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<i><font size="+1"><b>July 5, 2021</b></font></i> <br>
<p>[Wildfires with heatwave and drought]<br>
<b>Evacuations ordered as wildfires rip through Canada’s west
coast</b><br>
Dozens of huge wildfires in British Columbia come after Canadian
province saw record-breaking heatwave.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/3/evacuations-ordered-wildfires-rip-through-canada-west-coast">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/3/evacuations-ordered-wildfires-rip-through-canada-west-coast</a><br>
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[locations for the 196 active fires in British Columbia]<br>
<b>B.C. Wildfire Dashboard</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://governmentofbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f0ac328d88c74d07aa2ee385abe2a41b">https://governmentofbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f0ac328d88c74d07aa2ee385abe2a41b</a><br>
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<p>[brief video interview w Dr Ben Santer]<br>
<b>Climate Crisis: ‘Apocalyptic’ heatwave and drought hit parts of
US</b><br>
Jun 21, 2021<br>
Channel 4 News<br>
A heatwave described as “apocalyptic” has hit the south-western
states of America, pushing people and wildlife in the region to
their limits. Low water levels are endangering fish species in
Oregon and Colorado and encouraging the spread of wildfires. The
extreme heatwave has been compounded by the “megadrought”, with
nearly a third of the population in California facing a drought
emergency. Scientists say these are all the signs of a climate
crisis.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruZYgYJ0oEU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruZYgYJ0oEU</a> </p>
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[The IPCC reports delivered in decades]<br>
<b>Leaked UN report warns of climate tipping points</b><br>
By ALEXANDRIA HERR - JULY 3, 2021<br>
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Climate tipping points are the phenomenon by which small increases
in temperature can trigger self-perpetuating loops in the natural
world, "tipping" them towards dramatic and widespread change after a
certain temperature threshold is crossed — sometimes leading to even
more emissions and warming. Examples of tipping points include the
feedback between rising temperatures and permafrost melt; as the
Arctic warms, frozen soils rich in organic carbon known as
permafrost start to thaw, releasing the stores of ancient carbon
locked inside. Other examples include the melting of the Greenland
ice sheet, the collapse of coral reef ecosystems, and the potential
transition of the Amazon rainforest into a more savanna-like
ecosystem. The draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, or IPCC, details at least 12 potential tipping
points, according to Agence France-Presse...<br>
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The draft report says that the Earth has already warmed 1.1 degrees
Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit). The 2015 Paris Agreement set a
warming target of 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) , a goal that the
last IPCC report found will require a 45 percent reduction in carbon
emissions by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. The leaked report
paints a sobering picture of that best-case scenario. "Even at 1.5
degrees Celsius of warming, conditions will change beyond many
organisms' ability to adapt," the leaked report says. Last month,
the World Meteorological Organization estimated a 40 percent
probability that average global temperature will cross that
threshold for at least one year by 2026...<br>
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Jacquelyn Gill, paleoclimatologist at the University of Maine, told
Grist earlier this year that while tipping points are scary, they
don't take away human agency over the problem of climate change. "We
may not be able to predict exactly when some of these tipping points
occur, but what we can do is control our actions, take ownership of
our emissions," said Gill. Social tipping points for climate action,
swift changes in public opinion, technology, and policy, could work
to rapidly reduce emissions and prevent the worst impacts of climate
change — so long as governments get moving on their climate plans.<br>
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"We could stop global warming in a generation if we wanted to, which
would mean limiting future warming to not much more than has
happened already this century. We also know how." Myles Allen, a
professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford, told the
Guardian, "It's just a matter of getting on with it."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.salon.com/2021/07/03/leaked-un-report-warns-of-climate-tipping-points_partner/">https://www.salon.com/2021/07/03/leaked-un-report-warns-of-climate-tipping-points_partner/</a><br>
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[Nick Breeze interview]<br>
<b>Measuring Impact; don’t know? Don’t care! Margaret Kim, CEO, Gold
Standard</b><br>
July 3, 2021<br>
Nick Breeze<br>
<br>
In this episode of Shaping The Future I am speaking with Gold
Standard CEO, Margaret Kim. Gold Standard sets the standard for
climate positive implementation of a wide range of global scale
projects.<br>
<br>
The global push to eradicate emissions means that activities and
processes must be credible and effective if they are to build trust
that we are on target to avert overshoot due to the billions of
tonnes of human greenhouse gases emitted annually.<br>
<br>
Margaret has enormous expertise in understanding the processes that
solve these issues and also the reality of what it means if we fail
to deliver.<br>
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Recent heatwaves and storm events are causing devastation across the
world regardless of where people are located. The need for
accelerated transformation of our society to one that absorbs rather
than emits carbon has never been greater.<br>
<br>
Thanks for listening to Shaping The Future. You can support this
channel via my Patreon page or by subscribing to channels and giving
feedback. There are many more episodes on the way discussing a wide
range of climate issues so please stay tuned.<br>
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Time Stamps: <br>
<blockquote>00:00 Intro by Nick Breeze<br>
01:30 Ensuring carbon reduction project manage negative
environmental risks<br>
03:30 Establishing public trust in the fight against greenwashing<br>
07:20 Assessing impacts: “If you don’t know, you don’t care!”<br>
14:00 On policy shifts: “We have seen huge movements from civil
society groups, youth communities, making more progress than the
198 negotiators and governments supporting that. I really hope
that COP26 shows leadership that is badly needed.<br>
16:00 “Scope 3 emissions are key to Net Zero… but there is still a
large gap…”<br>
19:00 “We have clear science based mile stones…. This is not
something we can say is nice to have. It is a must.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1FKhdkEFM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1FKhdkEFM</a>
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[clips from Washington Post warning:]<br>
<b>Climate change has gotten deadly. It will get worse.</b><br>
Researchers say they are ‘virtually certain’ that warming from human
greenhouse gas emissions played a pivotal role in recent fatalities<br>
By Sarah Kaplan - July 3, 2021<br>
PORTLAND, Ore. — The emergency department at Oregon Health Sciences
University had rarely been this busy, even during the worst stages
of the covid-19 pandemic.<br>
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Physicians raced to provide fluids to patients who arrived
breathless, dizzy and drenched in sweat. Others were brought in on
stretchers, their body temperatures so high their central nervous
systems had shut down. Those who could still speak told of stifling
apartments and sun that made their skin sizzle. Some had tried to
walk to county cooling shelters, only to collapse in the blistering
heat.<br>
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“The system was overwhelmed,” said Mary Tanski, chair of OHSU’s
department of emergency medicine, of the towering heat dome that
toppled temperature records across the Northwest this week.<br>
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Some patients didn’t survive. In Oregon, Washington and western
Canada, authorities are investigating more than 800 deaths
potentially linked to the punishing heat...<br>
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Within the next week, researchers expect to publish a “rapid
attribution” study that determines how climate change made the
Northwest heat wave more likely. Yet precisely quantifying the role
of climate change in the event has been difficult because the heat
was just so extreme, said Michael Wehner, a climate scientist at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California who is
contributing to the attribution effort.<br>
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“It’s well beyond what straightforward statistical analysis would
suggest. It’s well beyond what climate models suggest,” he
continued. “But it happened.”<br>
<br>
Studies show the chance of a given tropical storm becoming a
hurricane that is Category 3 or greater has grown 8 percent every
decade. The acreage of the West burned by wildfire is twice what it
would otherwise be. The heat wave that struck the Northwest this
week brought temperatures that were as much as 11 degrees above the
previous all-time high...<br>
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“Climate change has loaded the weather dice against us,” said
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and
chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy.<br>
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“These extremes are something we knew were coming,” she added. “The
suffering that is here and now is because we have not heeded the
warnings sufficiently.”<br>
<br>
Humans burning fossil fuels have caused the globe to warm roughly 1
degree Celsius, or 2 degrees Fahrenheit, since the preindustrial
era. It’s a seemingly incremental change, but it has led to
disproportionately frequent and severe natural disasters.<br>
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Think of the climate as a bell curve, Hayhoe said, with temperatures
distributed according to how common they ought to be. The center of
the bell curve may have shifted just a couple of degrees, but the
area of the curve now in the “extreme” zone has increased
significantly...<br>
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Speaking over the phone, Wehner’s tone was somber as he discussed
the wildfire smoke that choked California last summer, people whose
homes burned down, a friend whose 90-year-old mother was killed when
the town of Paradise was consumed by flames. Haltingly, he recalled
watching a newscaster interview a Pakistani man whose two children
had died in a 2015 heat wave. When Wehner later investigated the
event, he found that climate change had made the event 1,000 times
more likely.<br>
<br>
“It did not have to be this way,” he said. “We have known enough to
take action for 20 years. And if we had taken action 20 years ago,
it would be a lot easier.”<br>
<br>
“But there’s no ‘I told you so,’” he continued. “I just feel bad.
Just bad. I really wish we had been wrong. But we weren’t.”<br>
<br>
The only comfort, said Hayhoe, is in knowing that action can still
be taken. Though the world could exceed 1.5 degrees of warming
within this decade, scientists say we can avoid crossing that
threshold if we cut global greenhouse gas emissions by about 7.6
percent per year.<br>
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Such cuts would require an unprecedented transformation of human
society. But look at the alternative, Hayhoe said.<br>
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“We have choices to make, she said. “And the quicker we make those
choices, the better off we will all be. The future is in our hands.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/07/03/climate-change-heat-dome-death/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/07/03/climate-change-heat-dome-death/</a>
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[Thoughtful coverage by DW]<br>
<b>Western US in grips of hottest, driest summer in 1000 years? | DW
News</b><br>
Jun 21, 2021<br>
DW News<br>
It may be the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but
for some 50 million people in the US summer has arrived early and
hotter than ever before. In just the last week, high temperature
records have been shattered all across the western half of the US.
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Salt Lake City, Utah, just saw its hottest day since record keeping
began in 1870. 107 degrees Fahrenheit. 42 degrees Celsius. Wyoming
also saw new records. In Nevada, Las Vegas continues to flirt with
its all-time high of 47 degrees Celsius. But the US city melting
most is Phoenix, Arizona, which just set an all-time record of five
consecutive days of 115 degrees or higher. That is 46 degrees
Celsius. <br>
The heat is making severe droughts across the western US go from bad
to worse. The federal government is already planning to declare an
official water shortage at Lake Mead in August. Lake Mead's waters
power Hoover Dam. As of last week, Lake Mead's water level is at a
record low, and there is n .relief in sight. <br>
The Western US is in what scientists describe as a climate-change
induced megadrought. Some even say this summer could be the hottest
and driest in a millennium. And less water means more fire. <br>
2020 saw a record number of wildfires in California, Oregon and
Washington. 2021 is expected to be worse.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLBc_PXDaOE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLBc_PXDaOE</a><br>
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[Visible to millions in the Seattle area ]<br>
<b>Heat wave sends water pouring off Mount Rainier, exposing
glaciers to summer heat sooner</b><br>
July 3, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/jul/03/heat-wave-sends-water-pouring-off-mount-rainier-ex/">https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/jul/03/heat-wave-sends-water-pouring-off-mount-rainier-ex/</a><br>
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[Inslee is governor of Washington State ]<br>
LIFE AFTER WARMING JULY 1, 2021<br>
<b>How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’</b><br>
By David Wallace-Wells<br>
<br>
The phrase Jay Inslee used was “permanent emergency.” This was
before Lytton — the town that had, days earlier, set Canada’s
all-time heat record, drawing waves of “heat tourists” as witnesses
to “desert heat” north of 120 degrees in a place where typical June
highs were in the mid-70s — burned to the ground just 15 minutes
after the arrival of smoke. It was before wildfires raging in
British Columbia produced their own pyrocumulus thunderstorms, which
produced their own lightning strikes that lit up the landscape again
with fire — 3,800 lightning strikes, according to one count, each
striking the dry tinder that those in the West now know to call
“fuel” and the rest of the world, watching an agonizing drought and
heat event unfold, is learning to call just “the West.” A tinderbox
half a continent wide.<br>
<br>
In Portland, Oregon, where temperatures got as high as 116, setting
new records three days in a row, with power cables melting in the
heat, the smoke plume from Northern California’s Lava fire settled
over downtown on Tuesday. If the whole region was enclosed in a
“heat dome,” as the meteorologists kept saying, it was beginning to
fill with wildfire smoke and not slowly. While the Lava fire had
grown to 15,000 acres in its first day, just on the other side of
Mount Shasta burned the Tennant fire. What lies ahead is quite
likely to be the worst fire season in modern California history, its
strongest competition the fires of last year and the ones only two
years before that.<br>
<br>
In British Columbia, there were at least 486 “sudden deaths” in the
midst of the heatwave — a number that is sure to grow many times
over, since deaths from heat are rarely so obvious they can be
identified in real time rather than statistical analysis. In
Portland, at least 63 have died, and in Seattle, where less than
half of homes have air conditioning, the extreme heat has put more
than a thousand people in the hospital already. Local hoteliers were
celebrating, however — their hotels full for the first time since
the beginning of the pandemic, with locals fleeing their homes in
search of the relief of AC. “It’s been a blessing,” one said.<br>
<br>
Elsewhere in Washington State, the roads were melting and
agricultural workers as young as 12 and as old as 70 were starting
their shifts at 4 a.m. to try to harvest the region’s cherries and
blueberries before the fruit was fried by the heat. In Sacramento,
residents complaining that the tap water tasted too much like dirt,
thanks to the ongoing drought that may be the worst the American
West has seen in millennia, were told to “add lemon.” In Santa
Barbara, people have been advised to jerry-rig DIY “clean-air rooms”
in preparation for the coming fire season, now already in full swing
— months ahead of what used to mark the beginning of peak activity
in the fall. Suppliers of sparklers were shuttered headed into the
Fourth of July weekend. In Alaska, at the edge of the heat dome, the
climate writer Eric Holthaus noted, “calving glaciers are producing
‘ice quakes’ as powerful as small earthquakes as they crumble into
the sea.” It was hotter in parts of Canada and Oregon, climate
scientist Zeke Hausfather pointed out, than it has ever been in the
history of Las Vegas, smack in the middle of the Mojave Desert.<br>
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“It blows my mind that we could get the temperatures that we’re
observing here in the Pacific Northwest, especially on the west
sides of the Cascade,” the Washington State climatologist Nick Bond
told the Guardian. “I would have been willing to guess something
like that in the middle of the century, in the latter part of the
century.”...<br>
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Simply because tens of millions of people in Canada and the U.S. are
living through the heat dome, however many thousands die from it,
and will survive the fire season to come, however much they choke on
its smoke, it would be criminal to look back on what is happening
now and will happen in the months ahead and think, “We managed.”<br>
<br>
But probably it would be just as criminal to fail to focus on
managing climate change in addition to stopping it. Indeed, almost
inevitably, the matter of management will likely move more and more
center stage, as Lewis suggests in his essay, which name-checks a
number of areas of needed investment and planning: early warning
systems, dramatically expanded cooling centers, and forecasts
featuring wet-bulb temperatures, when it comes to heat waves;
rebuilding infrastructure, energy infrastructure particularly, to
make it resilient in the face of new climate extremes; retrofitting
homes and “future-proofing” agriculture by developing new strains of
crops that can thrive, or at least survive, in our brutal new world.
He didn’t mention defensive infrastructure, such as sea walls and
levees, or large-scale controlled burns of forests in places like
the American west, or driving mosquitoes extinct through genetic
engineering so they don’t begin spreading tropical diseases like
dengue or malaria as far north as Scandanavia in the decades ahead.
According to models developed by Portland State’s Vivek Shandas,
simply “greening” cities through more grass and green roofs, lighter
building colors and more tree canopy, could reduce the on-ground
temperature there, in intense heat waves, by as much as 25 degrees,
compared to an extreme scenario in which the entire city is simply
paved into an asphalt future—though he cautions that these are
idealized, extreme models, and that the greening, though it sounds
simple, would not be exactly easy to implement, certainly in the
absence of regular heat emergencies.<br>
<br>
For years now, hyperbolic headliners have used those kinds of
disasters of warming to declare that the age of climate change had
arrived. This year suggests the possibility of a new arrival — the
age of adaptation, or what climate-and-energy researcher Juan
Moreno-Cruz yesterday called “climate realism.”<br>
<br>
Alarmism, he said, was “useless,” and even efforts to decarbonize
have served as a kind of distraction. “Stop dreaming up climate
solutions, think of climate managing strategies,” he admonished.<br>
<br>
Talking climate solutions has left us unprepared for actual climate
change. We keep running models and fighting over which “solution” is
the best, but we have done nothing to address the impacts of climate
change.<br>
<br>
Managing climate change is not as sexy as solving climate change,
but it’s what we need. Yes, we need real action to achieve deep
decarbonization in our economy. There is no amount of adaptation we
can do if we don‘t get emissions under control. But we already baked
in so much warming we need to deal with it now. We painted ourselves
into this corner, and we need to navigate our way out of it.
Dreaming about a future carbon-free system will do nothing for
people in India and Pakistan today.<br>
<br>
Perhaps the great awakening on warming has already happened — or
keeps happening and keeps being forgotten, among other reasons so
that we can continue to believe we stand just at the threshold of
climate suffering rather than well beyond it. But the great
awakening on adaptation probably still lies ahead of us. Or maybe
that “permanent emergency” is beginning right now.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/how-to-live-in-a-climate-permanent-emergency.html">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/how-to-live-in-a-climate-permanent-emergency.html</a><br>
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[information warfare volley from The Juice Media - lots of
Australian swearing]<br>
<b>Honest Government Ad | We Make Everything Good Sh!t</b><br>
Jul 2, 2021<br>
thejuicemedia - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXo7wtGW7M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXo7wtGW7M</a><br>
The Australien Government has made an ad about how it makes
everything good, shit - and it’s surprisingly honest and
informative.<br>
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bleeping]<br>
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Hey everyone, here's the latest Honest Government Ad - which as
always, was made possible thanks to our Patrons. Not many people
have heard of GISERA - the alliance between five of Australia's
biggest gas/fracking companies, and the CSIRO, our trusted and
beloved science agency. But that's about to change hopefully now
(*checks views*). And that's a good thing because it's extremely
concerning when Governments allow the country's scientific agencies
to be infiltgrated, hollowed out and parasitised by companies which
have a massive interest in playing down the harmful effects of gas
mining and fracking - on the environment, our health, and of course
the climate crisis.<br>
<br>
The scariest thing is that many CSIRO scientists say they're unable
to communicate their research findings to the public; or to speak
out about this bullshit for fear of losing their funding, or even
their jobs. So I thought we should lend them a hand. Coz at a time
like this, we absolutely need our scientists to be able to do their
jobs.<br>
<br>
As always, we'll publish the PG version in a couple of days, so keep
an eye out on our Teachers Page for that one:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads-teachers/">https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads-teachers/</a><br>
And in about a week we'll also publish the podcast companion for
this HGA, so we can discuss this shitfuckery in more detail. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXo7wtGW7M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXo7wtGW7M</a><br>
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[See for yourself]<br>
<b>Research – GISERA</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gisera.csiro.au/research">https://gisera.csiro.au/research</a><br>
GISERA has been formed to provide independent scientific research
that contributes constructively and objectively on Australia’s
growing onshore gas industry. GISERA aims to ensure its research is
informed by and of benefit to the broader community and industry.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gisera.csiro.au/">https://gisera.csiro.au/</a><br>
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[five experts video discussion]<br>
<b>Many Years of Living Dangerously - Roger Hallam John Doyle &
Robert Hunziker - Part 1</b><br>
Jan 21, 2021<br>
Facing Future<br>
Today Dale Walkonen and Stuart Scott, Producers of FacingFuture.TV,
converse with three distinguished guests: Roger Hallam, John Doyle
and Robert Hunziker. <br>
- Roger Hallam, formerly an organic farmer from Wales, saw the
handwriting on the wall and became one of the co-founders of the
world-wide 'XR' or 'Extinction Rebellion' taking civil disobedience
to new refined heights. <br>
- John Doyle, is a member of the EU Foresight Group in Brussels, who
are tasked with looking 50 years into the future to propose EU
policies. <br>
- Robert Hunziker is a journalist who does not just swallow and
parrot the 'mainstream narrative' peddled by the major news
organizations like MSNBC, CNN, and others, nor the wildly demented,
politically biased 'news' of the Murdock chain (Fox News in the US,
other 'rag' publications in the UK) in the fictions they publish as
'news.' Even the NY Times, WashingtonPost, and other famous names
in journalism are guilty of leaving out the 'investigative' part of
journalism, and print what governments tell them is the truth.
We've seen where that got us with a president who was a congenital
liar. Instead, Robert ferrets out the truth of our critical
situation with respect to the climate and ecosystems of Earth.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHVn-mpLxEM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHVn-mpLxEM</a><br>
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[a classic lecture from the late Dr Al Bartlett]<br>
<b>Sustainability 101: Exponential Growth - Arithmetic, Population
and Energy (Full - Updated)</b><br>
Jun 1, 2011<br>
Sustainable Guidance<br>
Dr. Albert Bartlett discusses the implications of unending growth on
economies, population, and resources. Presented at UBC on
5/19/2011.<br>
<br>
This compelling lecture is easy to pay attention to and gives a
basic introduction to the arithmetic of steady growth, including an
explanation of the concept of doubling time. He explains the impact
of unending steady growth on population. He then examines the
consequences steady growth in a finite environment and observes this
growth as applied to fossil fuel consumption, the lifetimes of which
are much shorter than the optimistic figures most often quoted.<br>
<br>
He proceeds to examine oddly reassuring statements from "experts",
the media and political leaders - statements that are dramatically
inconsistent with the facts. He discusses the widespread worship of
economic growth and population growth in western society. Professor
Bartlett explains "sustainability" in the context of the First Law
of Sustainability:<br>
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"You cannot sustain population growth and / or growth in the rates
of consumption of resources.<br>
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This 1708th presentation of this matierial by Dr. Bartlett brings
the listener to understand and appreciate the implications of
unending growth on a finite planet, and closes noting the crucial
need for education on this topic.<br>
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Professor Bartlett has given this celebrated one-hour lecture
beginning in September, 1969, to audiences with an average
attendance of 80 in the United States and world-wide. His audiences
have ranged from junior high school and college students to
corporate executives and scientists, and to congressional staffs.
For more information, see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.AlBartlett.org">http://www.AlBartlett.org</a> .<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ghHia-M54">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ghHia-M54</a><br>
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[More Al Bartlet]<br>
<b>Al Bartlett Interview</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ZJCtL6bPs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ZJCtL6bPs</a><br>
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[Inspirational information]<br>
<b>Suzanne Simard | Mother Trees and the Social Forest</b><br>
Jun 15, 2021<br>
Long Now Foundation<br>
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Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals that trees are part of a
complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social,
cooperative creatures connected through underground mycorrhizal
networks by which trees communicate their vitality and
vulnerabilities, and share and exchange resources and support. <br>
<br>
Simard's extraordinary research and tenacious efforts to raise
awareness on the interconnectedness of forest systems, both above
and below ground, has revolutionized our understanding of forest
ecology. This increasing knowledge is driving a call for more
sustainable practices in forestry and land management, ones that
develop strategies based on the forest as a whole entity, not on
trees as isolated individuals.<br>
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Dr. Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the
University of British Columbia and the author of "Finding the Mother
Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest" (pub. 5/4/21). An active
field researcher for decades, her scientific studies and
observations built the foundations for our new understanding of the
complexity of forest systems. Simard's current collaboration The
Mother Tree Project, is investigating forest renewal practices that
will protect biodiversity, carbon storage and forest regeneration as
the climate changes.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbzrun3opk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbzrun3opk</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming July
5, 2012</b></font><br>
Economist Yoram Bauman and law professor Shi-Ling Hsu point out the
benefits of a federal carbon tax in a New York Times article.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/opinion/a-carbon-tax-sensible-for-all.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/opinion/a-carbon-tax-sensible-for-all.html</a><br>
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