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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>March 7, 2022</b></i></font><i><br>
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<i>[ Catch up w/ 4 min video</i><i> from PBS last week </i><i> ]<br>
</i><b>UN releases dire climate report highlighting rapid
environmental degradation</b><i><br>
</i>Feb 28, 2022<br>
PBS NewsHour<br>
A new United Nations science report warned that the effects of
climate change are growing faster and more severe than expected. It
cited hunger, disease, poverty and other ills made worse by a
warming planet and indicated the repercussions may soon outstrip
humanity's ability to adapt. William Brangham reports.<i><br>
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<i>[ comment on Calif solar proposal - explanation on video ]</i><br>
<b>The WAR on Residential Solar</b><br>
Mar 3, 2022<br>
Two Bit da Vinci<br>
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There's a War on Residential Solar. <br>
Solar energy is one of our favorite things, and it's been a great
few decades for the proliferation of residential solar. But a new
bill proposed by California law makers, might completely alter the
future of Solar in the Golden State. Let's take a deeper dive into
what this really means today on Two Bit da Vinci!<br>
Link to Solar Bill: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/SearchRes.as">https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/SearchRes.as</a>...<br>
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<p><i>[ NYTimes letter to the editor ] </i><br>
<b>A Dire Climate Report, and the Justices Aren’t Helping</b><br>
March 3, 2022<br>
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To the Editor:<br>
<br>
Re “Time Is Running Out to Fix Climate, Report Says” (front page,
March 1):<br>
<br>
At a time when the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change has made the devastating effects of unbridled
climate change more apparent than ever, President Biden is
fighting an uphill battle to gain congressional support for
essential federal programs targeting America’s greenhouse gas
emissions.<br>
<br>
His job has only been made tougher by coal companies and a number
of Republican-led states that have just taken their latest battle
against meaningful federal intervention to the Supreme Court
(“Justices Dispute E.P.A. Power to Curb Emissions,” front page,
March 1).<br>
<br>
These defenders of dirty energy ground President Obama’s Clean
Power Plan to a halt, and their continued goal is to stymie the
Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to rein in carbon
pollution from outmoded power plants. What century are they living
in?<br>
<br>
The U.S. needs to meet our climate crisis head on. In that
respect, Ross Douthat’s call for a bolstered American birthrate in
“‘My Fellow Americans’: Four Times Columnists Channel Joe Biden”
(Opinion, March 1) is bizarrely out of place. In a country that is
one of the world leaders in per capita carbon pollution, it is
folly to bolster birthrates in the hope that someone will “come up
with the invention or figure out the big idea that makes the world
a better place.”<br>
<br>
Good ideas to advance that ambition abound; what we lack is the
political resolve to implement them.<br>
<br>
Philip Warburg<br>
Newton, Mass.<br>
The writer is a senior fellow at Boston University’s Institute for
Sustainable Energy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/opinion/letters/climate-change-report.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/opinion/letters/climate-change-report.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Lots of editorial comments, where is the re-action? ]</i><br>
<b>The Observer view on Ukraine and the climate emergency</b><br>
Observer editorial<br>
The crisis must not become a reason to drop our commitment to net
zero target<br>
6 Mar 2022 <br>
The report last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) on the need to adapt to global warming made stark,
unpleasant reading. Described by the UN secretary general, António
Guterres, as “an atlas of human suffering”, it revealed that
billions of people now live in parts of the world where they are
highly vulnerable to climate change.<br>
<br>
Death tolls from droughts, floods and storms are destined to
increase in these regions as extreme heat events and inundations
become more frequent. Only urgent action today can halt the worst
impacts and prevent a global calamity, argued the IPCC...<br>
n a normal news week, warnings as dire as these would have made
front-page headlines in British newspapers. Events in Ukraine
ensured they were pushed inside, however. It is not surprising that
the unfolding humanitarian crisis occurring in eastern Europe should
be the prime focus of our attention and concern. However, there is a
danger that the battle for Ukraine may divert attention from the
approaching climate change crisis. Even before Russia launched its
invasion and triggered a leap in fuel prices, some Conservative
backbench MPs had been pressing for the government to cut back its
green agenda, a move that has since been followed with calls for
fracking to be resumed in the UK in order to boost fossil fuel
production and help curb fuel price increases.<br>
<br>
These manoeuvres are being mounted by a collection of MPs and peers
known as the Net Zero Scrutiny Group. They have tried to blame the
government’s green agenda for a cost-of-living crisis, which they
say would be better addressed not by raising national insurance
payments and imposing green levies but by cutting taxes, resuming UK
shale gas extraction, and slowing down the rate at which we impose
carbon emission cuts.<br>
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Nor are these campaigns confined to the UK. Across the EU, calls
have been made for the bloc to reactivate old, decommissioned coal
plants “as a precaution and in order to be prepared for the worst”,
as the German economy minister, Robert Habeck, said last week...<br>
Such proposals are alarming and the threats they pose should be made
clear to the public. In the case of shale gas production, there is
simply not enough in the UK to make up for the decline in our
reserves of North Sea gas, which have been occurring for more than a
decade. Fracking is also deeply unpopular with the public and given
that any shale gas extracted would have to be sold at international
market prices, it would have no impact on UK fuel bills. Shale gas
has no part to play in the generation of power in a Britain
committed to playing a leading role in the battle against global
warming.<br>
Nor is it realistic to consider reopening coal plants. Coal is the
dirtiest of all fossil fuels and any return to its widescale burning
across Europe would send the worst possible message to developing
nations currently resisting pressure to close down mines and ancient
power plants as part of the international programme aimed at cutting
back carbon emissions.<br>
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The real lesson from the battlefields of Ukraine is that Britain
needs to rid itself of its fossil fuel addiction entirely and become
self-reliant on electricity that is generated cleanly and
efficiently. We need to do that to protect our energy supplies,
while at the same time sending a message to the rest of the world
that we take the coming crisis extremely seriously. The need to
follow this course of action is reflected in the final words of last
week’s IPCC report: “Any further delay in concrete anticipatory
global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and
rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and
sustainable future for all.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/observer-view-on-ukraine-and-climate-emergency">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/observer-view-on-ukraine-and-climate-emergency</a><br>
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<i>[ glacier science briefing for COP26 - YouTube ]</i><br>
<b>West Antarctica: Getz on the Run</b><br>
Nov 10, 2021<br>
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative<br>
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The Getz region of West Antarctica is losing ice at an increasing
rate. A recent study used satellite observations and an ice sheet
model to measure ice speed and mass balance for this lesser studied
area over the last 25-years, and found an average increase in speed
of 24 % between 1994 and 2018, with three glaciers accelerating by
over 44 %.<br>
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Much of the Getz region has never been stepped on by humans; and 9
of the 14 glaciers are unnamed, showing the importance of high
resolution satellite data as an early warning system to detect rapid
change in this key region of Antarctica.<br>
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Main Presenters: Dr. Heather Selley, University of Leeds; and Dr.
Bryony Freer, University of Leeds/British Antarctic Survey.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtmDLyVdXa0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtmDLyVdXa0</a><br>
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<i>[ parental conjecture as understatement ]</i><br>
<b>Here’s What The New Climate Report Says About The Future Of My
1-Year-Old Daughter</b><br>
Not halting global warming, said one expert, “would be the final,
truly unfair thing to do to a generation of kids coming up right
now.”<br>
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Zahra Hirji - BuzzFeed News Reporter<br>
March 5, 2022, <br>
My daughter is not yet 2 years old. In her short life, she has only
known a world dramatically altered by human-made climate change. In
her lifetime, she will face a future of worse floods, heat waves,
droughts, extinctions, and more calamities ensured by continually
rising temperatures.<br>
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<b>Unless we start to act now.</b><br>
<br>
A new climate report released this week, called “Climate Change
2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability,” makes clear that
climate impacts will permeate her childhood. It also details how
kids worldwide are especially vulnerable to the crisis, with even
more warming on the way.<br>
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But my daughter’s future is not already doomed. That’s a key
takeaway from the more than 3,000-page report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which outlines the many
ways that society can act to not only better respond and adapt to
the warming that’s here, but also stave off a perilously hot world
of no return.<br>
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“There are a ton of options,” said Edward Carr of Clark University,
a coauthor of the new report. The biggest tragedy, he added, would
be if we don’t act now on the climate solutions we already have.
“That would be the final, truly unfair thing to do to a generation
of kids coming up right now.”<br>
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</b><b>Born Into A Warming World</b><br>
<br>
My daughter was born in the hottest year on record. Or the
second-hottest year, depending on the analysis. 2020 was the year
that Australia burned in its deadly Bushfire season and a record
number of locusts swarmed the Horn of Africa — both calamities
expected in a warming climate.<br>
Since then, California suffered not only from its largest wildfire
on record — the August Complex fire that burned 1,032,648 acres and
935 structures — but also its second-, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and
seventh-largest fires since at least 1932 when reliable
record-keeping began, according to the California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection. The Pacific Northwest also experienced
its deadliest heat wave on record. Tennessee was hit by record
rainfall for a 24-hour period, and similar records were obliterated
in the Northeast due to the remnants of Hurricane Ida.<br>
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Elsewhere in the world, mudslides blanketed Japan’s town of Atami in
Shizuoka prefecture, entire villages were inundated by torrential
downpours in Western Germany, and a wildfire destroyed Canada’s town
of Lytton.<br>
Some of these disasters pose real risks of physical harm to kids.
Take extreme heat and heat waves: Pregnant people, babies, and young
kids are all more vulnerable to heat than older kids and most adults
because their bodies aren’t as good at cooling and staying that way.
Studies even show that an unborn child’s exposure to extreme heat
while in the womb could result in negative health outcomes later,
such as lower birth weight.<br>
<br>
For older kids, as the number of hot days increases with global
warming, they risk greater exposure to the heat in schools without
air conditioning and during outdoor activities, like sports.<br>
<br>
This latest IPCC assessment also discusses how disasters, both the
acute exposure to one and then the longer-term recovery from one,
can damage the mental health and well-being of everyone impacted,
especially kids.<br>
<br>
After major flooding occurred in the United Kingdom in 2000, for
instance, researchers tracked the health of people whose homes
flooded and did not flood, according to Kristie Ebi of the
University of Washington, who helped co-write the report’s chapter
on health. “There was a very clear difference in probable anxiety,
depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder” between the
different groups, she explained.<br>
Headline-spurring disasters, which are growing more frequent and
more intense, are perhaps the most obvious signs of how 1.1 degrees
Celsius of warming, compared to pre-industrial times, is playing
out. But there are far more climate impacts already here, as the new
report exhaustively details.<br>
<br>
Even before my daughter was born, for example, two species went
extinct and climate change played a role: the Golden toad in Costa
Rica in 1990, as well as Australia’s Bramble Cay melomys, a type of
rodent, in 2016. And a third species got perilously close to
extinction: Australia’s lemuroid ringtail possum. And there have
been far more local extinctions: Climate-linked local extinctions
were detected in 47% of 976 animal and plant species examined.<br>
<br>
The impact of climate change on top of existing problems of food
availability and high prices can be a “lethal combination for kids,”
said Rachel Bezner Kerr of Cornell University, a coauthor on the
IPCC chapter on food systems, “especially in low-income countries,
especially low-income households, especially in rural areas.”<br>
<br>
“So we have one study that showed between 1993 and 2012, increased
temperatures was significantly related to children’s wasting in 30
countries in Africa,” she added. Wasting refers to a child that is
too thin for their height, according to the World Health
Organization.<br>
Malnutrition is already a huge problem in kids in certain developing
nations, and that problem will only get bigger in a warmer world if
action isn’t specifically taken to avoid that possibility.<br>
<br>
<b>How Hot Will It Get In My Daughter’s Lifetime?</b><b><br>
</b><br>
When world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement in 2016, they
agreed to jointly limit global warming to well below 2 degrees
Celsius (about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), ideally to 1.5 degrees
Celsius.<br>
<br>
Now scientists predict that it is “more likely than not” that global
average temperatures will pass 1.5 degrees in the coming decades, no
matter what. It could happen by 2030, when my daughter is only 12
years old.<br>
That’s why the next few years matter so much. How quickly people cut
their greenhouse gas emissions this decade will help dictate how the
1.5-degree threshold is exceeded and what happens next. Will
temperatures keep going up or will they start to come back down?<br>
<br>
Moreover, what people do now to start adapting to the warming that’s
already here and locked in for the future will minimize the damage
associated with the crisis.<br>
<br>
By 2030, for example, it’s possible that countries will embrace the
bold goal of protecting at least 30% of the planet’s land and water.
If so, that could have cascading benefits, from keeping some species
alive to bolstering natural ecosystems that protect against floods,
help suck up carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and do much more.
And if China transitioned to a half-decarbonized power supply for
homes and vehicles by 2030, per the report, the country could expect
to prevent 55,000-69,000 deaths in that year.<br>
<br>
It’s also possible that urban areas may see their exposure to
flooding go up 2.7 times by 2030 compared to 2000, or that an
additional 48,000 children under the age of 15 globally may die from
diarrhea, or that the number of people living in extreme poverty may
increase by 122 million, or that extreme droughts in the Amazon will
accelerate the migration of traditional communities and Indigenous
peoples to cities, or that freshwater will be severely limited for
some small islands.<br>
But meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement across nine
major economies by 2040, per the report, “could result in an annual
reduction of 1.18 million air pollution–related deaths, 5.86 million
diet–related deaths, and 1.15 million deaths due to physical
inactivity.”<br>
<br>
By 2050, when my daughter is 34, millions of people could be at risk
of hunger. In a world that never gets up to 2 degrees Celsius, 8
million people could face this risk. In a world that reaches 2
degrees by then, 80 million people could.<br>
<br>
On the flip side, if the European Union specifically were to
dramatically cut its greenhouse gas emissions, that action “could
reduce years of lost life due to fine particulate matter from over
4.6 million in 2005 to 1 million in 2050,” per the report.<br>
<br>
By 2100, when my daughter is 82 years old, temperatures could have
leveled out at 1.5 degrees or even dropped a bit — or gone all the
way up to 4 degrees. The difference in climate impacts and
livability between such scenarios is near-Biblical.<br>
<br>
Even in a world that hovers around 1.5 degrees of warming, global
seas may rise between less than a foot to nearly two feet by then.
At the same time, the benefits of cutting climate emissions, such as
phasing out fossil fuel–run power plants, will be enormous for
people’s health and their wallets. “The financial value of health
benefits from improved air quality alone is projected to be greater
than the costs of meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement,”
according to the report.<br>
<br>
“We need to be mitigating for our health,” Ebi said. Phasing out
coal-fired power plants, for example, both cuts down on climate
pollution and could result in fewer hospitalizations and deaths tied
to particulate matter, she said. Or eating less red meat would not
only cut down on associated emissions from methane, a greenhouse
gas, but also cut down on chronic diseases and avoid some premature
deaths and hospitalizations.<br>
<br>
In that very hot scenario, meanwhile, sea levels will rise by at
least 2 feet, if not 3 feet, by 2100. Wildfires will be far more
prevalent, with up to 720 million people living in fire-prone areas.
Flood risk will be higher. Farms, fisheries, and ranches will be
highly stressed. Extinctions will happen. And up to three-quarters
of the human population, per the report, “could be exposed to
periods of life-threatening climatic conditions arising from coupled
impacts of extreme heat and humidity by 2100.” That’s billions of
people having their lives threatened by droughts, heat waves,
floods, and other disasters promised by climate change.<br>
<br>
The kids of today are the ones who will be here in the decades to
come. “And so all these impacts we’ve been talking about,” Carr
said, “they’re going to see how these all play out.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/climate-toddler-future">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/climate-toddler-future</a><br>
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<i>[ OK, let's try a few ] </i><br>
<b>Six behavior changes that can heal people and the planet</b><br>
Lifestyle medicine expert Dr. Neha Pathak offers tips for better
health and a safer climate.<br>
<br>
by NEHA PATHAK, MD<br>
MARCH 4, 2022<br>
Here’s a prescription for improving the health of U.S. residents –
and at the same time, helping to protect the climate.<br>
<br>
<b>It’s called lifestyle medicine.</b><b><br>
</b>As a physician practicing in this growing field, I help my
patients address common chronic conditions, like heart disease,
diabetes, and lung problems, by focusing on six major changes to
their lifestyles. Beyond a focus on medicines, I prescribe
strategies like eating whole, plant-based foods, getting physical
activity, avoiding toxic substances, improving sleep, connecting
with others, and managing stress – often through nature-based
therapies.<br>
<br>
Catherine Collings, MD, a cardiologist and president of the American
College of Lifestyle Medicine, where I serve on the board of
directors, points to the broad and growing consensus and updates in
medical guidelines that demonstrate the power of these simple
interventions to prevent, manage, and sometimes reverse many chronic
diseases, like high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and
even certain cancers.<br>
<br>
The beauty of these approaches is that they’re often good for the
planet, too. And the field of lifestyle medicine is gaining
importance at a critical moment.<br>
<br>
<b>Climate change is a growing danger to health</b><br>
For the 60% of American adults with at least one chronic condition,
climate change may intensify the threats to their health.<br>
<br>
My patients with chronic conditions are among those most at risk
from climate change-related heat waves, extreme weather events, and
worsened air quality. Heat puts an immense strain on those with
heart conditions and diabetes. Some long-term medicines can
interfere with the body’s ability to cool down, increasing patients’
risk of heat-related illnesses. And climate-related weather
disasters can interfere with medical follow-ups.<br>
<br>
Even though health professionals train to address chronic disease
prevention and management, many of us are still not equipped to talk
about the overlapping health risks of the climate crisis in the exam
room.<br>
<br>
“When patients come to see their physicians, they are first and
foremost invested in their own health, and I do believe that the
responsibility of the physician is to first tune in to that patient
as an individual, into their concerns,” Collings says.<br>
<br>
But evidence from the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
report and other recent studies show that many lifestyle
prescriptions are not just powerful in the fight against chronic
disease but are also part of robust climate “solutions.”<br>
<br>
<b>A diet for a heating planet</b><br>
Physician Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at
the University of Wisconsin – Madison, points out that a shift
toward plant-based diets has major health benefits and the potential
to slow global warming. Estimates of the global food system’s
contributions to heat-trapping emissions vary, but a recent Food and
Agriculture Organization puts it at a whopping 31%. From
deforestation, fertilizer use, processing, packaging and transport,
the emissions stack up and so does the pollution of air, water, and
soil.<br>
<br>
The pollution produced by raising animals for food is generally much
higher than those produced by growing plant-based food. Beef is at
the highest end of the spectrum: Producing just one kilogram of beef
leads to about 60 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions. In
contrast, growing one kilogram of many fruits, vegetables, and nuts
results in only about one kilogram of greenhouse gases.<br>
<br>
The health benefits of a plant-predominant diet are equally
staggering. Poor diets – those low in whole grains, vegetables,
fruits, nuts, and high in red meat, salt, and processed foods – kill
11 million people worldwide every year. Almost 50% of Americans have
poor-quality diets and 90% do not meet daily recommendations for
fruit or vegetable intake.<br>
<br>
For those interested in shifting toward a plant-predominant diet,
Patz recommends a planetary health diet developed by the EAT-Lancet
commission, which emphasizes whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts
and legumes. This prescription can save millions of lives and help
preserve the health of the planet.<br>
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<b>Avoid the car, get your body moving</b><br>
Active transport, meaning walking or bicycling where possible, is
another lifestyle medicine prescription that Patz describes as
“multi-solving.” Sedentary lifestyles kill over 4 million people
globally, and about 25% of Americans are classified as physically
inactive. At the same time, about 29% of heat-trapping greenhouse
gas emissions come from the U.S. transportation sector.<br>
<br>
As a result, biking or walking to do errands rather than driving a
car can improve your health and reduce emissions, too.<br>
<br>
“We found that if you could take short car trips off the road,” Patz
says, “you have air quality benefits but you’d have enormous
exercise benefits as well. … We’re talking about 1,300 lives saved
every year from reduced air pollution and increased physical
fitness.”<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, many of my patients suffer from “active transport
inequities.” In other words, their neighborhoods were not designed
with health in mind. Dangerous roadways, lack of sidewalks, and
other threats limit safe outdoor physical activity. As the link
between increased walkability and lower rates of chronic conditions
like diabetes and obesity strengthens, many health professionals are
advocating for “community prescriptions” for walkable neighborhoods
to help reduce this inequity.<br>
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<b>Beware of toxic substances</b><br>
I often advise patients to avoid tobacco, alcohol, and illegal
drugs.<br>
<br>
But health professionals don’t typically emphasize limiting exposure
to air or water pollution. For some lifestyle medicine providers,
this oversight is a critical gap in preventive care. Just like
smoking cigarettes can lead to heart and lung damage, so can air
pollution.<br>
<br>
By some estimates, air pollution, caused in part by the burning of
fossil fuels, is responsible for over 4 million deaths annually,
with some estimates placing the number of deaths as high as 8
million. It also increases the burden of chronic disease from
conditions like dementia, heart, and lung disease.<br>
<br>
Collings, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine president, says
that it is hard for health professionals to talk about pollution
exposure in the exam room because most patients can’t control the
toxic substances in their environment.<br>
<br>
But providers can encourage patients to make a habit of monitoring
outdoor air quality by visiting sites such as AirNow.gov. On days
when air quality is poor, you can limit pollution exposure by
wearing N95 masks or avoiding outdoor activity.<br>
<br>
Ultimately, health advocates hope that a prescription to improve
individual health may also drive action to limit pollution for
entire communities. Knowing that air pollution can damage the heart,
lungs, and brain may help communities come together to prevent the
expansion of polluting traffic or other industries that could worsen
local air quality – especially in marginalized communities that
already bear a disproportionate burden of pollution exposure.<br>
<br>
<b>Heat, disasters are threats to restorative sleep</b><br>
The connection between poor quality sleep and many chronic mental
and physical health conditions continues to strengthen. At the same
time, climate change-related impacts pose a hazard to both sleep
quantity and quality. For example, displacement resulting from
climate-related weather disasters threaten healthy sleep patterns.
So do long stretches of high temperatures, particularly in
neighborhoods that have lost protective tree canopies.<br>
<br>
One specific intervention lifestyle medicine providers recommend is
to preserve tree canopies, particularly in urban areas. Not only do
trees soak up greenhouse gasses, they help reduce local temperatures
and noise pollution, facilitating better sleep.<br>
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</b><b>Manage stress, stay connected</b><br>
Climate-related threats to mental health are increasingly recognized
by patients and health professionals. These threats include
eco-anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder – or PTSD – related to
climate disasters, and mental-health stress linked to higher
temperatures. In the long-term, chronic stress not only affects
health but makes it harder for people to make healthy lifestyle
choices.<br>
<br>
Here again is a “multi-solving” opportunity. Lifestyle medicine
practitioners encourage the use of green space, nature, and parks
for stress management and mental and physical health. These uses
encourage the preservation of spaces that also remove greenhouse
gasses from the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
Beyond the individual health benefits, shared green spaces and parks
can enhance social connection and happiness within communities.
Though social connection has not traditionally been thought of as
medicine, the health effects of isolation have helped doctors see
the importance of community ties for health.<br>
<br>
With the increasing threats posed by climate disruption, lifestyle
medicine health professionals are recognizing that prescriptions for
social connection are even more critical. By helping patients
identify sources of community support, we may be able to limit
disruptions to health and healthcare access in the lead up and
aftermath of extreme weather events, because isolated patients tend
to have a harder time getting care and services after disasters.
Social connection can also protect mental health in the wake of
climate disasters: Researchers recently found that higher levels of
social support helped people cope and reduced the risk for mental
health conditions after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico.<br>
<br>
<b>Inspiring health professionals</b><br>
Collings says that with every prescription for healthy, plant-based
nutrition, physical activity, nature-based therapy, and social
connection, health professionals are charting a path toward both
individual and climate health.<br>
<br>
She says she hopes her organization’s work will inspire health
professionals to protect patients from both individual and planetary
health threats.<br>
<br>
“We know health practitioners are so much more effective when they
bring their own passion into the appointment,” she says.
“Prescribing these interventions help actualize their passions fully
and know that through their health care encounters, they’re actually
changing the lives of people and the planet.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/03/six-behavior-changes-that-can-heal-people-and-the-planet/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/03/six-behavior-changes-that-can-heal-people-and-the-planet/</a><br>
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<i>[ Audio of a long-lost essay on collapse ] </i><br>
<b>Collapsosaurus Rex - Collapse 101</b><br>
Michael Dowd<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/collapsosaurus-rex-collapse-1">https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/collapsosaurus-rex-collapse-1</a><br>
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[ more from Michael Dowd ]<br>
<b>Regenerative conversations exploring overshoot grief, grounding,
and gratitude.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdoom.com/">https://postdoom.com/</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>March 7, 2013</b></font><br>
Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones reports:<br>
<blockquote> "Despite record heat and extreme weather disasters in
recent years, insurers aren't adequately planning for climate
change, according to a report issued Thursday. Only 13 percent of
insurance companies have a 'specific, comprehensive strategy' to
deal with global warming."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/03/report-insurers-still-ignoring-climate-change">http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/03/report-insurers-still-ignoring-climate-change</a>
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