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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 13, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ my local chaos - Seattle area video ]</i><br>
<b>Washington Wildfires: Bolt Creek Fire burning more than 7,600
acres | FOX 13 Seattle</b><br>
Sep 12, 2022 The fire has burned about 7,600 acres and is 2%
contained. One structure has been damaged. Officials said Monday
that more than 680 homes and more than 100 structures are
threatened.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjQDA_JhpNc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjQDA_JhpNc</a><br>
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<i>[ DeSmog reports disappointments about Prime Minister Truss of
England ]</i><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><b>Liz Truss Campaign Funded by Donors
From Pro-Fracking Groups and Climate Denier</b><br>
Two are advisors to a well-connected "forum" set up by the
BP-funded Institute of Economic Affairs that wants to see UK
fracking regulations relaxed.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">By Clare Carlileon -- Sep 9, 2022<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Two days after taking office, Truss
gave the green light for new fracking projects, putting her at
odds with the Conservatives’ 2019 manifesto pledge and preempting
a much-awaited report by the British Geological Survey on the
safety of fracking.<br>
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The party said it would not support the controversial technology
until it is shown “categorically” that the process can be done
safely, something that has yet to happen. <br>
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A total of £30,000 was given by individuals who steer an
influential Tory-aligned group pushing for fracking to be
restarted and which recently suggested that the UK’s climate
targets could be watered down in favour of “energy security and
affordability”.<br>
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Support for transport costs was also provided by the trustee of an
Exxon-backed think tank that has proposed fracking across Europe
as a partial solution to the ongoing energy crisis.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/09/liz-truss-campaign-funded-by-donors-from-pro-fracking-groups-and-climate-denier/">https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/09/liz-truss-campaign-funded-by-donors-from-pro-fracking-groups-and-climate-denier/</a><br>
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<i>[ California innovation report video and text - LA Times
reporter Sammy Roth ]</i><br>
<b>Wall Street hits back at GOP in ESG war</b><br>
BY TOBIAS BURNS - 09/09/22 <br>
Wall Street giants are defending a widespread initiative to invest
in companies with environmentally friendly policies, moving away
from investment in the fossil fuel industry following attacks on the
practice from GOP leaders... <br>
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Asset management giant BlackRock wrote a letter to GOP states that
are trying to curtail a social movement in the financial sector
known as Environmental and Social Corporate Governance (ESG), which
seeks to move the U.S. economy away from the fossil fuels that
contribute to global temperature rise. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thehill.com/policy/3635067-wall-street-hits-back-at-gop-state-officials-over-esg/">https://thehill.com/policy/3635067-wall-street-hits-back-at-gop-state-officials-over-esg/</a><i><br>
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<i>[ retain reference to this high impact academic paper ] </i><br>
<b>Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios</b><br>
Edited by Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA; <br>
August 1, 2022<br>
119 (34) e2108146119<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108146119">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108146119</a><br>
<blockquote><b>Conclusions</b><br>
There is ample evidence that climate change could become
catastrophic. We could enter such “endgames” at even modest levels
of warming. Understanding extreme risks is important for robust
decision-making, from preparation to consideration of emergency
responses. This requires exploring not just higher temperature
scenarios but also the potential for climate change impacts to
contribute to systemic risk and other cascades. We suggest that it
is time to seriously scrutinize the best way to expand our
research horizons to cover this field. The proposed “Climate
Endgame” research agenda provides one way to navigate this
under-studied area. Facing a future of accelerating climate change
while blind to worst-case scenarios is naive risk management at
best and fatally foolish at worst.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108146119">https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108146119</a><br>
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[ discussion of this paper ]<br>
<b>Climate Endgame</b><br>
Aug 14, 2022 Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez
discuss a new PNAS perspective paper called ‘Climate Endgame:
Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios’, which was
published on August 1st, 2022.<br>
This video was recorded on August 10th, 2022, and published on
August 14th, 2022. Some of the topics discussed: <br>
<blockquote>- How the paper represents a breakthrough from the point
of view of providing a peer reviewed perspective on the
catastrophic risks of the climate emergency.<br>
- The importance of knowing what could happen so that if it does
happen, we can choose to be better prepared.<br>
- The four main questions that are brought forth in the paper.<br>
- The things the paper mentions that the IPCC tends to avoid.<br>
- How the paper states there's ample evidence that climate change
could become catastrophic.<br>
- How the paper, from the point of view of the climate activist
community does not really state anything new.<br>
- The discussion highlights the fact we are already experiencing
many of the conditions the paper mentions.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6Xx4zZJyE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6Xx4zZJyE</a><br>
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<i>[ DW documentary of serious studies - 50 min video ]</i><br>
<b>Nature’s survivors: The adaptability of wildlife | DW Documentary</b><br>
Sep 10, 2022 Extreme weather events are nothing new. Many creatures
have had to adapt to big changes, over millions of years. But the
climate crisis is putting flora and fauna under unprecedented
pressure.<br>
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Some animals can sense imminent natural catastrophes and take the
necessary steps to protect themselves. Over the millennia, fires,
flooding and storms have compelled these creatures to develop
survival strategies - and in some cases, even learn to take
advantage of catastrophes. There are many examples. Take, for
example, the island of Puerto Rico. It’s home to ants that survive
floods by forming compact rafts that can keep them afloat for weeks.
And Australian flora and fauna have adapted to the annual bushfires
on their continent: certain species of bird benefit from the blazes,
which make their prey easier to find.<br>
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But current pace of climate change, which has been accelerating
since industrialization, is very fast, giving animal species little
time to adapt. The rise in sea levels and the increasing frequency
of destructive hurricanes and large-scale forest fires exceed
anything seen on the planet thus far. Scientists are concerned by
the rapidity of change, and uncertainty of what awaits us in future.
It’s impossible to predict how far creatures will be able to adapt
effectively to the changes in store in the decades to come.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khccMa8IPKU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khccMa8IPKU</a> <br>
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<i>[ Radical change should be expected -- even demanded ]</i><br>
<b>‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green
manifesto captivating Japan</b><br>
Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an
unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into
English<br>
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The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world
applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a “new way of
living”, according to a Japanese academic whose book on Marxism and
the environment has become a surprise bestseller.<br>
<br>
The message from Kohei Saito, an associate professor at Tokyo
University, is simple: capitalism’s demand for unlimited profits is
destroying the planet and only “degrowth” can repair the damage by
slowing down social production and sharing wealth.<br>
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In practical terms, that means an end to mass production and the
mass consumption of wasteful goods such as fast fashion. In Capital
in the Anthropocene, Saito also advocates decarbonisation through
shorter working hours and prioritising essential “labour-intensive”
work such as caregiving.<br>
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<b>‘I was as surprised as everyone else’</b><br>
Few would have expected Saito’s Japanese-language solution to the
climate crisis to have much appeal outside leftwing academia and
politics. Instead, the book – which was inspired by Karl Marx’s
writings on the environment – has become an unlikely hit, selling
more than half a million copies since it was published in September
2020.<br>
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As the world confronts more evidence of the effects of climate
change – from floods in Pakistan to heatwaves in Britain – rampant
inflation and the energy crisis, Saito’s vision of a more
sustainable, post-capitalist world will appear in an academic text
to be published next year by Cambridge University Press, with an
English translation of his bestseller to follow...<br>
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“It is broadly about what’s going on in the world … about the
climate crisis and what we should do about it,” Saito said in an
interview with the Guardian. “I advocate for degrowth and going
beyond capitalism.”<br>
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The mere mention of the world degrowth conjures negative images of
wealthy societies plunged into a dark age of shrinking economies and
declining living standards. Saito admits that he thought a book that
draws on strands of Marxism as a solution to modern-day ills would
be a tough sell in Japan, where the same conservative party has
dominated politics for the best part of 70 years.<br>
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“People accuse me of wanting to go back to the [feudal] Edo period
[1603-1868] … and I think the same sort of image persists in the UK
and the US,” he said. “Against that background, for the book to sell
over 500,000 copies is astonishing. I was as surprised as everyone
else.”<br>
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The 35-year-old needn’t have worried about using the language of
radical change; as the world emerges from the pandemic and confronts
the existential threat posed by global heating, disillusionment with
the economic status quo has given him a receptive audience.<br>
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The pandemic has magnified inequalities in advanced economies, and
between the global north and south – and the book struck a nerve
with younger Japanese...<br>
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“Saito is telling a story that is easy to understand,” says Jun
Shiota, a 31-year-old researcher who bought Capital in the
Anthropocene soon after it was published. “He doesn’t say there are
good and bad things about capitalism, or that it is possible to
reform it … he just says we have to get rid of the entire system.<br>
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“Young people were badly affected by the pandemic and face other big
issues such as environmental destruction and the cost of living
crises, so that simple message resonates with them.”<br>
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Saito agrees that growing inequality has given his writing more
immediacy. “Many people lost their jobs and homes and are relying on
things like food banks, even in Japan. I find that shocking. And you
have essential workers who are forced to work long hours in low-paid
jobs. The marginalisation of essential workers is becoming a serious
issue.”<br>
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The response to Covid-19 had shown that rapid change is not only
desirable, but possible, he says.<br>
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“One thing that we have learned during the pandemic is that we can
dramatically change our way of life overnight – look at the way we
started working from home, bought fewer things, flew and ate out
less. We proved that working less was friendlier to the environment
and gave people a better life. But now capitalism is trying to bring
us back to a ‘normal’ way of life.”...<br>
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<b>‘Marx was interested in sustainability’</b><br>
Saito is deeply sceptical of some widely accepted strategies for
tackling the climate emergency. “In my book, I start a sentence by
describing sustainable development goals [SDGs] as the new opium of
the masses,” he said in reference to Marx’s view of religion.<br>
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“Buying eco bags and bottles without changing anything about the
economic system … SDGs mask the systemic problem and reduce
everything to the responsibility of the individual, while obscuring
the responsibility of corporations and politicians.”<br>
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“I discovered how Marx was interested in sustainability and how
non-capitalist and pre-capitalist societies are sustainable, because
they are realising the stationary economy, they are not
growth-driven,” Saito said.<br>
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Since the book was released, Saito has made Japan noticeably less
squeamish about the German philosopher’s ideas.<br>
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The conservative public broadcaster NHK gave him four 25-minute
segments to explain his ideas for its Masterpiece in 100 Minutes
series, while bookshop chains cleared space for special displays of
revivalist Marxist literature.<br>
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Now he hopes his message will appeal to an English-language
readership.<br>
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“We face a very difficult situation: the pandemic, poverty, climate
change, the war in Ukraine, inflation … it is impossible to imagine
a future in which we can grow the economy and at the same time live
in a sustainable manner without fundamentally changing anything
about our way of life.<br>
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“If economic policies have been failing for 30 years, then why don’t
we invent a new way of life? The desire for that is suddenly there.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan</a><br>
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<i>[ documentary about global use of water - ]</i><br>
<b>How The Rich Are Hoarding The World's Water | A World Without
Water | Spark</b><br>
2,030 views Sep 11, 2022 Businesses all over the world are now
buying up water supplies and now one of the most important resources
for our survival is becoming a commodity. 'A World Without Water'
tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatization of
water supplies around the world.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JudeyfiAL0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JudeyfiAL0</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 13, 2015</b></i></font> <br>
September 13, 2015:<br>
The Los Angeles Times reports on the fossil fuel industry's role in
sabotaging a bill to reduce petroleum consumption in California.
<p>"In the end, it wasn’t doubts about the global dangers of climate
change that scuttled the gasoline target, but questions of who
would get to pull the strings in Sacramento."<br>
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href="http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-brown-legislature-20150913-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-brown-legislature-20150913-story.html</a><br>
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