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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>April 27, 2021</b></font><br>
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[too bad]<br>
<b>Bolsonaro Cuts Brazil’s Amazon Protection Budget Immediately
After Promising to Increase It</b><br>
Dharna Noor Yesterday <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/bolsonaro-cuts-brazil-s-amazon-protection-budget-immedi-1846767497">https://earther.gizmodo.com/bolsonaro-cuts-brazil-s-amazon-protection-budget-immedi-1846767497</a><br>
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[good thing too] <br>
<b>It's OK to have climate anxiety</b><br>
I do. Here's how I'm coping: by helping to create a world of climate
justice. <br>
Eric Holthaus - Apr 26, 2021 <br>
<br>
We are in a climate emergency. And you were born at just the right
moment to help change everything.<br>
Today is a big day for me. For the very first time in my life, I set
up an appointment with my doctor to start on anti-anxiety
medication.<br>
<br>
This step comes four years after I first started seeing a therapist
for climate-related anxiety. Since then, I’ve written about my
journey a lot, but never thought it would get to this point. After
years of trying to manage on my own, I realized during the pandemic
that I need more help.<br>
<br>
I’m currently towards the end of my fourth anxiety episode of the
past 12 months. Each of them have lasted for weeks, where I’ve been
unable to write, unable to interact with friends, unable to function
normally. For the past two months, I’ve only opened emails that
looked urgent, I didn’t have the energy to read anything that felt
like it was going to increase the chaos in my head, either good or
bad. (If you haven’t heard from me and needed to, I apologize so
much)...<br>
<br>
I get that there’s a pandemic going on, that it’s normal to feel
anxiety, but this has been Too Much.<br>
<br>
I also know it’s a privilege to be where I am right now. I can
afford health insurance. I have access to a good therapist. I have a
doctor I trust. I have a supportive partner. I have friends who will
give me the benefit of the doubt after being out of contact for a
year. I know that not everyone can say the same. And I know that a
lot of this privilege is because of when and where I was born. And
that’s not fair.<br>
<br>
Recently, Sarah Jaquette Ray wrote an essay in Scientific American
that asked why climate anxiety is a mostly-white phenomenon. It’s an
absolute must-read.<br>
<br>
Here’s the most important part for me:<br>
<br>
The white response to climate change is literally suffocating to
people of color. Climate anxiety can operate like white fragility,
sucking up all the oxygen in the room and devoting resources toward
appeasing the dominant group. As climate refugees are framed as a
climate security threat, will the climate-anxious recognize their
role in displacing people from around the globe? Will they be able
to see their own fates tied to the fates of the dispossessed? Or
will they hoard resources, limit the rights of the most affected and
seek to save only their own, deluded that this xenophobic strategy
will save them? How can we make sure that climate anxiety is
harnessed for climate justice?<br>
<br>
Climate anxiety without climate justice is a gateway to ecofascism.
If you’re a white person who is scared about climate change – which
is a completely normal thing given how much our leaders have failed
us – just imagine how scared you’d be if people wanted you dead
because of your skin color.<br>
<br>
My fear is that what’s happening right now in India – a vaccine
apartheid with horrific consequences – is a grim preview of what
might happen in a world where rich countries band together to
insulate themselves from climate change but don’t share resources
with the rest of the world. And that is a world I’ll give every day
of the rest of my life to prevent from coming to pass.<br>
<br>
Here’s the bottom line: It’s OK to have climate anxiety. The real
question is, what will do you do about it?<br>
<br>
One of my favorite climate writers (and fellow Substacker) Britt
Wray talked with Sarah about her essay, and their conversation is
fantastic, too. (Britt’s Substack, Gen Dread, has also been an
enormously important resource for me, personally.)<br>
<br>
Here’s Sarah’s key response to Britt:<br>
<br>
Although I believe anybody can have climate anxiety, the term itself
seems more applicable to folks who haven’t experienced existential
threats before. Communities that have experienced existential
threats — colonialism, slavery, genocide, dispossession, medical
injustice, food insecurity, pollution, exile — tend to view climate
change as just another layer of threat, compounding these other
long-standing forms of oppression, cultural death, and environmental
trauma.<br>
<br>
While its definitely true that climate change will affect every
single one of us, it will affect us all differently. Those who have
already been marginalized by centuries of oppression will be hurt
the worst.<br>
<br>
Our job, as the climate anxious, is to repair that oppression,
repair that marginalization, to make sure you’re not offloading your
anxiety onto someone else in ways that are causing more harm...<br>
Doing all that well is hard. Really, really hard. But it doesn’t
mean it’s not our job to try.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thephoenix.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-have-climate-anxiety">https://thephoenix.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-have-climate-anxiety</a><br>
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[Scientific American]<br>
<b>Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon</b><br>
Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their
way of life or to get “back to normal?”<br>
By Sarah Jaquette Ray on March 21, 2021<br>
- -<br>
Climate change and its effects—pandemics, pollution, natural
disasters—are not universally or uniformly felt: the people and
communities suffering most are disproportionately Black, Indigenous
and people of color. It is no surprise then that U.S. surveys show
that these are the communities most concerned about climate change.<br>
- -<br>
I am deeply concerned about the racial implications of climate
anxiety. If people of color are more concerned about climate change
than white people, why is the interest in climate anxiety so white?
Is climate anxiety a form of white fragility or even racial anxiety?
Put another way, is climate anxiety just code for white people
wishing to hold onto their way of life or get “back to normal,” to
the comforts of their privilege?<br>
<br>
The white response to climate change is literally suffocating to
people of color. Climate anxiety can operate like white fragility,
sucking up all the oxygen in the room and devoting resources toward
appeasing the dominant group. As climate refugees are framed as a
climate security threat, will the climate-anxious recognize their
role in displacing people from around the globe? Will they be able
to see their own fates tied to the fates of the dispossessed? Or
will they hoard resources, limit the rights of the most affected and
seek to save only their own, deluded that this xenophobic strategy
will save them? How can we make sure that climate anxiety is
harnessed for climate justice?...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-climate-anxiety/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-climate-anxiety/</a><br>
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[video explaining how to win the $100 million prize -- interesting,
fun and useful]<br>
<b>Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis LIVE on $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal</b><br>
Streamed live on Apr 22, 2021<br>
XPRIZE<br>
<p>Join Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis LIVE as they discuss
optimistic views of the future in wide-ranging topics from energy
and communications to knowledge and transport, the importance of
making humanity an interplanetary species plus the duo will
announce the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition.</p>
<p>"I don't think we're currently doomed"<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN88HPUm6j0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN88HPUm6j0</a><br>
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[Yes there was a storm story]<br>
<b>Hurricanes in the Movies: Hurricane scene from film "Key Largo"</b><br>
Sep 9, 2017<br>
James Schrumpf<br>
The great Lionel Barrymore describes the 1935 "Labor Day Hurricane"
to gangster Edward G. Robinson in the John Huston-directed Warner
Brothers film "Key Largo." Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
Bacall.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNp9SW0NYA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNp9SW0NYA</a><br>
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<br>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
April 27, 2014 </b></font><br>
<p>The New York Times editorial page observes:<br>
<br>
"At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in
state government have found a new tax they can support. Naturally
it’s a tax on something the country needs: solar energy panels.<br>
<br>
"For the last few months, the Kochs and other big polluters have
been spending heavily to fight incentives for renewable energy,
which have been adopted by most states. They particularly dislike
state laws that allow homeowners with solar panels to sell power
they don’t need back to electric utilities. So they’ve been
pushing legislatures to impose a surtax on this increasingly
popular practice, hoping to make installing solar panels on houses
less attractive."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/opinion/sunday/the-koch-attack-on-solar-energy.html?hp&rref=opinion">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/opinion/sunday/the-koch-attack-on-solar-energy.html?hp&rref=opinion</a><br>
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