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<font size="+1"><i>January 1, 2018</i></font><br>
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[discuss]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.care2.com/causes/is-climate-change-too-scary-how-best-to-talk-about-it.html">Is
Climate Change Too Scary? How Best to Talk About It</a></b><br>
Just thinking about climate change can be pretty overwhelming. We're
currently on a terrible trajectory and it's hard not to feel despair
for the future given all that we know.<br>
Even some scientists, who damned well understand the consequences we
face, have cautioned against talking about climate change with too
much alarm. Their fear is that people can only handle so much bad
news and they're liable to shut it out if they feel helpless to act.<br>
Amidst new research, that school of thought is receiving a serious
challenge. Environmental psychologists Daniel Chapman, Brian Lickel
and Ezra Markowitz from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
conducted a study in which they determined that people can probably
handle the reality and magnitude of climate change a lot better than
experts are willing to give them credit for.<br>
The study, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0021-9?WT.feed_name=subjects_scientific-community-and-society">"Reassessing
Emotion in Climate Change Communication,"</a> looks at whether or
not certain emotions trigger certain reactions. From their research,
the team concluded that it's an oversimplification to say that fear
cannot be a motivating factor. Emotions and people are complex, and
there's no reason to suggest that saying too much about global
warming is liable to push them away.<br>
There are ways to maximize the impact of having a conversation about
climate change, however. In an interview with Bloomberg, Chapman
shared a few additional takeaways from his research:<br>
<b>SHOOT IT TO 'EM STRAIGHT, BUT DON'T LEAVE OUT THE ACTION</b><br>
While it's understandable why giving lots of information about
climate change would be perceived as pessimistic, that doesn't mean
the message has to be entirely a downer. In fact, Chapman thinks
it's best to follow up these details with suggestions on how to
counter the devastation with action.<br>
Presumably, when we're talking about climate change, we're hoping to
build a community of people willing to take action, not just depress
them. So explore both avenues in your conversations.<br>
<b>FOCUS LOCALLY</b><br>
It's called global warming because it affects the entire planet but
that can be too large and abstract for people to comprehend. People
are more likely to take the message to heart and act accordingly
when they have a better understanding of the consequences that will
and are impacting their immediate communities.<br>
Local environmental examples, as well as local solutions, will go a
long way toward leaving people motivated rather than just overcome
with fear.<br>
<b>MINIMIZE THE AGENDA AND SPEAK HONESTLY</b><br>
People don't respond well to being pitched a perspective, so even
though it's important to get more people concerned about climate
change, you don't want to make it obvious that you're trying to make
an environmentalist out of them.<br>
In a world of polarized news sources, that may seem
counterintuitive, but Chapman insists that most people still prefer
unbiased, balanced sources. Stick to the facts and the consequences
and people will use that information they deem trustworthy to inform
their own opinions moving forward.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.care2.com/causes/is-climate-change-too-scary-how-best-to-talk-about-it.html">https://www.care2.com/causes/is-climate-change-too-scary-how-best-to-talk-about-it.html</a></font><br>
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[Nature]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0021-9?WT.feed_name=subjects_scientific-community-and-society">Reassessing
emotion in climate change communication</a></b><br>
Daniel A. Chapman, Brian Lickel & Ezra M. Markowitz<br>
Debate over effective climate change communication must be grounded
in rigorous affective science. Rather than treating emotions as
simple levers to be pulled to promote desired outcomes, emotions
should be viewed as one integral component of a cognitive feedback
system guiding responses to challenging decision-making problems.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0021-9?WT.feed_name=subjects_scientific-community-and-society">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0021-9?WT.feed_name=subjects_scientific-community-and-society</a></font><br>
<br>
[Video Moody's]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/preparing-for-climate-change-maine-coastal-communities-adapt-or-face-a-credit-downgrade/503518991">Preparing
for climate change: Maine coastal communities adapt or face a
credit downgrade</a></b><br>
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- One of the largest credit rating
agencies is issued a warning to coastal communities. In the Moody's
Investor Service report it calls on communities around the nation,
and in Maine to start adapting for climate change or local
governments could see a financial impact.<br>
Moody's is one of the largest credit rating agencies. The report
issued last month says "the growing effects of climate change,
including climbing global temperatures, and rising sea levels, are
forecast to have an increasing economic impact on US state and local
issuers."<br>
Maine coastal communities see a large portion of their tourism
dollars from its beaches. Jonathon Carter, the town manager of
Wells, Maine, said his community has prepared for sea level rise
since 2012. <br>
"All of it, for a fairly small staffed community is fairly
overwhelming," said Carter. "The damage we are seeing is from the
surges from the storms. Whether you call it climate change or sea
rise, we are seeing more and more storm surges. That is the
culprit."<br>
In the report, Moody's cites climate change and its effects when
issuing credit, "...even if this is a number of years in the
future."<br>
The town of Wells is valued at $3.2 billion. Carter says two-thirds
of that is Route 1 to the coast.<br>
Michael Livingston, an engineer with the town of Wells, said
protecting the beach barrier system is already underway.<br>
"We look at each road individually. The drainage that passes under
the roads and the impact of storm surge to those roads," mentioned
Livingston. "We have had a couple of occasions where we have asked
evacuations of the areas because there would be no access to them."<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/preparing-for-climate-change-maine-coastal-communities-adapt-or-face-a-credit-downgrade/503518991">Video
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/preparing-for-climate-change-maine-coastal-communities-adapt-or-face-a-credit-downgrade/503518991<br>
</a>Wells just finalized a $250,000 culvert upgrade project on
Furbish Road, according to the town manager. "It's ten times bigger
than the other culvert systems and it's raised up. It will help
prevent the road from flooding."<br>
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute is working with the cities of
South Portland and Portland to develop community engagement tools.
It helps citizens better understand sea level rise, storm surge,
increased precipitation and the flooding impacts on coastal
communities.<br>
As we lose property we lose tax income that comes from those
properties," said Gayle Bowness, the program manager at the Gulf of
Maine Research Institute. "We really need to think about adaptation.
How can we best adapt to keep the water out of areas or to let the
water come in naturally and not be disruptive to daily patterns?"<br>
Bowness added that in an extreme scenario, models predict our sea
levels rising by almost 11 feet in Portland, Maine by the year 2100.<br>
Maine is lagging behind other states with beach protection
preservation, such as dune protection systems and growth of erosion
areas by with offshore work, according to Carter. "We can't keep up
with mother nature."<br>
Moody's report did not mention when the downgrades are potentially
happening.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/preparing-for-climate-change-maine-coastal-communities-adapt-or-face-a-credit-downgrade/503518991">http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/preparing-for-climate-change-maine-coastal-communities-adapt-or-face-a-credit-downgrade/503518991</a></font><br>
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[NPR audio]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/01/567843604/credit-rating-agency-issues-warning-on-climate-change-to-cities">Credit
Rating Agency Issues Warning On Climate Change To Cities</a></b><br>
One of the largest credit rating agencies in the country is warning
U.S. cities and states to prepare for the effects of climate change
or risk being downgraded. <br>
In a new report, Moody's Investor Services Inc. explains how it
assesses the credit risks to a city or state that's being impacted
by climate change — whether that impact be a short-term "climate
shock" like a wildfire, hurricane or drought, or a longer-term
"incremental climate trend" like rising sea levels or increased
temperatures.<br>
Also taken into consideration: "[communities] preparedness for such
shocks and their activities in respect of adapting to climate
trends," the report says.<br>
"If you have a place that simply throws up its hands in the face of
changes to climate trends, then we have to sort of evaluate it on an
ongoing basis to see how that abdication of response actually
translates to changes in its credit profile," says Michael Wertz, a
Moody's vice president.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/01/567843604/credit-rating-agency-issues-warning-on-climate-change-to-cities">https://www.npr.org/2017/12/01/567843604/credit-rating-agency-issues-warning-on-climate-change-to-cities</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.moodys.com%2Fsites%2Fproducts%2FProductAttachments%2FClimate_trends_infographic_moodys.pdf%3FWT.z_referringsource%3DTB%7EESGhub%7Eclimatetrends&usg=AOvVaw1S2zwdsTLivU39g_bUeXG-">Climate
Change & Sovereign Credit Risk - Moody's</a></b><br>
Our sovereign bond methodology captures the effects of physical
climate change in a broad set of rating factors that influence a
sovereign's ability and willingness to repay its debt. This
infographic is an overview of the indicators that highlight the
potential credit impact and relative susceptibility of rated
sovereigns to climate ...<br>
<font size="-1">PDF:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.moodys.com/sites/products/ProductAttachments/Climate_trends_infographic_moodys.pdf">https://www.moodys.com/sites/products/ProductAttachments/Climate_trends_infographic_moodys.pdf</a></font><br>
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[migration]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Climate-Change-Drives-Mexican-Migration-to-US-Study-20171230-0020.html">Climate
Change Drives Mexican Migration to US: Study</a></b><br>
Climate change forces will influence some 41,000 people to migrant
to the United States over the next 50 years.<br>
Several studies indicate that climate change is becoming a
significant driver in migration from Mexico to the United States.<br>
A recent University of California Davis study indicates that climate
change forces will influence some 41,000 people to migrate to the
United States over the next 50 years.<br>
Michael Oppenheimer, the author of a 2010 study about climate and
migration, projects that some 6.7 million people could arrive to the
U.S. from Mexico as a result of global warming by 2080. <br>
Both conclude that as global temperatures rise and precipitation
patterns change, arid regions, particularly like those in northern
and southern Mexico, will become more drought prone, making it
difficult for farmers to yield a crop and forcing them to move
north.<br>
Oppenheimer, also a professor at Princeton University, admits that
many factors contribute to a person's decision to move, but that
climate change oftens plays a strong role. He said that high
temperatures and reduced rainfall — signs of climate change — have
influenced people from Mexico to relocate in the U.S. in the past
due to their subsequent reduction of food and income in their home
country.<br>
"More hot days in rural Mexico, predicted by the major climate
models, will increase migration out of rural Mexico, including to
the U.S.," said Ed Taylor, a development economist at the University
of California at Davis and co-author of the 2016 migration study.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Climate-Change-Drives-Mexican-Migration-to-US-Study-20171230-0020.html">https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Climate-Change-Drives-Mexican-Migration-to-US-Study-20171230-0020.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[interview]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/31/camille-parmesan-trump-extremism-climate-change-interview">Camille
Parmesan: 'Trump's extremism on climate change has brought
people together'</a></b><br>
The climate scientist on leaving the US to work in France – with
funding from President Macron – and why she believes Trump's
decision to pull out of the Paris agreement will backfire on him <br>
<b>Are you surprised?</b><br>
I am shocked at the ubiquitousness of climate change. We are seeing
change in every country and every ocean. That is what surprises
biologists. All regions studied are being impacted. Every group of
animal and plant, from the oak tree to birds, is being impacted. All
groups are showing change. We would expect to find some regions or
groups which are stable, but to date we are not. We are seeing
change happen much faster than I thought it would 10 years ago.<br>
<b>What is the present state of climate science?</b><br>
The science of climate change, and its impacts, is at a very strong
place. Conclusions that were tentative 15-20 years ago have been
firmed up and are now well supported. Numbers that used to be
presented as rough estimates are now being given with high
confidence and low error. So our conclusions are being stated with
higher and higher confidence, and stronger wording, because all of
the research we've been doing has backed up nearly all of the trends
and patterns we saw many years ago. We are now sure of what we only
suspected many years ago. This is great news for the public and
policymakers, because it gives them the support to take strong
action. Policy needs to catch up with science.<br>
<b>When do you expect the major impacts to take place?</b><br>
Things will shift to the extremely negative in the next 50 years.
Climate scientists are doing decadal projects and it starts really
shifting about 2070-2090. That is in my children's lifetimes. They
will have to deal with it. That's what makes me angry. Policymakers
are mostly in their 50s and they will be dead by then. The worst
impacts will hit their grandchildren. That's what annoys me about
young people not voting. They will be the most severely impacted.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/31/camille-parmesan-trump-extremism-climate-change-interview">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/31/camille-parmesan-trump-extremism-climate-change-interview</a></font><br>
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<br>
[media manipulation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/how_climate_change_deniers_rise_to_the_top_in_google_searcheshttp://www.joboneforhumanity.org/how_climate_change_deniers_rise_to_the_top_in_google_searches">HOW
CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS RISE TO THE TOP IN GOOGLE SEARCHES...</a></b><br>
Posted by David Pike 27sc on December 30, 2017 <br>
Groups that reject established climate science can use the search
engine's advertising business to their advantage, gaming the system
to find a mass platform for false or misleading claims...<br>
Type the words "climate change" into Google and you could get an
unexpected result: advertisements that call global warming a hoax.<br>
"Scientists blast climate alarm," said one that appeared at the top
of the search results page during a recent search, pointing to a
website, DefyCCC, that asserted: "Nothing has been studied better
and found more harmless than anthropogenic CO2 release."<br>
Another ad proclaimed: "The Global Warming Hoax — Why the Science
Isn't Settled," linking to a video containing unsupported
assertions, including that there is no correlation between rising
levels of greenhouse gases and higher global temperatures.<br>
(In reality, the harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions linked
to human activity, like rising temperatures and melting sea ice,
have been acknowledged by every major scientific organization in the
world.)<br>
Google's search page has become an especially contentious
battleground between those who seek to educate the public on the
established climate science and those who reject it.<br>
Not everyone who uses Google will see climate denial ads in their
search results. Google's algorithms use search history and other
data to tailor ads to the individual, something that is helping to
create a highly partisan internet.<br>
A recent search for "climate change" or "global warming" from a
Google account linked to a New York Times climate reporter did not
return any denial ads. The top results were ads from environmental
groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the
Environmental Defense Fund.<br>
But when the same reporter searched for those terms using private
browsing mode, which helps mask identity information from Google's
algorithms, the ad for DefyCCC popped up.<br>
"These are the info wars," said Robert J. Brulle, a Drexel
University professor of sociology and environmental science who has
studied climate advocacy and misinformation. "It's becoming harder
and harder for the individual to find unbiased information that they
can trust, because there's so much other material trying to crowd
that space."<br>
The climate denialist ads are an example of how contrarian groups
can use the internet's largest automated advertising systems to
their advantage, gaming the system to find a mass platform for false
or misleading claims.<br>
The climate denial ads on Google come amid a wider effort — backed
by wealthy conservatives, fossil fuel companies and right-wing think
tanks — to discredit the prevailing science on global warming and to
prevent action.<br>
DefyCCC, the site that recently bought the "climate change" search
term on Google, devotes an entire section of its site to content
from WattsUpWithThat, a well-known climate denial site by the
blogger Anthony Watts. Mr. Watts has received funding from the
Heartland Institute, backed by the billionaire Koch brothers.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/how_climate_change_deniers_rise_to_the_top_in_google_searches">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/how_climate_change_deniers_rise_to_the_top_in_google_searches</a><br>
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<br>
[With 2 degrees of warming]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-12-global-significantly-drier-world.html">Global
warming: Study predicts a significantly drier world at 2 C</a></b><br>
Over a quarter of the world's land could become significantly drier
if global warming reaches 2C—according to new research from an
international team including the University of East Anglia.<br>
The change would cause an increased threat of drought and wildfires.<br>
But limiting global warming to under 1.5C would dramatically reduce
the fraction of the Earth's surface that undergoes such changes...<br>
Aridity is a measure of the dryness of the land surface, obtained
from combining precipitation and evaporation. The research team
studied projections from 27 global climate models to identify the
areas of the world where aridity will substantially change when
compared to the year-to-year variations they experience now, as
global warming reaches 1.5C and 2C above pre-industrial levels.<br>
Dr. Chang-Eui Park from SusTech, one of the authors of the study,
said: "Aridification is a serious threat because it can critically
impact areas such as agriculture, water quality, and biodiversity.
It can also lead to more droughts and wildfires—similar to those
seen raging across California.<br>
"Another way of thinking of the emergence of aridification is a
shift to continuous moderate drought conditions, on top of which
future year-to-year variability can cause more severe drought. For
instance, in such a scenario 15 per cent of semi-arid regions would
actually experience conditions similar to 'arid' climates today."<br>
Dr. Manoj Joshi from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences said:
"Our research predicts that aridification would emerge over about
20-30 per cent of the world's land surface by the time the global
mean temperature change reaches 2C. <b>But two thirds of the
affected regions could avoid significant aridification if warming
is limited to 1.5C."</b><br>
Dr. Su-Jong Jeong from SusTech said: "The world has already warmed
by 1C. But by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere
in order to keep global warming under 1.5C or 2C could reduce the
likelihood of significant aridification emerging in many parts of
the world."<br>
Drought severity has been increasing across the Mediterranean,
southern Africa, and the eastern coast of Australia over the course
of the 20th Century, while semi-arid areas of Mexico, Brazil,
southern Africa and Australia have encountered desertification for
some time as the world has warmed.<br>
Prof Tim Osborn from UEA said: "The areas of the world which would
most benefit from keeping warming below 1.5C are parts of South East
Asia, Southern Europe, Southern Africa, Central America and Southern
Australia—where more than 20 per cent of the world's population live
today."<br>
'Keeping global warming within 1.5C constrains emergence of
aridification' is published in the journal Nature Climate Change on
January 1, 2018.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-12-global-significantly-drier-world.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-12-global-significantly-drier-world.html</a></font><br>
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[California]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/california-2018-conference/">Preparing
People for Climate Change in California</a></b><br>
Conference To Launch a Movement to Make California the First
Trauma-Informed<br>
Human Resilience Enhancing State in the U.S. for Climate Traumas
& Stresses!<br>
When: Wednesday-Thursday, January 24-25, 2018<br>
Where: The California Endowment's Oakland Conference Center, in
Downton Oakland, CA. <br>
<blockquote>Even with aggresive emission reductions, global
temperatures will rise by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5C) above
pre-industrial levels, possibly within just 9-10 years, and likely
by at least 3.6 degrees (2C) afterwards. Humanity is entering an
era of dramatic changes in the earth's climate and ecological
systems that for decades will produce gut-wrenching shocks and
stresses for people until successful emission cuts bring
temperatures back down to safe levels again. <br>
The U.N. Inter-Agency Standing Committee states that mental
health, psychosocial, and humanitarian crisis are often closely
connected. Yet, almost no attention has been given to preparing
people in California for the individual psychological and
collective psycho-social-spiritual impacts of climate change. <br>
This conference will directly address these risks and
opportunities by explaining:<br>
Why climate change is the ultimate social determinant of mental
and physical health and how, left unaddressed, the disasters and
chronic toxic stresses generated by climate change will produce
rising psychological problems including deblilitating anxiety,
depression, PTSD, and suicides, as well as psycho-social-spiritual
maladies such as hopelessness, child and spousal abuse, crime, we
vs them hatred, and interpersonal violence that threaten the
safety, health, and wellbeing of everyone.<br>
</blockquote>
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<br>
[planning]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/planning-climate-change/">FIGHTING
CLIMATE CHANGE, AND BUILDING A WORLD TO WITHSTAND IT</a></b><br>
..And the next time someone in a city planning meeting says that new
housing shouldn't get built in a residential area because it's not
in keeping with the sense of the community and might disrupt
parking, tell them what that means: that they want young people to
have lesser lives, that they don't want poor people and people of
color to have the same opportunities they did, and that they'd
rather the planet's environment get crushed by letting <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/in-ed-lees-san-francisco-utopia-and-dystopia-are-neighbors/">bad
buildings spread to inhospitable places</a> than increasing
density in cities...<br>
This apocalypse doesn't hurt everyone. Some people benefit. It's not
a coincidence that the FIRE industries also <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?Ind=F">donate
the most money</a> to federal political campaigns. Rich people
living behind walls they think can't be breached by any rising tide,
literal or metaphoric, made this disaster. And then they gaslighted
the vulnerable into distrusting anyone raising the alarm. The people
who benefit have made it seem as if this dark timeline was all
perfectly fine.<br>
It isn't. And that's why it'll change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/planning-climate-change/">https://www.wired.com/story/planning-climate-change/</a><br>
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[All from The Vatican]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_19891208_xxiii-world-day-for-peace_en.html">This
Day in Climate History January 1, 1990</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_14121998_xxxii-world-day-for-peace_en.html">1999</a>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20091208_xliii-world-day-peace_en.html">2010</a>
- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><font size="-1"><br>
</font><b>January 1, 1990: </b>In his World Day of Peace message,
Pope John Paul II declares:<br>
<blockquote>"The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the
related 'greenhouse<br>
effect' has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of<br>
industrial growth, massive urban concentrations and vastly
increased<br>
energy needs. Industrial waste, the burning of fossil fuels,<br>
unrestricted deforestation, the use of certain types of
herbicides,<br>
coolants and propellants: all of these are known to harm the<br>
atmosphere and environment. The resulting meteorological and<br>
atmospheric changes range from damage to health to the possible
future<br>
submersion of low-lying lands.<br>
"While in some cases the damage already done may well be
irreversible,<br>
in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary,
however,<br>
that the entire human community - individuals, States and<br>
international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is<br>
theirs.<br>
"The most profound and serious indication of the moral
implications<br>
underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life<br>
evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution. Often,
the<br>
interests of production prevail over concern for the dignity of<br>
workers, while economic interests take priority over the good of<br>
individuals and even entire peoples. In these cases, pollution or<br>
environmental destruction is the result of an unnatural and<br>
reductionist vision which at times leads to a genuine contempt for<br>
man.<br>
"On another level, delicate ecological balances are upset by the<br>
uncontrolled destruction of animal and plant life or by a reckless<br>
exploitation of natural resources. It should be pointed out that
all<br>
of this, even if carried out in the name of progress and
well-being,<br>
is ultimately to mankind's disadvantage."<br>
</blockquote>
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<br>
<b>January 1, 1999: In his World Day of Peace Message, Pope John
Paul II declares:</b><br>
<blockquote>"The promotion of human dignity is linked to the right
to a healthy<br>
environment, since this right highlights the dynamics of the<br>
relationship between the individual and society. A body of<br>
international, regional and national norms on the environment is<br>
gradually giving juridic form to this right. But juridic measures
by<br>
themselves are not sufficient. The danger of serious damage to
land<br>
and sea, and to the climate, flora and fauna, calls for a profound<br>
change in modern civilization's typical consumer life-style,<br>
particularly in the richer countries."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_14121998_xxxii-world-day-for-peace_en.html">http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_14121998_xxxii-world-day-for-peace_en.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<b>January 1, 2010: In his World Day of Peace message, Pope Benedict
XVI declares:</b><br>
<blockquote>"In 1990 John Paul II had spoken of an 'ecological
crisis' and, in<br>
highlighting its primarily ethical character, pointed to the
'urgent<br>
moral need for a new solidarity.' His appeal is all the more
pressing<br>
today, in the face of signs of a growing crisis which it would be<br>
irresponsible not to take seriously. Can we remain indifferent
before<br>
the problems associated with such realities as climate change,<br>
desertification, the deterioration and loss of productivity in
vast<br>
agricultural areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers, the loss
of<br>
biodiversity, the increase of natural catastrophes and the<br>
deforestation of equatorial and tropical regions? Can we disregard
the<br>
growing phenomenon of 'environmental refugees,' people who are
forced<br>
by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it – and
often<br>
their possessions as well – in order to face the dangers and<br>
uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in
the<br>
face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural<br>
resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the
exercise<br>
of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and<br>
development."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20091208_xliii-world-day-peace_en.html">http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20091208_xliii-world-day-peace_en.html</a></font><br>
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