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<i><font size="+1"><b>December 28, 2020</b></font></i>
<p>[touching all]<br>
<b>For young Californians, climate change is a mental health
crisis too</b><br>
By BRIAN CONTRERAS<br>
DEC. 27, 2020<br>
Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d
competed the year before, but the air quality in her native
Sacramento was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon
learned she had asthma.<br>
<br>
The next year the sky above Sacramento turned gray with smoke from
the 2018 Camp fire. Maddie and her classmates went to school with
masks on. “It felt,” she said, “like a futuristic apocalypse.”<br>
<br>
The situation has only worsened as wildfires and their devastation
have become so routine that she and her classmates are “just used
to it,” said Maddie, now 16 and a junior. This fall “it was just
like, ‘Yeah, California’s on fire again. It’s that time of year.’”<br>
<br>
Neither the polluted air nor the wildfires punctuating Maddie’s
adolescence are random. Both are being exacerbated by climate
change, and the future they portend has left Maddie feeling
helpless, anxious and scared. Climate anxiety and other mental
health struggles are rampant among Maddie’s generation, according
to experts who warn that young Californians are growing up in the
shadow of looming catastrophe — and dealing with the emotional and
psychological fallout that comes with it.<br>
<br>
The scope of the problem is enormous.<br>
<br>
The Earth’s temperature has skyrocketed since the Industrial Age,
fueled by human activity and accompanying greenhouse gas
emissions. Dramatic reductions in those emissions, and in fossil
fuel use, will be necessary to prevent temperatures from reaching
a tipping point by 2030, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change warned two years ago.<br>
<br>
Without reducing those emissions, climate change will make natural
disasters, food shortages and rising sea levels even worse,
experts say. The world is not yet on track to make the changes
necessary to ameliorate its worst effects.<br>
<br>
Such dire predictions can affect mental health, particularly among
young people. Polls have found that climate change-related stress
affects daily life for 47% of America’s young adults; over half of
teenagers feel afraid and angry about climate change; and 72% of
young adults are concerned that it will harm their community.<br>
<br>
Climate depression played a central role in teenage activist Greta
Thunberg’s political awakening, and according to Varshini Prakash
— executive director of youth-focused climate activism group the
Sunrise Movement — it’s not uncommon for her group to meet kids
who have contemplated suicide over the climate crisis.<br>
<br>
“Surveys have found that young people often experience more fear,
sadness and anger regarding climate change than their older
counterparts, as well as an increased sense of helplessness or
hopelessness,” said Hasina Samji, an assistant professor at Simon
Fraser University who has explored the mental toll of climate
change on young people, in an email. In particular, “areas that
suffer direct, visible effects of climate change … have been
observed to face acute impacts such as trauma, shock and PTSD.”<br>
<br>
Young Angelenos described similar emotions and mental stress when
contemplating the climate crisis. Kate Shapiro, 15, said
humanity’s selfishness, greed and “lack of foresight” about the
warming planet contributes to her depression. Sarah Allen, 25,
said she shudders in “real terror” when contemplating the plight
of future generations. And Sam Jackson, 29, said the enormity of
the problem leaves him feeling “exhausted.”<br>
<br>
To cope, many have become activists or taken steps to reduce their
own effect on the planet. Some go vegetarian or vegan. Others have
opted not to buy a car, even in car-centric Los Angeles, or are
making plans to leave Los Angeles before the fires and droughts
become unbearable. And a few said the looming environmental
disaster has discouraged them from having children.<br>
<br>
“As I’ve gotten to learn more about how much or how
disproportionate an impact an additional American has … [I’m] less
and less inclined to create a new person,” said Elliott Lee, 26,
of Palms.<br>
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Lifestyle changes “empower individuals to feel like they can act,”
said Abby Austin, 23, the political lead for the Sunrise
Movement’s L.A. branch — echoing medical professionals who say
that even small personal actions can help people feel like broader
change remains possible.<br>
<br>
Getting involved with activism can serve a similar function. Many
young Californians said volunteering with climate advocacy groups
like the Sunrise Movement or for politicians who have made climate
change a central plank in their platforms has given them a sense
of purpose.<br>
<br>
“A lot of the people who are in Sunrise,” Austin said, “are
literally organizing out of climate anxiety<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-27/for-young-californians-climate-change-is-a-mental-health-crisis-too">https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-27/for-young-californians-climate-change-is-a-mental-health-crisis-too</a></p>
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<p>[construction good news]<br>
<b>Passive House . A low carbon future for our homes?</b><br>
Dec 27, 2020<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Passive House or Passivhaus, whichever you prefer. These amazing
ultra low energy buildings have been around for thirty years and
save their owners thousands in energy bills each year, not to
mention the huge reduction in carbon dioxide emissions up into the
atmosphere. Some broad minded builders have embraced the
techniques, but not yet enough to ensure a transformation in our
future building stock. So what are the principles of Passive
House?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7WWHhcMCdU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7WWHhcMCdU</a></p>
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[Video and text]<br>
<b>International Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption &
Collapse</b><br>
Dec 26, 2020<br>
Facing Future<br>
More than 500 scientists and scholars have signed the *International
Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption & Collapse*. It is a
stark warning about the possibilities of societal disruption and
event collapse. These subjects can no longer be avoided in 'polite
conversation' with the pretense of not wanting to upset people. What
you don't discuss, you don't understand, and if it is a possible
reality we may all need to face, then it is imperative that we allow
ourselves to enter into it in conversation. <br>
Engage further at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ScholarsWarning.net">http://www.ScholarsWarning.net</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0frHoqXLB0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0frHoqXLB0</a><br>
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[Big warnings signed by many]<br>
<b>University of Cumbria</b><br>
IFLAS - Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability<br>
Sunday, 6 December 2020<br>
International Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse<br>
If you are a scientist or scholar you can still sign the letter
before the end of 2020, and a final list will be published in
January. <br>
<br>
A public letter signed by over 250 scientists and scholars from 30
countries, calls on policy makers to engage more with the growing
risk of societal disruption and collapse due to damage to the
climate and environment. The letter invites focus on how to slow,
prepare for, and help those already suffering from, such
disruptions. The signatories are specialists in a range of subject
areas that relate to this challenge, who commonly believe it is time
to listen to all the scholarship on humanity’s predicament.<br>
<br>
The referenced letter and a full list of signatories, at the moment
of publication on Dec 6th 2020, follows below. In English, an edited
version of the letter appears in The Guardian (Monday 7th 2020). The
letter will also be published in French.<br>
<br>
If you could bring more attention to this letter, please use
#scholarswarning #breakdownwarning hashtags in your social media
posts. You can follow this Scholars Warning on twitter and direct
people to this page via <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.scholarswarning.net">www.scholarswarning.net</a> <br>
<br>
<b>Subject: Only if we discuss collapse might we prepare</b><br>
<blockquote>As scientists and scholars from around the world, we
call on policymakers to engage openly with the risk of disruption
and even collapse of our societies. After five years of failing to
reduce carbon emissions in line with the Paris Climate Accord (1),
we must now face the consequences. <br>
<br>
While bold and fair efforts to cut emissions and naturally
drawdown carbon are essential, researchers in many areas now
consider societal collapse to be a credible scenario this century
(2a & 2b). A range of views exist on the location, extent,
timing, permanence and cause of such disruptions; but the way
modern societies exploit people and nature is a common concern (3a
& 3b).<br>
<br>
Only if policymakers begin to discuss this threat of societal
collapse might communities and nations begin to prepare and so
reduce its likelihood, speed, severity, harm to the most
vulnerable, and to nature. <br>
<br>
Some armed services already see collapse as an important scenario,
requiring planning (4a and 4b). Surveys show many people now
anticipate societal collapse (5). Sadly that is already the
experience or memory of many communities in the Global South (6).
However, the topic is not well reported in the media, and mostly
absent from civil society and politics.<br>
<br>
When potential collapse is covered by the media, it typically
cites people who condemn discussion of the topic. Ill-informed
speculations, such as on foreign misinformation campaigns, or
impacts on mental health and motivation, will not support serious
discussion (7). Rather, such claims risk betraying the thousands
of activists and community leaders whose anticipation of collapse
is part of their motivation to push for change on climate,
ecology, and social justice. <br>
<br>
People who care about environmental and humanitarian issues should
not be discouraged from discussing the risks of societal
disruption or collapse. That could risk agendas being driven by
people with less commitment to such values.<br>
<br>
Some of us believe that a transition to a new form of society may
be possible. That will involve bold action to reduce damage to the
climate, nature and other people, including preparations for major
disruptions to everyday life. We are united in regarding efforts
to suppress discussion of collapse as hindering the possibility of
that transition. <br>
<br>
We have experienced how emotionally challenging it is to recognise
the damage being done, along with the growing threat to our own
way of life. We also know the great sense of fellowship that can
arise (8). It is time to invite each other into difficult
conversations, so we can reduce our complicity in the harm, and be
creative to make the best of a turbulent future (9). <br>
<br>
Signed, in a personal capacity, by: <br>
[See website]<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/12/international-scholars-warning-on.html">https://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/12/international-scholars-warning-on.html</a><br>
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[classic video relates to text below]<br>
<b>A Walk with Jem Bendell | Extinction Rebellion</b><br>
Oct 7, 2019<br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
"Someone told me people come to XR because of fear, but they stay in
it because of love.", Jim Bendell. <br>
<br>
Dr Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder
of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the
University of Cumbria (UK). He focuses on leadership and
communications for social change, as well as approaches that may
help humanity face climate-induced disruption.<br>
<br>
Dr Bendell's most widely read paper can be found here:<br>
Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating ClimateTragedy<br>
IFLAS Occasional Paper 2<br>
July 27th 2018<br>
Professor Jem Bendell BA (Hons) PhD<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf">https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/3jtKemrEMzA">https://youtu.be/3jtKemrEMzA</a><br>
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[NYTimes]<br>
<b>The Darkest Timeline</b><br>
“Deep Adaptation” made people confront the end of the world from
climate change. Does it matter if it’s not correct?<br>
Jonah Engel Bromwich<br>
Dec. 26, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET<br>
Two years ago, an influential paper suggested that we were too late
to save the world.<br>
<br>
This paper helped rewrite the direction of British universities,
played a major role in reshaping the missions of climate
organizations and religious institutions, had a significant impact
on British activism and has been translated into at least nine
languages. It made its author into something of a climate change
messiah.<br>
<br>
The report’s prediction of an imminent and unavoidable “societal
collapse” from climate change had a striking and immediate effect on
many of its readers. Andrew Medhurst, a longtime banker, cited it as
one of four factors that made him he leave his job in finance to
become a radical climate activist. Joy Carter, the head of a British
university, moved immediately to incorporate it into her curriculum.<br>
<br>
Alison Green, then an academic, printed it out and passed it out at
executive meetings at her university. Galen Hall, now a researcher
in the climate and development lab at Brown University, said that it
led him to question the value of the climate activism to which he
had been committed.<br>
<br>
Other high-profile papers, like “Trajectories of the Earth System in
the Anthropocene,” also from 2018, and Timothy Lenton’s overview of
tipping points, published in Nature the following year, have
galvanized the climate movement. But this self-published paper,
“Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating the Climate Tragedy,” had a
different, more personal, feel.<br>
The paper’s central thought is that we must accept that nothing can
reverse humanity’s fate and we must adapt accordingly. And the
paper’s bleak, vivid details — emphasizing that the end is truly
nigh, and that it will be gruesome — clearly resonated.<br>
<br>
“When I say starvation, destruction, migration, disease and war, I
mean in your own life,” wrote the author, Jem Bendell. “With the
power down, soon you wouldn’t have water coming out of your tap. You
will depend on your neighbors for food and some warmth. You will
become malnourished. You won’t know whether to stay or go. You will
fear being violently killed before starving to death.”<br>
<br>
Since publication, much of the way the science is summarized in the
paper has been debunked by climatologists. But even if the math
doesn’t add up, does that make the dark conclusion any less
meaningful?<br>
<br>
The most active Deep Adaptation forum is on Facebook, though
believers can gather on other platforms, including LinkedIn. The
forums were established by Mr. Bendell, 48.<br>
<br>
“I had about 800 unsolicited emails in my inbox,” Mr. Bendell said,
recalling the time shortly after publication. “I decided I’d launch
a forum so all these 800 people could talk to each other.”<br>
<br>
The forums were established for people who felt wide-awake after
reading the paper. Psychologists who wanted to change their
practices to help those who had been uprooted by climate change;
retired bankers in New York who wanted to introduce Mr. Bendell to
their networks; single mothers who couldn’t stop crying when they
looked at their young children.<br>
<br>
Despair was an immediate pitfall. Because the groups attracted
people who believed that human extinction was imminent, many talked
about suicide. (Forum rules on Facebook bar the “discussion of
suicide methods”; other rules bar discussion of climate news, asking
participants to focus instead on how to adapt.)<br>
<br>
“It did have an uncomfortable cult kind of feel about it,” said Ms.
Green, now the executive director of Scientists Warning. She left
the forum because she didn’t feel qualified to counsel someone
considering suicide...<br>
But despair wasn’t all that bound Deep Adaptation’s more dedicated
adherents. David Baum, a 60-year-old Seattle mystic, “latched on to
the spiritual implications.”<br>
<br>
“Jem has the most massive intellectual bandwidth I have ever
encountered,” he said. “He is one of the best writers alive today.
And he has coped magnificently with unexpected celebrity based on a
very difficult role that he is being asked to play.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Bendell, who is a professor of sustainability leadership at the
University of Cumbria in England, said: “My own conclusion that it
is too late to prevent a breakdown in modern civilization in most
countries within our lifetimes is not purely based on an assessment
of climate science.”<br>
<br>
“It’s based on my view of society, politics, economics from having
worked on probably 25 countries across five continents, worked in
the intergovernmental sector of the U.N., been part of the World
Economic Forum, working in senior management in environmental
groups, being on boards of investment funds,” he said. “You know,
I’ve been a jack-of-all-trades.”<br>
<br>
Others took comfort in the certainty of Mr. Bendell’s assessment.
There was little of the unknown associated with usual scientific
forecasting. Even those who thoroughly disagree understand that
appeal.<br>
<br>
“It’s really difficult to look at those probability distributions
and know what to do,” said Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at
Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
in New York. “I personally just want to be told, ‘This is what will
happen. This is what you should do right now.’”...<br>
Mr. Bendell said that full apprehension of the extent of the climate
crisis is naturally deeply shocking. That, he said, was why the
forums needed to exist, as well as why he created the retreats he
began hosting in 2019.<br>
<br>
For the first retreat, a “safely held and gently facilitated space”
to be held on Mount Pelion in Greece, Mr. Bendell emphasized that
the focus would be on the inner lives of the participants.<br>
<br>
“The focus is on inner adaptation rather than policies for reducing
the harm from societal collapse,” he wrote.<br>
<br>
The retreat cost 520 euros to 820 euros, depending on the
participant’s choice of lodging. Mr. Bendell said he didn’t take any
money from it personally because “I don’t need it. And it will
complicate my tax affairs.”<br>
<br>
Shu Liang, 42, the head of a Dutch climate action organization
called Day of Adaptation, attended. She had a marvelous time,
bonding closely with other attendees, with whom she has kept in
touch.<br>
<br>
“It was quite a rejuvenating experience” she said.<br>
<br>
Ms. Liang described the morning exercises. In one, she said, a
mini-shrine was set up in the middle of the room, adorned with
objects including a rock and a piece of driftwood. Participants were
asked to hold the objects and talk about what they represented. For
Ms. Liang, the rock represented the burden of having to work on
climate change.<br>
<br>
In another exercise, participants were given a set of archetypes —
including the warrior, the leader and the caregiver — and asked to
choose one that they’d like to embody in a time of crisis.<br>
<br>
A third exercise, designed in part by Mr. Bendell, was called “Death
to the Experts.” Participants wrote down words that they associated
with experts and threw the papers into a fire.<br>
<br>
Mr. Bendell said that this exercise was intended to diminish the
cultish aspects of his own authority. “We realized that people who
are coming all the way to a retreat from around the world that I’m
hosting are coming because of the fact that I’m doing it,” he said.
“And yet we wanted to emphasize that I’m not the person who can tell
you how to make sense of this.”<br>
<br>
Earlier this year, Emily Atkin, an environmental journalist who had
not even heard of Deep Adaptation — let alone read it — wrote about
a repeating cycle she’d observed.<br>
<br>
“The phenomenon is some dude who is really smart in some other way,
and has expertise in something else, perhaps stumbles upon climate
change, takes about one month to a year to think about it — and then
decides that all of a sudden they have the solution that nobody else
has thought about,” she said, asked to explain the pattern in an
interview. “And they don’t consult with a diverse array of experts
before releasing it. They do reporting that confirms their own
biases.<br>
<br>
“And then they put out a product that uses very strong language,
stronger language than the evidence that they have justifies, to
paint a picture that the reason we haven’t solved this is because
everyone has been wrong. No one has thought of their great idea yet.
And the idea is, honestly, usually that we’re screwed.”<br>
<br>
One criticism that emerged of Deep Adaptation more specifically was
that this vague forthcoming disaster that Mr. Bendell was describing
was already happening to many people — just not yet to the Western
academics, bankers and journalists whose interests he had piqued.<br>
<br>
Justine Huxley, the chief executive of St. Ethelburga’s Center for
Reconciliation and Peace in London, said that the paper had strongly
influenced the center’s work, but that some reality needed to be
taken into account.<br>
<br>
“The first thing that we did was really try and weave climate
justice in how we teach it,” she said. “Because I think there was a
real danger in the early days of the Deep Adaptation movement
starting up was that it kind of looks like a bunch of privileged
white people coming to terms with a reality that half of the global
south is already living in the middle of.”<br>
<br>
Another criticism that emerged was that the central fatalism of Deep
Adaptation was based on misunderstood science. According to these
critics, if you strip away the misconceptions, there’s room for the
hope that Mr. Bendell has cast aside.<br>
<br>
After his self-publication, the paper attracted criticism by climate
scientists. (The paper was submitted to and rejected by a
peer-reviewed sustainability journal. Mr. Bendell has framed the
rejection almost as an advertisement of his paper’s provocation and
import. He compared it to submitting a paper that says dental health
is pointless to a journal of dentistry.)<br>
<br>
Gavin Schmidt, a colleague of Dr. Marvel’s at the NASA Goddard
Institute, corresponded with Mr. Bendell directly about his
concerns. Mr. Bendell wrote a blog post about that experience in
February. He ended with: “None of the conclusions from the climate
science section of the paper need to be retracted.”<br>
<br>
Dr. Marvel reviewed some of the science in the paper more recently
and said that it was filled with errors and misconceptions. For
instance, Mr. Bendell writes that the loss of the reflective power
of ice in the Arctic is such that even a removal of a quarter of the
cumulative carbon dioxide emissions of the last three decades would
be outweighed by the damage already done.<br>
<br>
Dr. Marvel said that this represents a basic misunderstanding.
Though ice melting represented a feedback loop, she said, in which
an effect of the climate becoming warmer itself contributed to
further warming, there was a conflation in Mr. Bendell’s thought
between that feedback loop and a so-called tipping point.<br>
<br>
“It’s not an example of a tipping point,” she said. “This is
something that is well understood. You make it warm. You get rid of
ice. You make it cold. You get ice.”<br>
<br>
Mr. Bendell provided a list of other scientists who supported him.
He said climatology was too big a field for Dr. Marvel or Mr.
Schmidt to be able to assess his claims knowledgeably and
recommended against “establishment figures in climatology”
altogether.<br>
<br>
“You shouldn’t be talking to Kate Marvel or whatever,” he said.
“Just actually go and look at the stuff yourself.”<br>
<br>
As it happens, someone did.<br>
Galen Hall, the 23-year-old Brown University researcher, was
studying at Oxford when Deep Adaptation was published. He had joined
Extinction Rebellion, a group of British climate activists, and
became friends with a fellow member, Tom Nicholas, a doctoral
candidate in computational physics. The paper had a profound effect
on both of them, and on their network. A friend of Mr. Nicholas’s
dropped out of university, believing that his studies were futile.<br>
<br>
Mr. Nicholas had become familiar with Deep Adaptation when he
started to hear the paper’s worldview parroted by activists.<br>
<br>
“I basically noticed undercurrents of things I thought were
scientifically dodgy being repeated again and again within
Extinction Rebellion circles,” he said. “And then when I read Deep
Adaptation paper I was like, ‘Ah, that’s where all of this is coming
from.’”<br>
<br>
Mr. Hall and Mr. Nicholas, 26, came to believe that Deep Adaptation
was wrong to teach people that the struggle was already lost. In the
fall of 2019, they decided to write a rebuttal.<br>
<br>
“The fundamental battle in climate change right now is whether or
not we can understand it as a primarily political struggle — rather
than a scientific or natural struggle — and then win that struggle,”
Mr. Hall said. “Deep Adaptation or fatalism in general is just one
way of depoliticizing it because it puts everything up to inhuman
forces.”<br>
<br>
In July, with Colleen Schmidt, who is 24 and has a degree in
environmental biology from Columbia — and who acted as their de
facto editor — they published a paper.<br>
<br>
“I would call it a hit piece on the paper and by implication, the
framework and the movement,” Mr. Bendell said. “It was quite
upsetting, and I wasn’t sure how best to respond.”<br>
<br>
About two weeks after Mr. Hall, Mr. Nicholas and Ms. Schmidt
published their paper, Mr. Bendell released a second version of his
Deep Adaptation paper.<br>
<br>
“This paper appears to have an iconic status amongst some people who
criticize others for anticipating societal collapse,” he writes.
“Therefore, two years on from initial publication, I am releasing
this update.”<br>
<br>
The stark statement that had opened the original paper was altered.
Once, it had said its purpose was to provide readers “with an
opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of an
inevitable near term social collapse due to climate change.” Now, to
emphasize that the idea remains unproven, it reads “in the face of
what I believe to be an inevitable near-term societal collapse.” Mr.
Bendell added a sentence stating plainly that the paper does not
prove that inevitability.<br>
<br>
As the summer of 2020 ended, he announced on his blog that he would
be stepping back from the Deep Adaptation forum, a decision he said
he’d been planning for a year.<br>
<br>
In this quiet, he is working on a new paper. In it, he said, he
plans to explain exactly how the coming catastrophe of our society
will play itself out, describing the starvation and mass death that
so many anticipate.<br>
<br>
The three young people who wrote the paper rebutting Deep Adaptation
agree that the climate crisis has already resulted in horrific loss
and that it will continue to exact a heavy toll. But they also
believe that governments around the world can still make a
difference and should be held to account, instead of being lulled
into inaction by despair.<br>
<br>
“We’ve lost some things,” Ms. Schmidt said. “We could lose
everything. But there is no reason not to try and make what can
work, work.”<br>
<br>
“Even if you somehow knew that the chance of success was small,” Mr.
Nicholas said, “you would still be morally obligated to try your
best to limit the damages and to keep working.”<br>
<br>
Jonah Engel Bromwich is a news and features reporter. He writes
about cultural change — shifts in the way we date, eat, think and
use language and technology — for the Style section. @jonesieman<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/style/climate-change-deep-adaptation.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/style/climate-change-deep-adaptation.html</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 -
December 28, 2010 </b></font><br>
<p>December 28, 2010: <br>
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On MSNBC's "Countdown," fill-in host Sam Seder and conservation
biologist Dr. Reese Halter debunk the most recent effort by the
Fox News Channel to promote the idea that snowstorms disprove
human-caused climate change.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/QexVjGayOew">http://youtu.be/QexVjGayOew</a><br>
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David Jenkins, a former aide to Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM),
ridicules the ultra-conservatives who insist that snowstorms
disprove climate change:<br>
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"These skeptics, who are quiet as a mouse when summer temps soar
into triple digits, brandish every winter weather event as
irrefutable proof that climate change is a hoax. Fox News and
right-wing talk radio will do their part to amplify the message,
and invariably a few other media outlets will report on this spin
and make it seem like there is a legitimate controversy."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20101231192346/http://frumforum.com/climate-change-deniers-pull-off-a-snow-job/">http://web.archive.org/web/20101231192346/http://frumforum.com/climate-change-deniers-pull-off-a-snow-job/</a>
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