[✔️] September 30, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | XR Netherlands, Climate Activism, Lobbyists Hijack, Stay or go with water rise, 2004 debate
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sat Sep 30 11:04:18 EDT 2023
/*September 30*//*, 2023*/
/[ XR Netherlands continued actions ]
/*Permanent A12 blockade Stop Fossil Subsidies
*Saturday, September 9 at 12:00 noon is the moment of the Big One: we
will demonstrate for the eighth time on the A12. And also for the last
time. Because no matter what the Hague municipal council allows the
police to do, we will stay or come back day in and day out. Until the
government meets our demand: an immediate end to all fossil subsidies.
Together we can do this. Get involved and join us!
The most recent IPCC report is clear: continuing on the current path
will lead to between 2.2 and 3.5 degrees of warming. Even now, the
situation in the Global South is extreme: hundreds of thousands of
people die every year as a result of the climate and ecological crisis.
In 2022, 43,000 people died in Somalia alone due to drought. Yet our
government stimulates the fossil industry with up to 30 billion euros in
fossil subsidies every year. Bizarre policy with devastating consequences!
https://extinctionrebellion.nl/en/events/permanente-a12-blokkade-stop-fossiele-subsidies-20/
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/[ Democracy Now reports on climate activism ]
/ *Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 28, 2023*
Democracy Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaQ6V-6k0c&t=526s
/[ bothersome collaborations Video ]/
*Climate Lobbyists Hijack Progressive Climate Bills - Rebecca Burns*
theAnalysis-news
Sep 15, 2023 #climatechange #uspolitics #fossilfuels
Rebecca Burns, journalist at the investigative news outlet The Lever,
discusses her reporting on extensive lobbying efforts to hold up
legislation which would require companies to disclose all of their
greenhouse gas emissions. In a recent report, she details how the same
lobbyists who seek to derail progressive climate legislation in
California are also getting paid by counties and cities along the
California coast to deal with the impact of coastal erosion and fires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC_Wki0QnUI
/[ YaleEnvironment360 asks climate refugees, or emigrant, or a
displaced person ]/
*As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?*
Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia
environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult
questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or
should residents abandon their homes and move to higher ground?
BY JON HURDLE -- SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
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“In this case, you have really significant environmental justice
questions, and really significant flood risk,” he said. “It’s the idea
of trying to take an equitable approach to flood resilience, telling
people of color who have been subjected to other types of environmental
injustices [such as siting landfills within their communities] that
there is a way that you could stay in your community, and in so doing
restore green space.”
But many residents don’t see it that way. A land swap that would move
them to higher ground, even if it’s still within Eastwick, is still a
move from their block, their neighbors, and all that is familiar.
Whitfield, for one, said she has no plans to move to a new house on
higher ground. Instead, she’s pinning her hopes on a levee. “Once you
become a senior, it is very hard to uproot yourself and start over
again,” she said...
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The relocation of whole communities, or sections of them, has been
pursued throughout the U.S. since the 1980s. In New Jersey, for example,
a state-run program called Blue Acres buys chronically flooded
properties from willing sellers at market prices, then demolishes them
and creates open space to absorb future floods. The program has bought
about 1,000 such homes since its inception in the 1990s, mostly along
the Atlantic Coast and Delaware Bay, and has helped displaced residents
find new homes in safer areas. But critics say these efforts are dwarfed
by the challenges of climate change, which is expected to raise the
state’s sea level about two feet by 2050.
Nationally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency bought some 40,000
properties between 1989 and 2019 through its managed-retreat program,
according to a paper by A.R. Siders, who researches climate-change
adaptation at the University of Delaware.
Gordon Branham, 71, has lived less than a mile from Eastwick’s Planet
Streets since 1982. A disabled Vietnam veteran who said his PTSD is
worsened by the constant threat of flooding, Branham said he loves his
neighborhood and is open to the proposed land swap. But he worries that
the move wouldn’t be protective enough and is considering leaving
Eastwick altogether. “I’m not going to move to another potential
flood-prone area because we know the seas are going to continue to rise.”
Earl Wilson is also open to discussing the idea of a “land swap,” but
like Whitfield he argued that it would need buy-in from all residents in
the affected area. If some residents are unwilling to move, he said,
they’ll remain vulnerable to flooding even if others agree to relocate.
“Some are open to the idea [of moving],” he said. “But a lot of people
are set in their street and would only want to see the flood situation
developed to the point where they could feel safe where they are. I want
to make sure that these people are given their fair shake.”
The city has already received FEMA funding for flood mitigation in
Eastwick through the Biden Administration’s requirement that 40 percent
of federal infrastructure funding benefit underserved communities, and
it expects to receive more funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law and climate initiatives in the Inflation Reduction Act...
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The Office of Sustainability stressed that the final decision on
flood-control measures will prioritize what the community wants, but it
predicted that agreement won’t be quick. “These conversations are very
delicate and take time, especially because we are also working on
building trust with residents that have gone through substantial harm,”
the agency said.
In the meantime, the city and its federal partners are considering
installing temporary “HESCO” flood barriers — wire baskets covered with
synthetic textiles and filled with soil — to mitigate risk, and it is
advising residents on how to flood-proof their homes.
Margaret Cobb, who has lived in Eastwick for 40 years, isn’t counting on
flood-proofing. When a big storm is forecast, she backs her car from her
garage, where it would be ruined, and drives to a nearby hotel. The
80-year-old returns when the water recedes and watches while the repairs
to her home are completed.
But with the expectation of worse to come, Cobb said she’s now open to
the idea of the proposed land swap, especially if it allowed her to stay
in Eastwick.
“I would approve of that because it’s very stressful going through this
every year,” she said. “Even the Hurricane Lee that’s passing, you
wonder what direction it’s going to take,” she added, referring to the
storm that was moving northward through the Atlantic in mid-September.
“The older we get, the more stress it is for us seniors.”
https://e360.yale.edu/features/chronic-flooding-eastwick-philadelphia
/[The news archive - looking back at a presidential debate]/
/*September 30, 2004*/
September 30, 2004: In his first debate with President Bush, Democratic
challenger and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry incurs the wrath of the
right wing by declaring:
"The president always has the right, and always has had the right,
for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold
War. And it was always one of the things we argued about with
respect to arms control. No president, though all of American
history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in
any way necessary to protect the United States of America.
"But if and when you do it, Jim [Lehrer], you have to do it in a way
that passes the test, that passes the global test where your
countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what
you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for
legitimate reasons. Here we have our own secretary of state who has
had to apologize to the world for the presentation he made to the
United Nations.
"I mean, we can remember when President Kennedy in the Cuban missile
crisis sent his secretary of state to Paris to meet with DeGaulle.
And in the middle of the discussion, to tell them about the missiles
in Cuba, he said, 'Here, let me show you the photos.' And DeGaulle
waved them off and said, "No, no, no, no. The word of the president
of the United States is good enough for me."
"How many leaders in the world today would respond to us, as a
result of what we've done, in that way? So what is at test here is
the credibility of the United States of America and how we lead the
world. And Iran and Iraq are now more dangerous -- Iran and North
Korea are now more dangerous.
"Now, whether preemption is ultimately what has to happen, I don't
know yet. But I'll tell you this: As president, I'll never take my
eye off that ball. I've been fighting for proliferation the entire
time -- anti-proliferation the entire time I've been in the
Congress. And we've watched this president actually turn away from
some of the treaties that were on the table.
"You don't help yourself with other nations when you turn away
from the global warming treaty, for instance, or when you refuse to
deal at length with the United Nations.
"You have to earn that respect. And I think we have a lot of
earning back to do."
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FullS (59:20--61:22)
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