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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>March 5, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ floods in Australia where 739mm = 29 inches in three days ]</i><br>
<b>‘Heartbreaking’: Australia’s east coast reels from worst floods
in living memory</b><br>
Queensland and NSW bear the brunt of catastrophic weather conditions
that have claimed 16 lives<br>
by Caitlin Cassidy<br>
Lismore residents in northern NSW evacuate from the worst floods in
the regional city’s history.<br>
When Jenni Metcalfe returned to her Brisbane home to survey the
damage as the nearby river peaked, water had already risen a metre
up the back wall. There was nothing she could do. “I sat in the
gutter and watched it and cried,” she said.<br>
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The east coast of Australia has been battered by more than a week of
torrential rain, as communities begin to survey the wreckage of
fatal flash flooding that has left townships looking like war zones.<br>
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South-east Queensland and the north coast of New South Wales have
borne the brunt of the “one in-1,000 year” catastrophic weather
conditions, which have claimed at least 17 lives.<br>
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Residents in the regional city of Lismore in north-eastern NSW are
still reeling from the worst flooding in its history, which sent
huge areas of the regional city underwater with the cleanup likely
to last months, if not years...<br>
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The cleanup had barely begun in large parts of south-east Queensland
when residents were again forced to take cover due to more storms.<br>
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The “rain bomb” that battered the capital city of Brisbane and
surrounds until Monday killed 10 people and damaged more than 17,000
homes and businesses. Some 739mm of rain fell in just four days –
nearly 75% of the annual average. [ about 29 inches ]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/04/heartbreaking-australias-east-coast-reels-from-worst-floods-in-living-memory">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/04/heartbreaking-australias-east-coast-reels-from-worst-floods-in-living-memory</a><br>
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<i>[ hey, that's me ]<br>
</i><b>Nearly 75% of Pacific Northwest in some level of drought</b><br>
by Joe English, KATU Staff, March 3rd 2022<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://katu.com/news/local/nearly-75-of-pacific-northwest-in-some-level-of-drought?video=ec39ffa59bfe49b18437771862c4bb4c&jwsource=cl">https://katu.com/news/local/nearly-75-of-pacific-northwest-in-some-level-of-drought?video=ec39ffa59bfe49b18437771862c4bb4c&jwsource=cl</a><br>
While that's where some of the worst drought conditions are, in the
short term, it's not the big fires that are the concern.<br>
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With a fairly dry January and February, there's plenty of fuel ready
to burn.<br>
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"We do have the finer fuel deficit that may help us a bit, but what
is on the ground is very dry, so we are very concerned about people
burning in their backyards and things getting away from them, and
also our firefighting units that may be out doing project work to
treat the fuels. On those dry windy days, that can definitely get
out of hand," said Eric Wise of the Northwest Interagency
Coordination Center.<br>
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Western Washington has fared better than most areas as far as rain
and mountain snowpack. Partly because, even though we were in a La
Nina weather pattern, the associated ridge of high pressure was
farther north than usual and closer to the coastline.<br>
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"It kind of diverted the storms and there’s more sinking motion that
basically dried us out through January and February that we’re
complaining about," said state of Washington Climatologist Nick
Bond.<br>
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Even the record-setting rain in an atmospheric river event like the
one of the past few days doesn't help all that much.<br>
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Climatologists watch the stream flows to decipher that.<br>
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"You can see that the atmospheric river that we just experienced did
increase stream flow somewhat. You can see on the last day there is
a bit of recovery in some of those, but still about half of the
stream flow gages in Oregon were still much below normal for this
time of year," said Larry O'Neill, state climatologist for Oregon.<br>
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Into the summer, big rivers like the Columbia and the Willamette
aren't expected to be much lower than normal.<br>
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But if water levels get too low, the water can get warmer and
unhealthy for fish.<br>
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While forecasters don't think we'll see another heat dome like last
summer, with temperatures soaring between 110 and 120 degrees, what
they do think is more likely is longer strings of hotter days.<br>
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"This past year in Oregon and some places in eastern Washington, we
had the most number of days over 90 degrees Fahrenheit on record.
And that it going to be more likely what we'll expect from the
warming climate. Just more of these hot days, persistent hot days,"
said O'Neill.<br>
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While some areas of the Northwest would need 150% to 250% of normal
rainfall to catch up to normal levels (there's only about a 5%
chance of that happening), there are efforts to combat the drought
and fire danger.<br>
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The NWCC will be adding risk assessment officers and Oregon has put
aside $200 million to support drought-impacted rural communities,
invest in infrastructure, reduce carbon emissions, and get more
people access to air conditioners and cooling centers.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://katu.com/news/local/nearly-75-of-pacific-northwest-in-some-level-of-drought">https://katu.com/news/local/nearly-75-of-pacific-northwest-in-some-level-of-drought</a>
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<i>[ $ubscription - taunting with a great headline in RollingStone
] </i><br>
<b>The First Step Toward Saving the Planet Is Ignoring the
Economists</b><br>
The U.N.’s latest climate report shows that we don’t know how
expensive the climate crisis will be, which means cost-benefit
analyses weighing how to combat it are pointless<br>
By ANDREW DESSLER <br>
The latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change is stark. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres
describes it as “an atlas of human suffering and a damning
indictment of failed climate leadership.” If the world can’t solve
this problem, there will be a lot of blame to go around, but one
group in particular shouldn’t be able to skirt it: economists who
have relentlessly downplayed the seriousness of climate change and
overstated the costs of solving it. ..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ipcc-climate-report-climate-change-economics-1316106/">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ipcc-climate-report-climate-change-economics-1316106/</a><br>
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<i>[ confusion danger when following money too closely ]</i><br>
<b>Republicans at CPAC Say ‘Drill Dummy Drill’ in Response to
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine</b><br>
Speakers at the conservative conference likened environmental
regulations to sanctions and claimed that bad American energy policy
had laid the groundwork for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.<br>
By Zach Robertson Mar 3, 2022 <br>
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As the Russian invasion of Ukraine began last week, American
conservatives descending on Florida for 2022’s Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC) delivered a mixed message about
the conflict. Many speakers seemed undecided on whether to quietly
support Russian President Vladimir Putin or fall back on Cold War
conservative ideologies. Others, like Charlie Kirk, CPAC favorite
and founder of youth conservative organization Turning Point USA,
simply urged attendees to forget about “a dispute 5,000 miles away
in cities we can’t pronounce,” and focus instead on “how the cartels
are deliberately trying to infiltrate our country.”<br>
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But one thing many speakers could agree on was that the war showed
the need for America to push for expanded coal mining and oil and
gas drilling. It was a line that the American Petroleum Institute
had been pushing since the first day of the invasion, when it said
in a blog post that “right now, the most important move President
Biden can make is to signal that America is positioned to provide
stability and supply amid any disruption of international energy
markets — and can do so without increasing costs at home.”<br>
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Speakers at CPAC, however, went beyond simply using the war as an
excuse to call for more drilling. They also blamed Biden’s stance on
coal, oil, and gas for encouraging this war...<br>
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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, the other member of the “Drill Dummy
Drill” planel, complained that the United States was putting
“sanctions” (that is, environmental regulations) on domestic
drilling but not on Russia. <br>
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“So we look out there, we see Russia, we see them producing, and we
wonder what our own federal government is actually putting sanctions
on states like Wyoming and Alaska,” he said.<br>
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In an Orwellian twist, Dunleavy and Hageman argued that preventing
Russian aggression and prominence on the world stage isn’t the only
reason the United States needs to drill and export more fossil
fuels. We also need to drill for the environment. <br>
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“The irony is when you push this stuff overseas you actually destroy
the environment at an accelerated rate,” Dunleavy said.<br>
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He and Hageman argued that fossil fuel extraction in Russia is
considerably dirtier than in the United States, so drilling in
America was truly the best for the environment overall. And Hageman
told the audience that even thinking about the environment is a
“luxury.”<br>
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“It is our prosperity that allows us the luxury of protecting our
environment,” Hageman said. If we don’t drill for more oil and gas,
she warned, “we’re not going to have the same prosperity to be able
to protect the environment the way that we do.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/03/republicans-cpac-oil-gas-drilling-russia-ukraine-war/">https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/03/republicans-cpac-oil-gas-drilling-russia-ukraine-war/</a><br>
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<i>[ podcast ] </i><br>
FEB 27, 2022 HOT TAKE<br>
<b>War, Who Is It Good For? The Fossil Fuel Industry</b><br>
By Amy Westervelt<br>
Hoo boy, the Debate-Me Bros really revved up the hot take machine
(pun intended) this week. Matt Yglesias, Michael Shellenberger, and
a whole lotta centrist pundits were out in force carrying water for
the fossil fuel industry, proclaiming U.S. fracking as the solution
to Russian aggression. Their argument? Europe is reliant on Russian
gas, but if they were just reliant on U.S. gas instead, that would
neutralize Putin. The complete lack of self-doubt is breathtaking.
Fact check? Not me, I have opinions! Really showing their whole
asses on this one, let’s count the ways:<br>
<p><b>1. Biden hasn’t really done shit to curb fracking.</b> The
fossil fuel industry keeps pushing the idea that he has, but the
only thing he’s done is halt new leases for oil and gas drilling
on federal land (more on that next)—and even then the courts had
to force the issue.</p>
<p><b>2. They don’t need more federal land—they’re using less than
half of what they’ve already leased.</b> Oil and gas companies
have been stockpiling public land leases for years. They currently
hold leases for more than 26 million acres, and according to the
Bureau of Land Management are only drilling on 12.8 million of
those acres. The Center for American Progress estimates the
industry is currently sitting on 10 years’ worth of unused leases.
The idea that adding more to that stockpile would have any effect
at all on Russia’s current aggression is laughable.</p>
<p><b>3. New leases or pipeline permits have nothing to do with the
Russia-Ukraine situation. </b>It takes a long time to put up a
new wellpad or build a pipeline or LNG (liquefied natural gas)
terminal to export oil and gas. Nothing that gets permitted today
will have any impact at all on the Russia-Ukraine situation.</p>
<p><b>4. Fracking companies aren’t necessarily interested in
changing their production plans. </b>I’ve written about this a
bunch, but the fracking industry never really made money during
the shale boom—it was the ultimate Ponzi scheme, with early
investors making money off of later investors and that’s about it.
But they’ve learned from those mistakes and so are not necessarily
jumping at the chance to increase production right now. Fracking
industry leaders Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Devon Energy Corp.
and Continental Resources Inc. just pledged to limit 2022
production increases to no more than 5 percent, a fraction of the
20 percent or higher annual growth rates of the pre-pandemic
years. They want to make back money lost in the pandemic and maybe
even finally turn a profit. So while, of course, some folks are
ramping up production, the narrative that the American Petroleum
Industry is pushing hard—that the industry is just dying to drill
more and Biden is holding them back—is simply untrue.</p>
<p><b>5. The world’s reliance on fossil fuels is what put Russia in
the position to pull this shit in the first place.</b> Putin is
invading Ukraine because he knows he can, at the moment. Why?
Because Europe is heavily dependent on Russian gas and he knew its
leaders would be hesitant to risk skyrocketing prices for their
citizens. As Bill McKibben wrote in The Guardian, “This is not a
‘war for oil and gas’ in the sense that too many of America’s
Middle East misadventures might plausibly be described. But it is
a war underwritten by oil and gas, a war whose most crucial weapon
may be oil and gas, a war we can’t fully engage because we remain
dependent on oil and gas. If you want to stand with the brave
people of Ukraine, you need to find a way to stand against oil and
gas.”</p>
<p><b>6. Fossil fuels are a threat, not a boon, to national
security. </b>As of 2021,10 percent of global deaths were
attributable to abnormally cold or hot temperatures. That’s 5
million deaths a year, far more than any war being fought over oil
and gas, ever. Also guess what, solar, wind, and wave energy are
all domestic energy sources too, so please explain how the
national security argument works for oil and gas but not those
energy sources.</p>
<p><b>7. U.S. oil companies’ relationships with Russia are also a
threat to national security.</b> Back in 2013, ExxonMobil’s
Russia holdings were by far its largest—5x more than its holdings
in the U.S. Then Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and the U.S.
government responded with strict sanctions that not only halted a
lot of the projects Exxon had planned with Russia’s state-owned
oil company Rosneft, but also made it impossible for Exxon to
include the projected oil from those projects on its books. Bad
news for Exxon! That’s why as soon as Putin started lining up
tanks at Ukraine’s border, the API started lobbying for weak
sanctions. How exactly is it good for U.S. national security to
pander to Putin? (Make sure you’re following journalist Antonia
Juhasz throughout the Russian invasion, she’s got all the receipts
on U.S. oil companies and Russia!)</p>
<b>8. Clean energy generation would actually increase national
security Forget the fossil fuel talking points.</b> For nearly a
decade now, the U.S. military—not exactly known for being a bunch of
hippies—has listed climate change as a threat multiplier in its
quadrennial reviews. A decade ago when I was reporting on efforts to
“green” the military, generals were very pragmatic about it:
soldiers routinely die on refueling missions, wars are often fought
over or fueled by oil, getting off of oil means a reduction in
casualties, which makes it worth doing. And the thing is, it’s not
impossibly out of reach. We’re already on a path to replace fossil
fuels—renewable energy is set to account for 95 percent of the
increase in global power capacity through 2026. In fact, I suspect
this has quite a bit to do with both Putin and the U.S. oil
industry’s current posturing. The end is near, and they know it, but
they won’t go quietly, they’ll use this decade to retain as much
power as possible, and get as much oil and gas out of the ground for
as much money as possible. That’s inevitable. The question is how
much we’ll let them get away with.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hottakepod.com/war-who-is-it-good-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry/">https://www.hottakepod.com/war-who-is-it-good-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry/</a><br>
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<i>[ Atomic pollution spread by wildfire ]</i><br>
<b>Chernobyl Is Not the Only Nuclear Threat Russia’s Invasion Has
Sparked in Ukraine</b><br>
The potential for fires in the “Red Forest” still tainted by
radioactive fallout from the 1986 meltdown, and 15 reactors running
elsewhere in the country, pose greater risks.<br>
By Michael Kodas <br>
February 26, 2022<br>
It took only hours for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to hang a
nuclear threat over Europe. But the defunct Chernobyl power plant
may pose less of a hazard than the forest surrounding it, or the 15
nuclear reactors still operating in the country.<br>
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On Thursday morning, Ukrainian officials reported a fierce fight in
the exclusion zone around the dead Chernobyl nuclear power plant,
which in 1986 blanketed parts of Europe with radioactive fallout
after a meltdown that remains the worst nuclear accident in history.<br>
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“Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986
will not be repeated,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
reported on Twitter. “This is a declaration of war against the whole
of Europe.”...<br>
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The ability to turn off the power can provide Russia with a big
advantage in their efforts to subdue Kyiv, but also points to a
bigger nuclear threat in the Ukrainian conflict.<br>
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In addition to Chernobyl, where the last reactor stopped producing
electricity in 2000, Ukraine has 15 operating nuclear reactors at
four electricity plants across the country. Those reactors, many of
which are old Soviet designs that are operating beyond their
originally intended lifespans, are dependent on a steady supply of
electricity and water to maintain their safe operation and keep them
from melting down.<br>
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A wayward missile striking one of those reactors could spark a
nuclear disaster. But any military operation that interrupted the
power supply to one of them for longer than the facilities’ backup
generators could keep the plant running safely has the potential to
create another Chernobyl.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022022/russia-ukraine-chernobyl-nuclear-fallout/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022022/russia-ukraine-chernobyl-nuclear-fallout/</a><br>
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<i>[ Comment on the science of climate models - a few minutes
video ] </i><br>
<b>Scott Denning PhD: Climate Models vs Real World</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wryj84PGTyE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wryj84PGTyE</a><br>
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<i>[ DeSmog is naming names ]</i><br>
<b>IPCC Report Calls Out ‘Vested Interests’ Delaying Climate Action</b><br>
The report also pointed the finger at journalists for providing
false balance to “contrarian” voices in their coverage of the issue.<br>
By Phoebe Cooke on Feb 28, 2022<br>
The second installment of the Sixth Assessment Report notes that
misinformation around climate science has “created polarization” in
North America, particularly in the U.S., thereby limiting climate
action.<br>
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In addition, the report highlights the influence of print and
broadcast media in shaping public perceptions around climate change
– and warns against climate scientists and contrarians being given
equal weight in coverage of climate change for the purposes of
journalistic balance. <br>
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This, it says, can “unevenly amplify certain messages that are not
supported by science, contributing to politicization of science,
spreading misinformation, and reducing public consensus on action”.<br>
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‘Go Further, Name Names’<br>
While the inclusion of misinformation has been welcomed, Supran
urged the IPCC to “go further, name names”, saying the reports
should expose what he described as the “veiled reference to ‘vested
economic and political interests’”.<br>
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Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at University
College London, agreed that “the job of IPCC authors is to report
the truth, to the best of their abilities, no matter who it might
upset”.<br>
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“That the IPCC are reporting on misinformation campaigns, and this
is seen as a step further than past IPCC reports, shows that
scientists have been too timid in the past,” Lewis said. <br>
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“For me, I’d have liked to see the authors go further and say who
the literature says is organising and funding these misinformation
campaigns. The public deserves to know.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/02/28/ipcc-report-calls-out-vested-interests-delaying-climate-action/">https://www.desmog.com/2022/02/28/ipcc-report-calls-out-vested-interests-delaying-climate-action/</a><br>
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<i>[ Looking farther ahead, much further video nearly 2 hours ] </i><br>
<b>Ten Inevitables: Post Doom, No Gloom ("All You Can Eat Buffet")</b><br>
Feb 25, 2022<br>
thegreatstory<br>
This is the most complete and in-depth video I have ever created:
the "ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET" version of "TEN INEVITABILITIES: POST
DOOM, NO GLOOM". <br>
(TIME-CODED TABLE OF CONTENTS BELOW{<br>
This is a visually rich and information dense experience, it
includes the most credible and important resources available for
understanding where we are, how we got here, and what is possible
and no longer possible going forward. It also includes practical
tools and insights for staying sane, sober, and grateful to be alive
in increasingly crazy-making times.<br>
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THESIS (2-hours): Confusion and suffering prevail without a
life-centered view of ecology, energy, and history. Enthralled by
gee-whiz technology, and blind to<b> TEN COLLAPSE-RELATED
INEVITABILITIES,</b> we stumble into a future of ECOLOGICAL AND
SOCIETAL CERTAINTIES that most people cannot see, or will vehemently
deny...<br>
<blockquote>1. Most people will have a hard time trusting how and
why our civilization is collapsing.<br>
2. Abrupt climate change (rapid 2C+) locks in biospheric collapse
and extinctions.<br>
3. Tipping points already crossed will be falsely framed as “still
avoidable”.<br>
4. Without “Assisted Migration” love-in-action, most tree species
will go extinct. <br>
5. Without urgent collective action, there will be dozens of
nuclear meltdowns.<br>
6. As our biospheric and societal predicament worsens, so will our
mental health.<br>
7. Most people will only reluctantly relinquish their faith in
“the Almighty We”.<br>
8. If you proselytize only the 'doom' side of collapse reality,
expect to be shunned.<br>
9. Most people will crave distraction — and virtually anything
that offers “hope”. <br>
10. Elite universities, the IPCC, mainstream media, and
politicians will remain first-rate legal hopium dealers.
(Definition of hopium: "A comforting vision of the future that
requires breaking the laws of physics, biology, or ecology, such
as thinking that we can slow, stop, or reverse the Great
Acceleration of biospheric collapse.")<br>
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YOUTUBE URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Y-1fv-5_ldM">https://youtu.be/Y-1fv-5_ldM</a><br>
PRESENTER: Michael Dowd: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.postdoom.com/">https://www.postdoom.com/</a> AND
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://michaeldowd.org/">http://michaeldowd.org/</a><br>
<b><br>
</b><b>TIME-CODED TABLE OF CONTENTS</b><br>
01:11 Introduction to "Ten Inevitables"<br>
04:17 List of the Ten Inevitables<br>
05:44 "Benefits of Trusting What Is Inevitable: Collapse Acceptance"
(list of 7)<br>
07:29 INEVITABLE 1. "Most people will have a hard time trusting how
and WHY our civilization is collapsing."<br>
26:40 "Five Stages of Awakening: Climbing the Ladder of Awareness"<br>
46:10 INEVITABLE 1. "Most people will have a hard time trusting HOW
and why our civilization is collapsing."<br>
01:02:01 INEVITABLE 2. "Abrupt climate change (rapid 2C+) locks in
biospheric collapse and extinctions."<br>
01:05:44 INEVITABLE 3. "Tipping points already crossed will be
falsely framed as 'still avoidable'."<br>
01:15:17 INEVITABLE 4. "Without 'Assisted Migration' love-in-action,
most tree species will go extinct."<br>
01:17:21 INEVITABLE 5. "Without urgent collective action, there will
be dozens of nuclear meltdowns."<br>
01:22:50 INEVITABLE 6. "As our biospheric and societal predicament
worsens, so will our mental health."<br>
01:23:50 "Universal Human Needs" (list of 9)<br>
01:32:02 "Benefits of Truting What Is Inevitable: Collapse
Acceptance" (list of 7)<br>
01:33:05 INEVITABLE 7. "Most people will only reluctantly relinquish
their faith in 'the Almighty We'."<br>
01:37:47 INEVITABLE 8. "If you proselytize only the 'doom' side of
collapse reality, expect to be shunned." Including definitions of
Doom and Post-Doom.<br>
01:40:08 INEVITABLES 9 & 10. "Most people will crave distraction
— and virtually anything that offers 'hope'." "Elite universities,
IPCC, MSM, & pols will remain first-rate legal hopium dealers."
Definition of "hopium" and "the secular religion of perpetual
progress."<br>
01:47:26 "Progressing Toward Ecocide" (list of 4)<br>
01:53:42 "Honor Your Sadness and Grief" (stages of grief and
"finding the gift")<br>
01:54:36 "Gallows humor" (examples of)<br>
01:55:40 Concluding section: rereading of the Thesis; the list of 10
Inevitables; Benefits of Collapse Acceptance (Dowd's list of 7 and
video of Karen Perry's list of 15).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1fv-5_ldM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1fv-5_ldM</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>March 5, 2015</b></font><br>
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The New York Times reports:<br>
"Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and majority
leader, is urging governors to defy President Obama by refusing to
implement the administration’s global warming regulations."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/us/politics/mcconnell-urges-states-to-defy-us-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gas.html?mwrsm=Email">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/us/politics/mcconnell-urges-states-to-defy-us-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gas.html?mwrsm=Email</a><br>
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