[✔️] August 29, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Burning Man climate confrontation, Climate Dread, Olive oil heatflation, Geothermal drilling, Global food, Petro-masculinity, 2005 Hurricane Katrina

[Richard Pauli]

/*August 29*//*, 2023*/

/[ Raw footage; trigger warning, aggressive confrontation, no physical 
injuries but unpleasant to watch - loud shouting, over-heated tempers, 
arrests//- this reveals the predicament //] /
*FULL VIDEO: Climate Protesters Shut Down BURNING MAN, Rangers Ram 
Through Blockade*
FREEDOM NEWS TV - NATIONAL
Aug 28, 2023  #BurningMan
August 27 2023 Black Rock Desert, NEVADA - "30 seconds, send your leader 
to my vehicle, let's talk, get off the fucken road" - Tribal Ranger 
announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate 
activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED 
through blockade, made arrest at gun point.

Climate activists from XR and “7 Seven Circles” shut down highway 
leading to the Burning Man Festival, withing the tribal lands.

Attendees quickly became irate, confronting the group blockading the 
road and physically attempting to remove the blockade. Some attendees 
sped thru close by the chained activists.

Rangers rushed in to the group, ramming through the blockade and rushing 
out with gun pointed to arrest protesters. Several arrests were made 
during the incident, including the legal observer as activists blocked 
traffic into Burning Man festival on the event’s first day open to the 
general public.

The group blocked a main thoroughfare using a trailer, lock-ons, and 
banners with the words “BURNERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!”, “ABOLISH 
CAPITALISM”, and “GENERAL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE”.

Group says the blockade’s purpose is to draw attention to capitalism’s 
inability to address climate and ecological breakdown along with 
protesting against the popularization of Burning Man among affluent 
people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in 
the commodification of the event.

Video by Oliya Scootercaster Desk at freedomnews.tv to license
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8fDM60MS84  (16 min )


/[ The New Republic - either way, it is a new World ]/
*Stop Calling It “Climate Anxiety.” It’s Climate Dread.*
The phrase “climate dread” better legitimizes the real and tangible 
threat coming toward us.
Hannah Seo
August 28, 2023
The immensity and destruction of the 2018 wildfires in Sonoma County, 
California, left a visceral impression on Mark Freed. He was 54 and had 
recently moved to the area with his then wife to escape the crowded city 
of San Francisco; he’d never lived through a wildfire season before. The 
walls of flame “make you feel like an ant,” he said. “You don’t feel 
human, you’re just a thing to burn.”
In 2018 alone, California saw 7,948 wildfires destroy 1,975,086 
acres—the Mendocino Complex Fire near Sonoma set the then record for the 
largest fire in state history. For the next few years, as Freed saw fire 
after fire, he felt a growing sense of helplessness and foreboding. He 
would wake up and immediately feel the heaviness set in, filling the 
quiet. In his panic, he researched places that seemed the most protected 
from climate change, where fire and extreme heat wouldn’t touch him 
again for at least some years. But despite continually preparing for the 
worst to the best of his abilities—moving somewhere he thought would be 
safer, stocking up supplies, reinforcing his house—he still couldn’t 
shake the feeling that disaster is inevitable.

“It’s like there’s no control over what’s going to happen to us,” he 
told me. In trying to name his emotions, Freed said what he was 
experiencing wasn’t quite anxiety—it was deeper and heavier than that. 
That looming feeling, he said, was dread.
  When burdened by the tangible angst and unease around the future of 
our planet, a term like “climate anxiety” can seem insufficient. It can 
feel paltry and shallow, implying we are fretting or fussing over an 
imagined future. In reality, seeing the mounting global disasters and 
learning of evidence-based projections of our changing world comes with 
a heavy emotional gravity. For some, “anxiety” simply doesn’t do it 
justice. For people like Freed—and myself, and potentially you, reading 
this now—the phrase “climate dread,” better than “climate anxiety,” 
legitimizes the real and tangible threat coming toward us and 
communicates that fear to others.
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The importance of this distinction is not just etymological. The emotion 
of dread affects us differently from anxiety. Understanding how can 
provide insight into our reactions to climate change, and why it can be 
so hard to spur people to climate action.
Defining “dread” is a tricky task—any two people might define (or feel) 
various emotions, including dread, differently—but Andreas Olsson 
distinguishes dread as being heavier and more concrete than anxiety. 
Olsson, a professor of psychology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, 
told me that anxiety doesn’t always have a tangible or definite cause, 
while dread is more targeted. You might feel anxious before a large 
party, for example, but you might dread that party if you know you’ll 
have to see and talk to an ex. You might feel anxious about the state of 
climate change, but you might dread the extreme heat of the coming 
weekend, the next hurricane season, or the consequences of us failing to 
meet our carbon emission goals by 2050.

Dread is unique because we feel it when we know, or at least strongly 
suspect, that “something bad is coming and we can’t stop it,” said Kate 
Sweeny, a social psychologist at the University of California, 
Riverside. The anticipation, waiting, and feeling of inevitability are 
what make dread so unbearable, she said.

In my conversations with Freed, where he called climate change a 
“credible threat,” he seemed to feel the heaviness of the coming decades 
too. “We’re probably all going to die horrible deaths” thanks to climate 
change, he told me.

Waiting with dread is particularly unpleasant when you don’t know when 
the proverbial shoe will drop, Sweeny told me. She found in one study of 
law students that indefinitely waiting for results for the bar exam was 
so painful that finally getting those results brought immense relief to 
her test subjects—even when they found out they had failed. Other 
studies show that people would rather experience a higher voltage 
electric shock immediately than wait for a less intense jolt and that 
they make similar choices even when deciding the shocks for someone else.

None of us can choose to pull dreaded climate events forward and into 
the present just to eliminate the waiting. And a consequence of 
constantly seeing those inevitable and immovable disasters—and knowing 
that more, and worse, catastrophes are coming—can be a feeling of 
overwhelming doom and helplessness, said Barbara Easterlin, co-president 
of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. “You get this sense 
of not being able to act or move forward,” she said.

When dread freezes us like that, it creates emotional effects akin to 
depression, tamping down on our energy and making it hard to take 
action. Thinking about the enormity of climate change feels bad; a 
common instinct is to just avoid those thoughts entirely. Unfortunately, 
that avoidance creates a feedback loop where the issue becomes only more 
distressing: where your brain learns and relearns that this subject is 
terrible and must be avoided at all costs. As Britt Wray, a researcher 
on climate and mental health at Stanford University, writes in her book 
about climate anxiety, Generation Dread, “Most of us don’t deeply engage 
with this reality, not because we don’t care, but because it is 
painful.… We’re just so deeply caught in the double bind that we become 
immobilized.”
It’s a slippery slope from helplessness to resignation and acceptance, 
and mass resignation and acceptance are not strategies that will steer 
the world off its current disastrous trajectory. But how can you stop 
feeling dread when you also feel like our world is doomed?

Perhaps the better question to ask is, “How can we transform dread into 
something more workable?” said Easterlin. “You’ll hear this over and 
over again: Action is one of the antidotes to dread.” Research seems to 
support this. A study published this month found that, among teenagers 
and young adults experiencing climate distress, those who reported 
making even small life changes or decisions for climate reasons—like 
reducing single-use plastic consumption, opting to commute via bike 
instead of car, or participating in political activism—still experienced 
anger and frustration but were also more likely to feel positive 
emotions like hope. Those who made fewer of those choices, by contrast, 
were more likely to experience guilt, shame, sadness, and fear, without 
the hopeful counterbalance.

Participating in even small actions and thinking about where and how you 
can be effective can move dread into something positive and hopeful, 
said Easterlin. It can pull you out of that forward-looking dread and 
into the current moment, where you can see yourself acting capably and 
with impact. It takes you out of the role of a passive victim and into a 
position of agency and strength.
While it’s overwhelmingly seen as a negative emotion, there are some 
positive side effects of experiencing dread, experts say. Like many 
emotions, dread is contagious, said Olsson. Whether we express it in 
person or online, it “catches” and amplifies—which can, paradoxically, 
help bring more attention and awareness to the issue at hand and 
possibly bring like-minded people together. This helps us all establish 
what we communally think is undesirable or should be avoided. As Wray 
writes: “What we choose to mourn shows what we choose to value.” When 
everyone is in agreement to feel dread over something like climate 
change, we can collectively establish a target to work against.

Research shows that community can act as an important tool for personal 
resilience against climate disasters. One 2010 Australian study of more 
than 500 children who experienced Cyclone Larry (a category 5 storm) 
found that those who had more social connections were significantly less 
likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder than their peers. 
Another 2016 paper studying communities in Ghana, Sri Lanka, Fiji, and 
Vietnam found that groups were better at recovering from “shocks,” 
including hurricanes and tropical storms, when they had stronger social 
ties.

When it comes to dealing with your own individual and internal sense of 
dread, climate-aware experts told me that a number of things can help. 
The first step is to always acknowledge that climate dread is a feeling 
that is warranted: We’re living through an unprecedented ecological 
breakdown of our own making, and it’s natural to feel strong emotions. 
The second is to realize that dread is not sustainable, and constantly 
focusing on helplessness can cause you to ignore elements of your life 
that are meaningful. Some therapists have found that patients respond 
well to methods like cognitive behavior therapy, acceptance and 
commitment therapy, and forest bathing—a process where patients spend 
time in a forest, immersed in its atmosphere—to reconnect with nature.
Mark Freed began talking to a therapist about his dread in 2020. They 
validated his emotions and helped Freed confront the real consequences 
of wildfires he experienced, as well as how he imagines fires worsening 
in the future. He tried forest bathing. And while he’s paused therapy, 
Freed says his unease is now manageable. He has his routines, he plays 
with his dogs, he devotes time and energy to the things he cares 
about—and that’s what makes life livable.

I asked him if his dread still bothered him.

“It’s less uneasy,” he told me. “It’s not gone, gone. Maybe it will [go 
away]—maybe one day, when we have a better world.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/174710/stop-calling-climate-anxiety-its-climate-dread



/[  Wait, heatflation?  Don't mess with my Pizza! ]/
*Climate change is coming for your olive oil, too*
Heatflation has doubled the price of olive oil over the past year.
Max Graham
Food and Agriculture Fellow
Aug 25, 2023
Inflation is finally easing. Americans are paying less for gas than they 
were a year ago. Furniture, television, and airfare prices have all 
fallen since last summer. Even the used car market is cooling off after 
its meteoric rise. But one unsuspecting staple in many American kitchens 
has become a prominent outlier: olive oil. The price of the already 
pricey liquid fat has soared to a record high this summer.

It’s the latest chapter in the annals of heatflation — when scorching 
temperatures harm crops and push food prices up. A yearlong drought and 
a spring of extreme heat in Spain, the world’s largest olive oil 
producer, devastated the country’s olive groves. Spanish olive oil 
production fell by a half — from an estimated 1.3 million to 610,000 
metric tons — over the past year. Now fears are mounting over the very 
real possibility that the country’s inventory will run out before the 
next harvest begins, in October.
It’s also a big deal for the rest of us, given that something like half 
of the world’s olive oil comes from Spain. As barrels run dry, cooks 
around the world are paying an almost unheard of premium for the nutty, 
liquid gold that makes lettuce more palatable and bread more nutritious. 
Worldwide, olive oil now costs $8,600 per metric ton, more than twice as 
much as it did a year ago and nearly 14 times more than crude oil. (It 
would set you back around $720 to fill up the typical car’s 12-gallon 
tank with olive oil found on Amazon.)

What’s happening is “not normal at all,” said Kyle Holland, a vegetable 
oils analyst at Mintec, a food market research firm. “It was just too 
hot and too dry for too long.”
Olive oil is one of many foods — one of many condiments, even — that are 
threatened by the severe and unpredictable weather brought on by climate 
change. As the global temperature ticks up, droughts are occurring more 
frequently, heat is getting harder for farmers to manage, and wildfires 
and floods are becoming more menacing to growers around the world. As a 
result, grocery store shelves aren’t getting stocked and food prices are 
going up. Ultra-dry conditions in Mexico have withered peppers, leading 
to a sriracha shortage in the United States. Record warming has 
decimated Georgia’s famed peaches, which require a few weeks of cool 
weather each winter to blossom. Ketchup, coffee, and wine all could end 
up on the chopping block, too.

Olive trees are no strangers to heat, and they don’t need much water 
compared to other crops, like tomatoes. Humans have been cultivating 
them in the Mediterranean’s warm climate — and crushing them for oil — 
for at least 6,000 years. But even hardy olives have their limits. 
Temperatures above 86 degrees Fahrenheit can impair their ability to 
convert sunlight into energy, and prolonged dry spells can keep them 
from producing shoots, buds, flowers, and fruit.

Growers in the Mediterranean, a region warming 20 percent faster than 
the rest of the world and the source of 95 percent of olive oil 
production, are especially vulnerable. Drought caused Tunisia’s grain 
harvest to decline by 60 percent this year. And dry conditions led to 
poor yields for wheat and rice farmers last year in Italy, whose produce 
has helped build the country’s legacy of pizza, pasta, and risotto. This 
summer, they’ve had to contend with extreme heat, historic floods, and 
freak hailstorms, according to Davide Cammarano, a professor of 
agroecology at Aarhus University in Denmark. With such variability in 
weather, “it becomes very hard to manage a crop in the Mediterranean,” 
he said.

In a study published last year, Cammarano and his colleagues found that 
rising temperatures could cut the production of processing tomatoes — 
the sort used to make tomato sauce and ketchup — by 6 percent in Italy, 
the U.S., and other countries within the next three decades.

Perhaps no one this year has had it as bad as olive growers in Spain. 
Between October and May, the country received 28 percent less rain than 
usual, with the driest conditions in southern, olive-growing areas. 
“It’s a catastrophe,” Primitivo Fernandez, head of Spain’s National 
Association of Edible Oil Bottlers, told Reuters in March. Spain 
experienced its hottest April on record, with temperatures rising above 
100 degrees F. And the heat has only gotten more punishing since, with 
the country now in the midst of its third heat wave of the year.

As a result, researchers predict that drought and heat waves associated 
with climate change will continue to take their toll on olives from the 
Iberian Peninsula to Lebanon. Hot and dry conditions last year scorched 
groves not only in Spain but also in Italy and Portugal, two of the 
world’s top four olive oil producers.

In the United States, too, severe weather is a concern for olive 
farmers, although unlike orchards in Spain that rely on rainfall, most 
in the U.S. are irrigated, which makes them more resistant to drought. 
Producers in California, the state that churns out the most olives but 
still contributes less than 3 percent of the olive oil consumed in the 
U.S., reportedly harvested one-fifth less than their historic average 
this season, following years of little rain that made some farmers’ 
wells go dry.

Winter and spring storms last spring in California eased the drought, 
but the cool weather and heavy precipitation slowed flowering and 
potentially lowered the amount of oil in each olive, according to Jim 
Lipman, chief operating officer at California Olive Ranch in Chico, the 
country’s biggest olive oil producer.

In an email to Grist, Lipman said that the high prices in Europe have 
increased demand for California oil and that California Olive Ranch has 
a strong crop heading into the upcoming harvest season, which starts in 
October. That said, early warming followed by frost has resulted in crop 
disasters in two of the last five seasons.

At Burroughs Family Farm in Denair, California, production has been 
fairly steady over the past few years, but “this year we are on the 
lower side” possibly as a result of an “incredible” amount of rain, said 
Benina Montes, managing partner at the regenerative almond and olive 
farm in California’s Central Valley. In a good year, the farm’s 10 acres 
of olives produce up to 40 tons of oil. This year, they yielded about 
three-quarters of that amount.

Montes said she hadn’t been following news of the shortage in Europe. 
But she figures the rise in demand caused by Spain’s low inventory might 
have helped her business. “No wonder our olive oil has been selling well 
on Amazon.”
https://grist.org/agriculture/climate-change-olive-oil-drought-extreme-heat-europe/



/[ Geothermal energy ]/
*13 miles down and 1000 degrees! Hot enough for you?*
Just Have a Think
Aug 27, 2023
There's enough energy just in the very thin crust of our planet to run 
human society for hundreds of thousands of years. Getting to it and 
bringing it to the surface is the challenge. Now a new team of 
engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs, who were clearly Star Wars fans 
as children, has developed an immensely powerful 'ray gun' that can 
vaporise rocks down to twenty kilometres. Terrifying or very exciting? 
Take your pick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g95Moz2Ub_0



///[ Food Stress video 6 min]/
*How climate change is disrupting the global food supply*
PBS NewsHour
Aug 27, 2023
The effects of climate change have been hard to miss across North 
America and Europe this summer: record heat, wildfires and warming 
oceans. There are also other, less obvious consequences that affect both 
the quantity and quality of food crops. Climate change scientist Jonas 
Jägermeyr joins John Yang to explain the relationship between climate 
change and global food supply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT91uMn_TpM

/
/ //

///[  Rolling Coal...and Petro-Masculinity,  and yes, it may be, um, 
"compensation". ]/
*Are Men Killing the Planet?*
Our Changing Climate
Aug 25, 2023  #patriarchy #feminism #climatechange
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I explore how 
patriarchy destroy the planet and drives climate change. Specifically, I 
look at how threads of patriarchal masculinities, like petromasculinity 
and ecomodern masculinity are wielded and pervade responses to the 
climate crisis. These patriarchal responses to climate change not only 
obstruct needed action, but they have devasting consequences for gender 
liberation and environmental health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyOe7vm5R0



/[The news archive - looking back at Hurricane Katrina ]/
/*August 29, 2005 */
August 29, 2005: In a Huffington Post piece, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notes 
the irony of Hurricane Katrina assaulting the Gulf Coast just a few 
years after the Bush administration decided to give preferential 
treatment to the fossil fuel industry with regard to energy policy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/for-they-that-sow-the-win_b_6396.html 




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