[✔️] September 24, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sat Sep 24 07:02:38 EDT 2022
/*September 24, 2022*/
/[ Cough, cough ]/
*Wildfire Smoke Is Making U.S. Air Toxic*
Climate change is fueling longer and more destructive wildfires, which
send smoke far across the country.
Angely Mercado
9.22.2022
Regional wildfire smoke is significantly lowering air quality for
millions of people across the country.
A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology found that
wildfires are creating more air pollution every year. They especially
create particle pollution known as PM2.5, which can cause short-term
health concerns like nose, eye, and lung irritation. Long-term exposure
can create or worsen existing respiratory and cardiovascular issues...
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Researchers worry that the increased air pollution from wildfires is
reversing the strides the U.S. has made in improving air quality since
the passing of pollution regulations in the 1970s. “We’ve been really
successful in reducing pollution from point sources—from factories, from
tailpipes, energy producing units. Wildfire is a whole different
animal,” Burke said. “It’s not regulated by the Clean Air Act, and it’s
a growing source of pollution.”
The worst pockets of polluted air are unsurprisingly in western states.
The climate crisis has fueled conditions that have made wildfires
increasingly destructive. There’s an ongoing megadrought drying out
major water sources like the Colorado River. This year has also seen
several dangerous heat waves, creating even drier and hotter conditions.
But the increased intensity and frequency of wildfires has far-reaching
consequences.
“As you move east, out of the Rockies into the Midwest, we still see the
impact of wildfire smoke on air quality there,” Burke said. “These
impacts are smaller, but they still exist… this is not just a West Coast
problem anymore.”
Wildfire smoke can travel even farther than the Midwest. For example,
last July, New York’s air quality was one of the worst in the world
after wildfire smoke from the West Coast traveled thousands of miles.
Some of the smoke reached as far east as Greenland that week.
https://gizmodo.com/wildfire-smoke-is-making-u-s-air-toxic-1849569349
/[ from Food and Water Watch ]/
*Fossil Fuel Production, Profits Soar While Jobs Continue to Decline*
New research reveals disconnect between industry hype and jobs data
Sep 19, 2022
As the economy recovered from the global economic disruptions linked to
the COVID crisis, fossil fuel companies ramped up and began producing
more oil and gas and raking in record-breaking profits. But a new
analysis shows that the industry’s recovery did not extend to workers,
as oil and gas drillers continue to shed jobs.
The new Food & Water Watch fact sheet, “Oil Profits and Production Grow
at the Expense of Jobs, Consumers, and the Environment,” shows the stark
reality of fossil fuel production and employment. The recovery of the
oil and gas industry in 2021 – with production close to 2019 levels –
came as jobs in those industries continued to fall. The industry
employed 504,000 workers in 2021, compared with 541,000 in 2020 and
695,000 in 2019. That amounts to a seven percent decline from 2020, and
an astonishing 34 percent decline from the 2014 peak...
These trends continue to show that the industry is employing far fewer
workers while producing far more; since 2014, production has risen 33
percent while jobs declined 37 percent.
These facts fly in the face of the spin generated by industry giants
like the American Petroleum Institute (API), which churns out highly
misleading reports that wildly exaggerate the state of the industry’s
workforce. Their 2022 report – commissioned in 2021 and relying on 2019
data – claims that 11.3 million jobs are supported by the oil and gas
industry. In reality, there were only 695,000 oil and gas jobs in 2019
that year.
Food & Water Watch has extensively documented the flaws with these
industry studies, from what appear to be basic arithmetic errors such as
double counting or the inclusion of entirely unrelated jobs. The API
reports lump indirect and ‘induced’ jobs into their totals, accounting
for the vast majority of their inflated totals.
“The oil and gas industry would rather pay shareholders than workers,”
said Food & Water Watch Senior Researcher Oakley Shelton-Thomas. “It
should be clear by now that more production means more pollution, but it
hasn’t meant lower prices or more jobs.”...
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2022/09/19/fossil-fuel-production-profits-soar-while-jobs-continue-to-decline/
/[ Just in case reality can't deliver it's message -- Book announcement
in the LATimes -- opinion ] /
*Column: Americans don’t care about climate change. Here’s how to wake
them up*
BY NICHOLAS GOLDBERG
SEPT. 22, 2022
Why is the greatest threat to the planet of so little concern to most
Americans?
It’s shocking, frankly, that global warming ranks 24th on a list of 29
issues that voters say they’ll think about when deciding whom to vote
for in November, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication. Only 30% of voters say they are “very worried” about it
and more than two-thirds say they “rarely” or “never” discuss the issue
with family or friends.
How can people be so blithely unconcerned when the clear consensus of
scientists is that climate disruption is reaching crisis levels and will
result not only in more raging storms, droughts, wildfires and heat
waves, but very possibly in famine, mass migration, collapsing economies
and war?
Sure, there are some obvious reasons for the apathy: High among them is
that fossil fuel companies have spent decades pulling the wool over the
eyes of Americans. And Republican politicians have been complicit...
But that’s not the whole story.
To try to understand a little more, I had a conversation recently with
David Fenton, a political activist who more than 40 years ago turned his
hand to public relations and has now spent most of his life in the
communications trenches, creating campaigns on behalf of social change
and progressive causes.
Fenton, whom the National Journal once called “the Robin Hood of public
relations,” argues that while yes, of course the fossil fuel companies
are villains in a scam of historic proportions, the other side — the
anti-climate change side — needs to acknowledge some serious strategic
mistakes as well.
In his forthcoming book, “The Activist’s Media Handbook,” due out in
November, Fenton says that the forces trying to rouse the world to fight
climate change — including philanthropic foundations, environmental
organizations and activist groups, among others — have by and large
ignored the most rudimentary tenets of marketing and advertising, to
their detriment and the planet’s.
That’s because they believe that the business of selling ideas is
fundamentally dirty, manipulative and beneath them.
They’re convinced that data, truth and evidence are what matter, Fenton
says. To them (and we’re talking here about lots of well-intentioned
lawyers, scientists and people who studied the humanities), good ideas
sell themselves.
So instead of spending money and resources on shaping public opinion,
they keep commissioning more policy reports from think tanks and
convening more global meetings of scientists — on the presumption that
the steady accretion of irrefutable facts will ultimately prevail.
The other side knows better.
“People at the fossil fuel companies and their allies go to business
school where they learn cognitive and marketing science — and believe
me, it is a science,” Fenton told me. “They learn how to sell products
and services. They invest in defining messages and reaching people. Our
side does not.”
What are some of these scientific techniques of persuasion and public
communication that work so well?
Deliver simple messages, for one thing. In general, climate activists
lean toward complexity and nuance because they don’t want to patronize
or condescend or mislead by oversimplifying to their audiences.
Once you have a simple message, repeat it over and over. Did you know
that consumers generally have to see an ad more than half a dozen times
before they will be persuaded to buy a product?
Embed facts and data in what Fenton calls “moral stories that tug at the
emotions.” Anyone who has ever watched TV ads knows that strategy can
make arguments far more powerful.
Talk about what people care about. There’s been too much talk about the
effect of climate change on polar bears, and not enough on what it means
for humans.
Use language people understand. Research shows, Fenton says, that many
people don’t understand the phrases “existential threat” or “net zero”
or “climate justice.” They understand what “pollution” is, but not what
an “emission” is — which suggests that it might make more sense to use
the former term.
Now to be clear, I’m no fan of marketing either. I’m part of the problem
Fenton is bemoaning . I’m reluctant to oversimplify or condescend to my
audience, and I worry that heart-tugging, emotion-driven arguments are
manipulative. I like to believe that adults can be persuaded with facts,
science and rational arguments.
But I also know deep down that marketing works.
And if the fate of the Earth depends on delivering a simple but
understandable, rousing and persuasive message, then I think it’s worth
it. As Fenton notes, it’s not about manipulating people — it’s about
un-manipulating them.
And the way to do it, he says, is with a big, well-funded campaign to
build the public support, public understanding — and then the political
will — required for social change.
Here’s my only concern about Fenton’s argument: He believes messages
shouldn’t be too downbeat because “sacrifice doesn’t sell.”
“I’m not saying there won’t be suffering,” he explains. “But multiple
studies prove we can heat our homes, drive our cars, take vacations and
have decent modern lives — if we just power them differently. But we
have to hurry up.“
Is he right when he says the climate problem can be solved in a way that
enhances economic prosperity? I hope so; that’d be great. But I worry —
and this is just my opinion, not an expert’s analysis — that we’ve
waited too long, and that to avoid the worst effects of climate change
we are going to have to sacrifice, whether it sells or not. I take the
gloomy approach.
Either way, we can all agree there’s an awful lot to be done. And Fenton
is certainly right that you can’t mobilize people for war if they don’t
know they’re under attack. Public education is obviously a missing piece
of the puzzle.
Somehow we need to awaken a nation of sleeping, underinformed and
insufficiently motivated citizens and persuade them to rise to the great
challenge of modern times. To do that, the unmanipulation process needs
to begin in earnest.
@Nick_Goldberg
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-22/climate-change-concern-marketing
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/[next month -- buy the book ]/
*The Activist’s Media Handbook*
Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop, IndieBound
Title: The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons from Fifty Years as a
Progressive Agitator
Published by: Earth Aware Editions
Release Date: November 1, 2022
Pages: 248
ISBN13: 9781647228668
OVERVIEW
Activist and public relations thought leader David Fenton shares lessons
on how to organize successful media campaigns, cultivated from more than
half a century working within some of history’s most impactful social
movements.
In an extraordinary career David Fenton has learned first-hand what to
do—and not to do—to propel progressive causes into the public eye and
create real, impactful, lasting change.
A visionary activist, Fenton has been the driving force behind some of
the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50 years,
from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to the
campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late 1980s,
exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals in our food, the long battle to
legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws, the misinformation in
Washington during the Bush era in the 2000s, and recent campaigns that
successfully banned fracking in New York and alerted the public to the
climate crisis, including the environmental impact of Bitcoin.
https://davidfentonactivist.com/books/the-activists-media-handbook/
/[ Oxfam is young and radical - Activism call - video 90 seconds ]/
*Step up and fight for the planet | Oxfam GB*
Sep 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjhbPLxwSHA
/[ Conversation audio hurricane Ida ]/
*Episode 3, When a climate disaster hits, how does it impact mental
health care?*
/August 29, 2022/
In this episode, I speak with Holly Walters, a licensed professional
counselor and Louisianan who has survived multiple major hurricanes.
In Hurricane Ida, Holly lost her house. Then she went right back to
providing mental health care to her storm-ravaged community.
What's it been like for Holly and her clients? And what has she learned
from the experience that can help clinicians in other climate disasters
in the future?
Hosted by Rei Takver
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-v3tw7-12ae0af
https://www.climatepsychology.us/climate-psychology-conversations/episode-3-when-a-climate-disaster-hits-how-does-it-impact-mental-health-care
/[ A classic lecture by British writer known for his environmental and
political activism ]/
*George Monbiot - The invisible ideology - Part 1- Consumerism,
Capitalism and Neo-liberalism*
118,477 views Jul 16, 2020 The Invisible Ideology - An amazing talk
from the well known author and Guardian journalist George Monbiot.
George delves deep into the invisible ideologies trashing our planet.
In this video George talks in depth about capitalism, consumerism and
neo-liberalism.
For the live Q & A with the audience click the link below -
https://youtu.be/nN16yWvFcQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cP1prsBIo
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/[ follow-up Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN16yWvFcQ0 ]/
*George Monbiot - The Invisible ideology - Part 2 - Live Q and A with
Natalie Fee from City to Sea*
21,862 views Jul 17, 2020 An amazing Q and A from the well known
author and Guardian journalist George Monbiot following on from the full
talk.
The invisible ideology trashing our planet - for the full talk PART 1 -
click https://youtu.be/t-cP1prsBIo
[recording of ] Live three hour how on 'Dying of Consumption' click here
-https://youtu.be/pjmdXjaRm0g
George is asked questions relating to consumerism, capitalism and neo-
liberalism.
We have loads more talks from George and similar speakers on the channel
so please subscribe and tell your friends.
Other talks from George Monbiot - Connecting the Dots between mental
health, consumerism, climate breakdown and celebrity culture– A series
of 15 short talks
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTij8wOSJZNxAjlZTZ4dDxneUiK6UE5Hz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN16yWvFcQ0
[https://www.livinginthetimeofdying.com/watch
*Living in The Time of Dying *is an unflinching look at what it means to
be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and civilisational
collapse. Once we lift the veil of denial and see the time we are living
in clearly for what it is, how then do we find purpose, meaning and
courage to meet it.
Recognising the magnitude of the crisis we are facing, independent
filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house to travel around the world
looking for answers. Pretty soon we begin to see how deep the
predicament goes, and how our cultural systems and ways of thinking
brought us here. Stan Rushworth, a Native American Elder, brings an
especially enlightening viewpoint to these questions. It becomes clear
that climate change is going to ruin our way of life and this then opens
up a whole new set of questions: How did we get here as a civilisation
to begin with? How do we choose to live in these times with purpose and
clarity? and what actions make sense at this time? The people
interviewed in the documentary, all highly regarded and well known
spokespeople on the issue, argue it's too late to stop catastrophic
climate change but in no way too late to regain a renewed life giving
relationship with our world and with each other.
Festivals & Awards
Winner: Outstanding Excellence. Docs without Borders.
Winner: Merit Award. Impact Docs
Winner: Merit Award Nature Without Borders
Finalist: Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Selected: Colorado Environmental Film Festival
Selected: North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/livinginthetimeofdying
https://www.livinginthetimeofdying.com/watch
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*Dahr Jamail Interview in full*
2,568 views Aug 1, 2020 Interviews from the documentary, Living in the
Time of Dying.
To find out more or support our work: www.livinginthetimeofdying.com
Dahr Jamail in his usual forthright manner explores the research and
science behind his groundbreaking book, The End of Ice. In this
interview Dahr goes on to talk about grief, finding meaning and the
importance of the indigenous perspective at this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEbegILo1A
Visit our website for more information:
https://www.livinginthetimeofdying.com
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*September 24, 2014*/
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough interviews Naomi Klein regarding her book "This
Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate."
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/naomi-klein--capitalism-waging-war-on-climate-332851267672
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