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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 16, 2021</b></i></font> <br>
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<i>[Monumental carbon storage ]</i><br>
<b>Wildfires shutter Sequoia National Park and threaten famous
ancient trees</b><br>
Growing wildfires in the Sierra Nevada forced the closure of Sequoia
National Park in California on Wednesday as blazes sparked by
lightning strikes threaten the park’s groves of giant sequoias, home
to some of the tallest and oldest trees in the world.<br>
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Sequoia National Park is home to Giant Forest, a grove of ancient
giant sequoias, including the 275-foot General Sherman, the world’s
largest tree by volume, according to the National Park Service.
Though wildfires are part of the natural regeneration process for
sequoias, experts say intensifying blazes fueled by climate change
are instead destroying them.<br>
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Beyond their benefits, Nelson said the trees themselves are natural
wonders that are one of the few living artifacts from ancient
history.<br>
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“What’s special about them is that a 3,000 year-old tree was there
while Indigenous people were here tending them,” she said. “The same
time the Roman Empire was flourishing and people were building
viaducts.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/sequoia-trees-wildfire/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/sequoia-trees-wildfire/</a>
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<i>[Congress is trying]</i><br>
<b>Congress Is Debating Its Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. Here's
What's At Stake</b><br>
September 15, 2021<br>
Jeff Brady <br>
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This legislation would bring extraordinary changes to the country's
energy sector. It would lead to huge reductions in the
climate-warming greenhouse gases the U.S. emits and change the kind
of car many Americans drive.<br>
<br>
A key element is a $150 billion Clean Electricity Performance
Program, or CEPP, that would pay utilities to switch from greenhouse
gas-emitting electricity sources, such as coal and natural gas, to
non-emitting sources such as wind, solar, hydropower and nuclear.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1036954961/congress-is-debating-its-biggest-climate-change-bill-ever-heres-whats-at-stake">https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1036954961/congress-is-debating-its-biggest-climate-change-bill-ever-heres-whats-at-stake</a><br>
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<i>[Congress tries to save the day - just how close comes from Dave
Roberts. ]</i><br>
<b>A close look at the clean energy legislation offered by House
Democrats</b><br>
The CEPP and tax credits and labor standards, oh my.<br>
David Roberts - Sept 15, 2021<br>
After months of anticipation, Democrats have begun to reveal pieces
of their upcoming Build Back Better Act (aka the budget
reconciliation bill), including the key clean energy provisions.<br>
<br>
On Monday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began markup of
its full set of recommendations for the bill. Meanwhile, the House
Ways and Means Committee released its draft tax package for the
bill, including the clean energy tax credits.<br>
<br>
As negotiations around the reconciliation bill move forward, I’ll
have more to say about the politics, economics, and larger
implications of all this Democratic energy policy. For now, I just
want to get the specifics on the record.<br>
<br>
For one thing, there’s a lot of policy here, and it will take some
time to think it through. For another, it will be important to track
what gets added and (more likely) cut when the bill goes to the
Senate, so this post can serve as our baseline for comparison...<br>
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Now let’s see how much survives the Senate<br>
Like I said, there will be more to talk about as the bill is
negotiated. For now, I’ll leave you with three observations.<br>
<br>
First, is this enough? Ha ha, no. No climate policy is ever enough.
This is far short of the $10 trillion that would be needed for a
true Green New Deal. It’s far short of the $6 trillion bill Sen.
Bernie Sanders first proposed, back in June. It is, from a climate
perspective, a ludicrously low level of investment and mobilization.<br>
<br>
Nonetheless, this is what the lamentably small group of
climate-focused legislators were able to squeeze from a chaotic
process. This is a reflection of the relative weight climate carries
in the House.<br>
<br>
Second, this is the high-water mark, so enjoy it while it lasts.
Sens. Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) are going to try to hack
down the overall level of spending, and Manchin has already signaled
his intention to go after some of the energy provisions, including
the CEPP. I have no idea what will happen in the Senate — my brain
is tired from trying to predict — but given that Manchin is
involved, it’s likely to be unpleasant.<br>
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Third, I know this isn’t helpful right now, but damn is it stupid
for a wealthy democracy to make policy the way we do. Because every
policy of any size has to be crammed through the budget
reconciliation process, it all ends up in the tax code, a
complicated skein of credits and loopholes that encourages
rent-seeking and keep armies of lawyers employed.<br>
<br>
This is not how any energy wonk, including the energy wonks on
Democratic congressional staffs, would write policy if offered a
blank sheet of paper. It is kludge upon kludge, a Rube Goldberg
mechanism reverse-engineered to conform to anachronistic budget
rules administered by a parliamentarian-cum-shaman.<br>
<br>
But it is what’s possible now. American democracy is staggering,
barely upright, and people of good will are scrambling to do the
best they can under the circumstances. There’s no time left for
infighting. Let’s just get this thing over the finish line.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-close-look-at-the-clean-energy?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDEyMTQwOTQsIl8iOiI4QWdWYyIsImlhdCI6MTYzMTc1MzQ1MywiZXhwIjoxNjMxNzU3MDUzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.h4Q2l41GDojOGm8PdHV8vTTubOpZ7r6JIfRGZxIwz34&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play">https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-close-look-at-the-clean-energy?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDEyMTQwOTQsIl8iOiI4QWdWYyIsImlhdCI6MTYzMTc1MzQ1MywiZXhwIjoxNjMxNzU3MDUzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.h4Q2l41GDojOGm8PdHV8vTTubOpZ7r6JIfRGZxIwz34&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play</a><br>
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<i>[TV to save the day!]</i><br>
<b>Late-Night Shows Are Teaming Up to Tackle Climate Change</b><br>
Seven of TV’s most popular late-night programs and hosts, including
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Samantha Bee, plan to address the
subject on the night of Sept. 22.<br>
On Sept. 22, seven of the network and cable late-night shows will
take part in Climate Night, during which each of these programs will
have a focus on climate change and produce their own original
content on the topic.<br>
<br>
The shows that plan to participate in Climate Night are “The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” on
NBC; “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “The Late Late Show
With James Corden” on CBS; “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” on TBS;
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC; and “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” on
Comedy Central.<br>
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Samantha Bee said in an interview that she could not recall another
occasion during her tenure as a late-night host when so many of
programs coordinated their efforts like this...<br>
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“And really, what’s a more compelling cause to combine forces on
than the climate, which we require in order to do our shows?” she
said. “We need to not be submerged underwater in order to have
successful late-night shows. The need is great.”...<br>
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Bodow said his request to each program was: “Please do your show the
way that you do your show. The shows have different styles and
vibes, and that’s how they’ll approach this. There’s plenty to talk
about.”<br>
<br>
Bee said that, despite the inherently comedic tone of these
late-night shows, they could still offer a constructive platform to
address such an ominous topic.<br>
<br>
“It’s a really overwhelming conversation to have because so much has
to happen, so urgently,” she said. “I do think that we,
individually, each do a great job of breaking down stories in ways
that are palatable. Comedy is a great delivery system for actual
information.”<br>
<br>
She added: “And I expect, probably by the end of the show, we will
have solved the climate crisis. So that’s exciting.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/arts/television/late-night-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/arts/television/late-night-climate-change.html</a><br>
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<i>[Poignant audio from children about climate chaos and the future]</i><br>
<b>Opinion</b><br>
<b> </b><b>‘He Just Cried for a While.’ This Is My Reality of
Parenting During a Climate Disaster.</b><br>
One New Orleans mother on Hurricane Ida and what comes next.<br>
Produced by Cristal Duhaime, Christina Djossa and Derek Arthur<br>
Edited by Kaari Pitkin and Paula Szuchman<br>
Engineered by Isaac Jones<br>
Original music by Isaac Jones and Carole Sabouraud<br>
<p>Two days before Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana in late
August, Sarah DeBacher was trying to get her kids to stop dawdling
and start packing. She needed them to understand the urgency of
why they had to evacuate their home in Holy Cross, a neighborhood
in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.</p>
When her younger son, Charlie, 7, asked what might happen if they
didn’t leave, DeBacher told them that during Hurricane Katrina a man
had drowned in the house they now live in. She hadn’t planned to
tell her kids this grim fact — it just slipped out.<br>
<br>
Listen to DeBacher, an educator and mother, wrestle with the hard
talks she’s been having with her kids about climate change these
last few weeks while displaced from their home. She wonders what
should come next, for her family and all of us.<br>
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Clip from audio: <br>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>Sarah Debacher<br>
There’s an intensity to spending time with kids that is just
exacerbated however many umpteen times when you’re in a
stressful situation. I knew from past evacuations, you really
can’t wait until within eight hours or even 12 hours of
landfall. You’ve got to get out sooner. And they just weren’t
cooperating. Who knows what they were doing — playing with the
dog, teasing the chickens, harassing me about having somebody
come over to play on the trampoline. They didn’t want to go.
There was just complaint after complaint. I just kind of lost my
cool and said, this needs to happen and it needs to happen now
because we have a limited period of time to get out. If we stay
and it’s a Category Four, something really awful could happen.
And I think Charlie said to me, what is the awful thing that
could happen? And I said, well, we could drown in our house.
Robin was like, whoa. And I immediately was just like, oh,
Sarah. Way to go. I didn’t realize that someone died there when
we bought the house. There were some volunteers that had come
over to help us actually remove Hurricane Katrina graffiti, is
what everyone called it. But it was — these were the spray
painted marks that the National Guard or whichever of the
external agencies, they were going house to house and then they
would mark it. And on the side of the house it said, one D.O.A.
[MUSIC PLAYING] In the Lower Ninth Ward, it wasn’t like a slow
rise of water — it was pretty abrupt. There was someone who had
stayed, a man who the water came up over him.<br>
<br>
When the storms have come since then, it’s definitely made not
staying in the neighborhood an important move for me. Because
even though billions of dollars have been invested in the
federal levees after Katrina, you can’t really hear something
like that and imagine it in your house and not feel a little bit
afraid. So I’m imagining that Charlie —<br>
<br>
Charlie was scared.<br>
<br>
The desired effect was not to traumatize them. The desired
effect was not to — I just wanted them to help. And I wanted
them to do so with a level of urgency that I knew existed.
[MUSIC PLAYING] I just really wanted them to grab their favorite
lovies and a couple of changes of clothes. We left at 10:30 at
night, and I just drove. We stopped once to get gas, and we
arrived in Atlanta at 6:30 in the morning...<br>
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Everything looks good?<br>
<br>
Kelly<br>
I just didn’t want you to worry. I don’t see any evidence of
leaks and nothing is smelly.<br>
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Sarah Debacher<br>
Wow.<br>
<br>
Kelly<br>
So it all looks good in there. The backyard has a lot of
branches.<br>
<br>
Sarah Debacher<br>
Did you happen to see my chickens?<br>
<br>
Kelly<br>
Yeah. And the chickens— we came in the backyard and they were
all running around. We’re still in the back yard now. We were
about to give them water.<br>
<br>
Sarah Debacher<br>
What do you miss about home?<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
Like, our friends and everything that’s at home. Sort of.<br>
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Sarah Debacher<br>
Yeah. What do you miss about school?<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
I’m not sure — just school.<br>
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Sarah Debacher<br>
I hear you. The way that my boys have handled the evacuation has
been kind of fascinating, because on the one hand, they’re both
just like, oh, this is vacation. This is great. And yet one
morning, shortly after the storm hit, Charlie had a bit of a
meltdown. And he sat at the bottom of the stairs in my parents’
basement — which by the way, they find bizarre, because there
are no basements in New Orleans. And he just was inconsolable.
And when I asked him what was wrong, he said that he just wanted
to go home.<br>
<br>
He just cried for a while, and I held him. And a bag of Legos
arrives, and everything was fine again. So I feel like my work
has been to kind of try to mitigate the bad. But I don’t
necessarily think the right way of doing that is to be like, oh,
look over here, shiny thing, all the time. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Because while you’re distracting a child from something that is
actually happening, you deprive them of the opportunity to go
through the range of emotions. To have a meltdown in the middle
of it. Charlie was just beside himself bawling, and I think the
fact that he was able to recover was in part because I held
space for him to fall apart.<br>
<br>
I think mine’s coming later.<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
There’s a lot of different things, and I am not like a climate
change activist myself. So I mean, I’ve studied a lot about
climate change in school. But like, I don’t know how chemicals
work and how we can stop carbon emissions.<br>
<br>
Sarah Debacher<br>
I think one of the challenges for schools — and this was one
that I experienced after Katrina — is that the state learning
expectations, academic standards, standardized testing, school
performance scores, et cetera and so on, those are not aligned
with the needs of kids right now. Nor are they aligned with the
needs of teachers. Teachers do not need to be grading a kid’s
drawing of their Hurricane Ida experience with a sentence
underneath it that says what it was like for them. And does it
have a subject and a predicate? And is it capitalized, and does
it have a period? That is not what kids need. What kids need
after a trauma is the resources and the infrastructure to
explore their curiosity.<br>
<br>
Someone nearby to ask the right questions and push them to find
deeper, more substantive, meaningful answers. And then when they
can’t come up with that, they just need someone to be like,
that’s cool. Charlie do you have anything you want to say about
what—<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
Never get rid of Legos.<br>
<br>
Sarah Debacher<br>
Never get rid of Legos? About what grownups should be doing to
help kids prepare for or handle climate change?<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m not sure.<br>
<br>
Sarah Debacher<br>
As these kinds of disasters and the effects of climate change
force us to contend with this more frequently, I think we need
to get into a regular practice of talking about what’s
happening. Which kind of sucks, because what we want to do when
it’s not happening is just breathe and play, and not deal with
it. I don’t want to talk about like potentially having to move.
I don’t want to get a hurricane kit together. I don’t want to —
waah! But I think we need to get into the habit of talking about
climate change and its impacts intergenerationally, kids and
parents. If we’re always in response and reaction mode, I just
don’t think we’re going to be able to make the progress in the
amount of time that we have available to us. [MUSIC PLAYING] Can
I ask you— can you pause for one second while I ask you a kind
of serious question?<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
Yeah. OK.<br>
<br>
Do you know that a lot of scientists can’t believe that we’re
going to be dealing with...<br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
Christina Djossa<br>
Sarah and her kids are back in New Orleans now. Robin and Charlie
head to school on Monday. As of September 13th, power has been
restored to nearly 95 percent of Louisiana’s residents. Most public
schools in New Orleans are slated to reopen by September 22nd — more
than three weeks after Ida struck.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/parenting-climate-change-hurricane-ida.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/parenting-climate-change-hurricane-ida.html</a><br>
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<i>[Changing West]</i><br>
<b>Growing Uncertainty in the Central Valley</b><br>
California produces much of America’s food—and now a drought and a
pandemic have put the system on edge.<br>
By Anna Wiener<br>
September 15, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/california-chronicles/growing-uncertainty-in-the-central-valley">https://www.newyorker.com/news/california-chronicles/growing-uncertainty-in-the-central-valley</a><br>
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<i>[Calling out the troops..]</i><br>
<b>National Guard helping out at Mercy hospitals in Bakersfield</b><br>
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The latest COVID surge is leading to
Kern County hospitals needing staffing help to treat an increase in
patients.<br>
<br>
Bruce Peters from Mercy Hospital said that Mercy hospitals have been
receiving help from the National Guard from their strike team of 27
people. The help is comprised of paramedics and emergency medical
technicians to help with the COVID surge...<br>
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Kern Public Health reported there are 675 new cases of COVID and
five new deaths on Wednesday. 1,510 deaths and 132,282 cases of
COVID have been reported in Kern County since the pandemic began.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/national-guard-helping-out-at-mercy-hospitals-in-bakersfield">https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/national-guard-helping-out-at-mercy-hospitals-in-bakersfield</a><br>
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<i>[Rant from Rolling Stone magazine]</i><br>
<b>Our Summer From Hell</b><br>
Cue the round of media wondering if this is the moment people “wake
up” to the climate crisis. If this is what waking up looks like,
we’re screwed<br>
By JEFF GOODELL <i>...</i><br>
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</i>Now, as the world floods and burns, the price of our willful
ignorance and denial is becoming clearer. Are a few devastated towns
along the Gulf Coast and waterfalls in the New York City subway
system going to be what wakes us up from that? I hope so. But I fear
that just as there is no “us,” there is also no “waking up.” If the
pandemic has proved anything, it’s that the reservoirs of stupidity
and self-destructiveness in the American mind are deeper than even
the most cynical among us could have imagined. So maybe the best
thing we can do right now is not pretend we will “wake up” to the
monstrous reality of our time like some character in a fairy tale.
Maintaining a habitable planet is going to be a long hard fight, and
if this summer from hell has shown us anything, it’s that this fight
has only just begun.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/hurricane-ida-destruction-climate-change-1220436/">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/hurricane-ida-destruction-climate-change-1220436/</a><br>
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<i>[government causes anxiety]</i><br>
<b>Study: More than half of young people think "humanity is doomed"</b><br>
It’s the first study to find that climate anxiety is connected to
government inaction<br>
By KATE YODER - - SEPT 15, 2021<br>
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The largest study of its kind shows that the environmental crisis is
causing widespread psychological distress for young people across
the globe. In a paper released Tuesday, researchers from the United
States, United Kingdom, and Finland found that 45 percent of teens
and young adults say climate anxiety is affecting their daily lives
and ability to function. It's the first study to suggest that young
people's emotional distress is strongly linked to their governments'
failure to respond.<br>
<br>
"This study paints a horrific picture of widespread climate anxiety
in our children and young people," said Caroline Hickman, a
co-author and a researcher at the University of Bath in the United
Kingdom, in a statement. <br>
<br>
Three-quarters of those surveyed said that the "future is
frightening," with more than half believing that "humanity is
doomed." Nearly 4 in 10 said that they are hesitant to have
children. ...<br>
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Some 58 percent of those surveyed said that their governments are
betraying them and future generations. That number was particularly
high, 77 percent, in Brazil, where deforestation and fire in the
Amazon rainforest have risen under President Jair Bolsonaro.<br>
<br>
The results lend credence to lawsuits in which young people have
taken their governments to court over climate change, arguing that
political leaders have failed to protect their futures and their
right to a healthy environment. Because government inaction is so
psychologically damaging, the report argues, it could be considered
a violation of human rights. Young activists in Germany saw some
success with this logic earlier this year. In April, the country's
highest court said that parts of Germany's emissions reductions laws
were unconstitutional since the goals were too vague and offloaded
the burden onto younger generations...<br>
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The study uses "climate anxiety" as a catch-all to describe the many
emotions that people feel when confronted with the facts about
climate change: worry, fear, anger, grief, despair, guilt, even
hope. These feelings, the authors write, are a rational response.
But they are often disregarded by others: Among the 81 percent of
respondents who said they talked to people about their concerns,
nearly half said they were ignored or dismissed. <br>
<br>
And while climate anxiety is often seen as a personal problem with
an individual solution ("take action!"), the study suggests that
action really needs to come from those in power.<br>
"I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom," said Mitzi
Tan, a 23-year-old from the Philippines, in a statement accompanying
the study. "Society tells me that this anxiety is an irrational fear
that needs to be overcome — one that meditation and healthy coping
mechanisms will 'fix.' At its root, our climate anxiety comes from
this deep-set feeling of betrayal because of government inaction. To
truly address our growing climate anxiety, we need justice."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/15/study-more-than-half-of-young-people-think-humanity-is-doomed_partner/">https://www.salon.com/2021/09/15/study-more-than-half-of-young-people-think-humanity-is-doomed_partner/</a>
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<p>[Preprint with The Lancet]</p>
<b>Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and
Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon</b><br>
23 Pages Posted: 7 Sep 2021<br>
Caroline Hickman<br>
University of Bath<br>
<br>
Elizabeth Marks<br>
University of Bath<br>
<br>
Panu Pihkala<br>
University of Helsinki<br>
<br>
Susan Clayton<br>
College of Wooster<br>
<br>
Eric R. Lewandowski<br>
New York University (NYU) - Langone Health Center<br>
<br>
Elouise E. Mayall<br>
University of East Anglia (UEA)<br>
<br>
Britt Wray<br>
Stanford University<br>
<br>
Catriona Mellor<br>
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust<br>
<br>
Lise van Susteren<br>
Independent<br>
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Abstract<br>
Background: Climate change has significant implications for the
health and futures of children and young people, yet they have
little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to increased
climate anxiety. Qualitative studies show climate anxiety is
associated with perceptions of inadequate action by adults and
governments, feelings of betrayal, abandonment and moral injury.
This study offers the first large-scale investigation of climate
anxiety in children and young people globally and its relationship
to government response. <br>
<br>
Methods: We surveyed 10,000 young people (aged 16-25 years) in ten
countries. Data were collected on their thoughts and feelings about
climate change, and government response. <br>
<br>
Findings: Respondents were worried about climate change (59% very or
extremely worried, 84% at least moderately worried). Over 50% felt
sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty. Over 45% said
their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily
life and functioning, and many reported a high number of negative
thoughts about climate change. Respondents rated the governmental
response to climate change negatively and reported greater feelings
of betrayal than of reassurance. Correlations indicated that climate
anxiety and distress were significantly related to perceived
inadequate government response and associated feelings of betrayal.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4822679">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4822679</a><br>
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<p><i>[great minds in discussion video this Monday]</i></p>
<p>The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America presents<br>
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<b>A CONVERSATION ABOUT CLIMATE: "HOW WE GOT HERE, AND WHERE TO
NOW?"</b><br>
With Bill McKibben and Sally Weintrobe<br>
20th September 2021 at 2:00pm EST/ 11am PST<br>
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*This event is free of charge*<br>
Join us for a not-to-be-missed conversation between American
environmentalist Bill McKibben and<br>
British psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe about her brilliant new
book, Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal
Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare, in which she explores
the psychological and cultural forces behind the rise of the
climate bubble, inside of which people ignore the climate crisis.
She reveals the paradigm shift necessary to move from the current
dysfunctional culture of uncare toward a culture of care necessary
for a sustainable world.<br>
<br>
**This will be a 30-minute conversation followed by a 30-minute
Q&A with a select group of journalists **<br>
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Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, has written extensively on the
climate crisis, from his prophetic “The End of Nature” (1989) to
“Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” (2019).<br>
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Sally Weintrobe, psychoanalyst and longstanding member of Climate
Psychology Alliance UK, writes about the mental health dimensions
of the climate crisis. She edited and contributed to the book
Engaging with Climate Change (2013).<br>
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<p><i>[The news archive - "Beyond crazy is a better description...a
village cannot reorganize village life to suit the village
idiot. It‘s as simple as that</i><i>" - a radical video
interview]</i></p>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
September 16,</b></font><br>
<p>September 16, 2009: On MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," former
fundamentalist Christian Frank Schaeffer explains right-wing
science denial:<br>
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“…[T]he mainstream--not just media, but culture—doesn’t
sufficiently take stock of the fact that within our culture we
have a subculture which is literally a fifth column of insanity
that is bred from birth, through home school, Christian school,
evangelical college, whatever, to reject facts as a matter of
faith… [W]hat we‘re really talking about is a group of people that
are resentful because they‘ve been left behind by modernity, by
science, by education, by art, by literature. The rest of us are
getting on with our lives. These people are standing on the
hilltop waiting for the end.”<br>
<br>
Further, Schaeffer noted:<br>
<br>
“You don‘t work to move them off this position. You move past
them. Look, a village cannot reorganize village life to suit the
village idiot. It‘s as simple as that. And we have to
understand, we have a village idiot in this country, it‘s called
‘Fundamentalist Christianity.’<br>
<br>
"And until we move past these people—and let me add, as a former
lifelong Republican, until the Republican leadership has the guts
to stand up and say it would be better not to have a Republican
Party than have a party that caters to the village idiot—there’s
going to be no end in sight…<br>
<br>
“There is no end to this stuff. Why? Because this subculture has
as its fundamentalist faith that they distrust facts per se. They
believe in a young Earth, 6,000 years old, with dinosaurs
cavorting with human beings. They think that whether it‘s
economic news or news from the Middle East, it all has to do with
the end of time and Christ’s return. This is la-la land.<br>
<br>
“And the Republican Party is totally enthralled to this subculture
to the extent that there is no Republican Party. There is a
fundamentalist subculture which has become a cult. It‘s fed red
meat by buffoons like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other people
who are just not terribly bright themselves and they are talking
to even stupider people. That‘s where we’re at. That‘s where all
of this is coming from.<br>
<br>
“And it‘s becoming circular. It‘s becoming a joke.
Unfortunately, a dangerous joke because once in a while, one of
these ‘looney tunes,’ as we see, brings guns to public meetings.
Who knows what they do next. It‘s a serious thing we all have to
face, but the Democrats and sane Americans just have to move past
these people, say, ‘Go wait on the hilltop until the end, the rest
of us are going to get on with rebuilding our country.’”<br>
<br>
He concluded:<br>
<br>
“Look, in the year 2000 I worked for John McCain, to try to get
him elected in the primaries instead of George Bush. But John
McCain sold out by nominating Sarah Palin who comes directly from
the heart of this movement and carries with her all that baggage.
So, he sold out. I don‘t see anybody on the Republican side of
things these days who has the moral standing to provide real
leadership, or who will risk their position to do so.”<br>
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