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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 22, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Thanks JCN for forwarding this great piece of positive action
] </i><br>
<b>The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I’ve Heard</b><br>
The Ezra Klein Show<br>
Sept. 20, 2022<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jesse-jenkins.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jesse-jenkins.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000580040753">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000580040753</a><br>
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<i>[ Audio..] </i>Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’<br>
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In August, Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act,
which included $392 billion towards a new climate budget — the
single largest investment in emissions reduction in U.S. history.
The CHIPS and Science Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act
bring that number up to around $450 billion. All of that spending is
designed with one major objective in mind: to put the United States
on a path to a decarbonized economy, with the goal of reaching net
zero emissions by 2050.<br>
<br>
Achieving that goal is perhaps the single most important challenge
of our age. And so I wanted to dedicate a full episode to it. How
big is the task of decarbonizing the U.S. economy? What do we
actually need to do to get there? How does the I.R.A. help do that?
And what are the biggest obstacles still standing in our way?<br>
<br>
[You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” on Apple,
Spotify, Amazon Music, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.]<br>
<br>
Jesse Jenkins is an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering at Princeton University and leads the Princeton ZERO
Lab. He was a lead author of the Net Zero America report, the most
comprehensive attempt to map out the different pathways to
decarbonization I’ve seen. He also leads the REPEAT Project, which
has done some of the most in-depth modeling of how the Inflation
Reduction Act and other climate policies could affect emissions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jesse-jenkins.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jesse-jenkins.html</a><i><br>
</i>0rhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000580040753<i><br>
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<i>[be sure to include this most-important book - available as a
free PDF ]</i><br>
<i> </i><b>Overshoot the Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change</b><br>
Book by William R. Catton Jr.<br>
<blockquote>Despite its maturity, <b><u>Overshoot</u> </b>remains
a vividly fresh and visionary work of brilliance and foresight.
The ecological foundations of Catton's thinking are strong and
enduring due to his careful research and interpretive power. His
treatise explains much about the human condition that we find
ourselves in now, early in the 21st century. In a breathtaking yet
concise sweep of history and biology through the eyes of a human
ecologist, Catton reveals how we got here and where we are in all
probability headed. He summarizes this view as follows:<br>
<blockquote>Today mankind is locked into stealing ravenously from
the future [by way of] diachronic competition, a relationship
whereby contemporary well-being is achieved at the expense of
our descendants. By our sheer numbers, by the state of our
technological development, and by being oblivious to differences
between a method that achieved lasting increments of human
carrying capacity [agriculture] and one that achieves only
temporary supplements [reliance on fossil fuels and other mined
substances], we have made satisfaction of today's human
aspirations dependent upon massive deprivation for posterity.<br>
</blockquote>
In a series of essay-like chapters, he explains how the
inhabitants of modern civilization (homo colossus, he calls us,
due to our prodigious use of energy, raw materials, and
mechanical/prosthetic amplification devices) are living more and
more luxuriously but, ironically, more and more dependently on the
limited and nonrenewable resources and energy we have unearthed
from the geologic past. The result, he says, is a mortgaging of
our and our descendants' future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602943/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602943/</a><br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.google.com/search?q=overshoot+the+ecological+basis+of+revolutionary+change">https://www.google.com/search?q=overshoot+the+ecological+basis+of+revolutionary+change</a>
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<i>[ From PBS - a clear presentation on climate fundamentals - a 30
min video ]</i><br>
<b>The Biggest Myth About Climate Change</b><br>
199,186 views Sep 15, 2022 <br>
You’ve seen it in the comment section before: “Climate change is
natural. It’s happened before and it will keep happening”. In
reality, comments like these are the newest kind of climate change
denial. In this video we’re going to learn about all the reasons
that Earth’s climate changes, natural and otherwise, and then how we
know that modern climate change can’t be blamed on natural forces.
Maybe we can finally put this biggest myth about climate change in
the trash.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6bVBH9y5O8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6bVBH9y5O8</a><br>
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<i>[ Tipping Point is not a place in China -- this message reminds
us of our looming deadline ]</i><br>
<b>The scariest climate science paper I've ever read?</b><br>
88,498 views Sep 19, 2022 Learn more about how the natural world
works with Brilliant: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.brilliant.org/simonclark">https://www.brilliant.org/simonclark</a><br>
<br>
This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about
tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate
can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain
elements of the climate system, such as excess melting of the
Greenland ice sheet. That wasn't new. What was new was the threshold
these tipping elements could flip - according to this research, we
could be triggering some tipping elements already - and if we warm
the planet by just 1.5°C then we are likely to do so.<br>
<br>
The climate is still within our control. But if we keep emitting as
we are, that isn't always going to be the case.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoyaCSWFGs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoyaCSWFGs</a><br>
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<i>[ Here is the classic paper from 2008 ]</i><br>
<b>Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system</b><br>
Timothy M. Lenton <br>
Hermann Held, <br>
Elmar Kriegler, <br>
Jim W. Hall, <br>
Wolfgang Lucht, <br>
Stefan Rahmstorf,<br>
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber <br>
Edited by William C. Clark, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and
approved November 21, 2007<br>
February 12, 2008<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0705414105">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0705414105</a><br>
<blockquote><b>Abstract</b><br>
The term “tipping point” commonly refers to a critical threshold
at which a tiny perturbation can qualitatively alter the state or
development of a system. Here we introduce the term “tipping
element” to describe large-scale components of the Earth system
that may pass a tipping point. We critically evaluate potential
policy-relevant tipping elements in the climate system under
anthropogenic forcing, drawing on the pertinent literature and a
recent international workshop to compile a short list, and we
assess where their tipping points lie. An expert elicitation is
used to help rank their sensitivity to global warming and the
uncertainty about the underlying physical mechanisms. Then we
explain how, in principle, early warning systems could be
established to detect the proximity of some tipping points.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0705414105">https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0705414105</a><br>
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<i>[ Reuters reports from yesterday ]</i><br>
<b>Al Gore sees the world at 'tipping point' for climate action</b><br>
- Surging power prices pushing governments to decarbonise<br>
- Gore cites greater action in the United States and Australia<br>
- Says he is optimistic on further action in Brazil, China<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/world/al-gore-sees-world-tipping-point-climate-action-2022-09-20/">https://www.reuters.com/world/al-gore-sees-world-tipping-point-climate-action-2022-09-20/</a><br>
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<i>[ Bloomberg reports ]</i><br>
<b>Gore Says Weather Crisis Is Like ‘Hike Through Book of
Revelation’</b><br>
Climate change has gotten worse and worse every year over the past
decade, according to the former US vice president.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-20/gore-says-weather-crisis-is-like-hike-through-book-of-revelation">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-20/gore-says-weather-crisis-is-like-hike-through-book-of-revelation</a><br>
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<i>[ Wisdom of Two Curmudgeons - apocalypse means coming to a brutal
understanding - harsh reality but finding grief and positivism --
increasing capacity for joy -- or so he claims ]</i><br>
<b>Robert Jensen: "There is Suffering Ahead, and We Need to Learn
How to Start Suffering Together"</b><br>
2,788 views <i>Sep 1, 2022 NOTE: My name is Sam Mitchell, not
Jeremy Jimenez, but I would like to thank Jeremy for letting me
borrow his computer and offering his technological assistance in
making this video possible.</i><br>
In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I have the great honor of
bringing back to the show retired professor of Journalism, Robert
Jensen, to talk about his brand new book (co-authored by Wes
Jackson), titled, "An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental
Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity" (published by
University of Notre Dame Press). <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n24Xz4suwy8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n24Xz4suwy8</a><br>
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<i>[ more words from Robert Jensen - a few months ago]</i><br>
<b>ICSS 20220403 An Inconvenient Apocalypse Robert Jensen</b><br>
Apr 4, 2022 <br>
regarding the book "<u>An Inconvenient Apocalypse</u>"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://icssmarx.org/an-inconvenient-apocalypse/">https://icssmarx.org/an-inconvenient-apocalypse/</a><br>
<br>
Robert Jensen will outline four key challenges facing humanity:
size, scale, scope, and speed. What is the sustainable size of the
human population? What is the appropriate scale of a human
community? What is the scope of human competence to manage our
interventions into the larger living world? At what speed must we
move toward different living arrangements if we are to avoid
catastrophic consequences? The sooner we face the realities of these
challenges without unwarranted faith in ideology or technology, the
more likely we can create the conditions for a soft landing for
humanity. These ideas are drawn from the forthcoming book that
Jensen coauthored with Wes Jackson, An Inconvenient Apocalypse:
Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.<br>
<br>
Robert Jensen, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and
Media at the University of Texas in Austin, collaborates with the
New Perennials Project. He is the coauthor with Wes Jackson of An
Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and
the Fate of Humanity, which will be published by the University of
Notre Dame Press in fall 2022. Other books are articles by Jensen
are online at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://robertwjensen.org/">https://robertwjensen.org/</a>.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJtIisMf2o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJtIisMf2o</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 22, 2014</b></i></font> <br>
• The New York Times also reports:<br>
<blockquote> "John D. Rockefeller built a vast fortune on oil. Now
his heirs are<br>
abandoning fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
"The family whose legendary wealth flowed from Standard Oil is<br>
planning to announce on Monday that its $860 million philanthropic<br>
organization, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is joining the
divestment<br>
movement that began a couple years ago on college campuses.<br>
<br>
"The announcement, timed to precede Tuesday’s opening of the
United<br>
Nations climate change summit meeting in New York City, is part of
a<br>
broader and accelerating initiative.<br>
<br>
"In recent years, 180 institutions — including philanthropies,<br>
religious organizations, pension funds and local governments — as
well<br>
as hundreds of wealthy individual investors have pledged to sell<br>
assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to<br>
invest in cleaner alternatives. In all, the groups have pledged to<br>
divest assets worth more than $50 billion from portfolios, and the<br>
individuals more than $1 billion, according to Arabella Advisors,
a<br>
firm that consults with philanthropists and investors to use their<br>
resources to achieve social goals."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/heirs-to-an-oil-fortune-join-the-divestment-drive.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/heirs-to-an-oil-fortune-join-the-divestment-drive.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/big-oils-heirs-join-call-for-action-as-climate-summit-opens/2014/09/21/ab27b1ce-40ea-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html?tid=HP_more">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/big-oils-heirs-join-call-for-action-as-climate-summit-opens/2014/09/21/ab27b1ce-40ea-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html?tid=HP_more</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msnbc.com/now/watch/sounding-the-alarm-on-climate-change-332140099937#">http://www.msnbc.com/now/watch/sounding-the-alarm-on-climate-change-332140099937#</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-rockefellers--huge-climate-announcement-332248643972">http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-rockefellers--huge-climate-announcement-332248643972</a><br>
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