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<i><font size="+1"><b>April 23, 2020</b></font></i><br>
<br>
[Earth Day video talk session]<br>
<b>Climate Therapy: Facing the Climate Emergency (Margaret Klein
Salamon, PhD, David Wallace-Wells, Mary Annaise Heglar).</b><br>
Apr 22, 2020<br>
Future Coalition<br>
Margaret Klein Salamon speaks with David Wallace Wells and Mary
Annaise Heglar about the emotional side of the climate crisis for
Earth Day Live.<br>
<br>
Earth Day Live is a three-day livestream from April 22, the 50th
anniversary of Earth Day, to April 24, where activists, performers,
thought leaders, and artists are coming together for an empowering
and communal three-day livestream mobilization dedicated to climate
action.<br>
[Start about 4 minutes in for the beginning of the conversation cued
up <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/f3mhv6Yyv-4?t=190">https://youtu.be/f3mhv6Yyv-4?t=190</a>]<br>
Watch #EarthDayLive: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://watch.earthdaylive2020.org">https://watch.earthdaylive2020.org</a><br>
Register to vote: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/vote/">https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/vote/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3mhv6Yyv-4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3mhv6Yyv-4</a> <br>
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[BBC has read the report]<br>
<b>Coronavirus: World risks 'biblical' famines due to pandemic - UN</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52373888">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52373888</a><br>
- - -<br>
[World Food Programme]<br>
<b>2020 - Global Report on Food Crises</b><br>
Food security analysis (VAM)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000114546/download/">https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000114546/download/</a><br>
The 2020 edition of The Global Report on Food Crises describes the
scale of acute hunger in the world. It provides an analysis of the
drivers that are contributing to food crises across the globe, and
examines how the COVID-19 pandemic might contribute to their
perpetuation or deterioration. The report is produced by the Global
Network against Food Crises, an international alliance working to
address the root causes of extreme hunger.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wfp.org/publications/2020-global-report-food-crises">https://www.wfp.org/publications/2020-global-report-food-crises</a><br>
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<br>
[with more succinct video versions]<br>
[Excellent explainer video by Inequality Media on the importance of
supply side/no new fossil fuels solutions to the climate crisis.] <br>
Longer version (9+ minutes) on YouTube <br>
<b>The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About with
Robert Reich</b><br>
Apr 22, 2020<br>
Robert Reich<br>
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why we must not go
back to normal after this coronavirus crisis ends, and breaks down
four key steps we must take to prevent total climate catastrophe.<br>
<br>
First, create green jobs. Investing in renewable energy could create
millions of family sustaining, union jobs and build the
infrastructure we need for marginalized communities to access clean
water and air.<br>
<br>
Second, stop dirty energy. A massive investment in renewable energy
jobs isn't enough to combat the climate crisis. If we are going to
avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must tackle the
problem at its source: Stop digging up and burning more oil, gas,
and coal.<br>
<br>
Third, kick fossil fuel companies out of our politics. For decades,
companies like Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP have been polluting our
democracy by pouring billions of dollars into our politics and
bankrolling elected officials to enact policies that protect their
profits. The oil and gas industry spent over $103 million on the
2016 federal elections alone.<br>
<br>
Fourth, require the fossil fuel companies that have profited from
environmental injustice to compensate the communities they've
harmed.<br>
As if buying off our democracy wasn't enough, these corporations
have also deliberately misled the public for years on the amount of
damage their products have been causing.<br>
<br>
If these solutions sound drastic to you, it's because they are. They
have to be if we have any hope of keeping our planet habitable. The
climate crisis is not a far-off apocalyptic nightmare — it is our
present day.<br>
Shorter 3 minute versions for Facebook
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=648101715738799">https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=648101715738799</a><br>
and Twitter
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1253018300084191234?s=20">https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1253018300084191234?s=20</a><br>
YouTube <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/wuXURo0FUjM">https://youtu.be/wuXURo0FUjM</a><br>
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<br>
[Activism]<br>
<b>Wen Stephenson message</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medium.com/@wenstephenson/yes-is-not-enough-an-earthday-letter-to-the-climate-movement-8dcd324a8089?source=friends_link&sk=84184b83850e9857b863cfc6f39e5b47">https://medium.com/@wenstephenson/yes-is-not-enough-an-earthday-letter-to-the-climate-movement-8dcd324a8089?source=friends_link&sk=84184b83850e9857b863cfc6f39e5b47</a><br>
Some of you might recall a certain Earth Day piece I wrote back in
2014:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/let-earth-day-be-last/">https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/let-earth-day-be-last/</a><br>
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[avoid normal says Ted Glick]<br>
<b> </b><b>Pandemics, Climate Crisis and the Turbulent Future</b><br>
From Arundhati Roy:<br>
<blockquote>"Nothing could be worse than a return to normality.<br>
<br>
"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past
and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a
portal, a gateway between one world and the next.<br>
<br>
"We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our
prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas,
our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through
lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And
ready to fight for it."<br>
</blockquote>
- - -<br>
...quotes from science journalist and author Sonia Shah in The
Nation:<br>
<blockquote>"Habitat destruction threatens vast numbers of wild
species with extinction, including the medicinal plants and
animals we've historically depended upon for our pharmacopeia. It
also forces those wild species that hang on to cram into smaller
fragments of remaining habitat, increasing the likelihood that
they'll come into repeated, intimate contact with the human
settlements expanding into their newly fragmented habitats. It's
this kind of repeated, intimate contact that allows the microbes
that live in their bodies to cross over into ours, transforming
benign animal microbes into deadly human pathogens.<br>
<br>
"Similarly, the expansion of suburbs into the Northeastern forest
increases the risk of tick-borne disease by driving out creatures
like opossums, which help control tick populations, while
improving conditions for species like white-footed mice and deer,
which don't. Tick-borne Lyme disease first emerged in the United
States in 1975; in the past 20 years, seven new tick-borne
pathogens have followed.<br>
<br>
"But many more [animals] are reared in factory farms, where
hundreds of thousands of individuals await slaughter, packed
closely together, providing microbes lush opportunities to turn
into deadly pathogens. Avian influenza viruses, for example, which
originate in the bodies of wild waterfowl, rampage in factory
farms packed with captive chickens, mutating and becoming more
virulent, a process so reliable it can be replicated in the
laboratory. One strain called H5N1, which can infect humans, kills
more than half of those infected. Containing another strain, which
reached North America in 2014, required the slaughter of tens of
millions of poultry.<br>
<br>
"The avalanche of excreta produced by our livestock introduces yet
more opportunities for animal microbes to spill over into human
populations. Because animal waste is far more voluminous than
croplands can possibly absorb as fertilizer, it is collected in
many places in unlined cesspools called manure lagoons. Shiga
toxin-producing Escherichia coli, which lives harmlessly inside
the guts of over half of all cattle on American feedlots, lurks in
that waste. In humans, it causes bloody diarrhea and fever and can
lead to acute kidney failure. Because cattle waste so frequently
sloshes into our food and water, 90,000 Americans are infected
every year."...<br>
</blockquote>
So what does all of this mean? What should we be anticipating and
doing given our current reality of economic recession/depression
piled on top of a worldwide pandemic piled on top of accelerating
climate change piled on massive inequality and the systemic
injustice and devastation caused by the world-dominant, capitalist
economic system?<br>
- - <br>
Regarding climate change, it's important to know that coal, oil and
gas are all in very big trouble, and renewables are surging, despite
many Democrats still supporting fracking and Trump Republicans
trying to turn the clock back 50 years. The economics of shifting to
renewables and the politics of a massive and determined climate
justice movement are having a very decided impact that needs to
rapidly accelerate.<br>
More here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/pandemics-climate-crisis-and-the-turbulent-future/">https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/pandemics-climate-crisis-and-the-turbulent-future/</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 23, 2007 </b></font><br>
In a speech on climate change and energy at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Senator John McCain
(R-AZ) notes:<br>
<blockquote>"The burning of oil and other fossil fuels is
contributing to the dangerous accumulation of greenhouse gases in
the earth's atmosphere, altering our climate with the potential
for major social, economic and political upheaval. The world is
already feeling the powerful effects of global warming, and far
more dire consequences are predicted if we let the growing deluge
of greenhouse gas emissions continue, and wreak havoc with God's
creation. A group of senior retired military officers recently
warned about the potential upheaval caused by conflicts over
water, arable land and other natural resources under strain from a
warming planet. The problem isn't a Hollywood invention nor is
doing something about it a vanity of Cassandra like hysterics. It
is a serious and urgent economic, environmental and national
security challenge. <br>
<br>
"National security depends on energy security, which we cannot
achieve if we remain dependent on imported oil from Middle Eastern
governments who support or foment by their own inattention and
inequities the rise of terrorists or on swaggering demagogues and
would be dictators in our hemisphere. <br>
<br>
"There's no doubt it's an enormous challenge. But is it too big a
challenge for America to tackle; this great country that has never
before confronted a problem it couldn't solve? No, it is not. No
people have ever been better innovators and problem solvers than
Americans. It is in our national DNA to see challenges as
opportunities; to conquer problems beyond the expectation of an
admiring world. America, relying as always on the industry and
imagination of a free people, and the power and innovation of free
markets, is capable of overcoming any challenge from within and
without our borders. Our enemies believe we're too weak to
overcome our dependence on foreign oil. Even some of our allies
think we're no longer the world's most visionary, most capable
country or committed to the advancement of mankind. I think we
know better than that. I think we know who we are and what we can
do. Now, let's remind the world."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-82G-mEvs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-82G-mEvs</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77106">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77106</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301763.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301763.html</a><br>
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