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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>April 6, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Simple video cartoon is very current, recent history &
correct analysis - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw">https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw</a> ]</i><br>
<b>We WILL Fix Climate Change!</b><br>
Apr 5, 2022<br>
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell<br>
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Sources & further reading:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/view/sources-can-we-fix-climate/">https://sites.google.com/view/sources-can-we-fix-climate/</a><br>
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Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our
world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid
runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that will lead to
the collapse of ecosystems and our civilization.<br>
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While scientists, activists and much of the younger generation urge
action, it appears most politicians are not committed to do anything
meaningful while the fossil fuel industry still works actively
against change. It seems humanity can’t overcome its greed and
obsession with short term profit and personal gain to save itself. <br>
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And so for many the future looks grim and hopeless. Young people
feel particularly anxious and depressed. Instead of looking ahead to
a lifetime of opportunity they wonder if they will even have a
future or if they should bring kids into this world. It’s an age of
doom and hopelessness and giving up seems the only sensible thing to
do. <br>
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But that’s not true. You are not doomed. Humanity is not doomed.<br>
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OUR CHANNELS<br>
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Spanish Channel: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://kgs.link/youtubeES">https://kgs.link/youtubeES</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw</a><i><br>
</i> <i>[ not decarbonizing, is a bad business decision]
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<i>[ Murderous Intent - opinion by static cartoon drawing]</i><br>
<b>A tiny group of wealthy people refuse to stop making more money
in order to save the planet</b><i><br>
</i>First Dog on the Moon<i><br>
</i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e323a7edbfebbde35fa1da7e54a6103f0458062/0_0_2400_6397/master/2400.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=6754340a22c81f5e9d6d9ed14b5d71be">https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e323a7edbfebbde35fa1da7e54a6103f0458062/0_0_2400_6397/master/2400.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=6754340a22c81f5e9d6d9ed14b5d71be</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/a-tiny-group-of-wealthy-people-refuse-to-stop-making-more-money-in-order-to-save-the-planet">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/a-tiny-group-of-wealthy-people-refuse-to-stop-making-more-money-in-order-to-save-the-planet</a><br>
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<i>[ XR reports the news from the UN (where is mainstream media?) -
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/FGjCiA3AOiI">https://youtu.be/FGjCiA3AOiI</a> ]</i><br>
<b>UN Chief: The TRULY DANGEROUS RADICALS are the ONES THAT INCREASE
THE FOSSIL FUELS PRODUCTION</b><br>
Apr 5, 2022<br>
Extinction Rebellion UK<br>
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called the
latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report “a
litany of broken climate promises” showing the world is “on a fast
track to climate disaster.”<br>
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Guterres noted that “climate activists are sometimes depicted as
dangerous radicals”, but, for him, “the truly dangerous radicals are
the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.” <br>
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In a video message, he said the report “is a file of shame,
cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an
unlivable world.” <br>
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According to the new publication, the planet is on a pathway to
global warming of more than double the 1.5-degree limit agreed in
Paris. <br>
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“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing – but
doing another. Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be
catastrophic,” said Guterres.<br>
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“Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic
madness. Such investments will soon be stranded assets – a blot on
the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolios,” he warned.<br>
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International: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rebellion.global/">https://rebellion.global/</a><br>
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1. Tell The Truth <br>
2. Act Now <br>
3. Beyond Politics<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGjCiA3AOiI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGjCiA3AOiI</a><br>
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<i>[ it's about time. ]</i><br>
<b>Broadcast meteorologists are taking up the task of communicating
the effects of climate change as crisis accelerates</b><br>
“If there’s a meteorologist out there who doesn’t feel comfortable
talking about climate science, they’re missing the boat.”...<br>
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It’s an opportunity that should be embraced, he and Fisher said. <br>
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Page said climate change presents meteorologists with the
opportunity of being a good resource to audiences, giving people
good information, to “make sure that they’re not just googling
something and getting some really half-baked information on the
internet.”<br>
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A forecast is something that has become easy to get in a number of
places, Fisher pointed out. <br>
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People aren’t sitting down at night to watch their evening news
because it’s the only time they can get their weather forecast.<br>
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“One way that we adapt to that is by offering a bigger umbrella of
information and that includes climate, that includes astronomy,
what’s going on in the night skies, gardening, light planning,” the
CBS Boston forecaster said. “You have to talk about some value-added
things. And so there is plenty of time to talk about this.”<br>
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And when it comes to New England and climate change, that means
talking about sea level rise, increasing precipitation events, and
the fact that there’s less extreme cold, Fisher said.<br>
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Weather is one of the most collective experiences that can be had,
so providing context should be a goal, he said.<br>
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It’s something that audiences watching, or listening to, their
favorite meteorologists can anticipate only growing in the future,
Epstein said.<br>
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It’s not going to decrease, he stressed.<br>
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“The public should expect to see more and more data, information,
stories on how the changing climate is affecting everything from our
daily lives to plants to animals and of course sea level,” Epstein
said. “This isn’t going away and it’s not going to reverse itself.
And so it’s here to stay.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/04/05/broadcast-meteorologists-climate-change/">https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/04/05/broadcast-meteorologists-climate-change/</a><br>
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<i>[ wars have always meant profit - but this is too opportunistic ]</i><br>
<b>Big Oil's Wartime Bonus: How Big Oil Turns Profits Into Wealth</b><br>
Apr 05, 2022<br>
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As the war drags into its second month, Big Oil remains the only
winner in sight. To ensure its windfall profits land in investors’
pockets, companies rely on two main tactics: First, they repurchase
shares of their own stock and retire them, reducing the number of
shares outstanding and driving up the value of each share remaining
in investors’ hands. Second, they increase dividends, the quarterly
payments investors receive for owning shares.<br>
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Amid high gas prices and war in recent months, oil and gas companies
have kicked both tactics into overdrive, a new analysis from Friends
of the Earth, BailoutWatch, and Public Citizen has found<i>:<br>
</i><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bailout.cdn.prismic.io/bailout/f8f2bc61-f533-4f85-9945-9a8dd63312ff_Big+Oil%27s+Wartime+Bonus.pdf">https://bailout.cdn.prismic.io/bailout/f8f2bc61-f533-4f85-9945-9a8dd63312ff_Big+Oil%27s+Wartime+Bonus.pdf</a></b><i><br>
</i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bailoutwatch.org/analysis/big-oils-wartime-bonus">https://bailoutwatch.org/analysis/big-oils-wartime-bonus</a><i><br>
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<i>[ </i><i>House Committee on Oversight and Reform - </i><i>our
government is "shocked, shocked..." this is a perfect time to
stop subsidizing fossil fuels ]<br>
</i><b>Chairs Maloney and Khanna Call on Big Oil to End Stock
Buybacks, Use Record Profits to Help Americans at the Pump and
Invest in Clean Energy</b><br>
Apr 4, 2022 Press Release<br>
Committee Analysis Shows Big Oil Spends Far More Enriching Investors
and Executives Than Producing Clean Energy<br>
Washington, D.C. (April 4, 2022)—Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the
Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro
Khanna, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, sent a
letter to fossil fuel executives at ExxonMobil, BP America, Chevron,
and Shell Oil Company, urging them to use their record-breaking
profits to help Americans facing pain at the gas pump instead of
enriching investors with stock buybacks and dividends. The Chairs
also urged Big Oil to utilize their windfall profit to finally
invest in renewable energy projects to reduce the fossil fuel
dependency that has empowered dangerous autocrats like Vladimir
Putin.<br>
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“As Vladimir Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine is raising gas
prices and hurting Americans at the pump, fossil fuel companies are
taking advantage of the crisis by raking in record profits and
spending billions of dollars to enrich their executives and
investors,” the Chairs wrote. “As part of the Committee’s ongoing
investigation into Big Oil’s disinformation on fossil fuels and
climate change, we found that as profits rose last year, Exxon,
Chevron, BP, and Shell spent more than $44 billion to enrich
investors with stock buybacks and dividends. This year, you have
promised to funnel at least $32 billion more to your investors,
while committing less than half that amount to urgently needed
lower-carbon investments. Big Oil must immediately stop profiteering
off the crisis in Ukraine<i>.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2022-04-04.CBM%20Khanna%20to%20Woods-Exxon%20et%20al.%20re%20Stock%20Buybacks.pdf">https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2022-04-04.CBM%20Khanna%20to%20Woods-Exxon%20et%20al.%20re%20Stock%20Buybacks.pdf</a><i><br>
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<i>[short, like a firecracker ]</i><br>
<b>Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel
Warns</b><br>
A major new scientific report offers a road map for how countries
can limit global warming, but warns that the margin for error is
vanishingly small.<br>
Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong<br>
April 4, 2022<br>
Nations need to move away much faster from fossil fuels to retain
any hope of preventing a perilous future on an overheated planet,
according to a major new report on climate change released on
Monday, although they have made some progress because of the falling
costs of clean energy.<br>
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The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body
of experts convened by the United Nations, warns that unless
countries drastically accelerate efforts over the next few years to
slash their emissions from coal, oil and natural gas, the goal of
limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees
Fahrenheit, will likely be out of reach by the end of this decade.<br>
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That’s the threshold beyond which scientists say the dangers of
global warming — including worsening floods, droughts, wildfires and
ecosystem collapse — grow considerably. Humans have already heated
the planet by an average of 1.1 degrees Celsius since the 19th
century, largely by burning fossil fuels for energy.<br>
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But the task is daunting: Holding warming to just 1.5 degrees
Celsius would require nations to collectively reduce their
planet-warming emissions roughly 43 percent by 2030 and to stop
adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere altogether by the early
2050s, the report found. By contrast, current policies by
governments are only expected to reduce global emissions by a few
percentage points this decade. Last year, fossil fuel emissions
worldwide rebounded to near-record highs after a brief dip as a
result of the coronavirus pandemic...<br>
The report, which was approved by 195 governments and lays out
strategies that countries could pursue to halt global warming, comes
as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused oil and gas prices to
skyrocket, diverting political attention from climate change. In the
United States and Europe, leaders are focused on shoring up domestic
fossil fuel supplies to avoid painful price spikes and energy
shortages, even if that means increasing emissions in the short
term.<br>
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Yet climate scientists say there is little margin for delay if the
world wants to hold global warming to relatively tolerable levels.<br>
<br>
“Every year that you let pass without going for these urgent
emissions reductions makes it more and more difficult,” said Jim
Skea, an energy researcher at Imperial College London who helped
lead the report, which was compiled by 278 experts from 65
countries. “Unless we really do it immediately, it will not be
possible to limit warming to 1.5 degrees.”...<br>
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Even in the best case, humanity is unlikely to eliminate all of its
planet warming emissions, the report warned. So countries will
likely also have to devise ways to remove billions of tons of carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere each year by around midcentury. One
strategy could be to plant more trees, although that may not be
enough, the report cautioned. Other options include devices that
suck carbon out of the air, though these technologies are still
immature...<br>
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“It’s unfortunate: These recent crises just demonstrate that if
decarbonization happened earlier, then China, as well as other
regions, would have been more resilient to some of these shocks,”
said Cecilia Han Springer, a China expert at Boston University. “But
that means there’s also an opportunity to double down.”<br>
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India’s government has increased energy efficiency in homes and
factories, given farmers solar-powered water pumps and helped
promote the rapid construction of solar farms. But the country’s
state-run electric utilities remain in fragile fiscal health,
meaning there is no guarantee that efforts to expand clean energy
will be financially sustainable.<br>
Worldwide, slashing emissions requires overhauling the way
governments, businesses and even societies work, said Dr. Denton of
the United Nations University. “That’s not an overnight thing, and
it comes with some cost, whether we like it or not.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/climate/climate-change-ipcc-un.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/climate/climate-change-ipcc-un.html</a><br>
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<i>[ This is not a song by Elvis ] </i><br>
<b>‘It’s now or never’: World’s top climate scientists issue
ultimatum on critical temperature limit</b><br>
Sam Meredith -- APR 4 2022 <br>
-- “It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C,”
IPCC Working Group III co-chair Jim Skea said.<br>
-- The 1.5 degrees Celsius goal is the aspirational temperature
threshold ascribed in the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement.<br>
-- The IPCC’s latest report follows a series of mind-bending extreme
weather events worldwide.<br>
-- For instance, in just the last few weeks, an ice shelf the size
of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica following record high
temperatures and heavy rains deluged Australia’s east coast,
submerging entire towns.<br>
The fight to keep global heating under 1.5 degrees Celsius has
reached “now or never” territory, according to a new report released
Monday by the world’s leading climate scientists.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/ipcc-report-climate-scientists-issue-ultimatum-on-1point5-degrees-goal.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/ipcc-report-climate-scientists-issue-ultimatum-on-1point5-degrees-goal.html</a><br>
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<i>[ From SLATE ] </i><br>
<b>How to Convince People to Leave Homes at Serious Risk From
Climate Change</b><br>
BY FANILLA CHENG AND YULIYA PANFIL<br>
APRIL 01, 2022<br>
Nearly 100 million Americans live on the coasts, and they are
continuing to move there at high rates. In fact, the coastal
population has grown by more than 15 percent since 2000—faster than
the rest of the country—and the population of coastline counties in
the Gulf of Mexico region increased by nearly one-quarter between
2000 and 2016. Coastal areas have a population density that is more
than five times greater than the U.S. average.<br>
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These coastal hubs are under increasing threat from sea level rise,
vicious hurricanes, and other events driven by climate change. The
research organization First Street Foundation found in 2020 that 15
million homes across the United States are at substantial risk of
flooding, and things are only going to get worse. Scientists project
that in a few decades, almost half of Galveston, Texas; more than
half of Hoboken, New Jersey; and almost two-thirds of Miami Beach,
Florida, will become uninhabitable due to sea level rise...<br>
Faced with these grim facts, coastal cities, counties, and the
federal government are beginning to grapple with how to relocate
vulnerable coastal residents. Right now, the most common way to do
this is through a process called managed retreat: After a storm
damages a home, the government offers a property owner money to move
away instead of rebuilding. Typically, the amount of money matches
the value of the home, sometimes with a small additional incentive
amount.<br>
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Over the past 40 years, the government has relocated nearly 45,000
people in this manner. But as the seas threaten to swallow up entire
cities, this incremental approach is becoming increasingly
unrealistic—financially, logistically, and politically. It’s also
increasingly inequitable.<br>
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First, consider the costs. According to Zillow the typical U.S. home
costs $308,000, and coastal homes are significantly more expensive
on average than inland properties. Relocating just 10 percent of the
homeowners that First Street Foundation identified as most
vulnerable would cost the government nearly $500 billion, to say
nothing of exponentially more expensive propositions like relocating
airports, hospitals, ports and other infrastructure.<br>
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Then, consider the logistics. Managed retreat buyouts are voluntary,
with each individual homeowner applying for, negotiating, and
accepting a relocation. That means buyouts are an administrative
nightmare for both municipalities and homeowners. As a result, a
2019 study found that wealthier and less vulnerable counties in New
England were more likely to apply for buyout funds than more
vulnerable Gulf Coast counties in Florida, Louisiana, and
Mississippi.<br>
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And finally, consider the politics. Property taxes are the backbone
of a municipal budget, and no city wants to lose its taxpayer
base—especially if it must continue providing the same municipal
services and maintaining roads, bridges, schools and hospitals for
the few residents who stay put. Fundamentally, there’s no world in
which asking people to move away from coastal homes they may have
spent a lifetime saving up for is good politics.<br>
So, if buyouts just don’t work at scale, what is the alternative?<br>
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Florida has been experimenting with one approach that can address
the long-term problems while allowing people to stay put: conferring
“life rights,” coupled with other tools such as tax incentives, for
vulnerable properties. For instance, homes might become state
property, but residents would be allowed to remain in their homes
during their lifetime. Similarly, Norfolk, Virginia’s 2018 zoning
ordinance provides for a “life estate” option—allowing some
residents to remain in their homes throughout their lives, with
their property interest terminating when they die—to help enhance
flood resilience and direct new, more intense development to higher
ground.<br>
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While this may be a promising long-term alternative, it doesn’t work
if a community needs immediate relocation due to worsening storms or
flooding. Alternatively, municipalities could experiment with
offering other forms of limited property ownership to residents in
certain areas. Once an area becomes too unsafe to live in, such as
when the average high tide line in a coastal community has risen
past a certain level, the homes in that area would stop being owned
by the residents, and the homes would become government property.<br>
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Another option would be to put these vulnerable properties into land
trusts (organizations that acquire and steward land) and subject
them to a “rolling easement.” This rolling easement could restrict
harmful shore protection measures such as seawalls (which often
erode beaches and destroy coastal habitats), remove pre-existing
structures along the coast, and provide notice to coastal residents
that their property rights are not infinite. Such a strategy would
enable residents to stay until it becomes too risky. North Carolina
already prohibits permanent shoreline protection structures, which
often end up harming beaches and coastlines.<br>
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Governments could also implement rebuilding restrictions to require
residents to move inland if their homes are destroyed by a storm or
flood, and prevent these residents from rebuilding in the same
place. Maine’s Sand Dune Rules and South Carolina’s Beachfront
Management Act both include restrictions on rebuilding a
storm-damaged property, such as when a structure is damaged by more
than 50 percent of its appraised value. The drawback of this
approach is that it’s only activated after damage and destruction
occur. Furthermore, in some areas, it may be difficult to find new
property where affected residents can rebuild.<br>
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Financial incentives could also encourage more people to move away
from vulnerable areas.<br>
New York offers such an inducement to homeowners in areas at regular
risk of flooding: If the homeowner agrees to relocate within the
same county, they could receive the fair market value of their home,
plus an additional incentive of 5 percent of the home value.<br>
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But at the end of the day, these are incremental efforts to address
a systemic problem. Perhaps what’s most critically needed is a
transformational effort that includes bold investment in vibrant,
attractive, and affordable residential and commercial development,
built on higher ground nearby that vulnerable coastal residents can
readily and enthusiastically relocate to.<br>
<br>
We know that climate change is already causing widespread
disruption, and that sea levels are rising faster than ever, yet so
far our response to the climate crisis has been reactive and
incremental. With time running out to avoid a harrowing future, we
need to act now to implement the necessary far-reaching measures
that match the extent of the crisis we face.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/managed-retreat-government-policy-climate-change-flooding.html">https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/managed-retreat-government-policy-climate-change-flooding.html</a><br>
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<i>[ We lack only the tools of will-power and </i><i>morality</i><i>]</i><br>
<b>We have the tools to slow warming</b><br>
We actually have a better shot than we did a few years ago,
according to a new United Nations report. But powerful interests
stand in the way.<br>
By Somini Sengupta - - April 5, 2022<br>
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That’s what I find most valuable in the new report this week from
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tells us the world
already has many of the tools required to shift away from fossil
fuels and slow down climate change quickly<br>
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It’s doable, in other words. It’s just not getting done...<br>
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<b>Ditching fossil fuels is costly, but sticking with them is
costlier.</b><br>
Shifting the global economy from coal to renewables won’t happen
spontaneously. It needs government subsidies to promote renewables
rather than to promote fossil fuels, which is currently the case.
The I.P.C.C. says governments and companies may need to invest three
to six times the $600 billion they currently spend annually on
promoting clean energy and reducing emissions.<br>
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A failure to do so would very likely be more expensive. The panel’s
projections say that countries will be poorer if they do not take
action to shift to renewable energy sources, and that estimate
doesn’t even count the economic benefits of improving public health
and reducing extreme weather disasters...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/climate/we-have-the-tools-to-slow-warming.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/climate/we-have-the-tools-to-slow-warming.html</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>April, 6, 2000</b></font><br>
Predicting the controversies that would define the George W. Bush
administration, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert observes, "Mr.
Bush's relationship to the environment is roughly that of a doctor
to a patient -- when the doctor's name is Kevorkian."<br>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>''What happened during Bush's tenure is that by most
measures environmental quality in Texas has gotten worse,'' said
Tom (Smitty) Smith, director of the public interest group Texas
Public Citizen. ''Every chance that Bush has had, he's stood up
for the polluters.''<br>
<br>
Mr. Bush's approach has not been subtle. His first appointment
to the state's environmental protection agency, the Texas
Natural Resources Conservation Commission, was Ralph Marquez, an
executive who had spent 30 years with the Monsanto Chemical
Company and had served as the chairman of the environmental
regulation committee of the Texas Chemical Council, a trade
association.<br>
<br>
Great idea! Let's put a top chemical company guy in charge of
regulating pollution from chemicals. Let's put the biggest,
hungriest fox we can find right at that gaping entrance to the
chicken coop.<br>
<br>
That was in 1995. Three weeks after Mr. Marquez's appointment,
the commission used its muscle to thwart a plan, already in the
works, to issue smog health advisories that would warn residents
whenever there were particularly high ozone levels in and around
Houston.<br>
<br>
The business types in Houston hate health advisories and
anything else that calls attention to the city's dirty air. It's
bad for business. Just give the kids some cough drops.<br>
<br>
Mr. Marquez doesn't even think ozone is particularly bad for
you. Testifying before a Congressional committee in November
1995, he said: ''After all, ozone is not a poison or a
carcinogen. It's a relatively benign pollutant compared with
other environmental risks.''<br>
<br>
I've no doubt George W. is enjoying his spiffy new
environmentalist costume. The Bush men can always count on the
environment for a good laugh. Back in 1992, George H. W. Bush,
campaigning for re-election, gleefully derided Al Gore's
interest in the environment by dubbing the vice-presidential
candidate ''the Ozone Man.''<br>
<br>
The business types loved it.<br>
<br>
Bush the elder, smiling, said he was ''an environmental man''
too. He might as well have winked. He never expected anybody to
believe him. Costumes are about fun.<br>
</blockquote>
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