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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>April 24, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[Politico Magazine]<br>
<b>What Covid Is Exposing About the Climate Movement</b><br>
The "it's not you" approach might be good politics, but the Covid
epidemic is showing it's also wrong.<br>
Fifty years ago, 20 million Americans took to the streets for the
first Earth Day, voting with their feet against the degradation of
the planet. Pogo cartoonist Walt Kelly captured the moment with his
legendary anti-pollution poster: "We have met the enemy and he is
us."...<br>
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The good news, or at least the empowering news, is that the fewer
greenhouse gases we emit, the fewer awful things will happen. And
the more people adopt a personal ethic of climate responsibility,
the more pressure our leaders will feel to embrace that ethic. While
the virus has momentarily flattened the emissions curve, bending it
permanently will require individual and systemic change.<br>
<br>
The clean skies over Los Angeles are a reminder that pollution, like
social distancing, is a choice, and that individuals can make it
better or worse. The virus has taught us that in an emergency, we
can change our behaviors in ways we never imagined possible--not
just by telecommuting and forgoing business travel (new
climate-friendly habits that will hopefully continue after the
pandemic) but by uprooting our lives to save others.<br>
<br>
But when we're told it doesn't matter whether we change our
behavior, why should we believe climate is an emergency? So far, the
people of the world have mostly managed, with notable exceptions and
glitches, to come together to fight the common enemy of the
coronavirus. It's much more complicated to fight the enemy when the
enemy is us.<br>
<br>
Still, the enduring lesson of Earth Day is that while governments
and corporations rise and fall, we will always have just one
planetary home. And nobody else will clean it up for us.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/21/earth-day-individual-climate-impact-198835">https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/21/earth-day-individual-climate-impact-198835</a><br>
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[Climate refugee analysis]<br>
<b>Climate change, migration and the coronavirus pandemic</b><br>
Apr 16, 2020<br>
Climate & Migration Coalition<br>
Roughly 15 million people are displaced every year by climate and
weather related disasters. This year much of that displacement will
take place against the backdrop of a pandemic. This talk explores
how the coronavirus pandemic collides with current patterns of
climate-linked migration and displacement, and what this new
situation means for the people most at risk. The session will
explore locations that are particularly at risk, and examine the
contexts in which these global crises coverage.<br>
Presenter - Alex Randall<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XI0CvEHsfQ&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XI0CvEHsfQ&feature=youtu.be</a><br>
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[Journalism ponders the news]<br>
<b>COVID-19 Has Lessons for Journalists Covering the Climate Crisis</b><br>
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope<br>
APRIL 20, 2020<br>
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC is a tragic reminder of just how essential
fact-based, outspoken journalism is, especially in times of crisis.
Without it, people die. In China, the lack of an independent press
made it easier for the government to hide the danger of the virus,
putting many more people, especially healthcare workers, at risk. In
the United States, Donald Trump likewise downplayed the threat,
calling it a "hoax," but faced pushback from much of the media. By
highlighting what science and medical experts say, rather than the
fake controversies around it, such reporting is helping to push the
US death toll lower than it otherwise would be.<br>
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Now it's time for the same journalistic rigor and urgency around the
other great crisis of our time. The overlaps between the coronavirus
crisis and the climate crisis are many, and the same best practices
when it comes to reporting are needed. Here, too, newsrooms must let
facts, especially scientific facts, be our guide. We must stand up
to the powerful, remembering that journalists work for the public,
not for governments. We must report with compassion, candor, and
courage, not only chronicling the ongoing devastation, as important
as that is, but also illuminating credible remedies and reasons for
hope.<br>
<br>
Toward that end, the global journalistic collaboration Covering
Climate Now, founded a year ago by CJR and The Nation, has launched
a week of coverage coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Earth
Day and focusing on climate solutions. Comprising more than four
hundred TV, radio, wire-service, and digital and print news outlets
with a combined audience approaching two billion people, Covering
Climate Now organized a similar week of joint coverage in September
around the UN Climate Action Summit that helped drive a massive
increase in overall media coverage of climate change.<br>
<br>
Going ahead with this week of climate solutions coverage even as the
coronavirus continues to ravage communities around the world is not
an easy call. We know from conversations with colleagues throughout
the media that most newsrooms are already working overtime to cover
this pandemic, and that audiences crave that in-depth, 24-7
coverage.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless, there is an opportunity for all of us here. As awful
as the coronavirus is, it is something of a test run for the
challenges of a climate crisis that continues to accelerate. Our
job, as journalists, is to extract lessons from the covid-19 crisis
that we can apply to covering the climate crisis. It is, as author
and activist Bill McKibben recently wrote in The New Yorker, a
daunting task. "The edifice [of contemporary society] seems so shiny
and substantial, a world of silver jets stitching together cities of
towering skyscrapers, a globe of soaring markets and smartphone
connectivity," McKibben wrote. "But a couple of months into this
disease and it's all tottering…"<br>
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It is notable, and encouraging, that even as people understandably
obsess about the coronavirus, they remain interested in climate
stories.<br>
The similarities between the causes of and solutions to the
coronavirus and the climate crisis are nothing short of eerie. In
both cases, it is imperative to respect science, intervene early to
flatten the curve, and prepare for impacts that can't be avoided.
The coronavirus shows what horrors can result when governments,
often abetted by propaganda organs masquerading as news
organizations, scorn science, shun early action, and fail to fortify
their societies against the predicted results. It is precisely now,
in this moment of rawness around the coronavirus, that we can most
ably draw lessons to help us do better against the onrushing climate
crisis.It is notable, and encouraging, that even as people
understandably obsess about the coronavirus, they remain interested
in climate stories. "We've found that there is an audience; a lot of
people want to hear about climate change," Justin Worland, the
climate correspondent for Time, said during a "Talking Shop"
conference organized by Covering Climate Now on April 16.<br>
<br>
So during this week of Earth Day's fiftieth anniversary, look for an
abundance of first-class reporting and analysis of climate solutions
by the news outlets of Covering Climate Now. We define solutions
broadly, to include not only technical fixes such as solar panels
and seawalls but also policy reforms such as pricing carbon and
ending fossil fuel subsidies as well as civic actions to advance
these reforms, including voting, protesting, and, yes, better
journalism. To reach the broadest possible audience, some of
Covering Climate Now's partners--including The Guardian, Reuters,
CBS News, WNYC public radio, HuffPost, the Asahi Shimbun, and
CJR--will make their coverage available free of charge for all
partners to republish or rebroadcast.<br>
<br>
We are also excited that on Earth Day itself, this Wednesday, a
number of the biggest names in news will announce that they are
joining Covering Climate Now, expanding our collaboration's reach
and ability to keep the climate story at the top of the public
agenda.<br>
<br>
Optimism does not come easy at this moment in our history. But we
can draw hope from the fact that we can learn from the coronavirus
crisis, and that it can provide a road map for stories that will
matter about the climate crisis and, crucially, its solutions.<br>
<br>
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are the authors. Mark Hertsgaard is
the executive director of Covering Climate Now, the environment
correspondent for The Nation, and the author of HOT: Living Through
the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Kyle Pope is the editor and publisher
of Columbia Journalism Review.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/covid-19-pandemic-cimate-crisis.php">https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/covid-19-pandemic-cimate-crisis.php</a><br>
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[Interview with Margaret Klein Salamon]<br>
<b>Anxiety and the Flight to Safe Living</b><br>
Margaret Klein Salamon interviewed on Radio Ecoshock - her new book<br>
Did you feel a sense of dread about the way things were going, even
before the Corona virus pandemic? Five years ago when clinical
psychologist Margaret Klein Salamon claimed a climate emergency she
was called alarmist and extreme. Now cities and countries all over
the world call a climate emergency. Margaret has a new book on how
to overcome eco-anxiety. Forget the year 2100 - new science shows
ocean systems begin to die off during this decade, with land ecology
soon after. Dr. Alex Pigot joins from London to explain this major
paper published in the journal Nature...<br>
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Margaret warns "my goal is not to make you happy, and it's certainly
not to help you avoid pain. This is not about feeling good or
finding satisfaction". That sounds strange coming from a clinical
psychoanalyst. But it is real and true, given our current
predicament.<br>
<br>
Here is the kind of hard truth you can expect from Margaret. She
writes:<br>
<br>
"Suicides are up - at their highest point in 50 years - and are now
the second leading cause of death for Americans under age 35. One in
six Americans takes psychiatric medication, primarily for depression
and anxiety. Opioids kill more Americans than car crashes. Virtually
all of us resort to something fro numbing and distraction: We watch
33 hours of TV a week, scroll endlessly on social media, play video
games, and watch pornography. We drink too much, eat too much, work
too much, compete too much, and buy too much. simply put, Americans
- and people all over the world, are in pain."<br>
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"We are in pain because our world is dying and, through our
passivity, we are responsible for killing it."<br>
<br>
"This pain has several dimensions. It is the fear we feel for
ourselves for our loved ones, and for all humanity; it is the
empathy and grief we feel for the people and species already
immiserated or killed; it is the crushing guilt that we feel for
continuing to let this happen. Our pain is the consequence of our
participation in a destructive system. But we are not merely
victims. Through our participation in this system through our
passivity, we are also perpetrators."<br>
<br>
Many years ago I read the work of psychoanalyst and antinuclear
activist Erich Fromm. We talk about his view of what Sigmund Freud,
the founder of psychology, called "the death instinct" and how that
applies to climate anxiety.<br>
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In her new book "Facing the Climate Emergency", Margaret gives the
example of being at work when a fire alarm goes off. We don't see
any fire or smell the smoke. Is it real or a false alarm? Our action
may depend on how others react. Climate change can be here among us
before we experience all the symptoms. That sounds so like COVID-19.<br>
<br>
The story in Klein Salamon's new book about her Grandmother's
life-long distrust of people due to experiences in Germany during
the Holocaust - rang a bell for our times now. The Grandmother was
aghast that ordinary Germans went to work and beer halls while their
Jewish neighbors were hauled away. I found an similar eerie feeling
watching big crowds gather at sports events and churches even as the
pandemic was obviously coming ashore. The same for all those useless
cruise ships each emitting as much greenhouse gas as a million cars,
while climate wrecks living systems around the world. People will
cling to normal even when the whirlwind is blowing things down. How
can we let go and start anew with reality?...<br>
download <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_Salamon.mp3">https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_Salamon.mp3</a><br>
<b>HANDLING ECO-ANXIETY - MARGARET KLEIN SALAMON</b><br>
Last week while people huddled in their homes to slow the pandemic,
a string of strange and strong tornadoes struck the American South
and wild storms knocked out power to about a million people in the
Northeast. Extreme weather, hot oceans and the coming heat waves
tell us climate change has not self-isolated to fit the times. Now
we have double anxiety, where even the safe and dependable are
suspect. We are literally out of touch with people we love. How can
we grow out of that? Margaret Klein Salamon was a clinical
psychologist in New York City. Then Hurricane Sandy struck. Life was
not the same, and Margaret's journey took a big turn toward facing
the climate threat.<br>
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In June of 2015 I interviewed Margaret about The Climate
Mobilization movement she organized. Since then cities and countries
over the world have declared a climate emergency.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ecoshock.org/2020/04/anxiety-and-the-flight-to-safe-living.html">https://www.ecoshock.org/2020/04/anxiety-and-the-flight-to-safe-living.html</a><br>
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Find her new book "Facing the Climate Emergency - How to Transform
Yourself with Climate Truth" at New Society publishers, or anywhere
books are sold online.<br>
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[the book]<br>
<b>Facing the Climate Emergency</b><br>
How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth<br>
by Margaret Klein Salamon and Molly Gage<br>
As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of
civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling
deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we
are often paralyzed by fear.<br>
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Help is at hand. Facing the Climate Emergency gives people the tools
to confront the climate emergency, face their negative emotions, and
channel them into protecting humanity and the natural world.<br>
<br>
Drawing on facts about the climate, tenets of psychological theory,
information about the climate emergency movement and elements of
memoir, coverage includes:<br>
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How to face the climate crisis and accept your fears, anger, grief,
guilt, and other emotions<br>
Turning negative feelings into tangible action to respond to the
crisis<br>
Rising to heroism, becoming a "climate warrior," and maximizing your
impact by joining the Climate Emergency Movement<br>
Support material, including further reading, questions for
self-reflection, and exercises to complete with like-minded groups<br>
Written for the suffering multitudes struggling to cope and looking
for answers, Facing the Climate Emergency provides the motivation,
guidance, and support needed to leave "normal" behind and travel the
path of the climate warrior, rising to the challenge of our time.<br>
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About the Authors<br>
Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned
climate warrior and founder of The Climate Mobilization, which
pioneered the internationally recognized Climate Emergency
Declaration campaign. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.<br>
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Molly Gage, PhD, is a book developer committed to women-authored
nonfiction books that push forward progressive ideas and elevate the
voices of the women who think them.<br>
Click here to search for all books from this author.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newsociety.com/books/f/facing-the-climate-emergency">https://newsociety.com/books/f/facing-the-climate-emergency</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 24, 2004 </b></font><br>
<p>In one of the strangest weekly radio addresses ever recorded,
President George W. Bush tries to put a positive spin on his
administration's environmental record.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040424.html">http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040424.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?181525-1/PresidentialRadioAddress419">http://www.c-span.org/video/?181525-1/PresidentialRadioAddress419</a><br>
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