[✔️] March 4, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Salt Lake, CO2, Anxiety in children, Snyder Opinion, Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late, Bernie support, CO2 record,

[Richard Pauli]

/*March 4, 2023*/

/[ "all so sad" CBS video report -  nostalgia and predicament  ]/
*Will Utah's Great Salt Lake disappear?*
CBS Sunday Morning
Feb 26, 2023  #utah #waterconservation #greatsaltlake
Utah's Great Salt Lake has been in decline, owing to climate change, 
drought, and over-use of water resources, and is now one-third the size 
it was in the 1980s. A new scientific report warns that, without 
dramatic and immediate cuts in water consumption, the lake could vanish 
in just five years. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with Sen. Mitt Romney, 
who co-sponsored a bill studying the lake's problems, and with experts 
who say aggressive action is needed.
#greatsaltlake #utah #waterconservation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xVKCTQ4eBc



/[ cough, cough, another record set ]/
*Carbon dioxide emissions reached a record high in 2022*
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
March 2, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — Communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide 
in 2022 than in any other year on records dating to 1900, a result of 
air travel rebounding from the pandemic and more cities turning to coal 
as a low-cost source of power.

Emissions of the climate-warming gas that were caused by energy 
production grew 0.9% to reach 36.8 gigatons in 2022, the International 
Energy Agency reported Thursday. (The mass of one gigaton is equivalent 
to about 10,000 fully loaded aircraft carriers, according to NASA.)

Carbon dioxide is released when fossil fuels such as oil, coal or 
natural gas are burned to powers cars, planes, homes and factories. When 
the gas enters the atmosphere, it traps heat and contributes to the 
warming of the the climate.

Extreme weather events intensified last year’s carbon dioxide emissions: 
Droughts reduced the amount of water available for hydropower, which 
increased the need to burn fossil fuels. And heat waves drove up demand 
for electricity.
Thursday’s report was described as disconcerting by climate scientists, 
who warn that energy users around the world must cut emissions 
dramatically to slow the dire consequences of global warming.

“Any emissions growth — even 1% — is a failure,” said Rob Jackson, a 
professor of earth system science at Stanford University and chairman of 
the Global Carbon Project, an international group. “We can’t afford 
growth. We can’t afford stasis. It’s cuts or chaos for the planet. Any 
year with higher coal emissions is a bad year for our health and for the 
Earth.”
Carbon dioxide emissions from coal grew 1.6% last year. Many 
communities, primarily in Asia, switched from natural gas to coal to 
avoid high natural gas prices that were worsened by Russia’s invasion of 
Ukraine, the IEA said.

And as global airline traffic increased, carbon dioxide emissions from 
burning oil grew 2.5%, with about half the surge resulting from the 
aviation sector.

Global emissions have grown in most years since 1900 and have 
accelerated over time, according to data from IEA. One exception was the 
pandemic year of 2020, when travel all but came to a standstill.

Last year’s level of emissions, though a record high, was nevertheless 
lower than experts had expected. Increased deployment of renewable 
energy, electric vehicles and heat pumps together helped prevent an 
additional 550 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions, the IEA said.
Strict pandemic measures and weak economic growth in China also 
curtailed production, helping to limit overall global emissions. And in 
Europe, the IEA said, electricity generation from wind and solar power 
exceeded that of gas or nuclear for the first time.

“Without clean energy, the growth in CO2 emissions would have been 
nearly three times as high,” Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, 
said in a statement.

“However, we still see emissions growing from fossil fuels, hindering 
efforts to meet the world’s climate targets. International and national 
fossil fuel companies are making record revenues and need to take their 
share of responsibility, in line with their public pledges to meet 
climate goals.”
- -
Thursday’s report was described as disconcerting by climate scientists, 
who warn that energy users around the world must cut emissions 
dramatically to slow the dire consequences of global warming.

“Any emissions growth — even 1% — is a failure,” said Rob Jackson, a 
professor of earth system science at Stanford University and chairman of 
the Global Carbon Project, an international group. “We can’t afford 
growth. We can’t afford stasis. It’s cuts or chaos for the planet. Any 
year with higher coal emissions is a bad year for our health and for the 
Earth.”

Carbon dioxide emissions from coal grew 1.6% last year. Many 
communities, primarily in Asia, switched from natural gas to coal to 
avoid high natural gas prices that were worsened by Russia’s invasion of 
Ukraine, the IEA said.

And as global airline traffic increased, carbon dioxide emissions from 
burning oil grew 2.5%, with about half the surge resulting from the 
aviation sector.

Global emissions have grown in most years since 1900 and have 
accelerated over time, according to data from IEA. One exception was the 
pandemic year of 2020, when travel all but came to a standstill.

Last year’s level of emissions, though a record high, was nevertheless 
lower than experts had expected. Increased deployment of renewable 
energy, electric vehicles and heat pumps together helped prevent an 
additional 550 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions, the IEA said.

Strict pandemic measures and weak economic growth in China also 
curtailed production, helping to limit overall global emissions. And in 
Europe, the IEA said, electricity generation from wind and solar power 
exceeded that of gas or nuclear for the first time.

“Without clean energy, the growth in CO2 emissions would have been 
nearly three times as high,” Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, 
said in a statement.

“However, we still see emissions growing from fossil fuels, hindering 
efforts to meet the world’s climate targets. International and national 
fossil fuel companies are making record revenues and need to take their 
share of responsibility, in line with their public pledges to meet 
climate goals.”

Though emissions continue to grow at worrisome levels, a reversal that 
would help achieve the climate goals that nations have committed to 
remains possible, said John Sterman, director of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology Sloan Sustainability Initiative.

Nations must subsidize renewables, improve energy efficiency, electrify 
industry and transportation, set a high price for carbon emissions, 
reduce deforestation, plant trees and rid the system of coal, Sterman 
argued.

“This is a massive, massive undertaking to do all these things, but 
that’s what’s needed,” he said.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-emissions-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-coal-494ef490f16abe381ea2a4107f779670 




/[ Increasing Climate Anxiety ]/
*As climate changes, climate anxiety rises in youth*
BY DAVID SCHECHTER, HALEY RUSH, CHANCE HORNER
MARCH 2, 2023
Kids often worry about much different things than their parents do. One 
of the big ones is climate change. 
(https://www.cbsnews.com/climate-change/) Research shows most youth are 
"extremely worried" about it, leading to a phenomenon called climate 
anxiety. Kids and young adults who struggle with this can perceive they 
have no future or that humanity is doomed.

"We see that a lot of young people are saying, I think my life will be 
worse than my parents' lives," said Dr. Sarah Schwartz, a professor of 
psychology at Suffolk University in Boston.

A study published last year collected attitudes about climate change 
from 10,000 people across the world, aged 16-25.
In the survey, 59% of youth and young adults said they were very or 
extremely worried about climate change and more than 45% said their 
feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and 
functioning.
https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/2023/02/24/2af83b13-489d-4a94-af38-2fcd310834cf/worried-1.jpg
"So, they know that the world is going to get to be a harder, darker, 
scarier place," said Schwartz. "And imagining themselves in that world 
feels really scary for them."
The study also revealed how climate change makes young people feel. In 
all countries surveyed, nearly 62% said they were anxious about climate 
change. About 67% said they were sad and afraid.
Schwartz is researching climate anxiety. She said it's not a diagnosis, 
but a valid response to the current situation in the world,  
(http://www.greenrootschelsea.org/) and her research shows that 
three-quarters of young people report worrying about climate change.

"I don't think it makes sense as a disorder because, again, that one 
assumes that this is a psychopathology of a few rather than the 
majority," said Schwartz. "And then the goal is that it is this 
individual disorder, where we treat at the individual level rather than 
address the societal issues and the environmental issues."
"People should be talking about it more since it's their planet," said 
high school student Johanna Flores. "They should be worried about their 
health."
Flores lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, where she 
said there is so much jet fuel, road salt and heating oil stored on the 
river it's hard for some residents to even get close to the water.
"And you wouldn't see that in a white neighborhood, like you would see a 
beautiful view of the water," said 15-year-old Darien Rodriguez, who 
also lives in Chelsea. "You wouldn't see any industries, any like smoke 
and pollution."

The students are environmental activists at a non-profit called 
GreenRoots. http://www.greenrootschelsea.org/   They work alongside 
adults, advocating for environmental justice in their hometown by 
educating and empowering others to get involved.

"We're supposed to just partake in anything we can, like if there is 
some sort of thing going on of planting trees, like participate in 
that," said Flores. "Or if there's some sort of event, just even a trash 
pickup, people should participate in that because it helps the community 
so much." ...
With a group so focused on the environmental problems in their 
neighborhood, it's no surprise that they also worry about climate change.
"It's scary to think about what awaits the future generations and, like, 
the world itself," said 16-year-old Greandoll Oliva.  

"I'm very concerned because I want to be able to have kids and watch 
their kids grow up and have a family," said Rodriguez. "I feel like I 
won't be able to experience that just because people are careless about 
what they do and how they treat the environment."

*Getting involved helps *
Schwartz said activism may be an effective way for kids to deal with the 
feelings associated with climate anxiety. 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-youth-climate-strike-youth-are-changing-the-game-on-climate-change/

"Higher climate change anxiety is correlated with higher clinical 
symptoms of depression and anxiety," said Schwartz. "But what we saw was 
that for young people who have high levels of climate anxiety, if they 
also have high levels of activism, then we didn't see any higher levels 
of depression symptoms."

Schwartz said the social aspect and peer support of activism is most 
likely the biggest piece to help protect against depression.

"That may mean signing petitions," said Schwartz. "That may mean 
supporting other people who are the ones who are going to be the face 
of, you know, who are going to be going marching up to Beacon Hill over 
there," said Schwartz. "So, I think the idea of working with a group."

It could also mean building a "pop-up park" together in Chelsea, like 
the kids at GreenRoots have done.

"If there are more people working like this for a better future, there 
can be a change," said 16-year-old Greandoll Oliva.  

"It helps me deal with it, like I'm not the only one," said 16-year-old 
Troy Arnold.

"There are moments where you're just like, well, nothing's ever going to 
change," said Rodriguez. "But then there's also that small feeling that 
there's still hope that people will change, and people will come 
together to help save humanity." 

*How you can get involved*
Schwartz said when people think of activism, they often think of a 
protest or rally. She said there are other ways people can get involved 
and work with others, too. She recommends some of the following tools, 
guides, and resources:
*...*
Here, you can find more resources to help you act on climate change. 
https://www.theclimateinitiative.org/resources/

*Join a group *
Join a Sunrise Hub here https://www.sunrisemovement.org/hubs/    A hub 
is a group of young people working together in their community to stop 
the climate crisis, through the organization Sunrise Movement.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-anxiety/



/[ The Lancet Planetary Health ]/
*Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about 
government responses to climate change: a global survey*
Caroline Hickman, MSc
Elizabeth Marks, ClinPsyD
Panu Pihkala, PhD
Prof Susan Clayton, PhD
Eric Lewandowski, PhD
Elouise E Mayall, BSc
et al.
Published:December, 
2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00278-3- -
*Background*
Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of 
children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, 
making them vulnerable to climate anxiety. This is the first large-scale 
investigation of climate anxiety in children and young people globally 
and its relationship with perceived government response.
- -
*Results*
In response to our first research question, which was how children and 
young people around the world report emotional, cognitive, and 
functional responses to climate change, respondents across all countries 
reported a large amount of worry, with almost 60% saying they felt 
“very” or “extremely” worried about climate change (mean score of 3·7 on 
a scale from 1 to 5 [SD 1·7]). More than 45% of respondents said their 
feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily lives; the 
proportion of respondents varied by country but was consistently high 
(figure 1; appendix p 4). Countries expressing more worry and a greater 
impact on functioning tended to be poorer, in the Global South, and more 
directly impacted by climate change; in the Global North, Portugal 
(which had dramatic increases in wildfires since 2017) showed the 
highest level of worry...
- -
Many respondents reported negative emotions; feeling afraid, sad, 
anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty were each reported by 
more than 50% of respondents (table 1; appendix p 5). The emotions least 
often reported were optimism and indifference. Respondents also reported 
a range of negative beliefs, with 75% saying the future was frightening 
(table 2; appendix p 6). Among those who said they talked with others 
about climate change (81% of the sample), almost half (48%) reported 
that other people had ignored or dismissed them (table 2). Results for 
thoughts and feelings about climate change varied considerably by 
country but negative feelings were strikingly present in all populations...
- -
To conclude, our findings suggest that climate change, climate anxiety, 
and inadequate government response are all chronic stressors that could 
threaten the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people 
around the world. This survey offers a preliminary overview; further, 
detailed research is required to explore the complexities and wide 
variety of climate feelings. Climate anxiety is a collective 
experience,27 and based on our results, children and young people would 
benefit from having a social discourse in which their thoughts and 
feelings are respected and validated, and their concerns are acted upon 
by people in positions of power. Climate anxiety indicates the care and 
empathy that young people have for our world. As one young person said: 
“I don’t want to die. But I don’t want to live in a world that doesn’t 
care about children and animals.”

As a research team, we were disturbed by the scale of emotional and 
psychological effects of climate change upon the children of the world, 
and the number who reported feeling hopeless and frightened about the 
future of humanity. We wish that these results had not been quite so 
devastating. The global scale of this study is sufficient to warrant a 
warning to governments and adults around the world, and it underscores 
an urgent need for greater responsiveness to children and young people's 
concerns, more in-depth research, and immediate action on climate change.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00278-3/fulltext#seccestitle150


/[ a thoughtful opinion ]/
*Is Democracy Doomed? The Global Fight for Our Future | Timothy Snyder | 
TED*
TED
Feb 8, 2023  #TEDTalks #TED #democracy
If you think democracy is some kind of inevitable, default setting for 
the world, then you aren't going to have it for very long, says 
historian and author Timothy Snyder. From World War I to the Russian 
invasion of Ukraine, Snyder dives into the structures that uplift and 
tear down political systems, offering a historical perspective on the 
current state of democracy around the world as well as the patterns of 
thought that lead to tyranny. Learn more about a new approach to 
democracy that could help create and protect a future of freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6LCOJbve8



/[ rare video interview lasting more than an hour ]/
*Rebecca Solnit on Hope and Our Climate Future*
KQED Live
Streamed live on Jul 12, 2022  SAN FRANCISCO
Bay Area writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit discusses her 
new project Not Too Late, a new platform for useful perspectives and 
information to guide people from climate despair to possibilities. 
Designed as an onramp for newcomers to the climate movement, she 
discusses how we are shaping the climate future now.

The author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Men 
Explain Things to Me, Hope in the Dark, A Paradise Built in Hell: The 
Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, Solnit’s clear and 
urgent writing draws our attention our most pressing collective concerns 
and imbues the tasks we face with a spirit of hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wopy7FQgYac

- -

/[  new book of essays -- "despair is an emotion, don't mistake it for 
analysis"  ]/
*NOT TOO LATE*
“We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is 
start.” - Octavia Butler
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the 
certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.”  -- 
Václav Havel
https://www.nottoolateclimate.com/


/[ CNN opinion is growing  ]/
*Opinion: Bernie Sanders is right about capitalism*
by Kirsten Powers
February 24, 2023

In his new book, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism,” Bernie Sanders 
chooses the moniker “uber-capitalist” to describe our current economic 
system — one that feels perfectly designed to enrich a tiny few while 
making life miserable for nearly everyone else.

Other terms work just as well, whether it’s “hyper-capitalism” or 
“late-stage capitalism,” to describe capitalism untethered to morality 
or decency. Whatever you call it, it’s not working, except for the 
super-rich, who Sanders aptly labels oligarchs.

Some people would say that capitalism is immoral, no matter what form it 
takes. But that doesn’t seem to be Sanders’ argument. Rather than making 
the case for a Democratic socialist government, Sanders appears to want 
a reform of American capitalism and to see the country embrace a kind of 
New Deal liberalism.

Sanders has said over the years that he sees Scandinavia’s generous 
social safety nets as a model of the kind of system he supports. In his 
book, he emphasizes an inspiration closer to home: President Franklin 
Delano Roosevelt — in particular, FDR’s insight that “true individual 
freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.”

Any person who is living paycheck to paycheck, working to the point of 
exhaustion just to survive and stay on top of their debt surely 
recognizes this statement is true. How “free” is a person really if all 
they do is work?

How “free” is someone who lives with a debilitating health condition 
because they can’t afford the medication or health care that could cure 
them? How “free” is a person who starts adulthood weighted down with a 
mind-bending amount of debt incurred just to get the education they need 
to get a job?

Many Americans are essentially indentured servants to an overclass that 
continues to amass wealth and power, while failing to pass on their 
largesse to their employees. Between 1978 and 2018, CEO pay skyrocketed 
by more than 900%, while worker pay grew by just under 12%, according to 
a report by the Economic Policy Institute.

These chronically underpaid employees are also often treated as objects 
by their employers. According to an investigation by The New York Times, 
“Eight of the 10 largest private U.S. employers track the productivity 
metrics of individual workers, many in real time.” Workers complained 
that “their jobs are relentless, that they don’t have control — and in 
some cases, that they don’t even have enough time to use the bathroom.”

This is not freedom.

Americans work so much and are so bereft of free time that The New York 
Times suggested in a series on New Year’s tips that you might increase 
your happiness if you scheduled eight-minute phone calls with friends 
and loved ones, and mutually promised to not go over the allotted time.

The craziest part is that it doesn’t actually sound crazy, at least to 
an American. Much of what we consider normal here — such as “hustle and 
grind” culture or working around the clock for employers who would fire 
us without a second thought — is baffling to our peers in many 
industrialized countries who prioritize their mental and physical health 
and don’t suffer from a late-stage capitalist productivity fetish.

Major companies in the United States don’t just mistreat their workers; 
they lack even a modicum of decency when it comes to their 
responsibility to consumers and the society in which they live. Today, 
we are a country where pharmaceutical companies making record profits 
and paying their executives obscene amounts of money price gouge on 
drugs that Americans need to survive. Sanders has rightly blasted 
Moderna’s plans to quadruple the price of the Covid vaccine, which was 
developed in partnership with the government. (Moderna later announced 
its vaccines would remain free.)

Most people can’t even afford a home mortgage while a subsection of 
society is plunking down cash for their new domicile. The share of 
buyers purchasing a home for the first time is at a 41-year low, while 
wealthy buyers are able to pay cash.

“Only the wealthy are essentially buying homes,” Lawrence Yun, chief 
economist at National Association of Realtors, told The Washington Post. 
“If this trend was to continue, that means something fundamentally is 
wrong with society.”

But we don’t need this trend to continue to know our society is off the 
rails. The results are in. This system is not just unjust, it is deadly: 
The US has earned the unwelcome distinction of having the lowest life 
expectancy and highest suicide rate among wealthy countries.

Whether one agrees with the myriad solutions Sanders lays out in his 
book to stop the scourge of uber-capitalism, there is no question that 
he has accurately framed the problem as being about freedom. The Vermont 
senator has been nothing short of prophetic in warning against the dire 
consequences of a culture that prizes productivity above all else and 
coddles and venerates the super-rich.

Perhaps most of all, Sanders has powerfully articulated — both in his 
campaigns and his latest book — the profound lack of decency and utter 
immorality of the current American economic system. Now it’s up to all 
of us to decide what to do about it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/opinions/bernie-sanders-capitalism-freedom-powers/index.html



/[The news archive - looking back brief moments of positive change ]/
/*March 4, 2001*/
March 4, 2001: At an international climate summit in Italy, EPA 
Administrator Christine Todd Whitman insists that the Bush 
administration will take aggressive action to reduce carbon pollution. 
(By the end of the month, the Bush administration would officially 
disavow the Kyoto Protocol.)

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/italy/03/04/environment.climate/


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