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<font size="+1"><i>April 29, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[LA Times]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mileage-20180427-story.html">Trump
and California are set to collide head-on over fuel standards</a></b><br>
EVAN HALPER - APR 27, 2018 <br>
The Trump administration is speeding toward all-out war with
California over fuel economy rules for cars and SUVs, proposing to
revoke the state's long-standing authority to enforce its own, tough
rules on tailpipe emissions.<br>
The move forms a key part of a proposal by Trump's environmental and
transportation agencies to roll back the nation's fuel economy
standards. The agencies plan to submit the proposal to the White
House for review within days.<br>
The plan would freeze fuel economy targets at the levels required
for vehicles sold in 2020, and leave those in place through 2026,
according to federal officials who have reviewed it. That would mark
a dramatic retreat from existing law, which aimed to get the
nation's fleet of cars and light trucks to an average fuel economy
of 55 miles per gallon by 2025. Instead of average vehicle fuel
economy ratcheting up to that level, it would stall out at 42 miles
per gallon...<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mileage-20180427-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mileage-20180427-story.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[pleading to the EPA]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042018/toxic-coal-ash-disposal-standards-epa-hearing-ccr-rule-groundwater-power-plant-health-data">Don't
Gut Coal Ash Rules, Communities Beg EPA at Hearing</a></b><br>
'We're talking about poisoning groundwater,' one mayor told the
agency at the only public hearing planned on Pruitt's coal ash rule
change, proposed by industry.<br>
Georgina Gustin<br>
It took decades for the Environmental Protection Agency to craft
public safeguards for the disposal of coal ash, the toxic byproduct
that coal-burning power plants generate more than 100 million tons
of every year.<br>
Scott Pruitt's EPA is aiming to unravel those standards in a matter
of months.<br>
On Tuesday, in a hotel conference room outside Washington, dozens of
people spoke at the EPA's only planned public hearing on Pruitt's
proposed changes to the coal ash standards. They represented their
communities, many of them poor, seemingly powerless and hundreds of
miles away from the capital.<br>
A pediatrician. A small-town mayor. Tribal members. Girls Scouts.<br>
"Please, do not roll back EPA safeguards," 8-year-old Alivia
Hopkins, a Scout from Pleasant Plains, Illinois, told a panel of
agency employees as she stood on a chair to reach a microphone at
the podium. "I'm counting on you to keep those I love safe."...<br>
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In 2015, the EPA finalized a rule that calls for utilities to take
certain steps when disposing of coal ash, which can include a number
of toxins, including lead, mercury and arsenic.<br>
The rule, known as the Coal Combustion Residuals, or CCR, rule
requires utilities to close ponds that are leaking, to line the
ponds and to locate them away from waterways. It also requires
specific groundwater monitoring, creates certain allowable
thresholds for toxic materials and mandates public disclosure of
data.<br>
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Dink NeSmith, a newspaper owner from Jesup, Georgia, waged-and won-a
multi-year fight against the disposal of coal ash in the city's
landfill. Now he worries the changes to the CCR rule could reverse
that.<br>
"In five short years, we would have had a toxic mountain of more
than 18 million tons of coal ash," NeSmith said Tuesday. "That is
still a possibility. Your proposed anything-goes set of rules will
be devastating to our community and hundreds of others."<br>
moe at: <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042018/toxic-coal-ash-disposal-standards-epa-hearing-ccr-rule-groundwater-power-plant-health-data">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042018/toxic-coal-ash-disposal-standards-epa-hearing-ccr-rule-groundwater-power-plant-health-data</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video with an important, positive message]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-mE7-kPMc">Humanity's
True Purpose</a></b><br>
Sailesh Rao - 9 minute video Published on Apr 20, 2018<br>
Is humanity nothing more than a cancer on the planet, consuming its
host until it is gone, guaranteeing its own destruction in the
process? A quick glance at the effects of our behavior might lead us
to say yes.<br>
But looks can be deceiving. Nature shows us that what is destructive
on one level can also be part of a larger process of change that
creates new forms of value at another level...<br>
To check the facts in the video, please go to <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatehealers.org/facts">http://www.climatehealers.org/facts</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-mE7-kPMc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-mE7-kPMc</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[research paper]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ses.forestry.ubc.ca/people/postdoctoral-fellows/">Integration
anxiety: The cognitive isolation of climate change</a></b><br>
Please find below a free link to our new paper in Global
Environmental Change seeking to understand how people coordinate (or
fail to coordinate) climate change risks with other decisions. <br>
<br>
The study examines South Africa's commercial grain farmers as a
uniquely informative group with the demonstrated capacity, incentive
and willingness to adapt to climate change risks, including their
ongoing adoption of farming practices associated with Conservation
Agriculture. Using mental models analysis, we find that farmers'
failure to integrate climate change with the many other risks they
face makes it unlikely that they will adapt proactively and
rationally to this new uncertainty even when they otherwise appear
motivated and well-equipped to do so.<br>
Highlights:<br>
<blockquote>- We evaluate how farmers mainstream climate change
adaptation.<br>
- These farmers isolate climate change from weather and other
'normal' risks.<br>
- They are explicitly sensitive to climate risks, expressing
concern for its impacts.<br>
- But the cognitive isolation of climate risks makes them
implicitly insensitive.<br>
- They appear unlikely to adapt proactively and rationally to
climate change.<br>
</blockquote>
Using the following link, the paper may be downloaded for free until
8 June 2018: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Wv0q3Q8oPxLaV">https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Wv0q3Q8oPxLaV</a><br>
<br>
Findlater KM, Donner SDD, Satterfield T, Kandlikar M (2018).
Integration anxiety: The cognitive isolation of climate change.
Global Environmental Change, 50:178-189.
doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.02.010.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ses.forestry.ubc.ca/people/postdoctoral-fellows/">http://ses.forestry.ubc.ca/people/postdoctoral-fellows/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Water in Arizona]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/phoenix-least-sustainable-city-survive-water">Plight
of Phoenix: how long can the world's 'least sustainable' city
survive?</a></b><br>
Phoenix gets less than eight inches of rainfall each year; most of
the water supply for central and southern Arizona is pumped from
Lake Mead, fed by the Colorado river over 300 miles away. Anthem's
private developer paid a local Native American tribe to lease some
of its historic water rights, and pipes its water from the nearby
Lake Pleasant reservoir - also filled by the Colorado.<br>
That river is drying up. This winter, snow in the Rocky Mountains,
which feeds the Colorado, was 70% lower than average. Last month,
the US government calculated that two thirds of Arizona is currently
facing severe to extreme drought; last summer 50 flights were
grounded at Phoenix airport because the heat - which hit 47C (116F)
- made the air too thin to take off safely. The "heat island" effect
keeps temperatures in Phoenix above 37C (98F) at night in summer.<br>
Phoenix and its surrounding area is known as the Valley of the Sun,
and downtown Phoenix - which in 2017 overtook Philadelphia as
America's fifth-largest city - is easily walkable, with restaurants,
bars and an evening buzz. But it is a modern shrine to towering
concrete, and gives way to endless sprawl that stretches up to 35
miles away to places like Anthem. The area is still growing - and is
dangerously overstretched, experts warn.<br>
"There are plans for substantial further growth and there just isn't
the water to support that," says climate researcher Jonathan
Overpeck, who co-authored a 2017 report that linked declining flows
in the Colorado river to climate change...<br>
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One of those plans is Bill Gates's new "smart city". The Microsoft
founder recently invested $80m (£57m) in a development firm that
aims to construct<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="In%20his%202011%20book%20Bird%20on%20Fire,+the+New+York+University+sociologist+Andrew+Ross+branded+Phoenix+the+least+sustainable+city+in+the+world.+He+says+he+stands+by+his+assessment+and+warns+of+an+%E2%80%9Ceco-apartheid%E2%80%9D,+whereby+low-income+neighbourhoods+on+the+more+polluted+south+side+of+the+Salt+River+%28which+once+flowed+vigorously+through+the+city+and+is+now+a+trickle%29+are+less+able+to+protect+themselves+from+the+heat+and+drought+than+wealthier+citizens.">
80,000 new homes on undeveloped land west of Phoenix,</a> and a
new freeway all the way to Las Vegas...<br>
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In his 2011 book Bird on Fire, the New York University sociologist
Andrew Ross branded Phoenix the least sustainable city in the world.
He says he stands by his assessment and warns of an "eco-apartheid",
whereby low-income neighbourhoods on the more polluted south side of
the Salt River (which once flowed vigorously through the city and is
now a trickle) are less able to protect themselves from the heat and
drought than wealthier citizens.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/phoenix-least-sustainable-city-survive-water">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/20/phoenix-least-sustainable-city-survive-water</a></font><br>
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<br>
[2016 data visualization]<br>
<b><a href="http://www.worldwateratlas.org/about">The World Water
Atlas</a></b><br>
Water represents society's most challenging and complex risk. Too
much, too little, and too dirty water combine in potentially
disastrous ways with climate change and socio-economic development.
The High Level Panel on Water (HLPW) Action Plan points out that we
need to understand the risks and link them to potential solutions to
inspire action.<br>
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The Action Plan recognizes the need for "a platform where states can
share and exchange lessons and good practices for addressing
water-related disasters and translate them into solutions that can
be promoted globally".<br>
The Kingdom of the Netherlands has developed the "World Water Atlas"
under the patronage of the HLPW, and with support of the Dutch water
sector. The action-inspiring narratives in the Atlas will be
developed along three lines:<b> too much, too little and too dirty.
</b><b><a href="http://www.worldwateratlas.org/themes/too-little/">Interactive
World Water Atlas </a></b><br>
For all people and their leaders who want to understand and address
the multifaceted risk related to water, The World Water Atlas is an
interactive platform that marks water risk 'hotspots,' where
challenges and opportunities collide. The Atlas is presented in
compelling narratives backed by reliable open-source data.<br>
For more information, please contact us at <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:info@worldwateratlas.org">info@worldwateratlas.org</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.worldwateratlas.org/about">http://www.worldwateratlas.org/about</a></font><br>
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[subject blog water]<br>
Aguanomics - The political economy of water - and other distractions<br>
David Zetland has worked on water policy for 10+ years. He's an
assistant professor of political-economy at Leiden University
College in the Netherlands...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.aguanomics.com/p/about-david.html">http://www.aguanomics.com/p/about-david.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Serious, deep opinions: distressing interview; grief and then
positivism]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention">'We're
doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will
dare mention</a></b><br>
By Patrick Barkham<br>
The 86-year-old social scientist says accepting the impending end of
most life on Earth might be the very thing needed to help us prolong
it.<br>
<br>
"We're doomed," says Mayer Hillman with such a beaming smile that it
takes a moment for the words to sink in. "The outcome is death, and
it's the end of most life on the planet because we're so dependent
on the burning of fossil fuels. There are no means of reversing the
process which is melting the polar ice caps. And very few appear to
be prepared to say so."<br>
<br>
Hillman, an 86-year-old social scientist and senior fellow emeritus
of the Policy Studies Institute, does say so. His bleak forecast of
the consequence of runaway climate change, he says without fanfare,
is his "last will and testament". His last intervention in public
life. "I'm not going to write anymore because there's nothing more
that can be said," he says when I first hear him speak to a stunned
audience at the University of East Anglia late last year.<br>
<br>
From Malthus to the Millennium Bug, apocalyptic thinking has a poor
track record. But when it issues from Hillman, it may be worth
paying attention. Over nearly 60 years, his research has used
factual data to challenge policymakers' conventional wisdom. In
1972, he criticised out-of-town shopping centres more than 20 years
before the government changed planning rules to stop their spread.
In 1980, he recommended halting the closure of branch line railways
- only now are some closed lines reopening. In 1984, he proposed
energy ratings for houses - finally adopted as government policy in
2007. And, more than 40 years ago, he presciently challenged
society's pursuit of economic growth.<br>
<br>
When we meet at his converted coach house in London, his classic
Dawes racer still parked hopefully in the hallway (a stroke and a
triple heart bypass mean he is - currently - forbidden from
cycling), Hillman is anxious we are not side-tracked by his
best-known research, which challenged the supremacy of the car.<br>
<br>
"With doom ahead, making a case for cycling as the primary mode of
transport is almost irrelevant," he says. "We've got to stop burning
fossil fuels. So many aspects of life depend on fossil fuels, except
for music and love and education and happiness. These things, which
hardly use fossil fuels, are what we must focus on."<br>
<br>
While the focus of Hillman's thinking for the last quarter-century
has been on climate change, he is best known for his work on road
safety. He spotted the damaging impact of the car on the freedoms
and safety of those without one - most significantly, children -
decades ago. Some of his policy prescriptions have become
commonplace - such as 20mph speed limits - but we've failed to curb
the car's crushing of children's liberty. In 1971, 80% of British
seven- and eight-year-old children went to school on their own;
today it's virtually unthinkable that a seven-year-old would walk to
school without an adult. As Hillman has pointed out, we've removed
children from danger rather than removing danger from children - and
filled roads with polluting cars on school runs. He calculated that
escorting children took 900m adult hours in 1990, costing the
economy £20bn each year. It will be even more expensive today.<br>
<br>
Our society's failure to comprehend the true cost of cars has
informed Hillman's view on the difficulty of combatting climate
change. But he insists that I must not present his thinking on
climate change as "an opinion". The data is clear; the climate is
warming exponentially. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change predicts that the world on its current course will warm by 3C
by 2100. Recent revised climate modelling suggested a best estimate
of 2.8C but scientists struggle to predict the full impact of the
feedbacks from future events such as methane being released by the
melting of the permafrost.<br>
<br>
Hillman believes society has failed to challenge the supremacy of
the car.<br>
Hillman is amazed that our thinking rarely stretches beyond 2100.
"This is what I find so extraordinary when scientists warn that the
temperature could rise to 5C or 8C. What, and stop there? What
legacies are we leaving for future generations? In the early 21st
century, we did as good as nothing in response to climate change.
Our children and grandchildren are going to be extraordinarily
critical."<br>
<br>
Global emissions were static in 2016 but the concentration of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere was confirmed as beyond 400 parts per
million, the highest level for at least three million years (when
sea levels were up to 20m higher than now). Concentrations can only
drop if we emit no carbon dioxide whatsoever, says Hillman. "Even if
the world went zero-carbon today that would not save us because
we've gone past the point of no return."<br>
Although Hillman has not flown for more than 20 years as part of a
personal commitment to reducing carbon emissions, he is now scornful
of individual action which he describes as "as good as futile". By
the same logic, says Hillman, national action is also irrelevant
"because Britain's contribution is minute. Even if the government
were to go to zero carbon it would make almost no difference."<br>
<br>
Instead, says Hillman, the world's population must globally move to
zero emissions across agriculture, air travel, shipping, heating
homes - every aspect of our economy - and reduce our human
population too. Can it be done without a collapse of civilisation?
"I don't think so," says Hillman. "Can you see everyone in a
democracy volunteering to give up flying? Can you see the majority
of the population becoming vegan? Can you see the majority agreeing
to restrict the size of their families?"<br>
<br>
Hillman doubts that human ingenuity can find a fix and says there is
no evidence that greenhouse gases can be safely buried. But if we
adapt to a future with less - focusing on Hillman's love and music -
it might be good for us. "And who is 'we'?" asks Hillman with a
typically impish smile. "Wealthy people will be better able to adapt
but the world's population will head to regions of the planet such
as northern Europe which will be temporarily spared the extreme
effects of climate change. How are these regions going to respond?
We see it now. Migrants will be prevented from arriving. We will let
them drown."<br>
<br>
A small band of artists and writers, such as Paul Kingsnorth's Dark
Mountain project, have embraced the idea that "civilisation" will
soon end in environmental catastrophe but only a few scientists -
usually working beyond the patronage of funding bodies, and nearing
the end of their own lives - have suggested as much. Is Hillman's
view a consequence of old age, and ill health? "I was saying these
sorts of things 30 years ago when I was hale and hearty," he says.<br>
<br>
Hillman accuses all kinds of leaders - from religious leaders to
scientists to politicians - of failing to honestly discuss what we
must do to move to zero-carbon emissions. "I don't think they can
because society isn't organised to enable them to do so. Political
parties' focus is on jobs and GDP, depending on the burning of
fossil fuels."<br>
<br>
Without hope, goes the truism, we will give up. And yet optimism
about the future is wishful thinking, says Hillman. He believes that
accepting that our civilisation is doomed could make humanity rather
like an individual who recognises he is terminally ill. Such people
rarely go on a disastrous binge; instead, they do all they can to
prolong their lives.<br>
<br>
Can civilisation prolong its life until the end of this century? "It
depends on what we are prepared to do." He fears it will be a long
time before we take proportionate action to stop climatic calamity.
"Standing in the way is capitalism. Can you imagine the global
airline industry being dismantled when hundreds of new runways are
being built right now all over the world? It's almost as if we're
deliberately attempting to defy nature. <b>We're doing the reverse
of what we should be doing, with everybody's silent acquiescence,
and nobody's batting an eyelid."</b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention</a></font><br>
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[Who is]<br>
<b><a href="https://mayerhillman.com/">Dr Mayer Hillman,
Contributing towards a better world</a></b><br>
"Our continuing uneconomic growth makes us complicit in a process
that is triggering an ecological catastrophe for our children and
generations beyond them. They will justifiably sit in judgment on
our failure to have prevented its devastating consequences knowing
that we chose to look the other way."<br>
<br>
Over the past 40 years, my research has been concerned with the
development of public policy on the areas of transport, road safety,
urban planning, energy conservation, waste avoidance, health
promotion, and the environment. In recent years, I have focused in
particular on the all-embracing implications of global climate
change and how we can limit it.<br>
<br>
In all my studies I have aimed to provide evidence that will aid the
process of policy reform. I have repeatedly highlighted the
inadequacy of attention paid to social and environmental issues, to
intra- and inter-generational equity, and to the rights of those
groups in the population with little, if any, public voice. A common
theme has been the failure of successive governments to adopt
policies that will compensate for the fact that few personal and
business decisions are influenced by consideration of their wide
impacts on society and the environment. Progress is further hindered
by the unwillingness of politicians and their advisers to
acknowledge the significance of any new evidence that challenges the
status quo in conventional thinking and practice.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mayerhillman.com/">https://mayerhillman.com/</a></font><br>
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[Opinion: the way through]<br>
<b><a
href="https://newcreationews.blogspot.com/2018/04/chaos-and-collapse-part-ii.html">New
Creation News</a></b><br>
News of the planet and the nexus of culture, ecology, justice, and
spirituality.<br>
Chaos and Collapse, Part II<br>
There is no way out of our predicament, but there is a way through
it.<br>
So let's look at what experience, our own deep personal experience,
is telling us - when we pay attention to it, when we can work
through the fear of looking at this irresolvable mess that humans
have made and begin to see clearly how dire our situation really is.
Let's surface that stuff and then see what it tells us about how to
live now - because that's where we begin to discover, to perceive
the way through.<br>
In the previous post, I embedded a link to this article, <a
href="https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630">Hope
and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding Ecological Grief.</a>
It is an important reference for me these day when trying to find
descriptors for our predicament. I, we, many of us use that word
"predicament" because it implies the notion that there is no easy
way out of this, no escape, no solution obvious to us.<br>
One definition of the word '"predicament:" an unpleasantly
difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.<br>
And another, even more illuminating: a situation, especially an
unpleasant, troublesome, or trying one, from which extrication is
difficult. Yeah, no kidding...<font size="-1"><br>
More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://newcreationews.blogspot.com/2018/04/chaos-and-collapse-part-ii.html">https://newcreationews.blogspot.com/2018/04/chaos-and-collapse-part-ii.html</a></font><br>
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[classic essay]<br>
<b><a
href="https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630">Hope
and mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding ecological grief</a></b><br>
We are living in a time of extraordinary ecological loss. Not only
are human actions destabilising the very conditions that sustain
life, but it is also increasingly clear that we are pushing the
Earth into an entirely new geological era, often described as the
Anthropocene.<br>
<br>
Research shows that people increasingly feel the effects of these
planetary changes and associated ecological losses in their daily
lives, and that these changes present significant direct and
indirect threats to mental health and well-being. Climate change,
and the associated impacts to land and environment, for example,
have recently been linked to a range of negative mental health
impacts, including depression, suicidal ideation, post-traumatic
stress, as well as feelings of anger, hopelessness, distress, and
despair.<br>
<br>
Not well represented in the literature, however, is an emotional
response we term 'ecological grief,' which we have defined in a
recent Nature Climate Change article: "The grief felt in relation to
experienced or anticipated ecological losses, including the loss of
species, ecosystems, and meaningful landscapes due to acute or
chronic environmental change."<br>
<br>
We believe ecological grief is a natural, though overlooked,
response to ecological loss, and one that is likely to affect more
of us into the future...<br>
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We argue that recognising <a href="http://rdcu.be/KwWz">ecological
grief as a legitimate response to ecological loss </a>is an
important first step for humanising climate change and its related
impacts, and for expanding our understanding of what it means to be
<a
href="http://www.lesleyhead.com/admin/kcfinder/upload/files/pdf/journal/Head2015GeographicalResearch.pdf">human
in the Anthropocene</a>. How to grieve ecological losses well -
particularly when they are ambiguous, cumulative and ongoing - is a
question currently without answer. However, it is a question that we
expect will become more pressing as further impacts from climate
change, including loss, are experienced.<br>
<br>
We do not see ecological grief as submitting to despair, and neither
does it justify 'switching off' from the many environmental problems
that confront humanity. Instead, we find great hope in the responses
ecological grief is likely to invoke. Just as grief over the loss of
a loved person puts into perspective what matters in our lives,
collective experiences of ecological grief may coalesce into a
strengthened sense of love and commitment to the places, ecosystems
and species that inspire, nurture and sustain us. There is much
grief work to be done, and much of it will be hard. However, being
open to the pain of ecological loss may be what is needed to prevent
such losses from occurring in the first place.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630">https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630</a></font><br>
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[journal Climate Change]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0092-2.epdf?author_access_token=UJYCnlw0zZieuYACw3AJQtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MZ8cLxe72VDW0esMFb0zEFM26k9KCrjCPa-wqxJcwmMgcIei5y7ci3SN_gtpLunMy-I9r_Qst3A5V3rz96ScHSGy2dP3IB1DKK9qNem8yIrw%3D%3D">Ecological
grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss</a></b><br>
Ashlee Cunsolo and Neville R. Ellis<br>
Climate change is increasingly understood to impact mental health
through multiple pathways of risk, including intense feelings of
grief as people suffer climate-related losses to valued species,
ecosystems and landscapes. Despite growing research inter-est,
ecologically driven grief, or 'ecological grief', remains an
underdeveloped area of inquiry. We argue that grief is a natural and
legitimate response to ecological loss, and one that may become more
common as climate impacts worsen. Drawing upon our own research in
Northern Canada and the Australian Wheatbelt, combined with a
synthesis of the literature, we offer future research directions for
the study of ecological grief.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost">This
Day in Climate History - April 29, 1999</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
April 29, 1999: The ExxonMobil-funded Competitive Enterprise
Institute names former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY) its first
"Distinguished Fellow." Two years later, in a Washington Times
op-ed, Kemp asserts that the scientific evidence pointing to
human-caused climate change is inconclusive.<br>
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href="http://cei.org/news-releases/jack-kemp-named-distinguished-fellow-competitive-enterprise-institute">http://cei.org/news-releases/jack-kemp-named-distinguished-fellow-competitive-enterprise-institute</a><br>
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href="http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost">http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost</a><br>
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