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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>April 12, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ hmm.. difficult to walk through the mud ] </i><br>
<b>Donors Pledge $41 Million to Monitor Thawing Arctic Permafrost</b><br>
The six-year effort by climate scientists and policy experts aims to
fill gaps in knowledge about planet-warming emissions and help
affected communities in Alaska.<br>
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Led by the Massachusetts-based Woodwell Climate Research Center, the
6-year, $41 million project will fill in gaps in monitoring across
the Arctic of greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost,
currently a source of uncertainty in climate models. The project is
financed by private donors, among them the billionaire
philanthropist Mackenzie Scott.<br>
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With the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at
Harvard University and the Alaska Institute of Justice, the project
will also develop policies to help mitigate the global impact of
permafrost emissions and, locally in Alaska, assist Native
communities that are struggling with thawing ground and problems
that arise from it.<br>
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“A good part of this is science,” said Sue Natali, a permafrost
researcher, director of the Arctic program at Woodwell and one of
the leaders of the new project, called Permafrost Pathways. “But
really, it’s important to us to be making sure that our science is
actually useful and usable where it’s needed.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/climate/permafrost-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/climate/permafrost-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[ here it is ]<br>
<b>Permafrost thaw is threatening Arctic communities and our global
climate.</b><br>
Our course of action <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/">https://permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/</a><br>
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<i>[ Oh boy, a new term. A bunch of new terms ]</i><br>
<b>I Wrote an Essay About “Petromasculinity,” and Conservatives
Freaked Out</b><br>
Liza Featherstone/April 11, 2022<br>
The knee-jerk panic some conservative men feel over fossil fuels
isn’t just tied to financial incentive. It’s an identity.<br>
What is it about climate change and gender that so reliably gets
under conservatives’ skin? ...I knew this was going to be a
sensitive topic. But still, the hackles it raised were impressive...<br>
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Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen tweeted the column, asking “Can
you imagine being single right now? My god.” Fox News devoted a
whole article to summarizing the column’s main points (thanks,
guys!). Some commentators in the right-wing media seemed
particularly offended by the word “petromasculinity,” which has been
used by scholars in recent years to describe the well-documented
emotional and cultural attachment of many white conservative males
to climate denial, fossil fuels, and authoritarianism. Washington
Examiner writer Nicholas Clairmont, in response to my article,
called the term “one of the most absurd coinages I have ever seen.”
Other conservative critics willfully (or hysterically?) misread the
piece; a writer for The Post Millennial called petromasculinity “the
left’s latest made-up reason to hate men,” although the point of the
column was that the gender gap among OK Cupid users wasn’t that
dramatic, and men seemed nearly as interested in rejecting the toxic
politics of climate denial as women.<br>
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These reactions carried more feeling than typical disagreements over
science or policy. And that’s not surprising: In fact, the term
petromasculinity was coined specifically to explain why this issue
is so emotionally fraught for some people: a potent overlap of
financial and personal interests that, thanks to cynical politics
and marketing, has turned into a full-blown culture war.<br>
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While the notion that fossil fuels could be central to anyone’s
gender identity may seem like a stretch to some people, political
theorist Cara Daggett—now an assistant professor of political
science at Virginia Tech—explained the connection in an article for
Millennium: Journal of International Studies back in 2018: The old
order of cheap fuel enabled the family wage, the suburb, cars, the
male-headed household, and many of its material comforts. That’s why
Trump focused his 2016 campaign on a dying industry (“Trump Digs
Coal”), not only to win votes in states where coal has a lingering
economic significance but as a nod to the men for whom coal matters
psychically. Trump used coal to signify that he was with the real
men, against the soy boys and Democrats who worry that coal is the
leading source of emissions dangerously warming the planet.<br>
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Daggett described how the declining coal industry, no longer able to
promise economic benefits to Appalachian communities as it did in
the past, still ingratiates itself through P.R. appeals to
masculinity: images of the male provider, connecting coal to
football and NASCAR, hunting and fishing. From a left perspective,
climate politics should be a class war between people like Marc
Andreessen and the rest of us. But Daggett’s analysis helps explain
why a culture war surrounds fossil fuels and climate politics. As
she puts it, fossil fuels not only make profits, they also “make
identities” and “cultural meaning,” all of which is “oil soaked and
coal dusted.” Fossil fuel use, she argues, offers “violent
compensation for the anxieties provoked by both climate and gender
trouble.” <br>
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Despite accumulating evidence that coal, oil, and gas companies have
long lied to and poisoned the communities they employ, workers in
declining fossil fuel towns do have legitimate reasons to fear the
upcoming energy transition. (This, incidentally, is a central point
in the Green New Deal platform, which emphasizes the need for a
“just transition” to ensure employment for these communities.)
Others fear hardship if environmental policies imposed by
indifferent elites raise gas prices (as happened in France to
disastrous political effect in 2018). But the culture war over
fossil fuels goes far beyond these specific, material worries.<br>
<br>
Daggett argues that as the old order—the family where dad ruled
uncontested, fossil fuels, perhaps even American dominance—slips out
of reach, some will fight it with a violent nihilism. Many
conservative white men—let’s call them petrosexuals—love fossil
fuels not despite their destructiveness but because of them. Daggett
gives “rollin’ coal” as an example. This antisocial antic involves
retrofitting a diesel truck to flood the engine with excess gas,
producing clouds of thick black smoke. In 2014, it became popular as
a form of right-wing protest of environmentalism; later, in favor of
Trump; and most recently in the Canadian truckers’ “freedom” convoy.
(Indeed, the practice was celebrated in a country music anthem
released in January with a video of exuberantly smoky footage of the
latter.) Coal rollers will blast smoke at the perceived enemies of
petromasculinity: bikers, environmental activists, and hybrid cars,
especially Priuses. Some drivers who do this sport bumper stickers
reading “Prius Repellent,” like the one in this video who rolls coal
while passing a hybrid on the road, laughing gleefully. A 2017
compilation video shows coal rollers targeting “Black Lives Matter,
Trump Haters, Tree Huggers.” One driver yells, “Tastes like America,
right? Make America Great Again!” This activity isn’t fun despite
being bad for the environment, but because. The destructive sadism
is the joy.<br>
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While many of Silicon Valley’s wealthy would distance themselves
from this uncouth Trumpy identification with fossil fuels,
Andreessen is a good example of how petromasculinity can operate in
a white-collar context as well. Andreessen has flirted with the
right as he’s gotten richer, as journalist Eoin Higgins showed in a
2018 analysis of the venture capitalist’s Twitter activity (though
Andreessen supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 after Carly Fiorina
dropped out of the Republican primary). His tweet about the horror
of being single in an era when online daters care about climate
change is simultaneously absurd and revealing. With a net worth of
$1.8 billion, if his current wife (the daughter of a Silicon Valley
billionaire real estate mogul) left him tomorrow he’d easily find a
date—even though he’s almost as old as I am and no better
looking—regardless of his climate change views, probably even on OK
Cupid. For Andreessen to express concern about the troubles that a
normal man would face in this arena is like Elon Musk fretting about
gas prices.<br>
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Still, it’s plausible that Andreessen is threatened by the demise of
petrosexuality in a material way: Climate denial, especially in its
most aggressive, violent and political forms, is essential to
profitmaking right now. Andreessen is a major investor, for example,
in cryptocurrency, which has horrific effects on the environment.
Bitcoin, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, uses
about as much energy as the entire country of Sweden; the massive
carbon footprint of crypto is due to the massive amount of computing
power it requires, which makes it an extremely unfortunate tech bro
fad for our current moment, in which we need to reach net-zero
emissions by yesterday. Andreessen probably doesn’t roll coal, but
business models like his need the guys who do, and the reactionary
politics they represent.<br>
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The good news is the petrosexuals are in the minority (perhaps,
other than pedophiles, the least sympathetic sexual minority ever).
When asked in a 2019 Pew survey whether the government should
prioritize expanding alternative energy or protecting the fossil
fuel industry, Democrats were aligned on favoring alternative
energy, regardless of gender, whereas Republican support for fossil
fuels skewed male and ideologically hard right. The
petromasculinists are overrepresented in our political system,
which, through undemocratic institutions like the Senate and the
Electoral College, gives white, conservative voters power beyond
their numbers. Without that imbalance, plus voter suppression, and,
just as important, the outsize influence on politics of cynical
plutocrats like Andreessen, the petromasculinists could roll coal
all they wanted but would have little impact on our world,
eventually dying out.<br>
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And of course, without his wealth, Andreessen would be no more
datable than a coal roller on OK Cupid. I like to think his anxious
tweet was a nod to that future, one slightly less pleasant for Marc
Andreessen and far better for almost everyone else. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/166048/fox-news-petromasculinity-fossil-fuels">https://newrepublic.com/article/166048/fox-news-petromasculinity-fossil-fuels</a><br>
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<i>[ XR explains why 1989 was so important -- and degrowth now --
video ]</i><br>
<b>IPCC says WE NEED TO STOP USING FOSSIL FUELS | IPCC Explained -
Part 2</b><br>
Extinction Rebellion UK - April 11, 2022<br>
The IPCC is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The
world's largest and leading body working to gather and advance
knowledge on human induced climate change. <br>
<br>
This IPCC report is focussed on "mitigation", in other words what we
can do to reduce the cause and therefore the impacts of the climate
crisis. The previous video in this series covers the March 2022 IPCC
report on impacts and adaptation. <br>
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There was a leak of this draft document last year, scientists have
compared the two, and you can read their comments on the differences
here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scientistrebellion.com/we-leaked-the-upcoming-ipcc-report/">https://scientistrebellion.com/we-leaked-the-upcoming-ipcc-report/</a><br>
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SPMs (Summary for Policymakers - an abridged version of the full
report) like the one discussed in this film are often greatly
criticised for allowing leaders off the hook. Because its release
has to pass government consensus, the most bold and direct asks get
removed by powerful petrostates before publication. <br>
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Help XR mobilise and donate: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://chuffed.org/project/xrapril2022">https://chuffed.org/project/xrapril2022</a><br>
<blockquote>1. Tell The Truth <br>
2. Act Now <br>
3. Beyond Politics<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fHgmdoa-k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fHgmdoa-k</a><br>
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<i>[ IPCC ramifications, earnest reportage from PBS ] </i><br>
<b>UN climate report warns governments are falling short on lowering
planet's temperature</b><br>
Apr 4, 2022<br>
PBS NewsHour<br>
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid
out its latest report Monday stressing the critical need to
implement dramatic cuts in greenhouse gasses to head off the worst
impacts of climate change. Dave Roberts writes a newsletter and
hosts a podcast called “Volts,” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUw-PoLTgA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUw-PoLTgA</a><br>
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<i>[ video nicely explains why and how the opinion manipulation
leads us to favor eco-socialism ]</i><br>
<b>How Fascists Are Taking Advantage Of Climate Change</b><br>
Mar 25, 2022<br>
Second Thought<br>
We all understand that climate change is real, it's here, and that
the consequences of our inaction will be disastrous for our species
and countless other forms of life around the world. But what happens
when those in positions of power see climate change as a means to an
end? A way to make truly draconian policies seem rational? In this
week's episode, we're talking about two distinct forms of climate
fascism: Fossil Fascism and Ecofascism. <br>
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Make sure to check out the companion video by Our Changing Climate
here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/QI59G-Uup-0">https://youtu.be/QI59G-Uup-0</a><br>
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How Fascists Are Taking Advantage Of Climate Change – Second Thought<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA1T_0pZHXk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA1T_0pZHXk</a><br>
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<i>[ coming too late ]</i><br>
<b>Why Electric Cars Won't Save Us</b><br>
Apr 8, 2022<br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
<br>
Find the Nebula extended video here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nebula.app/videos/occ-why-ele">https://nebula.app/videos/occ-why-ele</a>...<br>
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
why electric cars won't save us. Specifically, I unpack why electric
cars still have emissions tied to them as well as solidify
imperialist extraction in the global south. That being said,
electric cars are still much better for the planet and for people
than gas-powered, fossil fuel-guzzling cars. My question, however,
is whether completely replacing gas cars with electric cars is a
justice-oriented answer to the climate crisis. To that, I offer up
free and electrified public transportation like trams and buses as
an alternative that would expand access to cities, especially for
low-income people, and minimize our material footprint. Public
transportation is essential to creating an ethical and ecologically
focused future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9Vl0G53lA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9Vl0G53lA</a><br>
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<i>[ a clear discussion ] </i><br>
<b>Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Bonus</b><br>
Mar 18, 2022<br>
Planet: Critical<br>
An analysis of the Planet: Critical episode with Jason Hickel on
Degrowth and Ecosocialism: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/isjWWCRBJBk">https://youtu.be/isjWWCRBJBk</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC2DBlvp_CI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC2DBlvp_CI</a><br>
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<i>[introducing deeper discussions post carbon world ]</i><br>
<b>Understanding the Nature of Systems | Bonus</b><br>
Apr 8, 2022<br>
Planet: Critical<br>
Rachel Donald on the Planet: Critical episode with Jessie Henshaw,
Understanding the Nature of Systems: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/eej-AcargnA">https://youtu.be/eej-AcargnA</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwfc5UkPXY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwfc5UkPXY</a><br>
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<i>[ we know the ethics of the industrial process ]</i><br>
<b>Gravitas Plus: Blood The dark side of Electric Vehicles</b><br>
April 11, 2022<br>
WION<br>
Are Electric Vehicles really clean?<br>
They run on dirty energy and blood of children as young as 6.<br>
Electric cars drive human rights abuse and child labour.<br>
China is one of the villains in this story.<br>
Are electric carmakers equally guilty too?<br>
Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHvq-8np1o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHvq-8np1o</a><br>
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<i>[ Russia has lots of fossil fuels ] </i><br>
<b>War Gives Oil Producers Greater Clout at Global Climate Talks</b><br>
Higher demand for fossil fuels has strengthened their hand<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-11/war-gives-oil-producers-greater-clout-at-cop27">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-11/war-gives-oil-producers-greater-clout-at-cop27</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>April 12, 2015</b></font><br>
Harvard Heat Week--a series of demonstrations against Harvard
University's refusal to sever ties with the fossil fuel
industry--begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/04/07/wake-harvard-time-divest-from-fossil-fuels/9xT2pzgtL8PIpI7UakKyOJ/story.html?event=event25">http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/04/07/wake-harvard-time-divest-from-fossil-fuels/9xT2pzgtL8PIpI7UakKyOJ/story.html?event=event25</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/04/why-im-banned-from-harvard-and-why-im-coming-back-anway/">http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/04/why-im-banned-from-harvard-and-why-im-coming-back-anway/</a><br>
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