[✔️] Dec 20, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Rolly Williams, 3 difficult lectures on overshoot, Panama canal blocked, 1983 Al Gore

Wed Dec 20 11:19:31 EST 2023

/*December 20*//*, 2023*/

/[ Rolly Williams is a charming, sarcastic, positive informationist ,  
YouTube video 23 min ]/
*Saudi Arabia’s Secret Plan To Keep Us Hooked On Oil | Climate Town* 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0r_yJafmg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0r_yJafmg

/[ OK - time for some dark, difficult academic science first lecture of 
3 - William Rees is a disruptively wise lecturer - YouTube 67 mins ]/
*Ecological Overshoot Speaker Series Part 1: Dr. Bill Rees*
blueislandgirl
Nov 14, 2023
Dr. Rees introduces the concepts of Earth’s carrying capacity and 
ecological overshoot, and the many environmental problems that are 
symptoms of this overshoot. We humans tend to fixate on a few major 
problems (war, pandemic, climate change) and have a difficult time 
connecting the dots—that is, thinking systemically. Bill talks about the 
implications of our failure to think systemically, and what it means for 
the future of our communities and for life on Earth.

Dr. William E. Rees is a population ecologist, ecological economist, 
Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British 
Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in Vancouver, 
Canada. He is also a founding member and former President of the 
Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; a founding Director of the 
OneEarth Living Initiative; a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and an 
Associate Fellow of the Great Transition Initiative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVp5YvMemaI

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/[ 2nd Lecture - - exuberant, thoughtful, insightful   YouTube video  61 
mins ]/
*Ecological Overshoot Speaker Series Part 2: Dr. Jeremy Jiménez*
blueislandgirl
Nov 28, 2023
In Part 2 of our series on ecological overshoot, Jeremy Jiménez 
introduced us to the environmental issues we should be talking about 
besides climate change, and why we really need to be talking about them. 
Mainstream media and governments are focusing almost exclusively on 
climate change, because its impacts are readily observed, because it's 
more easily measured, and because the focus on climate invites the kinds 
of “solutions” that don’t ask us to change our way of life much if any 
at all. Jeremy shows why this is a mistake, and asks: which team are we 
on: Team Modern Civilization? Or Team Community of Life?

Part 2 of our ecological overshoot series is presented by Dr. Jeremy 
Jiménez. Jeremy is an Associate Professor in the Foundations and Social 
Advocacy Department at SUNY Cortland. He received his doctorate in 
International and Comparative Education at Stanford University in 2017. 
He currently publishes and teaches future teacher candidates about race, 
class, gender, international, and ecological issues, increasingly from 
indigenous perspectives. Having studied, taught, worked, and traveled 
through over 150 countries in the world, these days he prefers to stay 
grounded, eating the weeds alongside the squirrels and rabbits in his 
garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTH6PULlZqg

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/[ 3rd Lecture analysis of the predicament  ]/
*Ecological Overshoot Speaker Series Part 3: Max Wilbert*
blueislandgirl
Dec 12, 2023
In Part 3 of our series on ecological overshoot, Max Wilbert spoke about 
the new frontiers of resource extraction driven by growth in renewable 
energy and energy storage—the so-called “solutions” to climate 
change—and the resulting increase in demand for raw materials like 
lithium. Max shared his thoughts from his study of resistance movements, 
and described his own resistance work to protect the land from 
extraction and commodification, including co-founding and launching a 
protest movement to “Protect Thacker Pass”.

Max Wilbert is a writer and biocentric community organizer. He has been 
part of grassroots political work for 20 years, and is the co-founder of 
Protect Thacker Pass, a campaign to protect the natural communities in 
Thacker Pass Nevada from a massive lithium mine.

While Protect Thacker Pass failed to stop mine construction, the 
campaign has been incredibly successful at engaging a broad coalition of 
people in a deeper understanding of how lithium mining destroys the 
land. Max and the Protect Thacker Pass team continue to work with 
regional tribes to educate the public about the harms of lithium mining.

Max is the author of two books, most recently “Bright Green Lies: How 
The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It”.

You can read more of Max's writing and learn about his work to Protect 
Thacker Pass here:
* https://www.maxwilbert.org/
* https://maxwilbert.substack.com/
* https://www.protectthackerpass.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l90DFUZr2K0

/[ Shipping blocked by drought -- rain needed for the Panama Canal  - 
blame El Nino ]/
*Why the Panama Canal is Stuck*
Hindsight
Dec 1, 2023  #PanamaCanal #Documentary
The capacity of the Panama Canal is reduced by 50%, and some ships need 
to offload over half their cargo. As the worst drought in recorded 
history lowers the water levels of Gatun Lake, the administrators are 
forced to lower the number of transits. Is this the beginning of the end 
for the Panama Canal?

FULL TRANSCRIPT + SOURCES:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCb-RnMykYehNOEdhOsjWdUZ6XDE58vO/edit

MAIN SOURCES:
Panama Canal drought hits new crisis level with nearly half of vessel 
traffic targeted for cuts (CNBC):
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/03/panama-canal-drought-hits-new-crisis-level-amid-severe-el-nino.html

Panama Canal Water Source Gatun Lake Still Shrinking, Slowing Ship 
Traffic (DTN)
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/columns/cash-market-moves/article/2023/11/06/panama-canal-water-source-gatun-lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1eitXq5DVk

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/[ see world shipping in real time -- all ships at sea ]/
*Marinetraffic Live Map*
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-79.8/centery:9.1/zoom:10

/[ The news archive - astounding to learn what we knew in 1983  ]/
/*December 20, 1983 */
December 20, 1983: PBS airs "Climate Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect," a 
"NOVA" special on global warming featuring Tennessee Rep. Al Gore.
http://youtu.be/T8JlBkOe6HU
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/24/movies/earth-s-climatic-crisis-examined-by-nova.html

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