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<i><font size="+1"><b>April 18, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[Announcing upcoming IPCC will meet via video]<br>
<b>Virtual Lead Author Meeting for Working Group III</b><br>
Apr 17, 2020<br>
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<br>
More than 270 experts from 65 countries come together online for one
week to start preparing a second draft of the contribution for
Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnylq5_ohWE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnylq5_ohWE</a><br>
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[Oil and virus]<br>
<b>PANDEMIC CRISIS, SYSTEMIC DECLINE</b><br>
Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and
Plastic Industries<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Pandemic-Crisis-Systemic-Decline-April-2020.pdf">https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Pandemic-Crisis-Systemic-Decline-April-2020.pdf</a><br>
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[Sadness of it all - audio Science Friday]<br>
<b>You Aren't Alone In Grieving The Climate Crisis</b><br>
As the consequences of unchecked climate change come into sharper
focus--wildfires in the Amazon and Australia, rising seas in
low-lying Pacific Islands, mass coral bleaching around the
world--what is to be done about the emotional devastation that
people feel as a result?<br>
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In 2007, Australian eco-philosopher Glenn Albrecht described this
feeling as homesickness "for a home that no longer exists," which he
called "solastalgia." Others have settled on terms like "climate
grief," or, since environmental devastation can come without a
changing climate, simply "ecological grief." <br>
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For this chapter of <b>Degrees of Change</b>, Ira talks about
adapting emotionally to climate change. First, he speaks with
psychologist Renee Lertzman and public health geographer Ashlee
Cunsolo about their research on the phenomenon of grief tied to
environmental loss, and what they've learned about how people can
adapt their grief into actions that can make a difference. Then,
climate researcher Kate Marvel and essayist Mary Annaïse Heglar
share their experiences simultaneously working on climate change,
and grieving it... <br>
Daniela Molnar, artist. Read an article in the LA Times about her
journey with climate grief and documenting it through art:<br>
<blockquote>"Grief is very close to love. And if you allow yourself
to feel grief, then you can--we feel grief because we feel love.
And I think the two sort of interchange throughout the process. So
I wouldn't say that I've worked through it and I'm out the other
end and I don't feel grief. It's an ongoing thing that I think
that I will always be in, frankly. But the kind of grief that
stops you and disallows forward momentum, and sort of contracts
any other awareness of the world--I have moved through that.<br>
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<b>Something You Can Do If You Are Feeling Climate Grief </b><br>
1. Acknowledge and accept what you are feeling, says psychologist
Renee Lertzman. Bring "kind, compassionate attention" to your own
feelings. Seek out others who may feel the same way. Talk to them
about it. Know that you're not alone. Listen to others, and let your
relationships support you.<br>
2. If you feel overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, fear, and other
worries about climate change, look for a mental health professional
or therapy group you can talk with.<br>
3. Look for things you can do about climate change itself. For
example, you don't have to be a scientist to advocate for reducing
fossil fuel emissions, or to lobby for a more equitable approach to
environmental justice.<br>
4. Finally, if you're still feeling stuck, there are online
resources for working through climate grief. Mary Annaise Heglar has
a care package for you; the Good Grief Network has a manual for
helping build resilience, both personally and in your community,
plus other resources; and the Climate Psychology Alliance invites
both mental health professionals and others to come together in
conversations about the psychological impacts of climate change<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/climate-crisis-grief/">https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/climate-crisis-grief/</a><br>
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<p>[Important study by Brulle]<br>
<b>Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. Climate
Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989–2015</b><br>
Robert J. Brulle<br>
First published:21 October 2019 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12333Citations">https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12333Citations</a>:
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This article was supported by National Science Foundation
Sociology Program Grant #1558207<br>
"The Role of Information and Influence Campaigns in Structuring
Responses to U.S. Policy 1988–2015."<br>
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<blockquote><b>Abstract</b><br>
The climate change countermovement (CCCM) in the United States has
exerted an important influence on delaying efforts to address
climate change. Analyses of this countermovement have primarily
focused on the role of conservative think tanks. Expanding this
research, this article initiates an examination of the structure
of key political coalitions that worked to oppose climate action.
In conjunction with their allied trade associations, these
coalitions have served as a central coordination mechanism in
efforts opposed to mandatory limits on carbon emissions. These
coalitions pool resources from a large number of corporations and
execute sophisticated political and cultural campaigns designed to
oppose efforts to address climate change. Through an analysis of
twelve prominent CCCM coalitions from 1989 to 2015, I show that
over 2,000 organizations were members of these coalitions and that
a core of 179 organizations belonged to multiple coalitions.
Organizations from the coal and electrical utility sectors were
the most numerous and influential organizations in these
coalitions. The article concludes with suggestions for further
research to expand understanding of complex social movements and
countermovements.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soin.12333">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soin.12333</a>
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[radical speech commanding attention]<br>
<b>Collapse Chat--Banality, Good, and Evil--Divide & conquer,
Earth Strke, and Stratfor--Ashes Ashes #89</b><br>
Apr 13, 2020<br>
Stop Fossil Fuels researches and disseminates effective strategies
and tactics to halt fossil fuel combustion as fast as possible. <br>
Learn more at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://stopfossilfuels.org">https://stopfossilfuels.org</a><br>
Corporate Wars and Activists<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/2NME_rTu21A?t=2845">https://youtu.be/2NME_rTu21A?t=2845</a><br>
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[radical group promotes action - brazen]<br>
<b>STOP FOSSIL FUELS</b><br>
Why stop fossil fuels?<br>
Our future: wasteland or life?<br>
Climate change is wreaking devastation now, and will get much worse.
The idea of a "carbon budget" for the coming decades is delusional;
we're already deep in carbon debt.<br>
Fossil fuel pollution and climate disruption kill humans: more than
6 million annually, and climbing rapidly.<br>
We are in the midst of global ecological collapse, caused and
enabled by fossil fuels. Forests, prairies, oceans, and the very web
of life are in critical condition. <br>
Our work is Sisyphean. For each step forward, climate disruption and
the industrial economy push us 10 steps back. Whether your passion
is an ecological community, an endangered species, or future
generations, we must stop fossil fuels to defend those you love.<br>
The environmental movement has worked for decades towards mass
awakening, yet nearly everything keeps getting worse. We can't rely
on hope that this pattern will suddenly change.<br>
Renewable energy is growing at unprecendented rates, but isn't
slowing the much faster growth of fossil fuel burn. Green tech is
not a solution.<br>
Paradoxically, energy efficiency increases fossil fuel use. Getting
more bang for the buck increases incentive to use resources.<br>
Governments have yet to take meaningful action to reduce fossil fuel
use, and give no indication that they ever will.<br>
Fossil fuels are finite resources, so their use will inevitably
decline. But peak oil won't reduce carbon emissions fast enough.<br>
Fossil fuels bring comforts and elegancies to a minority, but at
great cost to everyone. Life will be better in a post carbon world.<br>
Human population is already in overshoot, and growing. Meanwhile,
our impact on global ecology decreases world carrying capacity every
day. A crash is inevitable. The sooner we put on the brakes, the
gentler the transition...<br>
more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://stopfossilfuels.org/">https://stopfossilfuels.org/</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
April 18, 1977 </b></font><br>
<p>President Carter declares that the effort needed to avert an
energy crisis is the "moral equivalent of war."<br>
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href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7369">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7369</a><br>
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