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<font size="+1"><i>May 24, 2018</i></font><br>
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[scenario study]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-economics/strict-curbs-on-global-warming-would-buoy-world-economy-study-idUSKCN1IO2PC">Strict
curbs on global warming would buoy world economy: study</a></b><br>
OSLO (Reuters) - Stringent limits on global warming would bolster
the world economy by averting tens of trillions of dollars in damage
this century from heat waves, droughts and floods, a U.S. study said
on Wednesday. <br>
The report, among the first to assess the economics of the 2015
Paris climate agreement, said the toughest temperature curbs would
benefit 90 percent of the world's population, especially in poor
nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.<br>
The world's biggest economies - the United States, China and Japan -
would also gain if the world achieves the toughest targets,
according to the study led by researchers at Stanford University and
published in the journal Nature.<br>
Russia, Canada and Nordic countries, where rising temperatures could
boost farm output and limit deaths from winter cold, would be among
a few nations to suffer economically from tough curbs on global
warming, the study said... <br>
<font size="-1">More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-economics/strict-curbs-on-global-warming-would-buoy-world-economy-study-idUSKCN1IO2PC">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-economics/strict-curbs-on-global-warming-would-buoy-world-economy-study-idUSKCN1IO2PC</a></font><br>
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<br>
[new movie with global warming as character] <br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI">First
Reformed (2017) Official Trailer</a></b><br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI</a><br>
R - 2018 - 1hr 48min - Suspense/Drama<br>
Reverend Ernst Toller is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a
small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of
celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground
Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a
dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church,
Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong
flock. When a pregnant parishioner asks Reverend Toller to counsel
her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself
plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future,
until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI</a><br>
- - - -<br>
[A viewer response to movie "First Reformed" from psychotherapist
Betty Merton,]<br>
<blockquote>It was surprisingly Bergmanesque for an American film.
Watching it I had a feeling of deja vu - its austerity, the stark
winter light, the alienation & anguish of the protagonist, the
silence of God. <br>
The movie has stayed with me, and the more I think about it the
more I'm impressed with its religious symbolism. It was steeped in
dark & gloomy Calvinism, not the forgiving grace of Luther's
God. The head minister's comment to Toller that "you're always in
the Garden before dawn" reflects the agony Toller experiences, the
terrible pain and isolation of his conflict within himself. (The
dawn, for Jesus, was when he finally became reconciled to being
crucified.) Toller drinks whiskey alone at night, struggles,
paces, pushes people away, & is in torment without
reconciliation - until the very end when his alienation is
overcome by Mary: when he sees that she is there...he accepts a
sort of crucifixion by piercing his own flesh. Even though it's a
cliche' to end with love, it's also meaningful, I think, in that
it shows a transformative alternative to violence. I liked the
spare use of color - mainly in the magic carpet scene and the
kissing at the end - color showing abundant life. I would like to
read what others thought, so if you find reviews...please forward
them.<br>
Psychotherapist Betty Merton, May 22, 2018<br>
</blockquote>
- - - - -<br>
[8 minute Video review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_BedZJtVU">First
Reformed Movie Review</a></b><br>
What The Flick?!<br>
May 17, 2018<br>
First Reformed starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried and Cedric the
Entertainer directed by Paul Schrader is reviewed by What the
Flick?! [This clip is brought to you in partnership with <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://atomtickets.com">http://atomtickets.com</a>.
Use code WTF5 for $5 off your first purchase!]<br>
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged
parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on
the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the
Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction
catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent
church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and
5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried)
asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical
environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own
tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds
redemption in an act of grandiose violence. From writer-director
Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a
gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal,
political, and planetary.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_BedZJtVU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_BedZJtVU</a><br>
- - - - -<br>
Read what other critics had to say: <b><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/first_reformed">https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/first_reformed</a></b><br>
<br>
<br>
[art nurtures resilience]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-05-22/medusas-curse-the-necessity-of-art-in-the-climate-struggle/">Medusa's
Curse: The Necessity of Art in the Climate Struggle</a></b><br>
By Kathleen Dean Moore on May 22, 2018<br>
Because I am a literary writer, writing about climate justice,
people often ask me, What is the importance of the arts in the
climate struggle? I turn to Friedrich Nietzsche, the nineteenth
century German philosopher. "We have art in order not to die of the
truth," he wrote.<br>
I turn to Friedrich Nietzsche, the nineteenth century German
philosopher.<br>
<blockquote>"We have art in order not to die of the truth," he
wrote.<br>
</blockquote>
So then. What are these lethal truths, the truths that break our
hearts, sap our spirits, and turn us to stone? How can art save us
in the face of those truths? Those are my two questions.<br>
<b>1. What are the paralyzing truths that the world faces?</b><br>
Number one. That we have the good fortune to have been born into the
Cenozoic Era, when evolution has achieved its greatest fullness of
flowering, what theologian Thomas Berry called the most "lyric
period in Earth history."<br>
Imagine our good fortune, to live in the time of thrush-song and
thirty thousand species of orchids, the time of small laughing
children and whales that teach each other to sing. The fate of these
lives is not a matter of indifference or economic expedience. These
lives, human or otherwise, are the irreplaceable consequence of
planetary creativity over four billion years. And they are the
progenitors of everything that will grow on the face of the Earth.<br>
Truth number two. That the greed and duplicity built into the
extractive growth economy threaten to make the planet uninhabitable
for the creatures that evolved in the mild Eocene era. That would
be, among others, us. The economic machine is killing the planet -
in an unspeakable cruelty, starting first with those who have no
voices to defend themselves, the plants and animals, people on the
economic and geographical margins of society, future generations,
and children of all species.<br>
Over the last fifty years, poisoning and plundering have reduced the
number of plants and animals on earth by forty percent. This is the
wonder-filled world that we are destroying, the lyric voices that we
are silencing, the sanctity that we are defiling, at a rate and with
a violence that cannot be measured because we have only the sorriest
understanding of the world's multitude of lives.<br>
Truth number three, the most important of them all: It doesn't have
to be this way. We are creatures of desperate love who are born with
the ability to imagine a different way. We can change this
destructive course. It's true that we will live to see the end of a
way of life on Earth. But whether we witness the emergence of new
ways of life based on sharing and intelligence and justice, or
whether it is the emergence of a degraded, dangerous, brutal new
slide toward who knows what? - that is a human choice.<br>
These are hard, hard truths, we may agree. It is difficult - maybe
impossible - to face them. So we jeer at our truth-tellers and
cheer the liars and deniers, in fear that facing the truth would
destroy us.<br>
<b>2. How can art save us?</b><br>
Do you remember Medusa, the monstrous woman in Greek mythology?
Medusa was a Gorgon, with such a terrifying face that no mortal
could gaze upon it without dying - the reptilian face, the poisonous
hair dripping snakes. A person who looked straight at her would turn
to stone.<br>
And isn't this the danger, that when people look straight into the
face of the desperate truths of our time, they are turned to stone?
Their hearts are hardened. They are unable to act. Joyless,
inhumane, immobilized, they freeze into business-as-usual, as if
they had no choice.<br>
Enter the hero Perseus, who carried (along with his winged shoes and
his magic scythe), a beautiful reflective shield. When he held the
shield up and caught Medusa's ugly image, here was Medusa -
transformed, but not transformed. Revealed, but not represented.
Revealed. Revealed! And Perseus, seeing her in an entirely new way,
faced her reflection boldly, and cut off her head.<br>
What is this reflective shield that can show us the danger without
turning us to stone? What can open our hearts, without breaking
them? What can replace paralyzing fear with a new vision of what is
beautiful and possible? What can break the bonds of lies and denial?
What can allow us "to see, to sing, to welcome with courage and
grace and imagination, whatever asks entrance into our lives"? The
words are from the poet, Jane Hirschfield.<br>
The answer, of course, is art, this magic reflective shield. In a
time of climate change, ecological collapse, and social
transformation, art allows us to see hard truths without being
destroyed by them, but rather lifted and heartened.<br>
Let us celebrate the artists who have set aside their ordinary work
and stepped up to do the work of the moment. Let us be those
artists. Our work may be inside or outside the gallery and concert
hall, in the streets, in the halls of politics and power, in the new
street theaters of creative disruption. These are the voices of
writers, the genius of dancers, the vision of artists - all the
power of words and story and image that can help us escape finally
from the narrow self-interest of our economy, the catastrophic
vision of our future, and the paralysis of our age - and imagine a
way forward.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-05-22/medusas-curse-the-necessity-of-art-in-the-climate-struggle/">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-05-22/medusas-curse-the-necessity-of-art-in-the-climate-struggle/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Melting Arctic opens military theater]<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/VUdIUdouLv0">Latest: Russia fired
volley with four ballistic missiles from submarine in White Sea*</a></b><br>
[*not corroborated - Is fake news the same as propaganda?]<br>
Never before have four Bulava missiles been launched from a single
Borei-class submarine at the same time.<br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/VUdIUdouLv0">https://youtu.be/VUdIUdouLv0</a><br>
<blockquote>The nuclear-powered submarine "Yury Dolgoruky" launched
four Bulava missiles from the White Sea. All four dummy-warheads
reached their designated targets at the Kura test range on
Kamchatka, the press service of the Northern Fleet informs on
Tuesday evening according to military TV channel Zvezda.<br>
The test launching is the most powerful weapons tests from a
single submarine since the Cold War times.<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/VUdIUdouLv0">Russia's Defense Ministry
has released a promo-video</a> showing the launch of all four
missiles <br>
</blockquote>
[From last year - Russia rearms strategic forces:]<br>
<b><a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/content/satellite-images-show-expansion-nuclear-weapons-sites-kola">Satellite
images show expansion of nuclear weapons sites on Kola</a></b><br>
May 08, 2017<br>
The reverse gear seems to hang up for continuing disarmament of
nuclear weapons in the Arctic. Barents Observer has made a
comprehensive review of satellite images from naval base-level
storage facilities that confirms heavy construction works.<br>
The New START Treaty says USA and Russia must limit the numbers of
deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 by February 5, 2018.
Over the last two years, Russia has increased the number of deployed
warheads and is now 215 over the max limit to be reached. <br>
There are extensive construction work at two of the Northern Fleet's
facilities for storage of warheads and ballistic missiles for
submarines (SLBM) on the coast of to the Barents Sea. The Barents
Observer has studied satellite images of the Kola Peninsula open
available via Google Earth, combined with open-source data on
numbers of nuclear warheads in Russia. The results are frightening.<br>
Expansion of the two base-level storages in Okolnaya Bay near
Severomorsk and Yagelnaya Bay in Gadzhiyevo are clearly visible. At
both locations, new reinforced bunkers, auxiliary buildings and
infrastructure partly finished and partly still under construction
can be seen.<br>
The satellite images, however, only reveal what is visible on the
surface. Most of the actual warheads are underground... <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/content/satellite-images-show-expansion-nuclear-weapons-sites-kola">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/content/satellite-images-show-expansion-nuclear-weapons-sites-kola</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[As if the planet could speak- video 1 hour] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wp.me/p3HkhX-3CX">Messages
From The Blue Planet</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/57u_NGMQbkk">What
if planet Earth could talk? - Complete Film</a><br>
</b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/57u_NGMQbkk">https://youtu.be/57u_NGMQbkk</a><b><br>
</b>In this eight part film, Messages From The Blue Planet provides
a thought provoking view on Earth and our society.<br>
Do we have a Future?<br>
What kind of Future?<br>
What could get in the way?<br>
Can we learn to think and feel like a Planet?<br>
This collection of eight videos are a loving confrontation by the
Planet of all of us.<br>
View, deny, embrace, discuss and if you have proposals for resolving
the Emergency leave a comment.<br>
Teaser image <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pixabay.com/en/photoshop-space-universe-sky-2845779">https://pixabay.com/en/photoshop-space-universe-sky-2845779</a><br>
May 23, 2018 Categories: 2018, Climate Change, Communication,
Economy |<br>
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wp.me/p3HkhX-3CX">https://wp.me/p3HkhX-3CX</a> <br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html">This
Day in Climate History - May 24, 2006</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
May 24, 2006: "An Inconvenient Truth" is released in the United
States. BoxOfficeGuru.com's Gitesh Pandya notes:<br>
<blockquote>"Setting the limited release box office on fire was the
global warming documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' which opened in
only four theaters but grossed a hefty $367,311. That gave the Al
Gore pic a stunning average of $91,827 per location over four
days. Distributed by Paramount Vantage, the new incarnation of
Paramount Classics, Truth collected $281,330 over the
Friday-to-Sunday portion averaging a scorching $70,332. Total
since Wednesday stands at $490,860. Opening this weekend on
multiple screens at a pair of theaters in both New York and Los
Angeles, Truth will add about 60 more playdates on Friday and
expand throughout June hoping to become the dominant doc of the
summer."<br>
</blockquote>
(Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim would appear on the June 2,
2006 edition of "EcoTalk" on Air America to discuss the film.)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0">http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.boxofficeguru.com/052906.htm">http://www.boxofficeguru.com/052906.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/davis_guggenhei.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/davis_guggenhei.html</a><br>
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