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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>February 12, 2021</b></font></i></p>
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[Change the future by adjusting the present]<br>
<b>Build Nothing New That Ultimately Leads to a Flame</b><br>
A car driving toward a fuel refinery<br>
If “Stop burning fossil fuels” is the first principle of fighting
the climate crisis, let this be the second.<br>
By Bill McKibben - February 10, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/build-nothing-new-that-ultimately-leads-to-a-flame">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/build-nothing-new-that-ultimately-leads-to-a-flame</a><br>
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[Student and professors in dialog - 1 hour 35 min video discussion]<br>
<b>Role of Civil Disobedience in the Climate Movement</b><br>
Feb 11, 2012<br>
Oxford Climate Society<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/27eUCq_Wklw?t=248">https://youtu.be/27eUCq_Wklw?t=248</a>
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[new book]<br>
<b>How to Blow Up a Pipeline</b><br>
by Andreas Malm (Author)<br>
Property will cost us the earth<br>
<br>
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time
now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition
campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a
booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels,
and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we
moved beyond peaceful protest?<br>
<br>
In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of
SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for
the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of
ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel
extraction to stop--with our actions, with our bodies, and by
defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start
blowing up some oil pipelines.<br>
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Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred,
from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the
movement against apartheid and for women's suffrage, Malm argues
that the strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence
has been the only route for revolutionary change. In a braided
narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of
London to the deserts of Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion
of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence, democracy and
social change, strategy and tactics, and a movement compelled by
both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on
fire.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Blow-Pipeline-Andreas-Malm/dp/1839760257/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/How-Blow-Pipeline-Andreas-Malm/dp/1839760257/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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[popular opinion from top-pop comedienne ]<br>
<b>The Treatment of Peaceful Protesters vs. Violent Insurrectionists
| Full Frontal on TBS</b><br>
Fundraiser<br>
Feb 10, 2021<br>
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee<br>
1.03M subscribers<br>
Peaceful protest isn’t a crime! But if you're protesting inhumane
policies or the gutting of Medicaid at the Capitol, prepare to be
treated like a criminal. Sam sat down with activists who've been
arrested at the Capitol and plot twist: none of them are
insurrectionists. <br>
This piece was produced by Razan Ghalayini with Ishan Thakore and
edited by Daphne Gomez-Mena.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLlPJRg5S7I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLlPJRg5S7I</a><br>
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[finally getting good advice]<br>
<b>Bill Gates, who predicted the pandemic, names the next two
monster disasters that could shake our world</b><br>
Gates was asked about the next crises the world may have to
confront. <br>
By Joseph Guzman | Feb. 11, 2021<br>
- Gates warned several years ago that the world was unprepared for
the next endemic.<br>
- In a recent interview, he said the next big disasters facing
humanity are climate change and bioterrorism.<br>
- He said the number of global deaths from COVID-19 should be a
tenth of what it currently is.<br>
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously predicted an infectious
virus was likely to kill millions of people across the globe five
years before COVID-19 did just that. <br>
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“If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,
it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,”
Gates said during a 2015 Ted Talk. “We’ve actually invested very
little in a system to stop an epidemic. We’re not ready for the next
epidemic.” <br>
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Our country is in a historic fight against the Coronavirus. Add
Changing America to your Facebook or Twitter feed to stay on top of
the news.<br>
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Now the billionaire philanthropist has spoken on what the next big
crisis facing humanity could be. During an interview on Derek
Muller’s YouTube channel Veritasium, Gates pointed out two prominent
threats facing the modern world: climate change and bioterrorism. <br>
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“Every year that [climate change] would be a death toll even greater
than we've had in this pandemic,” Gates said during the interview. <br>
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“Also, related to pandemics is something people don't like to talk
about much, which is bioterrorism, that somebody who wants to cause
damage could engineer a virus. So that means the chance of running
into this is more than just the naturally caused epidemics like the
current one,” he said. <br>
<br>
While Gates said there will certainly be more pandemics in the
future, he said humanity could increase its preparedness for one to
the point where the world would never have a death toll anywhere
near what is occurring today with the coronavirus outbreak, which
has infected more than 107 million people and killed more than 2.3
million around the globe.<br>
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“Pandemics can be worse in terms of the fatalities. Smallpox was
over 30 percent fatality,” Gates said. “We were lucky that the
fatality here is not, not super high, but we can nip in the
bud...the number of deaths with the right system should be a tenth
of what we’ve seen here.” <br>
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Gates said the world could prepare for the next pandemic by
advancing mRNA research, the technology used in the Pfizer and
Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, increasing testing to 10 million PCR
tests a day and making more investments in diagnostic machines and
therapeutics.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/538426-bill-gates-who-predicted-the-pandemic-names-the-next-two-monster">https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/538426-bill-gates-who-predicted-the-pandemic-names-the-next-two-monster</a><br>
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[in a newsprint document in 2009 - Richard Pauli insists that Gates
amend his ignorance of global warming ]<br>
<b>First Person: Prodding the sacred cow</b><br>
RICHARD PAULI<br>
GUEST COLUMNIST<br>
March 1, 2009<br>
Updated: March 25, 2011 [in this edit, the PI removed troll attacks
on this article] <br>
<blockquote>The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's
largest philanthropy, has overlooked the biggest threat to human
health and human future -- the increasing rate of climate
destabilization from global warming.<br>
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Last year the foundation co-chairman said about global warming:
"The fact of the matter is we don't think about it." I urge that
immediately be changed to: "Every individual, organization and
state should be thinking about climate change now."<br>
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For too long the Gates Foundation ignored extensive research that
concludes global warming and climate destabilization has extended
and amplified disease and other human health problems. Foundation
science advisers can report that global warming is caused,
enhanced and accelerated by carbon dioxide released into the
atmosphere by industrial civilization. The biggest danger to our
future is that we may fail to regulate CO{-2} output. Continued
global warming causes sea levels to rise, which will increase
disease vector populations.<br>
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If eradicating malaria is the foundation's goal, it must regard
the compelling data and devastating forces of a changing climate.
All of the awesomely great works by the Gates Foundation can be
undone by the horrible realities of global warming to come. If the
foundation truly wants to support human health and nurture
prosperity, it needs to refocus and modify priorities in a way
that respects climate change.<br>
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Investment policy for the foundation trust forbids trading in
tobacco stock since that industry so obviously harms health.
Similarly, I ask the foundation to halt investments in carbon fuel
companies and other polluting industries.<br>
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It may derive revenue from more than $1 billion invested in oil
company stocks, but the resulting greenhouse gas emissions will
further increase the rate of warming. Until the foundation decides
how best to be part of the solution, it shouldn't be part of the
problem. The foundation should completely divest from any
hydrocarbon energy company stock holdings.<br>
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We all praise the Gates Foundation for generosity and laudatory
good works saving lives and giving hope for the future. But
gradually, inexorably, everyone is beginning to feel the
aggravation, pain and real suffering from our destabilizing
climate. To further ignore the problem is misguided, shortsighted
and squanders the opportunity for change.<br>
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At the very least, the foundation should accept climate change as
a real cause of suffering and include it when evaluating the
global health metrics that underlie its good works. With such an
honest view, others can share in its objective: for all people to
have healthy and productive lives.<br>
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Failure to act is the biggest sin. Knowledgeable people of wealth
and power should take a stand -- because it is right, because it
is needed and because inaction brings harm to us all.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/First-Person-Prodding-the-sacred-cow-1301367.php">https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/First-Person-Prodding-the-sacred-cow-1301367.php</a><br>
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[video of a film we saw in jr high school, and on my B&W TV]<br>
<b>Meet Meteora, the Queen Goddess of Weather</b> <br>
February 12, 1958: "The Unchained Goddess," part of the Bell
Laboratory Science Series produced by Frank Capra, is broadcast.
"Goddess" directly addresses human-caused climate change; the
existence of the program would never be acknowledged by
climate-change deniers.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/m-AXBbuDxRY">http://youtu.be/m-AXBbuDxRY</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 -
February 12, 1958 </b></font><br>
<p>February 12, 1958: "The Unchained Goddess," part of the Bell
Laboratory Science Series produced by Frank Capra, is broadcast.
"Goddess" directly addresses human-caused climate change; the
existence of the program would never be acknowledged by
climate-change deniers.</p>
<p>The Unchained Goddess - Dr.Frank Baxter 1958<br>
St.Louis Flashback<br>
The Unchained Goddess examines what weather is and how it works.
It was the fourth and last film in the series that was produced by
Frank Capra, who wrote the screenplay with Jonathan Latimer.
Unlike the first three of the films, this film was directed by
Richard Carlson, who also appears in the film.[10] The film was
televised on February 12, 1958, with a disappointing audience
share and many critical press reviews<br>
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<p>Full version - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHYcNtcW7g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHYcNtcW7g</a><br>
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<p>Clip - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/m-AXBbuDxRY">http://youtu.be/m-AXBbuDxRY</a> <br>
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