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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>March 9, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[follow the money, leads to food]<br>
<b>Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for
Food</b><br>
While banks and asset managers are promising to divest from fossil
fuels, they are expanding investments in high-carbon foods and
commodities tied to deforestation.<br>
By Georgina Gustin - March 7, 2021<br>
As global banking giants and investment firms vow to divest from
polluting energy companies, they’re continuing to bankroll another
major driver of the climate crisis: food and farming corporations
that are responsible, directly or indirectly, for cutting down vast
carbon-storing forests and spewing greenhouse gas emissions into the
atmosphere. <br>
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These agricultural investments, largely unnoticed and unchecked,
represent a potentially catastrophic blind spot.<br>
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“Animal protein and even dairy is likely, and already has started to
become, the new oil and gas,” said Bruno Sarda, the former North
America president of CDP, a framework through which companies
disclose their carbon emissions. “This is the biggest source of
emissions that doesn’t have a target on its back.”<br>
By pouring money into emissions-intensive agriculture, banks and
investors are making a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand
for food, especially foods that are the greatest source of emissions
in the food system: meat and dairy. <br>
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Agriculture and deforestation, largely driven by livestock
production, are responsible for nearly one quarter of global
greenhouse gas emissions. By 2030, livestock production alone could
consume nearly half the world’s carbon budget, the amount of
greenhouse gas the world can emit without blowing past global
climate targets. <br>
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“There’s absolutely a big gap, full-stop,” said Jessye Waxman,
shareholder advocate with Green Century Funds. “I think this speaks
to the broader questions about what it really means for a firm to be
addressing climate risk comprehensively. If you want to address
climate risk, you need to address agriculture.”<br>
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Feedback Global and other critics contend that engagement—from
appealing to companies directly to shareholder resolutions—isn’t
working. They’re now calling for divestment from carbon-intensive
agricultural and livestock companies. <br>
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Still other critics say that banks and investors have an opportunity
to influence companies toward more sustainable forms of agriculture.
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“Our call isn’t for full and immediate divestment from the
agriculture industry as it essentially is for fossil fuels,” said
Birss, of Amazon Watch. “It’s not the same. We can’t say it’s all
terrible.”<br>
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But, she added, “If irreparable harms to the climate come from the
production of food, those who are carrying out the production of
that food and the people providing the one necessary ingredient
—finance—have a responsibility to ensure those irreparable harms
aren’t happening.”<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032021/agriculture-banks-climate-change-emissions-meat-dairy-blackrock/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032021/agriculture-banks-climate-change-emissions-meat-dairy-blackrock/</a><br>
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[don't forget the free heat in the ground]<br>
<b>Daniel Cohan: The Potential for Geothermal</b><br>
Mar 7, 2021<br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Is Geothermal a dark horse clean energy resource?<br>
Daniel Cohan is an atmospheric scientist and an associate professor
of environmental engineering at Rice University.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mUR1s9lEU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mUR1s9lEU</a><br>
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[clips for a common question]<br>
<b>What's the Most Climate-Safe Place in the World?</b><br>
Daniel Kolitz<br>
3-8-21<br>
If you’re motivated (or rich) enough, you can maybe escape the
dangerous hellscape large swaths of the planet could become if
humanity doesn’t get its act together. The question is, though,
where to escape to? Twenty years from now, or 50, will there be any
place to go? What’s the most climate-safe place in the world? For
this week’s Giz Asks, we reached out to a number of experts to find
out.<br>
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Sarah Kapnick<br>
Deputy Division Leader & Research Physical Scientist,
NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory<br>
To answer the question, I define places that are “climate-safe” to
also include those that have plentiful resources and are resilient
to potential changes in climate extremes. This means they need to
have the following characteristics:<br>
<blockquote>1) Access to clean freshwater<br>
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2) Not too hot or humid in a warming world<br>
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3) Low risk for catastrophic extreme events: wildfire, hurricanes<br>
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4) Weatherized to handle: blizzards, extreme rainfall events, wind
storms<br>
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5) Well above sea level (due to rising seas)<br>
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6) Food security<br>
</blockquote>
In the U.S., these conditions are best met in the Great Lakes
Region, especially on the colder lakes less prone to algae blooms,
and the inland portion of the Northeast. (Although there have been
some extreme flooding events from weakened hurricanes in inland New
England in recent years.)<br>
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For a global perspective, I first look for places that are not too
hot or humid in a warming world. Here, I draw from a paper my
postdoc, Karin van der Wiel, led on changes in global mild weather.
This narrows the places with pleasant weather in a changing climate
to higher latitude regions as the tropics become hotter and more
humid. Additionally, these need to be locations where there is
regular precipitation (rainfall or snowfall) now and in the future
to ensure access to freshwater, which removes many subtropical
locations. So higher latitude locations away from the coasts will be
well positioned like portions of Canada and Europe.<br>
This assessment of a location being “climate-safe” is based on the
access to resources and risk to society from known physical climate
risks (i.e. damages that can happen due to weather and climate
extremes). Beyond access to freshwater and food security, with some
basic habitable conditions when a person or animals are outside (a
manageable number of days that are extreme heat or extreme cold),
the built environment determines if a place is “climate-safe” for
society. For hot days, people need to have access to air
conditioning and water. For cold days, they need access to heat. For
extreme rainfall days, water management and building codes avoid
flooding or extreme damages to structures. Planning for extreme
weather and climate events in addition to average climate is
critical to making a place “climate-safe.” This requires combining
known physical climate risks with infrastructure and technology to
build a resilient world.<br>
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Camilo Mora<br>
Associate Professor, Geography and Environment, University of Hawaii
Mãnoa...<br>
We’ve seen a lot of billionaires buying up islands, thinking they’re
going to be secure. Because who’s going to go there, right? But the
reality is that not even those islands are safe. How are they going
to get clean water? How are they going to keep away all of the
people living without water or electricity, in houses that stink
because they can’t flush their toilets?..<br>
So, as for your question of where could be the safest place to live?
Maybe Mars.<br>
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Stephanie Spera<br>
Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment, University of
Richmond...<br>
I mean, if I could just pick up and move, I’d happily head to
Burlington, Vermont: It’s not going to get that much warmer, no
wildfires, there’s an abundance of freshwater, and they’re prepped
for cold weather...<br>
Everywhere around the globe is already feeling the effects of
climate change. The countries and people most affected by changes in
climate are going to be those that have contributed the least to
this problem. And, a lot of us need to acknowledge 1) the privilege
we have in a wealthy country where we’ll be buffered from many of
the worst effects of climate change (although we need to recognize
that poor people and minorities living in this country are burdened
with the adverse physical and mental health the effects of
environmental racism time and time again); and 2) the immense
privilege we have if we have agency to actually decide and choose
where we want to live based on the answer to this question.<br>
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Lauren Nishimura<br>
Doctoral Student, Law, University of Oxford, whose research focuses
on the intersections of climate change adaptation, migration, and
public international law...<br>
Indeed, there are legal and moral obligations to support countries
that are most susceptible to climate impacts but that have
contributed least to—and benefited least from—its causes. This means
that while some places will be better off, climate impacts are not
ethically neutral nor equally felt.<br>
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Jesse Keenan<br>
Associate Professor, Architecture, Tulane University, whose research
focuses on the intersection of climate change adaptation and the
built environment...<br>
For now, I am going to invest in Toledo, Ohio.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/whats-the-most-climate-safe-place-in-the-world-1846409071">https://earther.gizmodo.com/whats-the-most-climate-safe-place-in-the-world-1846409071</a><br>
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[ video from extinction rebellion on money and global warming]<br>
<b>Banks, Markets and the End of the World | Chidi Oti-Obihara and
Roger Hallam | August 2020</b><br>
Mar 8, 2021<br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
Roger Hallam (Beyond Politics) in conversation with Chidi
Oti-Obihara (Financial and Environmental activist and campaigner).<br>
International: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rebellion.global/">https://rebellion.global/</a><br>
Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR">https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR</a> <br>
<blockquote>1. Tell The Truth <br>
2. Act Now <br>
3. Beyond Politics<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hPWepLLIQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hPWepLLIQ</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 -
March 9, 2017 </b></font><br>
<p>March 9, 2017: In an appearance on CNBC, EPA Administrator Scott
Pruitt denies human-caused climate change. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html">http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-head-falsely-claims-carbon-emissions-arent-the-cause-of-global-warming-262bd9b0937e#.oaigkdwq0">https://thinkprogress.org/epa-head-falsely-claims-carbon-emissions-arent-the-cause-of-global-warming-262bd9b0937e#.oaigkdwq0</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-global-warming.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-global-warming.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur</a>
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