[✔️] November 7, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Mon Nov 7 08:43:17 EST 2022
/*November 7, 2022*/
/[ "Greenwashing" - is COP 27 - video 7 mins ]/
*Q: "Do you have any hope of COP27 achieving a great deal?" | A: Rupert
Read, "Very little..."*
Rupert Read/
/Nov 6, 2022
Rupert continues, "We sort of play this game year after year don't we.
We go into a new climate COP hoping that it will give us something
real... but as my young friend and colleague Great Thunberg says, it's
mostly just 'BLAH BLAH BLAH'."
We need a new way of thinking, about politics, about philosophy, and
about our role in the world. My website contains a collection of my
thoughts in these areas. My writings and media appearances, which are
collected there, address the mix of issues around the climate and
ecological ‘emergencies', and how we ought to respond to them. Please
check it out: https://RupertRead.net
...I enthusiastically welcome your comments, (civil/constructive)
criticisms and thoughts over there: https://twitter.com/GreenRupertRead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmnsooMtac/
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/[ clips from this most important article in the Guardian ] /
*US voters hit hardest by climate crisis: ‘I need politicians to care
about this’*
The devastating effects of climate change are motivating how voters cast
their ballots in the midterm elections
Maanvi Singh, Frida Garza, Gabrielle Canon, Oliver Milman and Nina Lakhani
Sat 5 Nov 2022
Across the US, temperature records tumbled in a summer of heatwaves,
enormous floods drowned entire towns and, in the west, an ongoing
drought is now so severe that corpses are being uncovered in rapidly
drying reservoirs.
Despite these increasingly ominous signs, the climate crisis has
struggled to gain much visibility in the lead-up to next week’s midterm
elections. “Many voters are more focused on things like inflation,
understandably, because people are struggling to get by in this
economy,” said Geoffrey Henderson, an expert in climate policy at Duke
University.
But, Henderson added, this will still be a “very high-stakes election
for climate change”, with probable Republican control of at least one
chamber of Congress likely to result in the gumming up of Joe Biden’s
climate agenda. While the president managed to get a huge climate bill
passed in the summer, any further legislation or even moves to implement
the Inflation Reduction Act, will face obstruction.
We spoke to six voters to ask what the climate crisis means for them
ahead of the midterms.
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“It is important to me that a candidate actually has a plan,” he said,
emphasizing that that includes a greater acknowledgment of the
intersectionality between climate action and equity and inclusion. “I
tend to vote Democrat but there are independents and even the Green
party that have better platforms,” he added, noting that his home
district’s distinctly purple hue has at times skewed his support blue.
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“A lot of these areas are under threat,” he said, adding “I need
politicians to care about this.” So, Palley plans to cast his votes with
an eye toward the escalating threats looming now and in the future –
with full knowledge of what’s at stake.
“What’s the point of anything else if we don’t have a livable planet?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/05/us-voters-climate-change-midterm-elections
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/[ text and audio track from Political (audio from Amazon Polly
https://aws.amazon.com/polly/?nc=sn&loc=1 ) ]/
*Populists vs. the planet: How climate became the new culture war front
line*
US midterms show populism is now the ‘biggest obstacle’ to addressing
global warming, say greens.
BY KARL MATHIESEN
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
Delegates landing in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh for U.N.
climate talks this week are a global elite bent on tearing down national
borders, stripping away individual freedoms and condemning working
people to a life of poverty.
That dark view is held by a range of far-right or populist parties —
among them Donald Trump’s Republicans, who are seeking to retake control
in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections. Some of these radicals are
rampaging through elections in Europe while others, such as Brazil's
President Jair Bolsonaro last week, have been defeated only narrowly.
Republican and Trump acolyte Lauren Boebert derides the environmentalist
agenda as “America last;” Britain’s Brexit-backing Home Secretary Suella
Braverman says the country is in thrall to a “tofu-eating wokerati;” and
in Spain, senior figures in the far-right Vox party dismiss the U.N.'s
climate agenda as "cultural Marxism."
Right-wingers of various strains around the world have co-opted climate
change into their culture war. The fact this is happening in countries
that produce a large share of global greenhouse gas emissions has
alarmed some green advocates.
“Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate
change,” wrote three climate leaders, including Brazil’s former
Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira, in a recent commentary.
In the U.S., Republicans are eyeing a return to power in one or both
houses of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Many at the COP27
talks will be reliving the first week of the U.N. climate conference in
Morocco six years ago when Trump’s election struck the climate movement
like a hurricane.
A Republican surge would gnaw at the fragile confidence that has built
around global climate efforts since President Joe Biden’s election,
raising the specter of a second Trump term and perhaps the withdrawal —
again — of the U.S. from the landmark 2015 Paris climate deal.
“I don't want to think about that,” said Teixeira’s co-author Laurence
Tubiana, a former French diplomat who led the design of the Paris
Agreement and who now leads the European Climate Foundation.
Some on the American right are pushing a more conciliatory message than
others. “Republicans have solutions to reduce world emissions while
providing affordable, reliable, and clean energy to our allies across
the globe," said Utah Congressman John Curtis, who will lead a
delegation from his party to COP27...
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*Loving the losers*
The far right's focus on the losers has been "turbo charged" by the
energy crisis, said Jennie King, head of civic action and education at
ISD, which populists have wrongly argued is the fault of green policy.
The European Parliament’s coalition of far-right parties has grown and
capitalized on the energy crisis by joining with center-right parties to
vote down environmental legislation.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson — newly elected with Åkesson's
support — aims to dilute the country's ambitions for cutting some
greenhouse gas emissions, a move center-right Liberal Environment
Minister Romina Pourmokhtari justified in familiar terms: “That is a
reaction to the reality people are facing.” And in Britain, Brexit
leader Nigel Farage retooled his campaign to become an anti-net zero
mouthpiece...
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Strains of right-wing ecology may also mean that not all groups are
actively hostile to the climate agenda, said Lubarda. Italy’s new Prime
Minister Giorgia Meloni is a huge fan of the books of J.R.R. Tolkien,
which center on the Shire, an idealized bucolic homeland. Meloni says
she wants to reclaim environmentalism for the right, but the protection
of national economic interests still comes first.
“There is no more convinced ecologist than a conservative, but what
distinguishes us from a certain ideological environmentalism is that we
want to defend nature with man inside,” she said in her inaugural speech
to parliament last month.
While Meloni has announced that she will attend COP27, she has also
renamed the Ministry for the Ecological Transition the Ministry for
Environment and Energy Security. The governing program of her Brothers
of Italy party includes a section on climate change, but it strongly
emphasizes the need to protect industry.
It’s this broad sense of demotion and delay that alarms those who are
watching these ideas grow in stature among populists on the right. They
say that while it may not sound like climate denial, the result is
effectively the same.
“You can say that you are climate friends,” said Belgian Socialist MEP
Marie Arena. “But in the act, you are not at all. You are business
friends first.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/populists-vs-the-planet-the-rights-new-playbook-on-climate-change-cop27-egypt-sharm-el-sheikh-donald-trump-midterms-republicans-meloni/
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/[ the top voice at COP27 ]/
*UN Secretary General #COP27 WARNS OF CLIMATE CHAOS sending a distress
signal that must be answered*
Nick Breeze ClimateGenn
António Guterres Transcript: Follow us on https://gennc.cc
As COP27 gets underway, our planet is sending a distress signal.
The latest State of the Global Climate report is a chronicle of climate
chaos.
As the World Meteorological Organization shows so clearly, change is
happening with catastrophic speed -- devastating lives and livelihoods
on every continent.
The last eight years have been the warmest on record, making every
heatwave more intense and life-threatening, especially for vulnerable
populations.
Sea levels are rising at twice the speed of the 1990s - posing an
existential threat for low-lying island states, and threatening billions
of people in coastal regions.
Glacier melt records are themselves melting away - jeopardising water
security for whole continents.
People and communities everywhere must be protected from the immediate
and ever-growing risks of the climate emergency. That is why we are
pushing so hard for universal early warning systems within five years.
We must answer the planet’s distress signal with action -- ambitious,
credible climate action.
#COP27 must be the place – and now must be the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIrxSMMwGz8
/[ From the Financial Time$ ]/
*Maersk warns oil groups are holding back clean energy transition*
Shipping company says more affordable green fuel must be offered by
suppliers
https://www.ft.com/content/1d037414-bbb0-48e6-a507-cafc54ada026
[ avoiding "the ambush of hope" and the deification of human willpower
-- discussions w Michael Dowd ]
*Meg Wheatley - Post Doom, No Gloom - Hope and Its Shadow: Fear*
thegreatstory
Nov 6, 2022
This post-doom conversation, "Hope and Its Shadow — Fear", between
Margaret Wheatley and Michael Dowd, was recorded in October 2022.
Previous post-doom conversations with Meg (one with Terry Patton, in
2020, the other with Michael Shaw, in 2022) can be found at the top of
this page: https://postdoom.com/conversations/ (Both are excellent,
quite different from this one, and highly recommended!)
"We Have to Talk About Hope" (An Invitation to Explore Our Dependence on
Hope), Led by Margaret Wheatley on Zoom - The Berkana Institute:
https://mailchi.mp/2d7677d98c5e/we-have-to-talk-about-hope-9287878?e=e559cd6c65
"Freeing Ourselves from the Addiction to Hope" — by Margaret Wheatley
TEXT:
https://medium.com/@WarriorsForTheHumanSpirit/freeing-ourselves-from-the-addiction-to-hope-4b6c88920229
AUDIO:
https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/margaret-wheatley-freeing-ourselves-from-the-addiction-to-hope
The Place Beyond Fear and Hope -- Margaret Wheatley
TEXT:
https://margaretwheatley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BeyondHopeandFear.pdf
*When hope is a hindrance*
For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action.
In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act:
https://aeon.co/essays/for-arendt-hope-in-dark-times-is-no-match-for-action
(text AND audio narration)
Michael Dowd's EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS on hope, hopium, etc —
https://www.youtube.com/user/thegreatstory/videos
Post-Doom, No Gloom (Hope-Free) Audio, Text, and Video Resources —
(A): https://postdoom.com/resources/ and (B)
https://postdoom.com/discussions/
Youtube Playlist: "Pro-Future (Wise) Living: Beyond Hope and Fear"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcAlqMeyeaW-jGoWXIWUhbTHi3eB0P9nt
*HOPE RELATED QUOTES…*
“Grief requires us to know the time we’re in. The great enemy of
grief is hope. Hope is the four-letter word for people who are
unwilling to know things for what they are. Our time requires us to
be hope-free. To burn through the false choice of being hopeful or
hopeless. They are two sides of the same con job. Grief is
required to proceed.” ~ Stephen Jenkinson
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but
the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns
out. It is the ability to work for something because it is good,
not because it stands a chance to succeed.” ~ Vaclav Havel, author,
poet, and former president of the Czech Republic
“Do not lose heart; we were made for these times.” ~ Clarissa
Pinkola Estés
“The depth of your grief is the measure of your love.” ~ Joanna Macy
“Inattention to the world’s ecological state is well advised.
Because attention to it mitigates against your happiness,
contentment, and your sense of well-being. Having a conscience now
is a grief-soaked proposition. … “If you awaken in our time, you
awaken with a sob.” ~ Stephen Jenkinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCsHn3tTfM
/[ Disinformation danger - DeSmog comes to the rescue ]/
*DeSmog Launches Project to ‘DeBunk’ Climate Misinformation*
Heard it all before? So have we. That’s why we are trying out a new way
to fight climate science denial.
By Adam BarnettonOct 31, 2022
With the pivotal COP27 UN climate summit taking place in Egypt in
November, the forces of climate denial and delay are likely to go into
overdrive.
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So for a limited period we are going to try a new way to set the record
straight. DeSmog is launching a project to debunk these false narratives
and arm people with the correct information about climate change.
*How it Works*
Our plan is three-fold. First, we will rebut high-profile examples of
climate misinformation on Twitter, and second, publish “cheat sheets”
with the killer facts to debunk these denial and delay arguments.
There are already organizations dedicated to expert factchecks, so our
role will be to collect and summarise the best available evidence, and
Tweet it out into the world in bite-size chunks.
Third, we will draw on our investigative journalism and Climate
Disinformation Database to expose the track records of serial
misinformers and their pro-fossil fuel agenda.
So when climate saboteurs take the mic, we will be ready. When groups
like Net Zero Watch and their allies in parliament blame high energy
bills on the UK’s net zero policies, we’ll provide the evidence to
disprove this false claim. When pundits like Hartley-Brewer use their
media platforms to attack the IPCC, we’ll stand up for climate science
and show why such claims are wrong.
Our hope is that these DeBunk tweets and “cheat sheets” will provide a
useful resource in the fight against anti-climate propaganda, and will
help shore up support for climate action and net zero policies.
We will be publishing our first DeBunk later this week, so watch this
space.
To find out more or get involved, email us at debunk at desmog.com .
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https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/31/desmog-launches-project-to-debunk-climate-misinformation/
https://www.desmog.com/debunk-rebutting-false-climate-narratives/
https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/
https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-focus/factchecks/
/[ serious doomerism -- video discussion ]/
*"What Is a Doomer?" - Prof. Eliot Jacobson, live with David B.*
Collapse Club
Sep 27, 2022
Prof. Eliot Jacobson is a doomer, but he is not disengaged from the
world. He keeps careful track of greenhouse gases, global temperatures,
and other indices of onrushing global disaster. He analyses the data
using skills developed in a 26-year career as a professor of mathematics
and computer science. See his "Collapse of Everything Blog" at:
https://climatecasino.net/ and follow him on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson
Prof. Jacobson is convinced we are facing a global catastrophe, but he
believes we can still act to good effect:
"As a doomer, I don’t believe there is anything we can do to stop the
coming collapse. The timing and overall severity may change though. We
may yet be able to save a few species from extinction. With more action,
we could possibly preserve a few more habitats for nature to regenerate
after we’re gone. Maybe the oceans won’t become a vast algae clogged
slough. Humanity’s full impact on this planet is yet to be written."
Even though he believes that "humanity has a collective terminal
illness," Prof. Jacobson advocates for a fully engaged attitude toward life:
"Doomers believe that in this particular crisis there is an
opportunity. They can use this common moment of suffering to find ways
to be kind to others. They can use whatever personal abundance they
might have to be generous as much as they are able. And while they still
have the energy and mobility for action, they can look for ways to be of
service."
See his seminal essay 'On Being a Doomer' at:
https://climatecasino.net/2021/09/on-being-a-doomer/
I'll ask Prof. Jacobson about his swings between a sad, calm equanimity,
on the one hand; and anger at "climate and collapse f&%ery" (his words)
on the other. Please join us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGQ2E58a_Fo
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[ video channel ]
*Collapse Club*
How are we to live in the time of collapse? In this period of crisis and
catastrophe, our comfort is to be with other people who understand what
we're going through. Collapse Club is a home for public conversations
among people who are seeking an authentic understanding of the world and
themselves, and who are aligning their lives with their understanding.
https://www.youtube.com/c/CollapseClub
Local news in North Carolina - WRAL ]
*Eco-anxiety: A looming mental health crisis*
A growing number of Americans are suffering from climate change
distress, called eco-anxiety. Young people and those on the front lines
of environmental disasters are particularly at risk.
Nov 3
By Liz McLaughlin, WRAL Climate Change Reporter
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It wasn’t until her friends and family started reaching out, concerned
about her rapid weight loss and wellbeing, that Fassett realized she’d
gone too far.
“My entire relationship with food changed because I was afraid to buy
anything in containers,” she said.
Though Fassett’s environmental efforts were above and beyond that of the
average American, she said she would often wake up in the middle of the
night, paralyzed in fear that she wasn’t doing enough to stop climate
change.
“It felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders, because I
felt personally responsible for the world and future generations of
civilization,” she said.
Fassett is one of a growing number of people with eco-anxiety. The
American Psychological Association describes the affliction as “a
chronic fear of environmental doom.”
Climate-related stress has only shown up in mainstream psychological
conversation over the past five years, but has likely been a problem for
much longer. According to the APA, more than two-thirds of Americans
have moderate to significant distress about climate change, a figure
that has doubled since 2017.
“This is particularly prevalent in young people, for whom this is much
more vividly their future,” said Elizabeth Haase, a psychologist and
chair of the APA’s committee on climate change and mental health. Some
colleges, including the University of Michigan and the University of
Oregon, have launched programs to specifically address this type of stress.
“Eco-anxiety or ecological distress really encapsulates all of the
emotions that people can have in response to climate change, such as the
grief that people feel, the rage that they feel, the betrayal and
hopelessness, the fear on an immediate level for their own safety, as
well as on an existential and intergenerational level,” Haase said.
Like Fassett, many people with eco-anxiety become overwhelmed by
personal goals to mitigate their own carbon footprint.
Sami Grover is an author who writes about this struggle in his book
"We’re all Climate Hypocrites Now."
“If you read up on the science, it's really, really worrying … but one
of the things I've learned is that worry and anxiety only get you so
far,” Grover said.
In Grover's book, he lays out the dichotomy of caring about the
environment and living in a world that caters to consumption.
“The anxiety can be a useful signal that something is wrong and that we
need to do something, but it can also be debilitating and stop you from
doing the work that needs to be done,” Grover said.
Though composting and biking instead of driving are worthwhile
endeavors, it is a small part of the solution. According to 2018 data,
the fossil fuel industry accounts for 89% of all global carbon emissions.
“I really encourage people to think of this as a collective journey,”
Grover said. “It's not your individual responsibility to get your carbon
footprint down to zero. Instead, what’s your role in getting our
collective footprint down to zero?”
Grover encourages readers to devote 95% of their environmental energy to
the one place they have the most leverage and power. That might look
like an executive pushing green company policies, a council member
pushing green initiatives, or a pastor getting an electric church van
for Sunday school.
Others have a more hopeless version of eco-anxiety, expressed as the
grief of losing parts of the natural world as climate change wipes out
barrier reefs, icecaps, and entire species of animals.
David Monje is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He teaches a class about climate communication.
“I don’t have a lot of hope in the future as far as the human ability to
resolve these problems that are happening,” Monje said.
Monje said Grover’s advice helped him to feel more empowered by his role
in the classroom.
“This is an exercise in how to be a better teacher and present
information in a way that’s digestible, in a way that’s meaningful, and
in a way that doesn’t lead directly to despair,” Monje said.
Another type of climate distress affects those on the front lines of
natural disasters, who have already lived through the trauma of seeing
their life’s work wash away in floods or fear an uncertain future.
Researchers say in addition to the growing financial cost of climate
change-fueled storms, there’s a mounting mental health crisis.
Duke psychiatry professor Raj Moray has been studying the mental health
toll of climate disasters and projects that the impact will continue to
accelerate.
“There's just going to be a lot more people suffering from depression,
anxiety, and PTSD,” Moray said. “It’s going to be essential that there
are more mental health resources than we currently have available.”
Though the acknowledgment of eco-anxiety is expanding, it’s still a
relatively new topic in the world of psychology. Some sufferers said
that they felt their concerns were not taken seriously by their
therapist, further discouraging them. One student, who wanted to remain
anonymous, said she went to her counselor in tears because she felt so
hopeless about the future that she was afraid to have children. She
wanted to discuss her feelings and learn strategies to manage her
stress, but instead felt that her concerns were dismissed and invalidated.
Haase said hearing about those experiences was an impetus to start a
climate-aware training program for mental health professionals. Now, the
Climate Psychiatry Alliance and the Climate Psychology Alliance
developed a brief training course to help therapists be better equipped
to empathize with and help patients manage their ecological distress.
For those feeling eco-anxiety, Haase says the first step is
acknowledging their feelings. “It’s completely normal to feel this way,”
said Haase. She suggests speaking with a climate-aware therapist,
journaling, spending time in nature, and joining together with
like-minded individuals for community support or collective action.
Fassett says after therapy and re-learning to be “normal about trash,”
she’s found a happy medium between her emotional wellbeing and her
environmental activism.
“Go green, just don’t go crazy,” she said.
https://www.wral.com/eco-anxiety-a-looming-mental-health-crisis/20554764/
/[The news archive - looking back - DTM -- also sometimes DTFM ]/
/*November 7, 2012*/
November 7, 2012: The 350.org "Do the Math" tour commences in Seattle.
The message is simple: Go Fossil Free. McKibben was the first to
say, it is a tall order, perhaps impossible, but we have no choice
but to try given global warming’s terrifying new math.
http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/08/bill-mckibben-kicks-do-math-tour-seattle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdJRb7yaWY
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