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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 5, 2020</b></font></i> <br>
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<b>Greta Thunberg says new film captures her 'shy, nerdy'
personality</b><br>
Sep 4, 2020<br>
Guardian News<br>
Greta Thunberg praised the film I Am Greta, presented at the 2020
Venice film festival, for reflecting her as a 'shy, nerdy person',
which she said 'is the person that I am'.<br>
<br>
The Sweedish climate activist called for more action to be taken to
address the climate crisis by adults and politicians when she
appeared by video link at the film festival on Friday 4 September.<br>
<br>
In I am Greta, Nathan Grossman documents Thunberg's life as one of
the most famous teenagers in the world after she became the
figurehead for a global climate crisis campaign<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/F6F01xmIg2U">https://youtu.be/F6F01xmIg2U</a><br>
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[Guardian on Greta-the-Great]<br>
<b>Greta Thunberg: don't dump climate crisis on children to fix</b><br>
World political leaders must step up on the environment, activist
tells Venice film festival showing of documentary about her<br>
The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has called for more action to be
taken to address the climate crisis, which she says has slipped
dangerously off the political agenda.<br>
<br>
Thunberg appeared by video link at the Venice film festival where
the film, I Am Greta, has been screened. It documents her life as
one of the most famous teenagers in the world after she became the
figurehead for a global climate crisis campaign.<br>
<br>
She said: "Yes, we need more science. We need to do more research,
definitely. But what we need above all is to take take action to
change the social landscape, political action, so maybe that's where
I can be most useful."<br>
<br>
Thunberg said that the Covid-19 crisis had shown that world leaders
were incapable of dealing with two emergencies at once, and said
that climate change should be treated with urgency. "All other
things have had to be put on hold. We definitely need to realise the
urgency of the climate crisis, and treat it as a crisis, because
otherwise we will not be able to achieve real change," she said.<br>
<br>
She went on to criticise world leaders, saying too much
responsibility was being placed on children to raise awareness of
the climate crisis. "We should not be the ones having to do this. It
should be up to adults and people in power in those who have caused
this problem in the first place."<br>
During the making of the film, Thunberg was followed by documentary
film-maker Nathan Grossman, who recorded her everyday life after she
rose to fame for her climate activism. She said at times during the
year-long process she thought Grossman's one-man setup was
"unprofessional" but, ultimately, she was pleased with the way he
had portrayed her as a "shy nerd".<br>
Thunberg added: "I think [Grossman] succeeded in framing me as
myself and not the angry, naive child who sits in the United Nations
General Assembly screaming at world leaders. Because that's not the
person I am."<br>
<br>
The activist said there had been too much focus on her as an
individual, and she hoped the film could be a "bridge" for people
who wanted to know more about the climate emergency. She hoped the
film would help to "increase momentum" and spread awareness at a
time when protesting and activism have been reduced because of
Covid-19 restrictions around the world.<br>
<br>
Thunberg added that it was symbolic to have the film screened in
Venice, a city that suffered severe flooding in 2019 that its mayor
blamed on climate change.<br>
<br>
The activist signed off from the press conference to go to school in
Sweden. In August, Thunberg announced she was returning to the
classroom after taking a year off to protest.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/04/greta-thunberg-dont-dump-climate-crisis-on-children-to-fix-venice-film-festival">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/04/greta-thunberg-dont-dump-climate-crisis-on-children-to-fix-venice-film-festival</a><br>
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[video clip]<br>
<b>I Am Greta (Official) Clip • A Hulu Original Documentary</b><br>
Sep 1, 2020<br>
Every movement has a beginning. ⛵️🌎 I AM GRETA, a Hulu Original
Documentary, premieres November 13.<br>
ABOUT I AM GRETA<br>
Highly anticipated Hulu Original Documentary I AM GRETA, which
follows young activist Greta Thunberg, will stream on Hulu on
Friday, November 13. In August 2018, Thunberg, a 15-year-old student
in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question
for adults was, if you don't care about my future on earth, why
should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike
evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the
autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist. The documentary
follows Greta's heroism and passion in fighting for climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/ByO1JxQ6e6M">https://youtu.be/ByO1JxQ6e6M</a><br>
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[clip from the New Yorker]<br>
<b>How Fast Is the Climate Changing?: It's a New World, Each and
Every Day</b><br>
By Bill McKibben - Sept 3, 2020<br>
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<b>Chevron and Ecuador is a huge, sprawling story--can you explain
the saga enough to make clear why it's so interesting?</b><br>
<br>
The first complaint was filed to Texaco back in 1993, there have
been so many twists and turns and legal proceedings since then, and
it's still going on. [Chevron bought Texaco in 2001 and therefore
assumed responsibility.] But it all sort of boils down to
accountability; oil companies dumped wastewater and crude in the
Amazon, it contaminated the water and the land, and it ought to be
cleaned up. There's been a lot of legal maneuvering in this case,
and Chevron has tried to make it about the lawyers--and about one
particular lawyer--but they were found liable for this contamination
in 2011, and since then they have sued the lawyers, blamed the
Ecuadorian oil company, sued the Ecuadorian government in
international arbitration, and . . . the pollution is still there.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>Why does it matter so much?</b><br>
<br>
First, Chevron's strategy seems engineered to intimidate any
activists that might try to hold them accountable. Then, it's a very
good example of how oil companies have continued colonialism long
past the point when countries stopped (or at least said they would).
Related, it's a good example of how the international arbitration
system has become a tool that enables multinational companies to
circumvent the sovereign constitutions of (usually developing)
countries. And, finally, I think it illustrates that these are
companies that do not and will not operate in good faith; the idea
that eventually they're going to come to the table and make good
decisions about energy transition or emissions is just implausible,
and it's probably time to stop expecting them to.<br>
<br>
<b>You've done a lot of work on the public-relations industry and
the oil industry--what story are the fossil-fuel companies trying
to tell about themselves at this point?</b><br>
<br>
There are these two levers they pull, depending on what's happening
at any given time. For a long while it was the science-denial lever,
but lately they've gone back to their first and favorite story: the
idea of oil as central to the American identity and the American
economy. They're on it, they will solve this problem, and if you're
a red-blooded, God-fearing American you are on their side. They are
also cynically co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement to push the
message that energy transition will be racist (yet another good
reason for the environmental movement to sort itself out on that
front). There's an interesting difference between the American
companies and the European companies like BP and Shell, which seem
to feel more required to commit to climate goals, because they're
operating in countries that have signed on to the Paris Climate
Accord. But their commitments should be questioned at every turn...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-fast-is-the-climate-changing-its-a-new-world-each-and-every-day">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-fast-is-the-climate-changing-its-a-new-world-each-and-every-day</a><br>
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[video statement]<br>
<b>BREAKING NEWS - FREE THE TRUTH - Stories From The Rebellion |
Extinction Rebellion UK</b><br>
Sep 5, 2020<br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
5 Billionaires control over 70% of the British Media. Last night
Extinction Rebellion groups blockaded the printing presses of The
Sun, The Times, The Sun on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph,
The Sunday Telegraph, as well as the The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday
and The London Evening Standard.<br>
<br>
These people and their corporations have purposefully failed to
accurately report on the climate & ecological emergency.<br>
<br>
Their consistent manipulatIon of the truth to suit their own
personal and political agendas must be stopped.<br>
<br>
We're not moving forward at the speed we need to turn the climate
and ecological emergency around. We're trapped somewhere between
acceptance and the reality of just how bad the situation is. <br>
<br>
The right wing media is a barrier to the truth, failing to reflect
the scale and urgency of the crisis and hold governments to account.
Coverage in many of the newspapers printed here is polluting
national debate on climate change, immigration policy, the rights
and treatment of minority groups, and on dozens of other issues.
They distract us with hate to maintain their own power and wealth,
profiting from our division. We can't move forward until this
barrier falls.<br>
<br>
The truth is being held hostage and so are we. We need to Free the
Truth. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQaTJKupfY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQaTJKupfY</a><br>
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[Military information]<br>
<b>New Research Shows Importance of Military Personnel Communicating
the Risks of Climate Change</b><br>
By Dr. Marc Kodack<br>
While senior military leaders, due to their apolitical reputation,
can influence skeptical audiences about climate change risks to
national security, enlisted personnel can be even more persuasive
when they deliver personal messages, according to new research in
the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Communication. The
experimental study examined how to construct a climate change
communication strategy using a pro-climate framework, and focused
around national security concerns delivered by enlisted military
personnel to groups who are more prone to skepticism regarding the
scientific consensus on climate change.The bottom line up front from
the study is simple: active duty U.S. military personnel are
increasingly concerned about climate change, and that evidence-based
perspective is influential with conservatives.<br>
<br>
For the U.S. military, climate change is a direct threat to national
security and has significant implications for both operations and
installations. In unpublished research conducted by the authors of
the experimental research summarized later in this article, the
authors conducted a survey among "US military service members…[and]
found that nearly two thirds…believe that climate change will cause
military conflict over food and water resources, and more than
three-fourths believe climate change will cause damage to US
military bases."<br>
<br>
Translating these concerns to skeptical portions of the general
public may be possible when individual military members express how
climate change will directly affect them as individuals and how
climate change will affect broader, U.S. national security interests
around the world. When these individual/institutional concerns are
joined to the elevated levels of trust many Americans have for the
U.S. military, a communication strategy can be crafted to better
communicate with members of the public about climate change,
particularly ideological conservatives. Conservatives are more
receptive to climate change risk messages when they are perceived to
be given by a trusted, persuasive source, such as an enlisted
military member.<br>
<br>
The experimental survey research enlisted 1,702 adults to
participate in an online survey. The participants varied by age,
sex, race, income and other variables. Each participant read one of
four plausible short op-ed columns, known as treatments, that looked
like an op-ed in a newspaper.<br>
<br>
The first treatment was attributed to a climate scientist writing
for Scientific American focusing on facts about climate change,
e.g., urban flooding and its environmental effects. It ended by
asking readers to express their concerns. The second treatment, also
written by a climate scientist, presented facts but emphasized how
climate change will affect national security. The third treatment
was written for The Military Times by an enlisted soldier who had
served 10 years in the U.S. Army. It focused on urban flooding and
environmental effects (similar to treatment 1). The fourth treatment
was written by a military source but focused on how climate change
will affect national security (similar to treatment 2). The military
source could be someone on active duty or was a veteran. As a
control, a fifth treatment was read by selected participants. It was
similar in length and format to the other treatments but presented a
story about baseball history. After reading a treatment, each
participant was asked "their belief in (and concern about)
anthropogenic climate change, their climate policy attitudes, and
trust in climate scientists and the military." Participants were
then asked how they would characterize themselves ideologically on a
five-point scale with Very Conservative as one endpoint and Very
Liberal as the other endpoint.<br>
<br>
The results support the researcher's hypothesis that ideological
conservatives are willing to revise their skepticism about climate
change when a military service member, e.g., an enlisted member,
communicates their concerns about the effects of climate change on
national security. Given that a growing number of enlisted members
of the U.S. military are legitimately concerned about climate
change, this study is good news in terms of connecting the reality
of the security threat, as felt by the military, to messages to the
public about those threats. Not least as without effective public
communications, to all segments of society, risk management and
threat reduction on climate change simply can't be effective.<br>
<br>
Dr. Marc Kodack is Senior Fellow at the Center for Climate and
Security and former Sustainability and Water Program Manager in the
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and
Sustainability.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/new-research-shows-importance-of-military-personnel-communicating-the-risks-of-climate-change/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/09/new-research-shows-importance-of-military-personnel-communicating-the-risks-of-climate-change/</a><br>
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[source material]<br>
<b>A Call to Arms for Climate Change? How Military Service Member
Concern About Climate Change Can Inform Effective Climate
Communication</b><br>
ABSTRACT<br>
Military service members are a highly trusted group – especially
among ideological conservatives. Consequently, we devised an
environmental communication strategy that attributes pro-climate
messages to military service members, aimed at convincing
conservative climate skeptics to express elevated concern. In a
large survey experiment, we show that conservatives are more likely
to express concern about climate change when framed as a national
security concern and communicated by members of the armed services.
Supplementary analyses of an original military service member survey
suggest that this approach is externally valid, as many past and
current armed forces express concern about the effects of climate
change. Our study demonstrates the effectiveness of appealing to
trusted sources to communicate climate change risks to skeptical
audiences, and suggests several promising avenues for future
environmental communication research...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2020.1799836?journalCode=renc20">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2020.1799836?journalCode=renc20</a>
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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 -
September 5, 2017 </b></font><br>
The Washington Post reports:<br>
<br>
"The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of
putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of
millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes annually,
assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump campaign aide
with little environmental policy experience.<br>
<br>
"In this role, John Konkus reviews every award the agency gives out,
along with every grant solicitation before it is issued. According
to both career and political employees, Konkus has told staff that
he is on the lookout for 'the double C-word' -- climate change --
and repeatedly has instructed grant officers to eliminate references
to the subject in solicitations."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-now-requires-political-aides-sign-off-for-agency-awards-grant-applications/2017/09/04/2fd707a0-88fd-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.8beb69e98350">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-now-requires-political-aides-sign-off-for-agency-awards-grant-applications/2017/09/04/2fd707a0-88fd-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.8beb69e98350</a>
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