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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 7, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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[ A Greta authorized 4 min video ]<br>
<b>Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050</b><br>
Nov 6, 2021<br>
thejuicemedia<br>
The Government has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s
surprisingly honest and informative.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FqXTCvDLeo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FqXTCvDLeo</a><br>
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<i>[ Gender wars all over again? ] </i><br>
<b>Young Women Are Leading Climate Protests. Guess Who Runs Global
Talks?</b><br>
There’s a clear gender and generation gap at the Glasgow talks, and
the two sides have very different views on how to address global
warming.<br>
By Somini Sengupta - Nov. 6, 2021<br>
GLASGOW — The week began with more than 130 presidents and prime
ministers posing for a group photo in a century-old Baroque museum
crafted from red sandstone. Fewer than 10 were women. Their median
age, as their host at the climate summit, British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson, reminded them, was over 60.<br>
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The week ended with boisterous protests of thousands on the streets
of Glasgow. A march on Friday was led by young climate activists,
some barely old enough to vote in their countries. They accused the
world leaders of wasting what little time remains to safeguard their
future.<br>
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These bookends to the first week of this watershed international
climate summit in Scotland reveal a widening divide that threatens
to grow larger in the weeks and months ahead.<br>
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Those with the power to make decisions about how much the world
warms in the coming decades are mostly old and male. Those who are
angriest about the pace of climate action are mostly young and
female.<br>
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The two sides have vastly divergent views of what the summit should
achieve. Indeed, they seem to have different notions of time.<br>
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At the summit, leaders are setting goals for 2030 at the earliest.
In some cases, they’re setting targets for 2060 and 2070, when many
of today’s activists will be hitting retirement age. The activists
say change must come immediately. They want countries to abruptly
stop using fossil fuels and to repair the climate damage that is now
being felt in all corners of the globe but is especially punishing
the most vulnerable people in the Global South. For them,
mid-century is an eternity.<br>
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“Now is the time. Yesterday was the time,” is how Dominique Palmer,
22, an activist with Fridays for Future International, put it during
a panel discussion at The New York Times Climate Hub on Thursday.
“We need action right now.”<br>
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Social movements have almost always been led by young people. But
what makes the climate movement’s generational divide so pointed —
and the fury of the young so potent — is that world leaders have
been meeting and talking about the need to address climate change
since before most of the protesters were born, with few results.<br>
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In fact, emissions of planet-warming gases have risen sharply since
the first international climate summit 27 years ago. Now scientists
say the world has less than a decade to sharply cut emissions to
avert the worst climate consequences. That urgency drives the
protesters.<br>
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Or as one banner at Friday’s demonstration articulated, “Don’t Mess
With My Future.”<br>
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World leaders are showing a sensitivity to that criticism. Their
public and private remarks in Glasgow have been laced with both
paeans to the passion of the young as well as a hint of anxiety.
They’ll have to face young voters back home; many of these leaders
have done so already, with climate action emerging as an important
election issue, at least in some countries, including in the United
States. In Germany, voters elected their youngest Parliament, with
the Green Party recording its best result ever and launching climate
change to the top of its agenda.<br>
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Mr. Johnson, for his part, warned his peers about their legacy.
Future generations, he said in his opening remarks, “will judge us
with bitterness and with a resentment that eclipses any of the
climate activists of today.”<br>
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The organizers of the conference took pains to include youth
speakers in the official program. One after another, heads of state
and government rose to the podium this week and assured attendees
that they had heard the demands of the young.<br>
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This did not impress Mitzi Jonelle Tan, a 24-year-old climate
activist who had come to Glasgow from the Philippines. “When I hear
leaders say they want to listen to our generation I think they’re
lying to themselves,” Ms. Tan said in an interview on the eve of the
Friday protests.<br>
If they are really listening, she went on, “they would be
prioritizing people over profit.”<br>
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“Cognitive dissonance,” was the verdict of Eric Njuguna, 19, who had
come from Kenya. “We were expecting serious commitments at COP26 on
climate finance and climate mitigation. The commitments aren’t
strong enough.”...<br>
There is a huge gap between how the leaders and the young activists
view the summit.<br>
<br>
John Kerry, the 77-year-old U.S. climate envoy, marveled on Friday
at the progress made at this summit.<br>
<br>
“I’ve been to a great many COPs and I will tell you there is a
greater sense of urgency at this COP,” Mr. Kerry told reporters.<br>
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He acknowledged the complexity of global negotiations. Diplomats are
still hammering out the rules of global carbon trading and
discussing how to address demands for reparations from countries
that have played no role in creating the climate problem but that
have suffered its most acute effects.<br>
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Still, Mr. Kerry said, “I have never in the first few days counted
as many initiatives and as much real money, real money put on the
table, even if there are some question marks.”<br>
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Jochen Flasbarth, the German energy minister, cited three areas of
progress: a global agreement on reversing deforestation by 2030; a
commitment to reduce methane emissions, also by 2030; and a coal
exit plan endorsed by three dozen countries, though not its biggest
users.<br>
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“I understand young people are trying to push very hard to see
concrete implementation and not abstract goals,” Mr. Flasbarth, 59,
said Friday. “However we need these goals.”<br>
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But it was when leaders spoke to each other away from the cameras,
that it was clear that the anger from the youth was getting under
their skin.<br>
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At one closed-door meeting with his fellow ministers, Mr. Flasbarth
was heard expressing concern that the activists were painting all
the world leaders with the same broad brush, portraying them as
protectors of the fossil fuel industry.<br>
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“Let’s tell young people there are differences, not all the
politicians, all the countries are on the same side,” he said.
“Progress is possible, and this is the group of progress.”<br>
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At the same meeting, which was attended by a bloc of countries
called the High Ambition Coalition, the French minister for
ecological transition, Barbara Pompili, said she recognized herself
in the young people. She too was once an activist, she told her
fellow ministers.<br>
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But then, she went on, she chose a different route. She chose to
work inside the system. “I chose to be a politician,” she said. “I
chose to try to act.”<br>
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The differences between the decision makers inside the summit, and
the protesters outside the barricades extend beyond age to gender.
While the world leaders and heads of state are mostly male, the
streets of Glasgow have been filled with young women.<br>
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Girls and young women around the world have emerged as some of the
most passionate climate activists, arguing that many of those most
vulnerable to drought, water scarcity and other climate disasters
are low-income women with children to feed. As a result, the climate
movement has a shared mission with efforts to educate girls in
developing nations.<br>
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The young women activists have found a sisterhood and a sense of
empowerment in the climate protests, marches and campaigns. The
inspiration for many of these young women is the Swedish activist
Greta Thunberg, whose school strikes for climate that began as a
solo effort in 2018 have blossomed into a worldwide movement.<br>
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Ms. Thunberg, 18, has become so influential that on Wednesday when
she criticized carbon offsets — making up for carbon emissions in
one area by paying for the reduction of emissions somewhere else — a
company that verifies carbon offsets felt compelled to defend the
practice.<br>
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On Friday, Ms. Thunberg appeared before a cheering throng of
thousands in Glasgow to pronounce the summit a failure.<br>
<br>
“The COP has turned into a P.R. event, where leaders are giving
beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets,
while behind the curtains governments of the Global North countries
are still refusing to take any drastic climate action,” she said.<br>
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That prompted Michael Mann, the 55-year-old climate scientist, to
caution that negotiations among hundreds of countries are complex,
and that the politics around climate policy are not as simple as
they might seem. “Activists declaring it dead on arrival makes
fossil fuel executives jump for joy,” he tweeted, referring to the
summit. “They want to undermine and discredit the very notion of
multilateral climate action.<br>
On Saturday, the young protesters returned to the streets, joining
with a coalition of other groups in what organizers billed as a
global day of climate action.<br>
<br>
Vanessa Nakate, a 24-year-old activist from Uganda, said the
protesters were committed to keep up the pressure, “to continue
holding leaders accountable for their actions.”<br>
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Daphne Frias, a 23-year-old climate activist from New York City,
gave a nod to the inevitable: generational change is coming.<br>
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“We always say our leaders have failed us,” she said. “We are the
new leaders. We are the ones who are going to make the decisions
going forward.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/climate/climate-activists-glasgow-summit.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/climate/climate-activists-glasgow-summit.html</a><br>
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<i>[ um,... duh. ] </i><br>
<b>Bill Gates predicts oil companies ‘will be worth very little’ in
30 years — here’s why</b><br>
Nov 6 2021 - Tom Huddleston Jr.<br>
If you’re looking for an extremely long-term stock pick from
billionaire Bill Gates, here it is: Avoid Big Oil.<br>
<br>
As the world moves away from fossil fuels and adopts more clean and
renewable energy sources, oil giants that have dominated markets for
more than a century could be in trouble, the Microsoft co-founder
said in a briefing at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland,
on Thursday.<br>
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“Some of these giants will fall. You know, 30 years from now, some
of those oil companies will be worth very little,” Gates, an
outspoken advocate for investing in renewable energy and green
technologies, said at the briefing, according to Axios.<br>
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Companies like ExxonMobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell all have seen
their stock prices decline over the past five years — especially at
the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which crippled demand for oil
and resulted in huge losses for even the biggest oil and gas
companies.<br>
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ExxonMobil, the largest oil and gas producer in the U.S., lost $20
billion in last year. The company still sports a market value of
$275 billion — but as countries like the U.S. shift their energy
policies to fight climate change, and the automotive industry moves
toward an electric future, investors are becoming increasingly
dubious about the future of oil stocks.<br>
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“With the oil companies, we still just don’t think they represent
good long-term businesses,” David Moss, head of European equities at
BMO Global Asset Management, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” in
August.<br>
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Major oil companies that pivot their businesses toward forms of
renewable energy stand a chance of surviving, Gates said at the
briefing. But in May, International Energy Agency analyst Heymi
Bahar told “Street Signs Europe” that major oil companies are
unlikely to ever become leaders in renewable technologies.<br>
<br>
“Will they become the major investors of renewable technology? The
answer is no,” Bahar said. “Will they increase their pace? Yes, for
sure.”<br>
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In Glasgow, Gates said he believes oil companies could transition
their businesses relatively easily from fossil fuels to cleaner
energy sources. He cited low-carbon hydrogen — which, when burned,
emits less carbon into the air than today’s greenhouse gases — as
one possible example.<br>
<br>
“We have a pipeline infrastructure in the United States that
probably can be retrofitted to transmit hydrogen,” Gates said.<br>
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But his investment track record doesn’t indicate optimism. In his
latest book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Gates wrote that in
2019, he divested all of his “direct holdings in oil and gas
companies, as did the trust that manages the Gates Foundation’s
endowment.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/06/bill-gates-big-oil-companies-will-be-worth-very-little-in-30-years.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/06/bill-gates-big-oil-companies-will-be-worth-very-little-in-30-years.html</a><i>
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[ As if you were there on the street - video interview ]<br>
<b>Hope, Anger & Finding A Better Future | Jason Box talks to
Rupert Read</b><br>
Nick Breeze ClimateGENN<br>
This COP26 in Glasgow is the story of split perspectives, a
greenwashing COP hell-bent on establishing a narrative of
just-in-time, saviour pledges that we all sit back and hope come to
pass, and another one that is based on ripping the blindfold away
that has been concealing the truth of protracted failure. The result
is anger, resentment, and a growing sense of injustice. <br>
Where will this lead us? <br>
Glaciologist and father, Professor Jason Box, discusses the
perspective of climate action through the lens of collapsing ice
sheets and Philosopher and activist, Professor Rupert Read,
anticipates the symptoms of collapse that may occur prior to
large-scale climate events.<br>
Visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://genn.cc">https://genn.cc</a> for more info<br>
Follow on Twitter: @climategenn and @nickgbreeze<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLCgnaom8pE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLCgnaom8pE</a><br>
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[ one deep, wonky event at COP26 ]<br>
<b>The value of our villain — CO2 in the circular economy</b><br>
Nov 6, 2021<br>
We Don't Have Time<br>
From the Nordic Pavilion: Nordic companies have developed
sustainable solutions for using CO2 as a resource as well as
permanently transforming it to stone, thereby eliminating any
negative effect it has on climate. They have found innovative ways
to create value of our villain. Experts from the Nordics will
discuss solutions and prospects.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9bZjyMiqYY&list=TLPQMDYxMTIwMjHFrWd2E5otlg&index=2">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9bZjyMiqYY&list=TLPQMDYxMTIwMjHFrWd2E5otlg&index=2</a><br>
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The video channel <b>We Don't Have Time</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WeDontHaveTime/videos">https://www.youtube.com/c/WeDontHaveTime/videos</a><br>
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<i>[ Opinion -- video ~4 mins ] </i><br>
<b>How Republicans Became "the Stupid Party" on Climate</b><br>
Nov 6, 2021<br>
greenmanbucket<br>
2.44K subscribers<br>
Stuart Stevens is a long time Republican campaign strategist, and
currently a member of the Lincoln Project. He is the author of "It
Was All a Lie".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcByqTS8F0w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcByqTS8F0w</a><br>
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[ another opinion ~ 2 min video ]<br>
<b>Bringing Conservatives to Climate Action</b><br>
Nov 6, 2021<br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Karly Mathews is a conservative activist with the American
Conservation Coalition, working to raise awareness on climate
change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X35lGs2Iloc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X35lGs2Iloc</a><br>
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[ Classics of the Internet information battles - 45 min presentation
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<b>YouTube's Climate Denial Problem</b><br>
Mar 23, 2020<br>
zentouro<br>
In January of 2020, AVAAZ released a report investigating YouTube
and Climate Misinformation. Let's talk about it. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYH_MirvV8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYH_MirvV8</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - 8 years ago]</i><br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
November 7, 2014</b></font><br>
HBO's Bill Maher denounces the climate-change deniers who seized
control of the Senate earlier in the week. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/A5PRSuCW1eY">http://youtu.be/A5PRSuCW1eY</a><br>
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The New York Times reports:<br>
"Inspired by global efforts to reduce carbon emissions,
environmentally focused donors want institutions to divest
themselves of investments in companies connected with fossil fuels
like petroleum and coal."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/giving/push-for-fossil-free-nonprofits-.html?mwrsm=Email">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/giving/push-for-fossil-free-nonprofits-.html?mwrsm=Email</a><br>
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