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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 10, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ another battery breakthrough - possibly] </i><br>
<b>Lithium Sulfur batteries: SOLVED! Two new tech breakthroughs in
the same week!</b><br>
Oct 10, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Lithium Sulphur (or Sulfur) batteries have been on the 'hopeful
technology' list for over a decade now. Potentially they have 5
times the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries. The
trouble is, previous prototypes had terribly short cycle lives, so
they were pretty much useless. Now, after ten years of waiting,
suddenly two different solutions have been announced within a <br>
Video Transcripts available at our website
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justhaveathink.com">http://www.justhaveathink.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqH5yB9RB_Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqH5yB9RB_Y</a><br>
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<i>[ Religion challenges politics ]</i><br>
<b>Pope calls on lawmakers to quickly reach consensus on fighting
climate change</b><br>
OCTOBER 9, 2021 <br>
Pope Francis on Saturday called on lawmakers worldwide to overcome
"the narrow confines" of partisan politics to quickly reach
consensus on fighting climate change. The pope addressed
parliamentarians who were in Rome for a preparatory meeting before
the U.N's annual climate conference, which begins in Glasgow,
Scotland, on October 31.<br>
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Francis referred to a joint appeal he and other religious leaders
signed this week that calls for governments to commit to ambitious
goals at the U.N. conference, which experts consider a critical
opportunity to tackle the threat of global warming.<br>
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"To meet this challenge, everyone has a role to play,'' Francis told
the visiting lawmakers from many countries. "That of political and
government leaders is especially important, and indeed crucial."<br>
"This demanding change of direction will require great wisdom,
foresight and concern for the common good: in a word, the
fundamental virtues of good politics,'' Francis said.<br>
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Francis said in a recent interview that he intended to participate
in the U.N.'s upcoming COP26 conference, but the Vatican announced
Friday that he would not attend and the Vatican delegation would be
led by the secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-calls-on-lawmakers-reach-consensus-fighting-climate-change/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-calls-on-lawmakers-reach-consensus-fighting-climate-change/</a><br>
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<i>[BBC reports]</i><br>
<b>Kraft Heinz says people must get used to higher food prices</b><br>
Mr Patricio says that consumers will need to get used to higher food
prices given that the world's population is rising whilst the amount
of land on which to grow food is not.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58847275">https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58847275</a><br>
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<i>[easy prediction]</i><br>
<b>Defense Department warns climate change will increase conflicts
over water and food</b><br>
PUBLISHED FRI, OCT 8 2021<br>
Emma Newburger<br>
KEY POINTS<br>
- Climate change poses a serious threat to U.S. military operations
and will lead to new sources of global political conflict, the
Department of Defense wrote in its new climate adaptation plan.<br>
- Water shortages could become a primary source of friction or
conflict between U.S. military overseas and the countries where
troops are based, it warned.<br>
- The DOD was among 20 federal agencies unveiling the plans, which
reveal the biggest threats global warming poses to their operations
and suggest how they could handle them.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/defense-department-warns-climate-change-will-increase-conflicts.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/defense-department-warns-climate-change-will-increase-conflicts.html</a><br>
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<i>[ obstructing progress ]</i><b><br>
</b><b>Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate
Funds, Sources Say</b><br>
The Arizona senator, who started in politics as an environmentalist,
is one of two centrist Democrats who could make or break a spending
bill at the center of President Biden’s legislative agenda.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/climate/arizona-senator-sinema.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/climate/arizona-senator-sinema.html</a><br>
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<i>[Some sarcastic humor 20 min video -- Halloween Hell-House ]</i><br>
<b>Full Frontal Rewind: Sam's Takes on Climate Change</b><br>
Oct 6, 2021<br>
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee<br>
You’re not imagining things: it’s getting hotter. Cool down with our
best pieces from the show about climate change and what we can do
about it before Denver has a beach.<br>
<br>
Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnEKYGBA9k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnEKYGBA9k</a><br>
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[climate physicist talk philosophical]<br>
<b>Could climate change make Earth uninhabitable for humans? | Niel
Bowerman | EA Global: London 2019</b><br>
Dec 18, 2019<br>
Centre for Effective Altruism<br>
How likely is human extinction due to climate change? Niel Bowerman,
a former climate physicist who is now at 80,000 Hours, addresses one
component of this question — the future physical habitability of
Earth — by surveying possible routes to extreme levels of warming
and ways in which extreme warming could lead to uninhabitability.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQgDwXmsyg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQgDwXmsyg</a><br>
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[The Great, the Wise Woman - Joanna Macy in a classic video]<br>
<b>The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age</b><br>
Sep 30, 2021<br>
Facing Future<br>
One of the great activists and spiritual teachers of our era,
#JoannaMacy asks us to discover our inherent wisdom, strength and
beauty in the midst of crisis. Her Buddhist teaching is that we
must sustain the motivation to care for the welfare of all, despite
the overwhelming catastrophe that is coming fast upon us.<br>
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She tells us that uncertainty can be a gift, freeing us from the
delusions and dependencies bred by our pathological “industrial
growth society,” and instead, we must stand in the way of the forces
that are destroying life on our planet. Steering clear of panic, we
may well find, at last, the wild power of our creativity and
solidarity, as we link arms and take up the great work of our time.<br>
<br>
This talk was given at Bioneers in 2018. For relevant content in
this year's Bioneers conference, Dr. Gabor Maté will address trauma,
illness and healing @Bioneers 2021 Virtual Conference. For a 15%
Facing Future Discount, use code bc36m2<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9OT8MFr3IE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9OT8MFr3IE</a>
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</i><b>A rant about economist pundits, and other things, but mostly
economist pundits</b><i><br>
</i>Read the room.<br>
David Roberts<br>
Oct 8, 2021<i><br>
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</i>There are those in climate circles who lay most of the blame for
the failure of climate action to date at the feet of economists. I’m
not one of those people. I just lay … some of the blame at their
feet. The fact is, rapidly transforming the entire industrial base
of every country on earth was always going to be difficult — lots of
extremely powerful interests stand to lose a great deal of money and
power — and was probably going to go slowly no matter what
economists did.<br>
- -<br>
Conventional economics has mostly gotten climate change wrong<br>
Part of what prompted me to write this post in the first place is
this piece by economist Daron Acemoglu about the failures of
economics on climate change and some longstanding assumptions that
need to be updated. It’s a smart, approachable distillation of some
critiques that will be familiar to policy nerds:<br>
<br>
Economists have dramatically underestimated the cost of climate
damages.<br>
<br>
They have treated technology as an exogenous variable, something
external that just happens, applied to models at a set rate; models
with “endogenous and directed technological change,” which reflects
our ability to shape and focus technology development through
policy, reveal that much more dramatic emission cuts are affordable.<br>
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They have used “discount rates” familiar in short-term market
contexts to calculate the value of inter-generational goods.<br>
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They have failed to account properly for risk and uncertainty,
especially for “long-tail risks,” i.e., low-probability but
disastrous outcomes.<br>
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They have assessed the costs and benefits of wholesale
sociotechnical transformation using utility functions designed to
model changes at the margins of existing systems.<br>
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They have obsessed over optimally efficient policy in a way that
ignores other values and trade-offs.<br>
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(See Noah Smith and Tom Brookes and Gernot Wagner for other recent
fulsome critiques of climate economics.)...<br>
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But here’s the thing. If you’re calculating the optimally efficient
policy, you’re an economist; once you go out in public and argue,
“legislators should pass this policy,” you’re no longer acting
purely as an economist, you’re acting as a citizen, an advocate.<br>
<br>
You’re no longer merely saying, “this is the optimally efficient
policy on paper,” you’re saying, “this is the right policy to push,
all things considered.” Economist pundits spent years conflating
those two in climate policy, and they’ve inspired a lot of other
people to conflate them as well.<br>
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When you enter the realm of politics and make political arguments
and recommendations, you ought to be cognizant of, not merely the
likely economic effects of a policy if it is passed and enforced,
but the political dynamics that determine its feasibility, the
likelihood that it will stay in place if passed, the state’s ability
to enforce it, what social and economic interests will gain and lose
from it, how equitable its distribution of costs and benefits may
be, and how all of it might shape the space of political
possibilities in the future.<br>
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You ought to be cognizant of and feel responsible for the political
effects of your intervention — what interests and factions you are
strengthening and which you are weakening, where your argument
weighs in the current moment, how your words are likely to be used,
and by whom.<br>
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Those are all difficult things to know! And the truth is difficult
to glean from the ungainly morass of political journalism and
commentary. Unlike disciplines with some academic or professional
standards of rigor, political punditry and advocacy are a veritable
festival of gut instincts, guesses, bad logic, bad faith, and
confirmation bias. Pundits rarely offer empirical evidence; they
rarely assess the accuracy of their prior predictions; they rarely
change their minds.<br>
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It drives scientists, economists, and, uh, ex-philosophy students
out of their heads. It is tempting to try to claim some authority,
to claim that a background in economics (or some other technical
field) confers the status of referee, making the final calls on the
merits of various policies.<br>
<br>
But it doesn’t. There are no real “experts” in politics, despite
many claims to the contrary. The best we can hope for is to develop
a few empirically informed heuristics (including those from
economics), to remain open and alive to new evidence, to find
trustworthy guides to the current political economy, and to strive
toward, for lack of a better word, wisdom.<br>
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Technical training and specialist knowledge are valuable. Those
involved in political analysis and advocacy ought to pull in more
from economics, political science, sociology, and ecology, among
other disciplines.<br>
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But those who have technical training should never mistake it for
wisdom.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-rant-about-economist-pundits-and">https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-rant-about-economist-pundits-and</a><br>
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<i>[Every so often it's wise to check in with the other side ]</i><br>
<b>The Latest Media Matters Climate Deniers</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers">https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers</a><br>
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<i>The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
October 10, 2009</b></font><br>
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October 10, 2009: In a New York Times opinion piece, Senators John<br>
Kerry and Lindsey Graham express confidence that bipartisan<br>
climate-change legislation will receive 60 votes in the Senate.
Graham<br>
would later disavow support for such legislation, setting the stage<br>
for its demise in 2010.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11kerrygraham.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11kerrygraham.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a><br>
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