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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 24, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<b>Wildfire Smoke Is Making U.S. Air Toxic</b><br>
Climate change is fueling longer and more destructive wildfires,
which send smoke far across the country.<br>
Angely Mercado<br>
9.22.2022<br>
Regional wildfire smoke is significantly lowering air quality for
millions of people across the country.<br>
<br>
A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology
found that wildfires are creating more air pollution every year.
They especially create particle pollution known as PM2.5, which can
cause short-term health concerns like nose, eye, and lung
irritation. Long-term exposure can create or worsen existing
respiratory and cardiovascular issues...<br>
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Researchers worry that the increased air pollution from wildfires is
reversing the strides the U.S. has made in improving air quality
since the passing of pollution regulations in the 1970s. “We’ve been
really successful in reducing pollution from point sources—from
factories, from tailpipes, energy producing units. Wildfire is a
whole different animal,” Burke said. “It’s not regulated by the
Clean Air Act, and it’s a growing source of pollution.”<br>
<br>
The worst pockets of polluted air are unsurprisingly in western
states. The climate crisis has fueled conditions that have made
wildfires increasingly destructive. There’s an ongoing megadrought
drying out major water sources like the Colorado River. This year
has also seen several dangerous heat waves, creating even drier and
hotter conditions. But the increased intensity and frequency of
wildfires has far-reaching consequences.<br>
<br>
“As you move east, out of the Rockies into the Midwest, we still see
the impact of wildfire smoke on air quality there,” Burke said.
“These impacts are smaller, but they still exist… this is not just a
West Coast problem anymore.”<br>
<br>
Wildfire smoke can travel even farther than the Midwest. For
example, last July, New York’s air quality was one of the worst in
the world after wildfire smoke from the West Coast traveled
thousands of miles. Some of the smoke reached as far east as
Greenland that week.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/wildfire-smoke-is-making-u-s-air-toxic-1849569349">https://gizmodo.com/wildfire-smoke-is-making-u-s-air-toxic-1849569349</a><br>
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<i>[ from Food and Water Watch ]</i><br>
<b>Fossil Fuel Production, Profits Soar While Jobs Continue to
Decline</b><br>
New research reveals disconnect between industry hype and jobs data<br>
Sep 19, 2022<br>
As the economy recovered from the global economic disruptions linked
to the COVID crisis, fossil fuel companies ramped up and began
producing more oil and gas and raking in record-breaking profits.
But a new analysis shows that the industry’s recovery did not extend
to workers, as oil and gas drillers continue to shed jobs. <br>
<br>
The new Food & Water Watch fact sheet, “Oil Profits and
Production Grow at the Expense of Jobs, Consumers, and the
Environment,” shows the stark reality of fossil fuel production and
employment. The recovery of the oil and gas industry in 2021 – with
production close to 2019 levels – came as jobs in those industries
continued to fall. The industry employed 504,000 workers in 2021,
compared with 541,000 in 2020 and 695,000 in 2019. That amounts to
a seven percent decline from 2020, and an astonishing 34 percent
decline from the 2014 peak...<br>
These trends continue to show that the industry is employing far
fewer workers while producing far more; since 2014, production has
risen 33 percent while jobs declined 37 percent. <br>
These facts fly in the face of the spin generated by industry giants
like the American Petroleum Institute (API), which churns out highly
misleading reports that wildly exaggerate the state of the
industry’s workforce. Their 2022 report – commissioned in 2021 and
relying on 2019 data – claims that 11.3 million jobs are supported
by the oil and gas industry. In reality, there were only 695,000
oil and gas jobs in 2019 that year. <br>
<br>
Food & Water Watch has extensively documented the flaws with
these industry studies, from what appear to be basic arithmetic
errors such as double counting or the inclusion of entirely
unrelated jobs. The API reports lump indirect and ‘induced’ jobs
into their totals, accounting for the vast majority of their
inflated totals. <br>
<br>
“The oil and gas industry would rather pay shareholders than
workers,” said Food & Water Watch Senior Researcher Oakley
Shelton-Thomas. “It should be clear by now that more production
means more pollution, but it hasn’t meant lower prices or more
jobs.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2022/09/19/fossil-fuel-production-profits-soar-while-jobs-continue-to-decline/">https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2022/09/19/fossil-fuel-production-profits-soar-while-jobs-continue-to-decline/</a>
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<i>[ Just in case reality can't deliver it's message -- Book
announcement in the LATimes -- opinion ] </i><br>
<b>Column: Americans don’t care about climate change. Here’s how to
wake them up</b><br>
BY NICHOLAS GOLDBERG <br>
SEPT. 22, 2022<br>
Why is the greatest threat to the planet of so little concern to
most Americans?<br>
<br>
It’s shocking, frankly, that global warming ranks 24th on a list of
29 issues that voters say they’ll think about when deciding whom to
vote for in November, according to the Yale Program on Climate
Change Communication. Only 30% of voters say they are “very worried”
about it and more than two-thirds say they “rarely” or “never”
discuss the issue with family or friends.<br>
<br>
How can people be so blithely unconcerned when the clear consensus
of scientists is that climate disruption is reaching crisis levels
and will result not only in more raging storms, droughts, wildfires
and heat waves, but very possibly in famine, mass migration,
collapsing economies and war?<br>
<br>
Sure, there are some obvious reasons for the apathy: High among them
is that fossil fuel companies have spent decades pulling the wool
over the eyes of Americans. And Republican politicians have been
complicit...<br>
But that’s not the whole story.<br>
<br>
To try to understand a little more, I had a conversation recently
with David Fenton, a political activist who more than 40 years ago
turned his hand to public relations and has now spent most of his
life in the communications trenches, creating campaigns on behalf of
social change and progressive causes.<br>
Fenton, whom the National Journal once called “the Robin Hood of
public relations,” argues that while yes, of course the fossil fuel
companies are villains in a scam of historic proportions, the other
side — the anti-climate change side — needs to acknowledge some
serious strategic mistakes as well.<br>
<br>
In his forthcoming book, “The Activist’s Media Handbook,” due out in
November, Fenton says that the forces trying to rouse the world to
fight climate change — including philanthropic foundations,
environmental organizations and activist groups, among others — have
by and large ignored the most rudimentary tenets of marketing and
advertising, to their detriment and the planet’s.<br>
That’s because they believe that the business of selling ideas is
fundamentally dirty, manipulative and beneath them.<br>
<br>
They’re convinced that data, truth and evidence are what matter,
Fenton says. To them (and we’re talking here about lots of
well-intentioned lawyers, scientists and people who studied the
humanities), good ideas sell themselves.<br>
<br>
So instead of spending money and resources on shaping public
opinion, they keep commissioning more policy reports from think
tanks and convening more global meetings of scientists — on the
presumption that the steady accretion of irrefutable facts will
ultimately prevail.<br>
<br>
The other side knows better.<br>
“People at the fossil fuel companies and their allies go to business
school where they learn cognitive and marketing science — and
believe me, it is a science,” Fenton told me. “They learn how to
sell products and services. They invest in defining messages and
reaching people. Our side does not.”<br>
<br>
What are some of these scientific techniques of persuasion and
public communication that work so well?<br>
<br>
Deliver simple messages, for one thing. In general, climate
activists lean toward complexity and nuance because they don’t want
to patronize or condescend or mislead by oversimplifying to their
audiences.<br>
<br>
Once you have a simple message, repeat it over and over. Did you
know that consumers generally have to see an ad more than half a
dozen times before they will be persuaded to buy a product?<br>
<br>
Embed facts and data in what Fenton calls “moral stories that tug at
the emotions.” Anyone who has ever watched TV ads knows that
strategy can make arguments far more powerful.<br>
Talk about what people care about. There’s been too much talk about
the effect of climate change on polar bears, and not enough on what
it means for humans.<br>
<br>
Use language people understand. Research shows, Fenton says, that
many people don’t understand the phrases “existential threat” or
“net zero” or “climate justice.” They understand what “pollution”
is, but not what an “emission” is — which suggests that it might
make more sense to use the former term.<br>
<br>
Now to be clear, I’m no fan of marketing either. I’m part of the
problem Fenton is bemoaning . I’m reluctant to oversimplify or
condescend to my audience, and I worry that heart-tugging,
emotion-driven arguments are manipulative. I like to believe that
adults can be persuaded with facts, science and rational arguments.<br>
<br>
But I also know deep down that marketing works.<br>
<br>
And if the fate of the Earth depends on delivering a simple but
understandable, rousing and persuasive message, then I think it’s
worth it. As Fenton notes, it’s not about manipulating people — it’s
about un-manipulating them.<br>
<br>
And the way to do it, he says, is with a big, well-funded campaign
to build the public support, public understanding — and then the
political will — required for social change.<br>
Here’s my only concern about Fenton’s argument: He believes messages
shouldn’t be too downbeat because “sacrifice doesn’t sell.”<br>
<br>
“I’m not saying there won’t be suffering,” he explains. “But
multiple studies prove we can heat our homes, drive our cars, take
vacations and have decent modern lives — if we just power them
differently. But we have to hurry up.“<br>
<br>
Is he right when he says the climate problem can be solved in a way
that enhances economic prosperity? I hope so; that’d be great. But I
worry — and this is just my opinion, not an expert’s analysis — that
we’ve waited too long, and that to avoid the worst effects of
climate change we are going to have to sacrifice, whether it sells
or not. I take the gloomy approach.<br>
<br>
Either way, we can all agree there’s an awful lot to be done. And
Fenton is certainly right that you can’t mobilize people for war if
they don’t know they’re under attack. Public education is obviously
a missing piece of the puzzle.<br>
<br>
Somehow we need to awaken a nation of sleeping, underinformed and
insufficiently motivated citizens and persuade them to rise to the
great challenge of modern times. To do that, the unmanipulation
process needs to begin in earnest.<br>
@Nick_Goldberg<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-22/climate-change-concern-marketing">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-22/climate-change-concern-marketing</a><br>
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<i>[next month -- buy the book ]</i><br>
<b>The Activist’s Media Handbook</b><br>
Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop,
IndieBound<br>
Title: The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons from Fifty Years as a
Progressive Agitator<br>
Published by: Earth Aware Editions<br>
Release Date: November 1, 2022<br>
Pages: 248<br>
ISBN13: 9781647228668<br>
OVERVIEW<br>
Activist and public relations thought leader David Fenton shares
lessons on how to organize successful media campaigns, cultivated
from more than half a century working within some of history’s most
impactful social movements.<br>
<br>
In an extraordinary career David Fenton has learned first-hand what
to do—and not to do—to propel progressive causes into the public eye
and create real, impactful, lasting change.<br>
<br>
A visionary activist, Fenton has been the driving force behind some
of the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50
years, from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to
the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late
1980s, exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals in our food, the long
battle to legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws, the
misinformation in Washington during the Bush era in the 2000s, and
recent campaigns that successfully banned fracking in New York and
alerted the public to the climate crisis, including the
environmental impact of Bitcoin.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://davidfentonactivist.com/books/the-activists-media-handbook/">https://davidfentonactivist.com/books/the-activists-media-handbook/</a><br>
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<i>[ Oxfam is young and radical - Activism call - video 90
seconds ]</i><br>
<b>Step up and fight for the planet | Oxfam GB</b><br>
Sep 23, 2022<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjhbPLxwSHA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjhbPLxwSHA</a><br>
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<i>[ Conversation audio hurricane Ida ]</i><br>
<b>Episode 3, When a climate disaster hits, how does it impact
mental health care?</b><br>
<i>August 29, 2022</i><br>
In this episode, I speak with Holly Walters, a licensed professional
counselor and Louisianan who has survived multiple major hurricanes.
<br>
<br>
In Hurricane Ida, Holly lost her house. Then she went right back to
providing mental health care to her storm-ravaged community.<br>
<br>
What's it been like for Holly and her clients? And what has she
learned from the experience that can help clinicians in other
climate disasters in the future?<br>
Hosted by Rei Takver<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-v3tw7-12ae0af">https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-v3tw7-12ae0af</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatepsychology.us/climate-psychology-conversations/episode-3-when-a-climate-disaster-hits-how-does-it-impact-mental-health-care">https://www.climatepsychology.us/climate-psychology-conversations/episode-3-when-a-climate-disaster-hits-how-does-it-impact-mental-health-care</a><br>
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<i>[ A classic lecture by British writer known for his
environmental and political activism ]</i><br>
<b>George Monbiot - The invisible ideology - Part 1- Consumerism,
Capitalism and Neo-liberalism</b><br>
118,477 views Jul 16, 2020 The Invisible Ideology - An amazing
talk from the well known author and Guardian journalist George
Monbiot. George delves deep into the invisible ideologies trashing
our planet. <br>
In this video George talks in depth about capitalism, consumerism
and neo-liberalism. <br>
For the live Q & A with the audience click the link below -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/nN16yWvFcQ0">https://youtu.be/nN16yWvFcQ0</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cP1prsBIo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cP1prsBIo</a><br>
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<i>[ follow-up Q&A <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN16yWvFcQ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN16yWvFcQ0</a> ]</i><br>
<b>George Monbiot - The Invisible ideology - Part 2 - Live Q and A
with Natalie Fee from City to Sea</b><br>
21,862 views Jul 17, 2020 An amazing Q and A from the well known
author and Guardian journalist George Monbiot following on from the
full talk. <br>
The invisible ideology trashing our planet - for the full talk PART
1 - click <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/t-cP1prsBIo">https://youtu.be/t-cP1prsBIo</a><br>
<br>
[recording of ] Live three hour how on 'Dying of Consumption' click
here -https://youtu.be/pjmdXjaRm0g<br>
George is asked questions relating to consumerism, capitalism and
neo- liberalism.<br>
<br>
We have loads more talks from George and similar speakers on the
channel so please subscribe and tell your friends. <br>
<br>
Other talks from George Monbiot - Connecting the Dots between mental
health, consumerism, climate breakdown and celebrity culture– A
series of 15 short talks <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTij8wOSJZNxAjlZTZ4dDxneUiK6UE5Hz">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTij8wOSJZNxAjlZTZ4dDxneUiK6UE5Hz</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN16yWvFcQ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN16yWvFcQ0</a><br>
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[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.livinginthetimeofdying.com/watch">https://www.livinginthetimeofdying.com/watch</a><br>
<b>Living in The Time of Dying </b>is an unflinching look at what
it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and
civilisational collapse. Once we lift the veil of denial and see the
time we are living in clearly for what it is, how then do we find
purpose, meaning and courage to meet it.<br>
<br>
Recognising the magnitude of the crisis we are facing, independent
filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house to travel around the world
looking for answers. Pretty soon we begin to see how deep the
predicament goes, and how our cultural systems and ways of thinking
brought us here. Stan Rushworth, a Native American Elder, brings an
especially enlightening viewpoint to these questions. It becomes
clear that climate change is going to ruin our way of life and this
then opens up a whole new set of questions: How did we get here as a
civilisation to begin with? How do we choose to live in these times
with purpose and clarity? and what actions make sense at this time?
The people interviewed in the documentary, all highly regarded and
well known spokespeople on the issue, argue it's too late to stop
catastrophic climate change but in no way too late to regain a
renewed life giving relationship with our world and with each other.<br>
<br>
Festivals & Awards<br>
Winner: Outstanding Excellence. Docs without Borders.<br>
Winner: Merit Award. Impact Docs<br>
Winner: Merit Award Nature Without Borders<br>
Finalist: Melbourne Documentary Film Festival<br>
Selected: Colorado Environmental Film Festival<br>
Selected: North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/livinginthetimeofdying">https://vimeo.com/ondemand/livinginthetimeofdying</a><br>
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<p><b>Dahr Jamail Interview in full</b><br>
2,568 views Aug 1, 2020 Interviews from the documentary, Living
in the Time of Dying. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.livinginthetimeofdying.com">www.livinginthetimeofdying.com</a><br>
<br>
Dahr Jamail in his usual forthright manner explores the research
and science behind his groundbreaking book, The End of Ice. In
this interview Dahr goes on to talk about grief, finding meaning
and the importance of the indigenous perspective at this time.</p>
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Visit our website for more information:<br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 24, 2014</b></i></font> <br>
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough interviews Naomi Klein regarding her book
"This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate."<br>
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