows.
It was never going to be easy to do the right thing, and it will be
even harder now. Start by telling the truth. You’re going to get
blamed anyway. Why not use your position of influence to increase
public awareness of what’s really happening and why? But, dear
reader, don’t hold your breath waiting for elites to get it right.
I’ve used this essay to channel my own exasperation at cowards in
high places, some of whom have enriched themselves to obscene
degrees even as so many others languished. Rail against them a
little or some, based on your level of outrage, but I’d advise
directing the bulk of your energy to moving on. Anything that
further divides us makes it harder for humanity to do whatever is
still possible. A better path would be building personal and
community resilience ahead of what’s coming. Ease the suffering.
Save what can be saved."
https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-350-the-failure-of-global-elites
/[ Food and climate scientist in video report - 90 mins ] /
*Climate Change and Global Food Production -by Prof .David S . Battisti*
Jan 15, 2019 Climate Change and Global Food Production -by Prof .David
S .Battisti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Xr7DX_1vs
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*May 23, 2010*/
May 23, 2010: ABC World News Tonight reports on the extensive harassment
of Michael Mann and other climate scientists.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/climate-scientists-receive-death-threats-10729457
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