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<font size="+1"><i>June 2, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Carbon collusion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/trump-orders-perry-to-stem-coal-nuclear-power-plant-closures-jhw8smiv">Trump
Orders Action to Stem Coal, Nuclear Plant Shutdowns</a></b><br>
By Jennifer A Dlouhy<br>
June 1, 2018, 10:28 AM PDT Updated on June 1, 2018, 11:01 AM PDT<br>
President directs Energy Department to take steps on power<br>
Premature closures put electric grid at risk, White House says<br>
President Donald Trump ordered his energy secretary to take
immediate action to stem power plant closures, arguing that a
decline in coal and nuclear electricity is putting the nation's
security at risk.<br>
"Impending retirements of fuel-secure power facilities are leading
to a rapid depletion of a critical part of our nation's energy mix
and impacting the resilience of our power grid," White House
spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in an emailed statement Friday. <br>
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Coal producers rose on the news, with Peabody Energy Corp. climbing
the most since Aug. 1, 2017 and jumping as much as 6.8 percent to
$46.23. Arch Coal Inc. rose as much as 3.5 percent to $85.02. Consol
Energy Inc. gained as much as 3.9 percent to $45.80, while<br>
Alliance Resource Partners LP was up 1.8 percent to $19.60. The
Stowe Global Coal Index was up 1 percent to 1,926....<br>
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Under the Energy Department strategy, outlined in a memo obtained by
Bloomberg News, the administration would invoke national defense --
using authority granted under a pair of federal laws -- to establish
a "strategic electric generation reserve" and compel grid operators
to buy electricity from at-risk plants...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/trump-orders-perry-to-stem-coal-nuclear-power-plant-closures-jhw8smiv">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/trump-orders-perry-to-stem-coal-nuclear-power-plant-closures-jhw8smiv</a></font><br>
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[Sarcasm from the Terminator]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390297-schwarzenegger-mocks-trump-for-helping-coal-industry-protect-pagers">Schwarzenegger
mocks Trump on coal bailout: Protect pagers, Blockbuster too</a></b><br>
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on <b>Friday
mocked reports that President Trump is considering a plan to
prolong the use of struggling coal and nuclear plants, saying he
eagerly awaits the administration's regulations to protect pagers,
fax machines and Blockbuster...</b><br>
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Schwarzenegger and Trump have had an ongoing feud for years now.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390297-schwarzenegger-mocks-trump-for-helping-coal-industry-protect-pagers">http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390297-schwarzenegger-mocks-trump-for-helping-coal-industry-protect-pagers</a></font><br>
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[Decried]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/trump-taxpayer-funded-coal-and-nuclear-bailout-decried-breathtaking-abuse-authority">Trump
Taxpayer-Funded Coal and Nuclear Bailout Decried as
'Breathtaking Abuse of Authority'</a></b><br>
Critics called the plan an "outrageous ploy" by Trump "to help his
rich friends" at the expense of Americans' pocketbooks and the
environment<br>
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer<br>
Environmental advocates on Friday responded with outrage to
confirmation from the White House that President Donald Trump has
ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to plot what's being called an
"unprecedented intervention" by the federal government to bail out
financially strapped coal and nuclear power plants that can't
compete with the renewable energy sector.<br>
"This is an outrageous ploy to force American taxpayers to bail out
coal and nuclear executives who have made bad decisions by investing
in dirty and dangerous energy resources," declared Mary Anne Hitt,
director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign...<br>
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"The taxpayers should never be asked to bail out wealthy fossil fuel
executives who are trying to pollute our air and water with their
dirty, dangerous fuels, and bad decisions," Hitt added, vowing that
Trumps's "effort to push these illegal directives will be met with
fierce resistance in the courts and in the streets."<br>
The developments come on the one-year anniversary of Trump's
announcement he would withdraw the United States from the Paris
climate agreement, which aims to decrease fossil fuel use to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and limit global temperature rise within
this century to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/trump-taxpayer-funded-coal-and-nuclear-bailout-decried-breathtaking-abuse-authority">https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/trump-taxpayer-funded-coal-and-nuclear-bailout-decried-breathtaking-abuse-authority</a></font><br>
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[Meanwhile the sunrise]<br>
<b><a href="https://ensia.com/features/solar-plus-storage/">Suddenly,
solar energy plus storage is giving conventional fuels a run for
their money</a></b><br>
The increasingly competitive dynamic duo of solar photovoltaic plus
battery storage is taking energy markets by storm...<br>
Daniel Rothberg<br>
"I feel like we're having to rewrite the talking points on the
drawing board every month in Colorado," he says.<br>
In December, the state's largest utility - Xcel Energy - released a
<a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4340162-Xcel-Solicitation-Report.html">short
report</a> summarizing the responses to the solicitation it had
issued to power suppliers for bids to bring new sources of
electricity to the grid. The utility received 430 bids, and 350 of
those were for renewable energy projects.<br>
That was remarkable on its own, but what surprised people even more
were the bids for projects that added battery storage to the mix.
They were cheaper than anyone expected.<br>
"It's a testament to how quickly the market is changing," Pierce
says..<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ensia.com/features/solar-plus-storage/">https://ensia.com/features/solar-plus-storage/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Pope summons a flock]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/390208-pope-to-meet-with-oil-execs-to-discuss-climate-change-report">Pope
to meet with oil execs to discuss climate change: report</a></b><br>
By John Bowden - 06/01/18<br>
Pope Francis will meet with top executives in the oil industry and
major investment firms next week at the Vatican to discuss the
global effects of climate change,<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.axios.com/exclusive-pope-convenes-big-oil-investors-to-talk-climate-change-1527810398-44c1f3bb-37ed-4b98-a0a5-b6b65a3bffea.html?utm_source=sidebar">
Axios reported</a>.<br>
Among the guests scheduled to attend are Larry Fink, the CEO of
asset manager BlackRock, as well as Bob Dudley, CEO of BP, and Eldar
Sætre of Norway's oil and energy company Equinor.<br>
Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who served in the Obama
administration, will also attend, according to a spokesperson.<br>
Axios also reports multiple sources that say ExxonMobil would send a
representative, but the company did not confirm those reports.<br>
The effort is being organized by the U.S.-based University of Notre
Dame.<br>
A Notre Dame spokesman told The Hill in an email that the summit
arose as a result of the university's compliance with Francis' 2015
letter urging better stewardship of the environment...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/390208-pope-to-meet-with-oil-execs-to-discuss-climate-change-report">http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/390208-pope-to-meet-with-oil-execs-to-discuss-climate-change-report</a></font><br>
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<br>
[2 Videos and more links] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://teachclimatechange.org/teaching-climate-change-to-children/">Teaching
Climate Change To Children</a></b><br>
by Glen Fields <br>
Explaining climate change can be difficult especially when you are
attempting to teach climate change to children. Firstly, painting a
gloomy picture about the future of the world can damage a child's
psyche. They can become blasé and not want to do anything because
what's the point. Secondly, the science behind climate change is
quite complex! Well, thanks to Trans.Mission and the National
Environment Research Counsel what better way to explain too hard
concept other than cute animated videos.<br>
The first video is entitled Message from Antarctica. It was created
by Emily Shuckburgh who is an oceanographer with the British
Antarctic Survey and Chris Haughton who is a designer and
illustrator. It appeals to children because it contains cute
penguins, walrus, and Eskimo scientists. You can watch the video
below and learn how the bubbles in ice indicate how much carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere in years past.<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/931drXJDqT4"><br>
Trans.MISSION | Message from Antarctica</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/931drXJDqT4">https://youtu.be/931drXJDqT4</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/w-C7sOH4jio">https://youtu.be/w-C7sOH4jio</a><br>
The second video is Clean Air Starts At Home that helps explain how
household products full of chemicals have a negative impact on air
quality. You can watch this video to learn how everyday items such
as shampoo, air freshener, perfumes, etc can emit harmful volatile
organic compounds (VOCs) that interact with our sunlight and create
smog.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/ShLV86tWOtM">Trans.MISSION
| Clean Air Starts at Home</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/ShLV86tWOtM">https://youtu.be/ShLV86tWOtM</a><br>
NASA also has a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/teach/">whole website
dedicated</a> to teaching children about climate change that can
be found here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/teach/">https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/teach/</a><br>
Ths site includes coloring pages, crafts, and PDFs that are meant
for kids to learn while doing. If we start to educate our kids now
about climate change we can hope for a brighter and cleaner future.
Our favorite is the make an ocean ecosystem dessert - because who
doesn't like to cook and learn about science at the same time! Check
it out! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatekids.nasa.gov/ocean-ecosystem/">https://climatekids.nasa.gov/ocean-ecosystem/</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://teachclimatechange.org/teaching-climate-change-to-children/">http://teachclimatechange.org/teaching-climate-change-to-children/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Dashboard]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/06/01/strauss-center-launches-complex-emergencies-dashboard/">Strauss
Center Launches Complex Emergencies Dashboard</a></b><br>
31 May 2018<br>
The Strauss Center's Complex Emergencies and Political Stability in
Asia (CEPSA) program released the new Complex Emergencies Dashboard
today. In partnership with Development Gateway, CEPSA developed the
online mapping platform to enable policymakers and researchers to
visualize CEPSA datasets on climate vulnerability, conflict,
national disaster preparation, and international climate and
disaster aid, along with related external datasets on other security
concerns like food access and forced migration...<br>
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The dashboard allows users to select and layer any combination of
data-including their own through ArcGIS Online-to explore how
multiple risks and responses intersect. For example, mapping
conflict data over climate vulnerability data can assess how local
conflict patterns could exacerbate climate-induced insecurity in an
area. Or, mapping climate aid projects over climate vulnerability
data can assess if adaptation aid is targeting areas facing the
greatest climate risks, as shown below.<br>
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"The Strauss Center is very excited about this next iteration of
mapping capabilities. With the high volume of research and data that
the CEPSA program produces, this platform is not only innovative,
but also user-friendly and easily accessible. The new dashboard is
an ideal resource for synthesizing complicated issues of national
security importance,'" said Anne Clary, Assistant Director of the
Strauss Center.<br>
Prior to the Complex Emergencies Dashboard, the Strauss Center's
Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program and
Development Gateway produced several <a
href="http://www.strausscenter.org/ccaps/mappingtool">data
dashboards focused on Africa</a> exploring how climate, conflict,
and aid intersect in Africa, earning <a
href="http://events.esri.com/conference/sagList/?fa=Detail&SID=1713">Esri's
Special Achievements in GIS Award.</a> This Complex Emergencies
Dashboard builds upon prior mapping and trends analyses, while
enhancing the user experience through new data visualization
capabilities, the integration of users' own data, and the innovative
Country Story feature that conveys in-depth contextual information
and qualitative research.<br>
visit <a href="http://www.strausscenter.org/cepsa">www.strausscenter.org/cepsa</a>.<br>
more at: <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/06/01/strauss-center-launches-complex-emergencies-dashboard/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/06/01/strauss-center-launches-complex-emergencies-dashboard/</a></font><br>
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[interactive data map]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://strauss.tacc.utexas.edu/#/d">Analyzing Complex
Emergencies in Asia</a></b><br>
The Strauss Center's program on Complex Emergencies and Political
Stability in Asia (CEPSA) is a three-year research effort funded by
the U.S. Department of Defense's Minerva Initiative, a
university-based, social science research program focused on areas
of strategic importance to national security policy. Bringing
together researchers from the University of Texas at Austin,
University of California at Berkeley, Armed Conflict Location and
Event Data project, and Development Gateway, CEPSA explores the
causes and dynamics of complex emergencies in Asia and options for
building government capacity to prevent and respond to such
situations.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://strauss.tacc.utexas.edu/#/d">http://strauss.tacc.utexas.edu/#/d</a><br>
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<br>
[of course]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-exceeding-1-5c-of-global-warming-will-hit-poorest-the-hardest">Guest
post: Exceeding 1.5C of global warming will hit poorest the
hardest</a></b><br>
Dr Andrew King is a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne
and Luke Harrington is a climate scientist at the University of
Oxford<br>
Climate change is increasing the <a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-links-heatwave-deaths-london-paris-climate-change">frequency
of heat waves</a>, <a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-climate-change-is-already-making-droughts-worse">changing
rainfall patterns</a>, <a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/every-five-year-delay-in-meeting-paris-goals-could-add-20cm-to-global-sea-levels">raising
sea levels</a> and <a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/great-barrier-reef-at-unprecedented-risk-of-collapse-after-major-bleaching-event">damaging
coral reefs</a> through increasing bleaching events.<br>
These effects of climate change are pervasive, so the vast majority
of the global population will be impacted in some way as the world
warms. However, these impacts will not be felt equally from one
country to the next.<br>
Our research, published today in <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078430" target="_blank"
rel="noopener">Geophysical Research Letters</a>, shows that it
will be the poorest nations who will see the biggest shifts in local
climate...<br>
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Limiting global warming would also help to reduce the barriers to
development in the poorest parts of the world. By reducing
greenhouse gas emissions more rapidly the developed world would put
less of the burden of the impacts of climate change on the
developing world.<br>
This should incentivise stronger emissions reductions globally as
the drive to eradicate absolute poverty and reduce inequality -
among other UN Sustainable Development Goals - depend heavily on
limiting global warming.<br>
Unfortunately, the alternative - where greenhouse gas reductions are
lethargic - means a warmer world where the poorest regions pay the
price of inaction.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-exceeding-1-5c-of-global-warming-will-hit-poorest-the-hardest">https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-exceeding-1-5c-of-global-warming-will-hit-poorest-the-hardest</a><br>
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<br>
[New book]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/why_you_will_want_to_quickly_give_every_millennial_you_know_this_new_book_on_global_warming">Why
you will want to give every Millennial you know this new book on
global warming?</a></b><br>
Job One for Humanity<br>
There is a spellbinding new book on global warming called <a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Vestige-Way-World-Federation-Novel/dp/152209315X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527718998&sr=8-1&keywords=on+vestige+way">On
Vestige Way by David Spielman</a> that just arrived at Amazon. It
is an emotion-packed novel about how global warming effects the
future and fate of the world's Millennials, generation Z,
corporations and the political alliances we take for granted. <br>
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This book review was done by Lawrence Wollersheim the executive
director of JobOneforhumanity.org a nonprofit global warming
education organization.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/why_you_will_want_to_quickly_give_every_millennial_you_know_this_new_book_on_global_warming">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/why_you_will_want_to_quickly_give_every_millennial_you_know_this_new_book_on_global_warming</a></font><br>
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<br>
[National Geographic Book Review]<br>
<b><a
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/the-extraordinary-ways-weather-has-changed-human-history/">The
Extraordinary Ways Weather Has Changed Human History<br>
</a></b>From determining the outcome of wars to wholesale
destruction of lives and property, weather affects our lives in a
shocking number of ways.<br>
By Lori Cuthbert - May 30, 2018<br>
<span itemprop="articleBody" class="clearfix">
<div class="parbase smartbody section text">Since the beginning of
human history, we have been buffeted by weather and climate
change, sometimes to a shocking extent. And we've only just
begun to understand the whys and hows. In his new book, <i><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1454921404?ie=UTF8&tag=thewaspos09-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=1454921404">Weather:
An Illustrated History</a></i>, <a
href="https://www.nationalgeographic.org/newsroom/award-winning-writer-andrew-revkin-joins-national-geographic-society-as-strategic-adviser-for-environmental-and-science-journalism/">Andrew
Revkin</a>, with Lisa Mechaley, traces 4.5 billion years of
weather and climate in 100 entries, from major weather events,
to climate change, to the people who started to figure out <a
href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/weather-forecasting/?beta=true">how
our planet works</a>.</div>
<div class="parbase smartbody section text"> When <i>National
Geographic </i>spoke to him from his home in the Hudson
Valley, New York, Revkin explained how <a
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/daylight-savings-time-arizona-florida-spring-forward-science/?beta=true">Ben
Franklin</a> became the first storm chaser; how <a
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/solar-storm-1967-space-weather-cold-war-science/?beta=true">weather
has affected the outcome of wars</a>; and some of the weird
ways extreme weather events can mess with us...</div>
</span>More at: <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/the-extraordinary-ways-weather-has-changed-human-history/">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/the-extraordinary-ways-weather-has-changed-human-history/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Abu Dhabi newspaper - publishes book review, but fails to mention
title]<br>
[Impressed that the <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.thenational.ae">www.thenational.ae</a> published
this much ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/andreas-malm-s-new-book-warns-we-are-heading-into-cataclysmic-climate-change-1.735622">Andreas
Malm's new book warns we are heading 'into cataclysmic climate
change'</a></b><br>
The situation is dire - the social philosopher pulls no punches on
this account<br>
Paul Hockenos - May 31, 2018<br>
As a social philosopher, it's not surprising that Andreas Malm
insists upon theory's relevance in grasping how climate change is
transforming the "human condition," a term popularised by fellow
theoretician Hannah Arendt. His endeavour is to clarify how global
warming is altering the way we think about ourselves and our world,
and its implications for the prospect of humankind's survival.<br>
<br>
Although theory is Malm's medium, he is not an ivory tower recluse.
Ultimately, he asks how, in light of our life-threatening conundrum,
we can resist the dystopic, worst-case scenarios that intellectuals
have come to conclude are inevitable. His treatise is about the
meta-fight over how to fight climate change and, at the very least,
minimise the losses.<br>
<br>
The situation is dire - Malm pulls no punches on this account. Most
scientists admit that halting the planet's warming to "just" 2
degrees C is illusory. Two summers ago, the temperature in Basra hit
54 degrees C, and this record will probably fall soon as
temperatures climb. As the top threshold rises to 3 degrees C or 5
degrees C, or even 8 degrees C, we face a future that is much
harsher and punishing than the present, or one that is simply
unliveable for many species, including our own, perhaps.<br>
<br>
Vast portions of the earth and its natural populations, including
homo sapiens, will perish if temperatures climb to 8 degrees C.
Among human beings, those first and most affected are the global
poor - those who have contributed least to the crisis. Indeed,
everything is at stake in our battle against the impact of two
centuries of burning fossil fuels. <br>
The recent discourses around global warming and the fate of mankind
have been skewed by cynical post-modernist, system-internal
observers, argues Malm, who teaches human ecology at Lund
University, Sweden.<br>
<br>
These types, argues Malm, among them intellectuals, literati, even
activists, are incapable of imagining the defeat of the forces
responsible for our fossil-fuel addicted economies in the first
place.<br>
<br>
In fact, they chalk it all up to discourse. Then they either throw
up their arms in despair or hope against all reason that the
expansion of renewable energies alone can slow the planet's rising
temperatures and "stabilise" the earth's environment. And then there
are those like United States President Donald Trump, who want to
earn a dollar from it.<br>
<br>
The postmodern condition plays right into this court. If ours is a
world that exists only in the present, then neither the past nor the
future is relevant, just the "now".<br>
<br>
Time is abolished, which inhibits comprehending the historical
sources of phenomena such as climate change, just as it does
thinking a few years or a generation ahead.<br>
<br>
Nature is basically moot, too, when attention is at every moment
directed into computer and TV screens in timeless spaces. When the
external world is obscured by digital media, climate change and
biocide are easily ignored or outrightly denied.<br>
<br>
But postmodernity, he argues is now being confronted with its
antithesis, which might prevail - or be subsumed by it. Malm calls
this "the warming condition".<br>
<br>
The past, in terms of two centuries of fossil fuel combustion and
ruthless exploitation of nature, is roaring back onto the stage -
and into consciousness. Against the backdrop of temperatures rising
across decades, the future too is now acutely present as we strive
to brake and head off the worst consequences of climate change.<br>
<br>
As for nature, it can no longer be shut out by the omnipresent
screen. It is making itself heard after centuries of
post-Enlightenment abuse. In contrast to post-traumatic stress
disorder, the illness of our generations is a "pre-traumatic"
condition, in which people fear the extreme future that they feel
powerless to alter. "When climate change seeps into consciousness,"
argues Malm, "it brings with it a realisation that more and worse is
coming."<br>
<br>
Malm sees this new consciousness most conspicuously in the wave of
dystopian films and novels on the market. Elsewhere the reality of
the impending disaster has entered discourses and politics more
slowly.<br>
<br>
How, asks Malm, can you explain why citizens and politicos obsess on
small numbers of foreign nationals crossing nation-state borders
rather than a process that could extinguish civilisation as we know
it? An unpleasant but feasible scenario: the far right itself
successfully exploits angst about global warming just as effectively
as it has migration.<br>
<br>
Indeed, the warming condition's dislodging of post-modernity, if
indeed that happens, by no means portends a rush to the barricades
to halt global warming. Fear of the future could trigger fear that
there is no future at all.<br>
<br>
He argues that it is entirely possible to draw the wrong conclusions
from the new zeitgeist. And there are those who do: by claiming that
mankind as such - our civilisations from the beginnings of
industrialisation - are at fault for environmental degradation.<br>
<br>
For Malm, the agent of climate change is much more specific, namely
neo-liberal capitalism, which he argues birthed the fossil fuel
industry in the first place and continues to rely on it for the
cheap energy it needs for profit.<br>
<br>
In fact, oil and gas are only two of nature's offerings that
industrialists since the 19th century have treated as commodities
for the sole purpose of business. They see the entire natural world
solely as something for their class to exploit and discard when
finished. Malm quotes the former CEO of ExxonMobil and former US
secretary of state, Rex Tillerson: "My philosophy is to make money.
If I can drill and make money, that's what I want to do." It could
also be the maxim of the Trump administration.<br>
<br>
Malm, much like the Canadian globalisation critic Naomi Klein,
argues for the complete dismantlement of the fossil fuel economy -
indeed its destruction.<br>
<br>
Why capitalism couldn't run just as well on renewable energies is
something Malm doesn't explain, at least in this book. Nevertheless,
what's called for now, he says, is a resolute demolition crew to
take down the petrochemical-addicted system.<br>
<br>
Indeed, nothing less than revolution will save us, concludes Malm on
a militant note: "The only salubrious thing about the election of
Donald Trump is that it dispels the last lingering illusions that
anything else other than organised collective resistance has a
fighting chance of pushing the world anywhere else than headfirst,
at maximum speed, into cataclysmic climate change."<br>
This fighting chance preludes a clear-eyed recognition of the real
adversary.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/andreas-malm-s-new-book-warns-we-are-heading-into-cataclysmic-climate-change-1.735622">https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/andreas-malm-s-new-book-warns-we-are-heading-into-cataclysmic-climate-change-1.735622</a></font><br>
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[The book title is:]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2575-the-progress-of-this-storm">The
Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World
(Verso Futures)</a></b> Hardcover - February 13, 2018<br>
by Andreas Malm (Author) <br>
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to
distinguish from each other<br>
In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can
no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of
hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them
apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering
polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a
counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and
it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural
and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can
resistance become conceivable.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2575-the-progress-of-this-storm">https://www.versobooks.com/books/2575-the-progress-of-this-storm</a><br>
Other reviews<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Progress-This-Storm-Society-Warming/dp/1786634155/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1">https://www.amazon.com/Progress-This-Storm-Society-Warming/dp/1786634155/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/02/19/the-progress-of-this-storm/">http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/02/19/the-progress-of-this-storm/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://urpe.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/new-book-the-progress-of-this-storm-nature-and-society-in-a-warming-world/">https://urpe.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/new-book-the-progress-of-this-storm-nature-and-society-in-a-warming-world/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Candidates]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article210857319.html#storylink=cpy">Miami's
condo king breaks silence on sea level rise comment: 'Maybe I
had too many drinks'</a></b><br>
By Rene Rodriguez<br>
May 31, 2018 <br>
When author Jeff Goodell approached developer Jorge Perez during a
party at the Perez Art Museum to ask him if sea level rise had
changed his approach to building, the chairman and CEO of The
Related Group replied: "In 20 or 30 years, someone is going to find
a solution for this. Besides, by that time, I'll be dead, so what
does it matter?"...<br>
Read more here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article210857319.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article210857319.html#storylink=cpy</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="June%202,%202008:%20The%20New%20York%20Times%20reports:,,%22Some%20of%20the%20most%20powerful%20corporate%20leaders%20in%20America%20have%20been%20meeting%20regularly%20with%20leading%20environmental%20groups%20in%20a%20conference%20room%20in%20downtown%20Washington%20for%20over%20two%20years%20to%20work%20on%20proposals%20for%20a%20national%20policy%20to%20limit%20carbon%20emissions.,,%22The%20discussions%20have%20often%20been%20tense.%20Pinned%20on%20a%20wall,%20a%20large%20handmade%20poster%20with%20Rolling%20Stones%20lyrics%20reminds%20everyone,+%27You+can%E2%80%99t+always+get+what+you+want.%27,,%22What+unites+these+two+groups+%E2%80%94+business+executives+from+Duke+Energy,%20the%20Ford%20Motor%20Company%20and%20ConocoPhillips,+as+well+as+heads+of+environmental+organizations+like+the+Natural+Resources+Defense+Council+%E2%80%94+is+a+desire+to+deal+with+climate+change.+They+have+broken+with+much+of+corporate+America+to+declare+that+it+is+time+for+the+federal+government+to+act+and+set+mandatory+limits+on+emissions.%22,,http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/02trade.html?pagewanted=all">This
Day in Climate History - June 2, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 2, 2008: The New York Times reports:<br>
"Some of the most powerful corporate leaders in America have been
meeting regularly with leading environmental groups in a conference
room in downtown Washington for over two years to work on proposals
for a national policy to limit carbon emissions.<br>
"The discussions have often been tense. Pinned on a wall, a large
handmade poster with Rolling Stones lyrics reminds everyone, 'You
can’t always get what you want.'<br>
"What unites these two groups - business executives from Duke
Energy, the Ford Motor Company and ConocoPhillips, as well as heads
of environmental organizations like the Natural Resources Defense
Council - is a desire to deal with climate change. They have broken
with much of corporate America to declare that it is time for the
federal government to act and set mandatory limits on emissions."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/02trade.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/02trade.html?pagewanted=all</a></font><br>
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