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<font size="+1"><i>March 6, 2018 </i></font><font
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[warmer is moister]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/heavy-wet-snow-set-to-drop-on-new-york-northeast-wednesday">Heavy,
Wet Snow Set to Drop on New York, Northeast Wednesday</a></b><br>
March 6, 2018<br>
Travel headaches loom for airports, highways along East Coast<br>
Power outages could spread in Hudson Valley as lines fall<br>
Late-season storms can actually do more damage to power lines than
storms that hit in the dead of winter, according to Shunondo Basu,
meteorologist and natural gas analyst for Bloomberg New Energy
Finance. The warmer air is able to hold more moisture, which brings
a heavier, wetter snow - and sleet - than the fluffy flakes that
tend to fall in January.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/heavy-wet-snow-set-to-drop-on-new-york-northeast-wednesday">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/heavy-wet-snow-set-to-drop-on-new-york-northeast-wednesday</a></font><br>
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<br>
[graffiti action at the Metropolitan Museum]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4562549/art-critic-tapes-climate-change-denier-plaza-over-koch-inscription-outside-the-met-1.4562569">Art
critic tapes 'Climate Change Denier Plaza' over Koch inscription
outside the Met</a></b><br>
Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine says his act of paper-and-tape
guerrilla vandalism was a labour of love for his 'favourite museum
in the world.' <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/art-critic-tapes-climate-change-denier-plaza-over-koch-inscription-outside-the-met-1.4563452?autoplay=true">Hear
the interview </a><br>
<blockquote>Jerry Saltz says his heart was racing when he bent over
in front of a fountain outside New York City's Metropolitan Museum
of Art to commit an act of guerilla vandalism.<br>
The renowned New York Magazine art critic had just spent several
hours enjoying the newest exhibit at his"favourite museum in the
world" when he papered over the inscription"David H. Koch Plaza"
with the words"Climate Change Denier Plaza."<br>
"I think I had hysterical blindness. I really didn't know what was
going on around me. I was just lost for that moment," Saltz told
As It Happens host Carol Off.<br>
"People started applauding and cheering, and I stood up took a
picture of it, and bunches of people starting taking pictures of
it. And then I was terrified and walked away and got on the subway
and went back downtown."<br>
</blockquote>
Jerry Saltz, an art critic with New York Magazine, taped over the
words 'David H. Koch Plaza' outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(Jerry Saltz/Twitter, )<br>
Audio report - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/art-critic-tapes-climate-change-denier-plaza-over-koch-inscription-outside-the-met-1.4563452?autoplay=true">Listen
</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/art-critic-tapes-climate-change-denier-plaza-over-koch-inscription-outside-the-met-1.4563452?autoplay=true">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/art-critic-tapes-climate-change-denier-plaza-over-koch-inscription-outside-the-met-1.4563452?autoplay=true</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4562549/art-critic-tapes-climate-change-denier-plaza-over-koch-inscription-outside-the-met-1.4562569">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4562549/art-critic-tapes-climate-change-denier-plaza-over-koch-inscription-outside-the-met-1.4562569</a><br>
</font>[twitter discussion]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/stropheus/status/970662789273571328">Stropheus
Art Law</a><br>
@GiniaNYT:"The question of what cultural institutions should do with
money offered by individuals whose beliefs are often contrary to
those of their directors and audiences is again subject of intense
discussion." Thanks to @jerrysaltz for standing up.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/stropheus/status/970662789273571328">https://twitter.com/stropheus/status/970662789273571328</a><br>
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<br>
[The Guardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/05/why-what-we-eat-is-crucial-to-the-climate-change-question">Why
what we eat is crucial to the climate change question</a></b><br>
Our food - from what we eat to how it is grown - accounts for more
carbon emissions than transport and yet staple crops will be hit
hard by global warming...<br>
Few consider the impacts of the food they eat, despite the fact that
globally, food systems account for roughly <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-020411-130608">one
quarter </a>of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data">That's
more</a> than the entire transportation sector, more than all
industrial practices, and roughly the same as the production of
electricity and heat...<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6042/616">Between
1980 and 2008,</a> for instance, wheat yields dropped 5.5 % and
maize yields fell 3.8% due to rising temperatures. Climate change
threatens the food security of millions of poor people around the
world...<br>
Just as there's no universal crop that grows everywhere, there's no
"one size fits all" model food system to implement across the world.
A broader systems-wide perspective is necessary if there is any hope
for truly transformative change. It's time to look beyond farming
and agriculture and to see the whole picture, to create systems that
cause less harm to the climate and are more resilient to the impacts
we're already suffering from global warming.<br>
Food is a fundamental human need and to eat is a basic human right.
Our food systems must deliver that need, fairly and equitably,
without worsening the impacts of climate change.<br>
<font size="-1">Ruth Khasaya Oniang'o is an academic and a winner of
the 2017 Africa Food prize </font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/05/why-what-we-eat-is-crucial-to-the-climate-change-question">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/05/why-what-we-eat-is-crucial-to-the-climate-change-question</a></font><br>
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<br>
<br>
[Report says] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-05/economic-equality-is-key-to-solving-climate-change-report-shows">Economic
Equality Is Key to Solving Climate Change, Report Shows</a></b><br>
Bloomberg<br>
Economies need to reduce inequality and promote sustainable
development for the world to avert the perils of runaway global
warming, according to ..."Climate change is far from the only issue
we as a society are concerned about" said Joeri Rogelj, the paper's
lead author and a research scholar at the ...<br>
"Climate change is far from the only issue we as a society are
concerned about" said Joeri Rogelj, the paper's lead author and a
research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis outside of Vienna."We have to understand how these many
goals can be achieved simultaneously. With this study, we show the
enormous value of pursuing sustainable development for ambitious
climate goals in line with the Paris Agreement," he said...<br>
Scientists predict higher frequencies of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2018-02-19/climate-rulebook-likely-done-this-year-with-or-without-u-s">floods,
famines and superstorms </a>unless the world keeps temperature
rises well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this
century. At the same time, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/america-s-wage-growth-remains-slow-and-uneven">growing
income inequality</a> has been robbing advanced economies of
dynamism needed to boost their resilience to change...<br>
Greenhouse gas emissions should peak before 2030 after which they'll
"decline rapidly" with a combination of phasing out of industry and
energy related CO2 combined with an "upscaling" carbon capture and
carbon dioxide removal, according to the report. An estimated 37
billion metric tons of carbon dioxide was released last year, 2
percent more than 2016, according to researchers in the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalcarbonatlas.org/en/CO2-emissions">Global
Carbon Project.</a>..<br>
<font size="-1">Jeremy Hodges with assistance by Eric Roston</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-05/economic-equality-is-key-to-solving-climate-change-report-shows">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-05/economic-equality-is-key-to-solving-climate-change-report-shows</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Ethics]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://ethicsandclimate.org/2018/03/03/ethical-issues-with-relying-on-pricing-carbon-as-a-policy-response-to-climate-change/">Ethical
Issues Entailed by Pricing Carbon as a Policy Response to
Climate Change</a></b><br>
Putting a price on carbon as a policy response to climate change has
received wide support around the world despite numerous potential
ethical issues that may arise in the use of this strategy. Although
some ethicists see some ethical problems with any carbon pricing
scheme, many ethicists support carbon pricing schemes provided the
design of the regime adequately deals with ethical issues that
frequently arise in carbon pricing regimes. The following article
identifies many ethical issues that could arise in carbon pricing
regime design. Even strong proponents of carbon pricing need to
understand these issues so that carbon pricing regime design can
minimize these potential ethical problems. <br>
Donald A. Brown<br>
<blockquote>As we have seen carbon pricing schemes designed to
reduce GHG emissions raise a host of ethical issues and problems.<br>
Although many of these ethical problems can be dealt with by the
pricing carbon regime design, given the enormous threat to life
and ecological systems created by human-induced climate change,
perhaps the most important ethical issue raised by carbon pricing
regime is whether the carbon pricing regime will be successful in
reducing a government's GHG emissions to its fair share of safe
global emissions.<br>
Because there is limited political support for enacting carbon
pricing schemes with sufficient pricing levels to achieve the
enormous reductions in GHG emissions now necessary to prevent very
dangerous climate change, carbon pricing schemes will likely
require policy responses in addition to carbon pricing alone.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ethicsandclimate.org/2018/03/03/ethical-issues-with-relying-on-pricing-carbon-as-a-policy-response-to-climate-change/">https://ethicsandclimate.org/2018/03/03/ethical-issues-with-relying-on-pricing-carbon-as-a-policy-response-to-climate-change/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[The Guardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/05/stop-blaming-both-sides-for-americas-climate-failures">Stop
blaming 'both sides' for America's climate failures</a></b><br>
The fault lies entirely with the GOP. Focus on fixing it, not laying
blame where it doesn't belong<br>
<b>Science rejection is predominantly a conservative phenomenon</b><br>
There's cultural pressure to place the blame on 'both sides,' for
example by claiming that while conservatives reject science on
climate change and evolution, liberals reject it on the safety of
GMOs and vaccines. However, research has shown <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/28/can-the-republican-party-solve-its-science-denial-problem">this
is simply not the case</a> - Democrats and Republicans are equally
likely to distrust GMOs, and conservatives are the group that most
opposes vaccines.<br>
It's also important to remember that <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/05/the-republican-party-stands-alone-in-climate-denial">the
Republican Party is the only major political party</a> in the
world whose leaders reject the need to tackle climate change. And
their president <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/01/donald-trump-just-cemented-his-legacy-as-americas-worst-ever-president">made
America the only country to reject the Paris climate agreement</a>.
There simply is no equivalent on the political left.<br>
<b>Blame the Fox Newsification of America</b><br>
So how did America get here? Political polarization has been on the
rise in America on both sides of the political spectrum for the past
four decades. But a rating of ideology-based voting in Congress <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://legacy.voteview.com/political_polarization_2015.htm">created
by Kenneth Poole and Howard Rosenthal</a> found that while
Democrats are gradually becoming more liberal, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/02/this-astonishing-chart-shows-how-republicans-are-an-endangered-species/?utm_term=.aebf14fff49d">Republicans
in Congress have become radically more conservative since 1980</a>...<br>
In a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/">2012 survey</a>,
participants who only watched Fox News were less likely to correctly
answer questions about domestic or international events than viewers
of any other news source (NPR, Sunday political shows, The Daily
Show, talk radio, MSNBC, or CNN), or even people with no news
exposure. And on the subject of climate change, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/08/fox-news-28-percent-accurate-climate-change">the
vast majority of Fox News coverage has been factually inaccurate</a>.<br>
<b>Focus on fixing the broken GOP</b><br>
America's climate inaction simply cannot be blamed on 'both sides.'
Democrats have proposed cap and trade legislation - <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-political-history-of-cap-and-trade-34711212/">a
concept invented by Republicans</a> - to address the issue. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jun/27/barack-obama-climate-change-bill">House
Democrats even passed the legislation</a> before a lack of
Republican support doomed it in the Senate. More recently, Democrats
have proposed revenue-neutral climate legislation in order to appeal
to small-government, free market conservatives. President Obama took
America's first comprehensive steps to tackle climate change by <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/dec/14/the-paris-agreement-signals-that-deniers-have-lost-the-climate-wars">joining
the Paris climate accords</a> and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/25/climate-change-carbon-emissions-president-obama-epa">implementing
the Clean Power Plan</a> - his Republican successor revoked both.<br>
Quite simply, the Republican Party is the problem. Some within the
party are slowly making progress in fixing it, for example in the
bipartisan <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/">Climate
Solutions Caucus</a>. But breaking through America's climate
policy gridlock may require bursting the right-wing media bubble.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/05/stop-blaming-both-sides-for-americas-climate-failures">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/05/stop-blaming-both-sides-for-americas-climate-failures</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[The Guardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/ban-ki-moon-us-paris-climate-agreement-withdrawal">Ban
Ki-moon: US has caused serious damage to Paris climate efforts</a></b><br>
Ex-UN secretary general tells the Guardian decision to withdraw
hampers global political action<br>
Ban said he hoped Trump would take better advice."What President
Trump has been saying is politically shortsighted and scientifically
based on wrong advice; I don't know who advised him," he said.<br>
While Europe has been seen as a champion of global climate talks and
international efforts to , Ban said he was worried this role could
be put at risk by political strife.<br>
"I am concerned because of the divisions that are now happening
within the EU, not to mention this Brexit, and political
difficulties and issues such as refugees," he said...<br>
He said the private sector may have to play a greater role than
previously envisaged, and he was working with the World Bank
president, Jim Yong Kim, the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan
and the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres to address the
challenge.<br>
Despite these setbacks to climate action, Ban said he was encouraged
that China was still fully committed to reducing emissions."
President Xi Jinping clearly mentioned that China is fully onboard,
understanding that the climate is changing," Ban said of a meeting
with the Chinese leader in November...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/ban-ki-moon-us-paris-climate-agreement-withdrawal">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/ban-ki-moon-us-paris-climate-agreement-withdrawal</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Military]<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022018/sea-level-rise-military-bases-damaged-national-security-risk-report-admirals-generals"><br>
Sea Level Rise Damaging More U.S. Bases, Former Top Military
Brass Warn</a></b><br>
The retired admirals and generals say climate change is putting key
military facilities at risk of costly damage that could knock out
critical operations for weeks.<br>
By Neela Banerje<br>
Despite widespread denial of climate change in the Trump
administration, led by the president himself, Defense Secretary
James Mattis has said that climate change poses risks to global
stability and national security. So far, the Pentagon has been left
alone as it works on improving the military's resilience to climate
change. But the efforts are patchy and often dependent on the
priorities of installation commanders, which can vary from base to
base, national security experts said.<br>
A 2017 report by the federal Government Accountability Office
concluded that the military is failing to properly plan for climate
change and that bases seldom include foreseeable impacts into
planning....<br>
The new report arrives during an uptick of scrutiny into climate
change's potential impact on national security.<br>
In November, <a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/donald-trumphttps://insideclimatenews.org/tags/donald-trump">President
Trump</a> signed the 2018 <a
href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2810/text">National
Defense Authorization Act</a>, which included a mandate from
Congress for the Pentagon to identify the 10 top sites threatened by
climate change. The language was <a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012018/military-climate-change-bipartisan-congress-letter-national-defense-strategy">a
departure</a> for the Republican-controlled Congress, which has
worked for years to halt rules and bills to address climate change.
The Pentagon's list is due by November 2018.<br>
In January, the Pentagon <a
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/tab-b-slvas-report-1-24-2018.pdf">issued
a report</a> based on surveys of nearly 1,700 domestic military
sites in which respondents from about 50 percent of the
installations said they face risks from climate change.<br>
In mid-February, the <a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13022018/climate-change-conflict-disasters-worldwide-threat-assessment-intelligence-agencies-refugees">country's
intelligence agencies said</a> in their annual report on global
threats that "the impacts of the long-term trends toward a warming
climate, more air pollution, biodiversity loss and water scarcity
are likely to fuel economic and social discontent-and possibly
upheaval-through 2018."<br>
The new report describes the great breadth of vulnerabilities to sea
level rise, including loss of life; loss of infrastructure; loss of
the electricity to run sites, including critical cybersecurity and
communications installations; damage to equipment used in missions;
loss of training lands; and loss of transportation means and
corridors.<br>
Ways the Military Can Respond<br>
The panel issued a series of recommendations for the military as the
risks increase, including:<br>
Continuously identifying infrastructure and strategic and
operational vulnerabilities and concretely addressing them.<br>
Integrating climate scenarios into planning.<br>
Using not just the most-likely scenarios in planning but also
the possibility of catastrophic failures.<br>
Working with local communities and international partners.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022018/sea-level-rise-military-bases-damaged-national-security-risk-report-admirals-generals">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022018/sea-level-rise-military-bases-damaged-national-security-risk-report-admirals-generals</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[cognitive blindness]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/why-some-conservatives-are-blind-to-climate-change-91549">Why
some conservatives are blind to climate change</a></b><br>
Despite the strong evidence that human activities are contributing
to climate change, a small minority of the public disagrees with the
scientific consensus...<br>
In the face of the evidence, how can we explain this division?..<br>
When we analyzed the data, we found a pattern: Conservatives who
were less concerned about climate change were less likely to see
climate-related words than liberals who were worried about the
issue.<br>
In short, conservatives showed climate change blindness.<br>
Now that we know people's political orientation affects their visual
attention to climate change, this raises a possible feedback loop,
where concerned liberals readily tune their attention to news
headlines about climate change and become even more concerned.<br>
But unconcerned conservatives may be more blind to the same
headlines about climate change and therefore become more entrenched
in their disbelief.<br>
The visual blindness can further deepen the denial of the real risks
of climate change such as flooding, hurricanes, drought and
heatwaves, and consequently a lack of action to mitigate climate
change...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/why-some-conservatives-are-blind-to-climate-change-91549">https://theconversation.com/why-some-conservatives-are-blind-to-climate-change-91549</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Philosophy]<br>
<b><a href="http://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/a-new-human-era/">A
New Human Era</a></b><br>
Earth has lost half of its wild animals in the last forty years.
What does it mean to be philosophical about this? The last time
there was this much carbon in the atmosphere, humanity didn't even
exist. What should we think or feel about this terrain we're
entering: the prospect that future generations may see those born in
the late 20th century as the last humans to know ecological
innocence?<br>
These are grim questions - and I can feel my mind sliding away from
them even as I type...<br>
..the words of behavioural economist Dan Ariely have begun circling
in my mind: "If you were starting from scratch, and you said, 'Let
me create a problem that people would not care about', it would look
very much like global warming." There's nothing like a steady
increase in atmospheric carbon to lay bare the limitations of human
cognition. The most serious consequences of climate change are
distant from their causes in time and space; they are surrounded by
uncertainty and dissent; they are both a tremendously big deal and a
wickedly complex problem to address, let alone redress. All of which
is confounding when it comes to commanding engagement even from
someone in my comfortable position - let alone people struggling to
support their families, earn a living or survive...<br>
What nature is poised to throw at us cannot be known in detail, but
'less liveable' may end up sounding euphemistic. 'Unliveable in
parts' might be a better description, especially if you're of the
non-human persuasion...<br>
That which we have caused we cannot uncause, and may barely be able
to mitigate.<br>
This may be true, but it's also a poor enticement to getting on with
mitigating. What we need for this, according to Jonathan Rowson -
British thinker and founding director of the policy organisation
Perspectiva - is a dose of simplicity sufficient to focus our minds
on action.<br>
First, Rowson argues, there's the business of cause and effect.
Human-made climate change is driven by the burning of fossil fuels.
Finding a fast, successful way to stop burning fossil fuels is thus
the crucial question - and this means disentangling climate change
both from broader environmental concerns and their proselytising
representatives.<br>
"Moreover, as long as environmentalists are the public face of
climate change it is too easy to conveniently and unfairly dismiss a
universal moral imperative as a tribal anti-capitalist agenda.
"Without a broad appeal, and an unshackling from other
ideologically-charged issues, there's no chance of mustering the
will or consensus for action.<br>
Invoking this universal moral imperative is a matter not so much of
ethics as of sanity: of doing what is necessary within a world whose
transformation demands the participation of unlikely allies. Energy
giants and governments will need to work with activists; ethicists
with innovators; ecologists with factory-owners; rich with poor.
They will need a common language and a plan - and this means a
diversity of perspectives mobilised around a common aim. For Rowson,
these perspectives are the"seven dimensions of climate change":
science, law, money, technology, democracy, culture, and behaviour.
Only an approach literate across these domains can bring the world
as it is on board - and help make it into something it is not....<br>
Whether you agree with the detail or not, I admire the mixed
precision and inclusiveness of this approach: define the task at
hand as clearly as possible, then cast your nets wide and deep. It's
more useful than existential foreboding, and more likely to persuade
than ideological implacability...<br>
The thing about dread, like many of our primal emotions, is that it
lets us off the hook; it betrays our better natures. Dread is vague,
immobilising; it aches to be suppressed. It stands between us and
action, whispering that we will fail - or that we matter little in
the first place. Against this, there is in us the potency of more
precisely imagined futures; of minds not simply reflecting but also
altering our world...<br>
Nature is the whole deal, the house and the garden, the city and the
country. It's the sole guarantor of our existence in this, the one
known corner of the universe hospitable to life. We are in it, of
it, at its mercy, and yet - whether we like it or not - in the
process of altering its course. Time to swallow fear and to ask what
hard lessons the new human era may teach.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/a-new-human-era/">http://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/a-new-human-era/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Hug the Monster]<br>
Philosophy for Change<br>
<b><a
href="https://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/hug-the-monster-own-your-anger-and-use-it/">Hug
the monster: own your anger and use it</a></b><br>
As of today, I am trialling a new strategy. Instead of dissociating
myself from my inner monster, I'm going to give him a good hug.
Negative energy doesn't need to be a bad thing. Sometimes, if you
have valid reasons for feeling angry and scared, the best thing you
can do is harness those feelings and use them in a positive and
creative way. This is what it means to hug the monster.<br>
'Hug the monster' is a technique used by U.S. Air Force trainers to
teach cadets how to handle themselves in life-and-death situations.
Journalist Bill Blakemore explains:<br>
<blockquote>The monster is your fear in a sudden crisis - as when
you find yourself trapped in a downed plane or a burning house.<br>
If you freeze or panic - if you go into merely reactive
"brainlock" - you're lost.<br>
But if your mind has been prepared in advance to recognize the
psychological grip of fear, focus on it, and then transform its
intense energy into action - sometimes even by changing it into
anger - and by also engaging the thinking part of your brain to
work the problem, your chances of survival go way up.<br>
</blockquote>
Fear and anxiety can be paralysing. The child inside us wants to
duck under the covers and wish the monster away. But if we stand our
ground and use the fear as a spur to action, we can achieve things
that we might not otherwise have been capable of. The same thing is
true of anger. As Blakemore suggests, anger can be a creative force
if we are able to channel it appropriately. The first and most
important step is to embrace the emotion and own it. Just because
anger is deemed a socially inappropriate emotion doesn't mean that
we should deny it when we feel it. We need to set limits on the way
we express our anger, for sure. But we should also acknowledge that,
in many cases, anger is a reflection of our moral disposition, and
there is nothing at all wrong with feeling righteously infuriated in
the face of injustice, cruelty, or calamitous stupidity.<br>
Keep a grip on anger, but don't be afraid to own the emotion. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/hug-the-monster-own-your-anger-and-use-it/">https://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/hug-the-monster-own-your-anger-and-use-it/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[humor]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pinterest.com/robertkleiburg/climate-change-renewable-energy-cartoons/?lp=true">Climate
Change Cartoons</a><br>
<i>many to see</i><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pinterest.com/robertkleiburg/climate-change-renewable-energy-cartoons/?lp=true">https://www.pinterest.com/robertkleiburg/climate-change-renewable-energy-cartoons/?lp=true</a></font><br>
-<br>
[More humor]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thoughtco.com/cartoons-and-memes-about-climate-change-2734107">Cartoons
and Memes That Put Climate Change in Perspective</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thoughtco.com/cartoons-and-memes-about-climate-change-2734107">https://www.thoughtco.com/cartoons-and-memes-about-climate-change-2734107</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/whitmanmemo032601.htm">This
Day in Climate History - March 6, 2001</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
March 6, 2001: EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman sends a memo
to President George W. Bush urging him to demonstrate leadership on
climate change. The memo is summarily ignored.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/whitmanmemo032601.htm">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/whitmanmemo032601.htm</a></font><br>
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