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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 14, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ NYT newsletter from David Wallace-Wells - in talks with Bill
Gates ]</i><br>
<b>Bill Gates: ‘We’re in a Worse Place Than I Expected’</b><br>
Sept. 13, 2022...<br>
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To me, the severe tone is illuminating. However Bill Gates may seem
in caricature — a big believer in the possibility of innovation and
progress and of the kind of philanthropy-powered development
embodied by the foundation — he nevertheless slips often into pretty
stark descriptions of the state of the world and vertiginous
assessments of how much more needs to be done to help those with the
least. I spoke with him on Sept. 6...<br>
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[ Gates ] But we’ve underinvested in agricultural innovation. The
Green Revolution was one of the greatest things that ever happened.
But then we lost track. And the funding for public-domain seed
systems has gone down. We’re trying to get that back up. The world
has a goal to get that back up to like a little over $2 billion. I
don’t know if we’ll get there...<br>
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The world actually gets a very good grade on the global health
stuff. The progress since the year 2000 on those interventions,
which save lives for less than a thousand dollars per life saved —
the world did a great job on that. On the agricultural side, we
haven’t seen it. Despite all these climate conferences, including
this next one that says adaptation is one of the big feature themes,
we really haven’t seen that shifting of R. & D. priorities and
increase that we expected to see. And with the war in Ukraine, it’s
even tougher than before.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/bill-gates-climate-change-report.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/bill-gates-climate-change-report.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Book from Gallup Research - asking citizens to donate
opinions, but the book is $22.+ ] </i><br>
<b>Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed
It Hardcover – </b>September 13, 2022<br>
by Jon Clifton (Author)<br>
$22.49 <br>
The rising unhappiness that leaders didn’t see<br>
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That’s because while leaders pay close attention to measures like
GDP or unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens’
wellbeing.<br>
<br>
The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching
— leaders missed the citizen unhappiness that triggered events
ranging from the Arab uprisings to Brexit to the election of Donald
Trump.<br>
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What are they going to miss next?<br>
<br>
Grounded in Gallup’s global research, Blind Spot makes the urgent
case that leaders should measure and quantify wellbeing and
happiness — how citizens’ lives are going — and shows them how. It
also discusses the five key elements of a great life and where the
world needs to improve in each of them to better the lives of people
everywhere.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spot-Global-Unhappiness-Leaders/dp/1595622454/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spot-Global-Unhappiness-Leaders/dp/1595622454/ref=sr_1_1</a>
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<i>[ audio interview -- Dave Roberts has "been reporting on and
explaining clean-energy topics for almost 20 years, and I love
talking to politicians, analysts, innovators, and activists about
the latest progress in the world's most important fight. "]</i><br>
<b>Focusing on the climate actions that can make a real difference</b><br>
A new book from Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis tries to clarify the
choices.<br>
David Roberts<br>
Sept 13, 2022<br>
One of the more daunting aspects of climate policy is the sheer
profusion of choices. Federal, state, local; this sector or that
sector; targeting consumption vs. targeting production; changing
consumer choices vs. changing infrastructure. It is easy to get
overwhelmed, and worse, it is easy for political energy to be
diffused into a thousand strands that don't add up to more than the
sum of their parts.<br>
<br>
A new book seeks to address that problem by boiling down the climate
policy options to the handful that really matter — the ones where
minimum effort can generate maximum results. It's called The Big
Fix: 7 Practical Steps to Save Our Planet, written by two people who
have spent years in the climate trenches: Hal Harvey, founder of the
Energy Foundation and numerous other climate-focused nonprofits,
currently CEO of research firm Energy Innovation, and Justin Gillis,
a longtime journalist who spent the last several years reporting on
climate change for The New York Times, now a fellow at the Harvard
University Center for the Environment.<br>
We talked about learning curves, performance standards, and good
old-fashioned industrial policy, among many other things. It's a
real feast for all you policy wonks.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/focusing-on-the-climate-actions-that?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&utm_medium=email#details">https://www.volts.wtf/p/focusing-on-the-climate-actions-that?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&utm_medium=email#details</a><br>
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<i>[ fascinating conjecture - paper authored by Gavin - top climate
scientist ]</i><br>
<b>Did Advanced Civilizations Exist Before Humans? Silurian
Hypothesis Explored</b><br>
Sep 13, 2022... <br>
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk
about the Silurian Hypothesis, the idea of whether any intelligent
civilization existed before humans<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAF8ns-d4rc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAF8ns-d4rc</a><br>
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<i>[ Silurian Hypothesis ]</i><br>
<b>The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect</b><b><br>
</b><b>an industrial civilization in the geological record?</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748.pdf">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748.pdf</a>
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<i>[ Climate Journalist declares doom ]</i><br>
<b>Watching the world burn</b><br>
Marlowe Hood -- 5 September 2022<br>
With climate disasters piling up, global warming is getting worse –
fast. We had better learn to embrace our despair, argues AFP’s
environmental editor Marlowe Hood<br>
As the planet reels from unprecedented heatwaves, floods, wildfires
and droughts, you may be feeling a rising sense of unease or even
panic. <br>
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My own “Oh Shit!” moment came in early 2009, two years after I began
writing on the science and geopolitics of climate change for Agence
France-Presse. I had reported on scores of peer-reviewed studies,
talked to scientists, attended UN climate summits, and interviewed
Pacific islanders whose tiny nations were sinking beneath the
waves. But the knee-buckling realisation that unchecked global
warming would upend civilisation had not yet hit me in the gut and
left me gasping for air. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://correspondent.afp.com/watching-world-burn">https://correspondent.afp.com/watching-world-burn</a>
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<i>[ AFP Environmental Journalist, Marlowe Hood, video reading ]</i><br>
<b>Environmental Journalist calls it quits. We are at the end of the
road. Watching the World Burn.</b><br>
Sep 13, 2022 Long-standing AFP Environmental Journalist, Marlowe
Hood, is ending his formidable career by articulating just how dark
our collective future looks.<br>
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True to his hard-won journalistic integrity and obvious personal
love of life he articulates his pessimistic view and still includes
many voices from more optimistic: scientists, science communicators,
climate-anxiety specialists and theorists.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewUvpItHVs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewUvpItHVs</a><br>
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<i>[ video presentation and interview ]</i><br>
<b>Finding Hope with Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe</b><br>
Author: Cristine Russell | Mar. 24, 2022..<br>
“Climate change is not a standalone issue,” says Hayhoe, chief
scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a distinguished professor
at Texas Tech University. “We need to weave it into everyday
conversations,” she said, because “climate change affects every
aspect of our lives,” including the economy, infrastructure, energy,
water, natural resources, health, food, biodiversity, political
conflicts, and justice...<br>
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In addition to individual actions, she emphasized that supporting
systemic change is key. This includes starting a conversation about
climate change; joining a climate group; pushing elected officials
to put a price on carbon; finding out what your financial
institutions are doing with your money; promoting change at work;
encouraging divestment from fossil fuel companies; and promoting
clean energy. She noted that only 0.5 percent of elected officials
are at the federal level and that state and city officials can be
nimbler in taking climate action.<br>
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“Our job is to help connect the dots,” she said, to tell people how
climate change affects them personally, how climate action benefits
them, and “to figure out what we have in common.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/finding-hope-climate-scientist-katharine-hayhoe">https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/finding-hope-climate-scientist-katharine-hayhoe</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6rpiwwsHk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6rpiwwsHk</a>
( start about 6:30 )<br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 14, 2004</b></i></font> <br>
September 14, 2004: British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares that
climate change is "...a challenge so far-reaching in its impact and
irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically
human existence." He further notes:<br>
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"The problem...is that the challenge is complicated politically by
two factors. First, its likely effect will not be felt to its full
extent until after the time for the political decisions that need to
be taken, has passed. In other words, there is a mismatch in timing
between the environmental and electoral impact. Secondly, no one
nation alone can resolve it. It has no definable boundaries. Short
of international action commonly agreed and commonly followed
through, it is hard even for a large country to make a difference on
its own.<br>
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"But there is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that
timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and
will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our
way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/sep/15/greenpolitics.uk">http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/sep/15/greenpolitics.uk</a>
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