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<i>[ big energy and big army - clips - opinion ]</i><br>
<b>This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats</b><br>
Bill McKibben<br>
After Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial
prowess to building tanks, bombers and destroyers. Now, we must
respond with renewables<br>
25 Feb 2022 ...<br>
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Imagine a Europe that ran on solar and wind power: whose cars ran on
locally provided electricity, and whose homes were heated by
electric air-source heat pumps. That Europe would not be funding
Putin’s Russia, and it would be far less scared of Putin’s Russia –
it could impose every kind of sanction, and keep them in place until
the country buckled. Imagine an America where the cost of gas was
not a political tripwire, because if people had to have a pickup to
make them feel sufficiently manly, that pickup would run on
electricity that came from the sun and wind. It would take an
evil-er genius than Vladimir Putin to figure out how to embargo the
sun.<br>
<br>
These are not novel technologies – they exist, are growing, and
could be scaled up quickly. In the years after Hitler invaded the
Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building
tanks, bombers, and destroyers. In 1941, in Ypsilanti, the world’s
largest industrial plant went up in six month’s time, and soon it
was churning out a B-24 bomber every hour. A bomber is a complicated
machine with more than a million parts; a wind turbine is, by
contrast, relatively simple. In Michigan alone (“the arsenal of
democracy”), a radiator company retooled to make 20m steel helmets
and a rubber factory retooled to produce the liners for those
helmets; the company that made the fabric for Ford’s seat cushions
stopped doing that and started pushing out parachutes. Do we think
that it’s beyond us to quickly produce the solar panels and the
batteries required to end our dependence on fossil fuel?...<br>
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At the moment, big oil is using the fighting in Ukraine as an excuse
to try to expand its footprint – reliable industry ally Kristi Noem,
the governor of South Dakota, went on Fox this week to argue that
stopping the Keystone XL pipeline had empowered the Russian leader,
for instance, and the American Petroleum Institute today called for
more oil and gas development. But this is absurd – we may need, for
the remaining weeks of this winter, to insure gas supplies for
Europe, but by next winter we need to remove that lever. That means
an all-out effort to decarbonize that continent, and then our own.
It’s not impossible.<br>
<br>
We have to do it anyway, if we’re to have any hope of slowing the
climate change. And we can do it fast if we want: huge offshore
windfarms in Europe have been built inside of 18 months without any
wartime pressure.<br>
<br>
We should be in agony today – people are dying because they want to
live in a democracy, want to determine their own affairs. But that
agony should, and can, produce real change. (And not just in Europe.
Imagine not having to worry about what the king of Saudia Arabia
thought, or the Koch brothers – access to fossil fuel riches so
often produces retrograde thuggery.) Caring about the people of
Ukraine means caring about an end to oil and gas.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/25/this-is-how-we-defeat-putin-and-other-petrostate-autocrats">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/25/this-is-how-we-defeat-putin-and-other-petrostate-autocrats</a>?<br>
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<i>[ a science examination of a social condition ]</i><br>
<b>IPCC report: how politics – not climate change – is responsible
for disasters and conflict</b><br>
February 28, 2022<br>
Ilan Kelman - Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL<br>
The latest UN report on the potential impacts of climate change
gives a grim verdict, with some effects now deemed unavoidable. But
there are also lessons on disasters and violent conflicts which
could help save lives and create safer societies regardless of
human-caused climate change.<br>
<br>
The main available text of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) report on “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” is a
35-page Summary for Policy Makers, which by IPCC rules, is approved
by member state governments.<br>
<br>
IPCC scientists are appointed by member states and these
contributing researchers do not produce new science. They summarise
the tens of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers on climate
change since the previous assessment (the last major IPCC report on
impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities was published in 2014)...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf">https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf</a><br>
<b>Summary of the summary</b><br>
The IPCC’s press release on the new report was headlined “Climate
change: a threat to human wellbeing and health of the planet”. Its
stark opening detailed “dangerous and widespread disruption”. Yet
its subtitle, “Taking action now can secure our future,” needs
emphasising. This is particularly the case for disasters and violent
conflicts which, the summary document states with high confidence,
are not significantly influenced by human-caused climate change.<br>
<br>
Perhaps the press release mentions neither disasters nor violent
conflict because they represent comparatively positive news among
the bleakness. Ultimately, “taking action now” means applying the
science of disasters and conflict for prevention. Then, we save
lives and livelihoods, no matter what climate change does.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/ipcc-report-how-politics-not-climate-change-is-responsible-for-disasters-and-conflict-178071">https://theconversation.com/ipcc-report-how-politics-not-climate-change-is-responsible-for-disasters-and-conflict-178071</a><br>
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<i>[ The Conversation ]</i><br>
<b>Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s
grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind</b><br>
February 28, 2022<br>
Every small increase in warming will result in escalating losses and
damages across many systems. For example, the report found:<br>
<blockquote>- under a high-emissions scenario (where global
emissions continue unabated), more frequent and extreme disasters
will lead to over 250,000 unnecessary deaths each year worldwide.<br>
<br>
- up to 3 billion people are projected to experience chronic water
scarcity due to droughts at 2℃ warming, and up to 4 billion at 4℃
warming, mostly across the subtropics to mid-latitudes<br>
<br>
- projected flood damages may be up to two times higher at 2℃
warming and up to 3.9 times higher at 3℃, when compared with
damages at 1.5℃<br>
<br>
- up to 18% of all those species assessed on land will be at high
risk of extinction if the world warms 2℃ by 2100. If the world
warms up to 4℃, roughly every second plant or animal species
assessed will be threatened<br>
<br>
- even warming below 1.6℃ will see 8% of today’s farmland become
climatically unsuitable for current activities by 2100.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/mass-starvation-extinctions-disasters-the-new-ipcc-reports-grim-predictions-and-why-adaptation-efforts-are-falling-behind-176693">https://theconversation.com/mass-starvation-extinctions-disasters-the-new-ipcc-reports-grim-predictions-and-why-adaptation-efforts-are-falling-behind-176693</a><br>
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<i>[ We can feel it, now scientists declare these are very serious
times ]</i><br>
<b>222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the
well-being of future generations</b><br>
February 11, 2020 <br>
The bushfires raging across Australia this summer have sharpened the
focus on how climate change affects human health. This season
bushfires have already claimed more than 30 human lives, and many
people have grappled with smoke inhalation and mental health
concerns.<br>
<br>
The changing nature of bushfires around the world is one of the
tragic consequences of climate change highlighted in “Our Future on
Earth, 2020” – a report published on Friday by Future Earth, an
international sustainability research network...<br>
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This is not a future issue, we’re already seeing health impacts in
Australia. Smoke from the fires has exposed about half of
Australia’s total human population to hazardous levels of air
pollution for weeks. And mental health experts are concerned about
rising levels of anxiety about bushfires.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/222-scientists-say-cascading-crises-are-the-biggest-threat-to-the-well-being-of-future-generations-131551">https://theconversation.com/222-scientists-say-cascading-crises-are-the-biggest-threat-to-the-well-being-of-future-generations-131551</a><br>
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<i>[ a hyperobject pushes aside traditional ideas ]</i><br>
<b>Latest IPCC report on climate lays out an "atlas of human
suffering"</b><br>
By Nick Lavars<br>
February 28, 2022<br>
Last year the UN's top climate scientists released the first in a
trio of reports detailing the dangers of unabated global warming,
alluding to dire consequences for humanity in the coming decades.
The second report is now in and the outlook is only becoming darker,
with UN chief António Guterres describing the abdication of
leadership on the issue as "criminal."..<br>
“This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,”
said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC. “It shows that climate change
is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy
planet. Our actions today will shape how people adapt and nature
responds to increasing climate risks.”...<br>
- -<br>
Heightened heatwaves, droughts and floods are already more severe
than plants and animals are able to tolerate, driving widespread
mortality in a range of species. These types of weather events are
already exposing millions to water and food insecurity, with
millions of people in Africa, Asia, the Arctic and Central and South
America bearing the brunt of these effects.<br>
<blockquote><b>The facts are undeniable. This abdication of
leadership is criminal. The world’s biggest polluters are guilty
of arson of our only home.</b> - -António Guterres<br>
</blockquote>
The window for action is narrowing, the report says, with rapidly
reducing greenhouse gas emissions the obvious and most important
course of action. It also, however, points to the potential for
nature to help us adapt to climate change, highlighting the need to
foster healthy ecosystems in order to ensure the ongoing supply of
vital resources. It also means safeguarding soils to allow diverse
plants to grow, for example, and bringing nature into cities to
soften the effects of urban heating.<br>
<br>
“Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide
life-critical services such as food and clean water,” said IPCC
Working Group II Co-Chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. “By restoring degraded
ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per
cent of Earth’s land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can
benefit from nature’s capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we
can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but
adequate finance and political support are essential.”<br>
<br>
In comments accompanying its launch, Guterres described the report
as an "atlas of human suffering." He went on to say, "unchecked
carbon pollution is forcing the world’s most vulnerable on a frog
march to destruction – now. The facts are undeniable. This
abdication of leadership is criminal. The world’s biggest polluters
are guilty of arson of our only home. It is essential to meet the
goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Science tells us that will require the world to cut emissions by 45
percent by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050."<br>
<br>
The third report, which will focus on the mitigation of climate
change, is due for publication in early April 2022.<br>
<br>
Source: IPCC, UN<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newatlas.com/environment/ipcc-report-climate-atlas-human-suffering/">https://newatlas.com/environment/ipcc-report-climate-atlas-human-suffering/</a><br>
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<i>[ Understanding our risk -- Stability of ice as explained at
COP26]</i><br>
<b>Antarctica and Paris Goals: Risks of Massive Sea-level Rise</b><br>
Nov 10, 2021<br>
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative<br>
Recent published research shows the danger of massive, potentially
irreversible, global sea-level rise within the next couple of
centuries should temperatures overshoot 2°C. Perhaps most sobering,
this loss may become rapid and permanent, with no halt in ice loss
even should CO2 concentrations return to pre-industrial levels. <br>
<br>
Should today’s emissions levels continue, rate will approach 5
cm/year by 2150, and 10 meters of sea-level rise by 2300. IPCC
scientists provide a clear-eyed look at risks from Antarctica, and
implications for the Paris Agreement temperature goals.<br>
<br>
Main Presenter: Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, former Chair of the U.S. Polar Research
Board.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxf_kO-8Sjc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxf_kO-8Sjc</a><br>
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<i>[ important message of psychological understanding - a YouTube
video ]</i><br>
<b>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL EDITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE</b><br>
<br>
To all Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Researchers, Trainers,
Trainees, Psychologically trained Organisational Consultants etc.<br>
<br>
It is an important time to be alive right now. In this consequential
decade, we will either manage to turn the course that humanity is on
around at the very last minute, or we will loose control of the
climactic system and it will matter less and less what we do after
that. Either way, change is upon us and familiar structures don’t
offer all the answers anymore. <br>
<br>
The uncertainty of this transformational era we are in, is
triggering many people to grasp for certainty. Others are
recognising that a potential evolutionary junction for the human
species is upon us, which of course involves every profession,
including psychotherapy.<br>
<br>
In this special edition on climate change we explore the following
question:<br>
<br>
What is the role of psychotherapy in a world in which the familiar
is dying?<br>
<br>
As guest editor, I did not want to embark on this process from a
singular voice. The psychotherapists Bayo Akomolafe, Sally
Weintrobe, Francis Weller, and Mary-Jayne Rust kindly accepted the
invitation to join me for a discussion to kick us off by gathering
around this one central question.<br>
<br>
This discussion is available here and may be of interest even if you
don’t plan to submit your own writing: <br>
<br>
It also generated particular sub-themes for this call:<br>
Anthropocentrism in psychotherapy<br>
Individual and collective trauma<br>
The dynamic relationship between the individual and the collective
lens<br>
The long shadow of colonialism <br>
Therapy Training in a time when the familiar is dying<br>
In the therapy room<br>
Wider application of what therapists have to offer<br>
<br>
We would appreciate for your submission to touch on one or several
of these sub-themes.<br>
<br>
Thinking in complexity requires the ability to perceive across
multiple perspectives and contexts, which is why the call for
submission is open across all modalities.<br>
<br>
If you are interested in submitting, please contact
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:editor@britishgestaltjournal.com">editor@britishgestaltjournal.com</a><br>
Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2022<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TFH_xF4-M8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TFH_xF4-M8</a><br>
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<i>[ everything is connected ] </i><br>
<b>War Abroad and Politics at Home Push U.S. Climate Action Aside</b><br>
Climate change, a central part of Biden’s agenda, was barely
mentioned in the State of the Union. And Europe is confronting its
heavy reliance on Russian gas.<br>
By Somini Sengupta and Lisa Friedman<br>
March 2, 2022<br>
War and politics are complicating the efforts of the two biggest
polluters in history — the United States and Europe — to slow down
global warming, just as scientists warn of intensifying hazards.<br>
<br>
On Tuesday evening, President Biden barely made a mention of his
climate goals in the State of the Union speech despite promises to
make climate an issue that drives his presidency. European
politicians have their own problem: They are struggling to get out
from under one of the Kremlin’s most powerful economic weapons — its
fossil fuel exports, which Europe relies on for heat and
electricity...<br>
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White House officials said Mr. Biden wove climate change and clean
energy throughout his speech. He noted that Ford and GM are
investing billions of dollars to build electric vehicles, creating
millions of manufacturing jobs in the United States. He also noted
that funding from the infrastructure package will build a national
network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.<br>
<br>
But climate change policy is at a critical juncture in the Biden
administration. The President’s centerpiece legislative agenda,
which he had called the Build Back Better act, is dead. Democrats
still hope to pass approximately $500 billion of clean energy tax
incentives that had been part of the package, but opportunities to
do so are waning. If that investment does not come through and the
Supreme Court also restricts the administration’s ability to
regulate emission, Mr. Biden’s goal of cutting United States
emissions roughly in half compared with 2005 levels could be
essentially unattainable.<br>
<br>
Even if climate wasn’t the stated focus of Mr. Biden’s Tuesday
address, administration officials said that Russia’s war against
Ukraine has not pushed climate change off the agenda. They noted
that Mr. Biden has made climate change an emphasis in virtually
every federal agency, and has moved ahead with major clean energy
deployments including a record-breaking offshore wind auction last
week that brought in more than $4 billion.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/climate/state-of-the-union-biden-ukraine-climate.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/climate/state-of-the-union-biden-ukraine-climate.html</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at missteps ]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>March 4, 2001</b></font><br>
March 4, 2001: At an international climate summit in Italy, EPA
Administrator Christine Todd Whitman insists that the Bush
administration will take aggressive action to reduce carbon
pollution. (By the end of the month, the Bush administration would
officially disavow the Kyoto Protocol.)<br>
<blockquote><b>Climate talks secure U.S. support pollution</b><br>
Carbon dioxide emissions pose a great threat to the environment
<br>
March 5, 2001<br>
<br>
TRIESTE, Italy -- The United States has given the international
community a committment to improve the environment and help battle
the effects of global warming.<br>
<br>
The new U.S. environment supremo told her G8 partners that
Washington is serious about cleaning up the planet.<br>
<br>
Christine Todd Whitman attended the weekend's summit in Trieste
aware that there are doubts over President George W. Bush's
position on green issues -- particularly on global warming.<br>
<br>
European Union countries wanted to know whether Bush would return
to negotiations on sealing the 1997 Kyoto pact on reducing
pollution blamed for climate change, an agreement he had called
"unfair to America" during his election campaign.<br>
<br>
Whitman said: "The president has said global climate change is the
greatest environmental challenge that we face and that we must
recognise that and take steps to move forward."<br>
<br>
The president would oversee bi-partisan legislation to limit
carbon dioxide -- the main "greenhouse gas" blamed by many
scientists for trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere -- from
U.S. power plants for the first time, she said.<br>
<br>
Some EU countries had clashed with the U.S. at the last effort to
get the global warming strategy off the ground, in The Hague, last
November.<br>
<br>
"Ms Whitman was very positive about climate change being a global
issue, about the scientific evidence and that the Kyoto framework
was something they should work within," a senior British official
said.<br>
<br>
Green groups also felt buoyed by the Whitman effect.<br>
<br>
"Whitman led a move forward. She could have come to play a spoiler
role, but she came to build relationships and bring the message
that George Bush thinks that climate change is a serious problem,"
World Wildlife Fund's climate campaigner Jennifer Morgan said.<br>
<br>
Environmentalists have accused Bush of having a poor track record
in environmental policy while he was Texas governor.<br>
<br>
A U.N. scientific panel has said the average global temperature is
likely to rise by between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees Celsius (2.5-10.4
Fahrenheit) over the next 100 years. Sea levels could rise by as
much as 88 cm (35 inches).<br>
<br>
Such a change in temperature -- which many scientists believe is
being caused by pollution trapping heat in the atmosphere -- would
mean widespread droughts and floods and massive economic and
natural damage, experts say.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/italy/03/04/environment.climate/">http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/italy/03/04/environment.climate/</a>
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