[✔️] May 4, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Disinformation uncovered, Children's rights stolen, Obsession with the present, obscured the future, Climate Comedy attempt, Heartland attack

[Richard Pauli]

/*May*//*4, 2023*/

/[ disinformation battle expose' ]/
*Oil Company Gave $200K to Group Accusing Pipeline Opponents of Taking 
Secret Money*
Alberta-based Indian Resource Council quietly received funding from 
CNRL, corporate documents reveal.
By Geoff Dembicki
May 1, 2023

A First Nations advocacy group whose leader has accused pipeline 
protesters of being beholden to hidden financial interests has taken 
hundreds of thousands of dollars from one of Canada’s top oil and gas 
producers, newly reviewed corporate documents reveal.

Stephen Buffalo, CEO of the Alberta-based Indian Resource Council, is 
one of the most outspoken Indigenous voices in favor of oil and gas 
expansion, testifying several times to Canada’s federal government and 
appearing frequently in mainstream media outlets.

On multiple occasions he’s used his platform to attack the credibility 
of First Nations people and environmentalists who oppose new oil and gas 
development, alleging they are being controlled by secretive funders and 
one time asking “who’s really pulling the string here?”

But Buffalo’s organization has been quietly receiving contributions from 
Canadian Natural (CNRL), one of the largest oil and gas producers in 
Canada. That’s according to recent federal disclosures, which show that 
CNRL gave $200,000 to the Indian Resource Council between 2020 and 2022.

Those disclosures are required under Canada’s Extractive Sector 
Transparency Measures Act, an anti-corruption law requiring companies to 
report payments to governments and other entities.

Neither CNRL nor the Indian Resource Council responded to detailed 
questions about the contributions...
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“So, when you see this activism, it’s somewhat challenging because we 
don’t know who’s speaking anymore,” Buffalo told APTN News. “The hard 
part again is who’s really pulling the string here?”

Yet that same year the Indian Resource Council received a $100,000 
contribution from CNRL, which describes itself as “a large producer of 
natural gas in Canada with a vast land base, significant owned and 
operated infrastructure and a deep inventory of drill to fill 
opportunities.”

CNRL’s drilling rights in gas-rich regions of northwest Alberta and 
northeast British Columbia are “one of the largest among our peers,” the 
company says.

Chief Na’Moks said the only vested interest he has is ensuring the 
health of the Wet’suwet’en people and the territory they’ve lived on for 
thousands of years. “We look at the long term, we look centuries ahead,” 
he said. “What we’re trying to do is protect what is left of the clean 
water, the clean land, our access to the land.”
https://www.desmog.com/2023/05/01/oil-company-gave-200k-to-group-accusing-pipeline-opponents-of-taking-secret-money/



/[ Children should own their future, but they've been robbed ]/
*Protecting Children in a Warming World | Carter Dillard*
Planet: Critical
May 3, 2023  #politicalcrisis #climatecrisis #socialcrisis
The climate fight is a fight for children’s rights.

When Carter Dillard began researching family planning systems he found a 
fallacy in international policy: The Children’s Rights Convention, 
ratified by the UN, entitles children to health, education, well-being 
and fulfilled potential—but no country implements family planning 
systems around these rights. Family planning systems are based around 
what parents want, not what children need. Every country, in effect, is 
breaking the Children’s Rights Convention.

Why? For economic growth.

Carter’s research shows a series of policy interventions in the 20th 
century made family planning a private matter. This absolved states of 
the responsibility to invest in children and redistribute wealth, whilst 
guaranteeing a boom in population to feed the economic machine.

“If we'd had to invest in children to give them everything they need to 
ensure that children are born in what, in the conditions that comply 
with the convention, we would not have had growth.”

Carter is the author of the Justice as a Fair Start in Life: 
Understanding the Right to Have Children, and the Policy Director of the 
Fair Start Movement, an organisation committed to raising awareness of 
the Children’s Rights Convention. They are currently petitioning the UN 
Human Rights Council claiming the UN has misinterpreted the right to 
have children, and have forthcoming constitutional litigation in the 
USA. He joins me to discuss this work, his research into the history of 
family planning, and the impact of climate change on children. He also 
provides a vision for reframing family planning reform as an active 
climate policy which could advocate systemic change through one simple 
message: that everybody deserves a fair start in life.
00:00 Intro
02:59 The Fair Start Movement
06:38 Population growth to create labourers & wealth
09:18 The Children's Rights Convention
11:57 Why parenthood became a matter of personal privacy
16:44 How nations are breaking the Children's Rights Convention
18:45 The impact of global warming on children
21:42 The myth of development
26:11 Direct Action to invest in children's futures
29:35 Litigation to force redistribution
35:31 When governments ignore pledges and conventions
42:26 Bilateral approach to financial redistribution
46:58 The planetary cost of large vs small families
55:10 A vision for a world which cares for children
01:01:01 Who would you like to platform?
01:02:15 Outro
🔴 Fair Start Movement: https://fairstartmovement.org/
🔴 Carter's book: – *Justice as a Fair Start in Life: Understanding the 
Right to Have Children:* https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-2237832918/
🌎 Support Planet: Critical: https://www.patreon.com/planetcritical
🌎 Website: https://www.planetcritical.com/
🌎 Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlanetCritical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUsFE0RopWM


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/[ "All Things Considered" Humans are ill-suited to this "problem from 
Hell" ]/
*How our perception of time shapes our approach to climate change*
January 4, 2023
Heard on All Things Considered
Most people are focused on the present: today, tomorrow, maybe next 
year. Fixing your flat tire is more pressing than figuring out if you 
should use an electric car. Living by the beach is a lot more fun than 
figuring out when your house will be underwater because of sea level rise.

That basic human relationship with time makes climate change a tricky 
problem.

"I consider climate change the policy problem from hell because you 
almost couldn't design a worse fit for our underlying psychology, or our 
institutions of decision-making," says Anthony Leiserowitz, the director 
of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

*Our obsession with the present obscures the future*
Those institutions — including companies and governments that ultimately 
have the power to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions — can be 
even more obsessed with the present than individuals are.

For example, says Leiserowitz, many companies are focused on quarterly 
earnings and growth. That helps drive short-term behavior, such as 
leasing new land to drill for fossil fuels, that makes long-term climate 
change worse.

And there are also big incentives for political leaders to think 
short-term. "The president gets elected every four years. Members of the 
Senate get elected every six years. And members of the House get elected 
every two years," Leiserowitz points out, "so they tend to operate on a 
much shorter time cycle than this problem, climate change, which is 
unfolding over decades."

There are deadlines looming for those elected leaders. The Biden 
administration pledged to cut emissions in half by 2030. By 2050, humans 
need to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions entirely in order to avoid 
the most catastrophic effects of climate change later this century.

Fortunately, our collective focus on the present also offers hints, 
psychologists say, about how to harness that hyperfocus on the present 
to inspire action.

*To spur action, speed up the psychological rewards for addressing 
climate change now*
For example, there are ways to highlight the quick payoff for addressing 
climate change. In the political realm, that could mean that an elected 
official gets more votes because they support policies that reduce 
emissions. The promise of a benefit in the next election may be more 
galvanizing than the goal of protecting future generations, even if the 
latter has more moral weight.

"The benefits that we get today are more salient, and we want them more 
than benefits that may be larger, but will accrue in the future," 
explains Jennifer Jacquet, a researcher and associate professor of 
environmental studies at New York University who studies the psychology 
of collective action, including on climate change.

Jacquet says the huge spending bill passed last year by Congress, called 
the Inflation Reduction Act, is another example of using our focus on 
the present to drive climate-conscious behavior. The bill includes 
financial incentives for people who buy electric vehicles or install 
solar panels.

"They're trying to speed up the benefits," says Jacquet. "That's smart. 
That's good. That plays into how we think about things."

*Extreme weather is starting to catch everyone's attention*
In some ways, our focus on the present is less and less of a problem as 
climate change makes itself more and more obvious today — in our daily 
lives. Everyone on Earth is experiencing the effects of a hotter planet. 
That makes it a problem of the present, not of the future.

That immediacy is already showing up in how Americans view climate 
change, according to Leiserowitz, who has been leading an annual poll on 
the topic for more than 15 years. As extreme weather is becoming more 
common, he says support for climate policies is also growing, especially 
at the local level.

For example, the vast majority of respondents in a September 2021 poll 
said they support local governments providing money to help make homes 
more energy efficient, to increase public transportation and to install 
bike lanes. And the majority of respondents supported investments in 
renewable energy.
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**There's no time to waste*
Widespread public support for climate policies can help push politicians 
and corporate leaders to act quickly – which is important, because 
scientists warn that greenhouse gas emissions need to drop dramatically, 
and immediately, to avoid runaway warming later this century.

"We have big societal choices to make," says Leiserowitz, and those 
changes need to happen now. In the present. "People working together to 
demand action by their leaders is going to be an absolutely critical piece."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/04/1139782291/time-perception-climate-change-risk



/[ local shows climate humor is rare and difficult ]/
*April 2023 FULL SHOW: CU Boulder Inside the Greenhouse climate comedy*
Climate Comedy
May 3, 2023 in Boulder, Colorado Friday, April 21 2023 with students 
from Creative Climate Communication class performing and with 
professional comedian Chuck Nice headlining & emceeing.
filmed by Tyler Graim and Carlos Malache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydkw0WYClZQ



/[The news archive - looking back at Heartland attack ]/
/*May 4, 2012*/
May 4, 2012:  The Chicago-based climate-change-denial outfit known as 
the Heartland Institute puts up, and quickly pulls down, a digital 
billboard with an image of killer Ted

Kaczynski next to the words: "I still believe in global warming. Do 
you?" The controversy surrounding the ad campaign prompts several major 
corporations to wash their hands of Heartland, and also prompts several 
Heartland employees to resign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5Sx3A1Mxk

http://grist.org/list/heartland-institute-going-broke-due-to-dickish-billboard-campaign/

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/June-2012/Chicagos-Heartland-Institute-and-its-Unabomber-Billboards/


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