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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 6, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ President speaks in Florida - video ] </i><br>
<b>PBS NewsHour full episode, Oct. 5, 2022</b><br>
Oct 5, 2022 Wednesday on the NewsHour, President Biden visits
Florida to assess the damage from Hurricane Ian as rescue and
recovery efforts continue across the state. An American citizen
detained for over six years in Iran flies out of the country for
surgery...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOksa729wK0&t=163s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOksa729wK0&t=163s</a><br>
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<i>[ opinion clips from the Atlantic ]</i><br>
<b>The Climate Economy Is About to Explode</b><br>
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even
bigger than Congress thinks.<br>
By Robinson Meyer<br>
Late last month, analysts at the investment bank Credit Suisse
published a research note about America’s new climate law that went
nearly unnoticed. The Inflation Reduction Act, the bank argued, is
even more important than has been recognized so far: The IRA will
“will have a profound effect across industries in the next decade
and beyond” and could ultimately shape the direction of the American
economy, the bank said. The report shows how even after the bonanza
of climate-bill coverage earlier this year, we’re still only
beginning to understand how the law works and what it might mean for
the economy...<br>
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Finally, those of us who have long worked in climate change—and here
I include myself, who started covering this topic in 2015—should
have some excitement and even humility about this deluge of new
talent. Even setting its arduous politics aside, managing climate
change is a legitimately difficult technical and cultural
problem—it’s going to require as many attentive and enthusiastic
brains as possible, and the path to decarbonizing always required an
infusion of new workers, investment, and good will. If you don’t yet
work in the industry, but have always cared about climate change as
an issue, well, this is your moment to get involved. These companies
are going to need engineers, yes, but also programmers, accountants,
marketers, HR staff, general counsels—there is space for everyone
now.<br>
<br>
The fight against climate change is going to change more in the next
four years than it has in the past 40. The great story of our lives
is just beginning. Welcome aboard.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/inflation-reduction-act-climate-economy/671659/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/inflation-reduction-act-climate-economy/671659/</a>
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<i>[ book review ]</i><br>
<b> Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis</b><br>
October 5, 2022 <br>
<blockquote>Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate
Crisis<br>
Eve Darian-Smith<br>
Stanford University Press. 2022<br>
ISBN: 9781503631083<br>
</blockquote>
This book situates the climate crisis in a socioeconomic context,
showing, writes reviewer Chen, how events like big wildfires are
"important signifiers of an unfolding global calamity that urges the
public to challenge the status quo."<br>
Sibo Chen <br>
In recent years, catastrophic wildfires, as evidenced by viral video
clips depicting burning forests, billowing smoke and evacuees, have
sparked growing public concern around the globe. What are the causes
and consequences of this environmental crisis and what can be done
to prevent it? These are the main subjects addressed in Eve
Darian-Smith’s Global Burning, a book that connects wildfires to the
broader economic, social and political issues underlying climate
change. Through theoretically grounded reflections on the
intersections of wildfire, climate change and capitalism,
Darian-Smith emphasises how out-of-control wildfires have become
important signifiers of an unfolding global calamity that urges the
public to challenge the status quo...<br>
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Global Burning offers a timely examination of the economic, social
and political roots of wildfires. It is thought-provoking,
especially considering how ubiquitous extreme weather events have
become. Even though the book’s key messages can be found elsewhere
(for example, in Ending Fossil Fuels by Holly Jean Buck and Planet
on Fire by Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton), the concept
of ‘thinking through fire’ is of critical importance because it
highlights how the status quo of global capitalism is economically
and socially unsustainable. While some may criticise the absence of
policy prescriptions or strategies for wildfire prevention in the
book, I believe this highlights the inconvenient reality of climate
change mitigation: there will be no magic solution until the world
collectively embraces a fundamental rethinking of human-nature
relations and life beyond capitalism.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://portside.org/2022-10-05/global-burning-rising-antidemocracy-and-climate-crisis">https://portside.org/2022-10-05/global-burning-rising-antidemocracy-and-climate-crisis</a><br>
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<i>[ get thee to Uruguay ]</i><br>
<b>What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay</b><br>
No greater challenge faces humanity than reducing emissions without
backsliding into preindustrial poverty. One tiny country is leading
the way.<br>
By Noah Gallagher Shannon<br>
Oct. 5, 2022<br>
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This is the paradox at the heart of climate change: We’ve burned far
too many fossil fuels to go on living as we have, but we’ve also
never learned to live well without them. As the Yale economist
Robert Mendelsohn puts it, the problem of the future is how to
create a 19th-century carbon footprint without backsliding into a
19th-century standard of living. No model exists for creating such a
world, which is partly why paralysis has set in at so many levels.
The greatest crisis in human history may require imagining ways of
living — not just of energy production but of daily habit — that we
have never seen before. How do we begin to imagine such a household?<br>
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Late last year, I traveled to Uruguay in hope of glimpsing one
possibility. Wedged between its larger and more routinely
travelogued neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, the small Latin
American country exists as something of an anomaly. With a carbon
footprint hovering around the global median of 4.5 tons per capita,
it falls within a narrow tier of nearly developed countries within
sight of two tons per capita — the estimated amount needed to limit
the world to 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. Often called the Great
Exception for its relative wealth and stability in the region, it
enjoys a poverty rate around 10 percent and a middle class
encompassing more than half the population. It ranks first in South
America for political rights and civil liberties. There are
countries more prosperous, and countries with a smaller carbon
footprint, but perhaps in none do the overlapping possibilities of
living well and living without ruin show as much promise as in
Uruguay.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/magazine/uruguay-renewable-energy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/magazine/uruguay-renewable-energy.html</a><br>
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<i>[ United Nations UN News ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change heightens threats of violence against women and
girls</b><br>
5 October 2022 Climate and Environment<br>
Climate change and environmental degradation are escalating the risk
and prevalence of violence against women and girls across the world,
a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on Wednesday.<br>
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Presenting a report to the General Assembly on its causes and
consequences, Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence
against women and girls described climate change as “the most
consequential threat multiplier for women and girls, with
far-reaching impacts on new and existing forms of gendered
inequities”.<br>
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She maintained that the “cumulative and gendered consequences” of
climate change and environmental degradation “breach all aspects” of
their rights.<br>
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<b>Climate inequality</b><br>
Ms. Alsalem emphasised the damaging ways in which violence directed
towards women and girls intersects with socio-political and economic
phenomena, including armed conflict, displacement and resource
scarcity...<br>
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“The wellbeing and the rights of women and girls should not be an
afterthought and must be placed at the centre of policies and
responses”.<br>
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She upheld that if designed and implemented with a robust gender
lens, “the global response to climate change and environmental
degradation can be truly transformative, rather than reinforce a
vicious cycle”.<br>
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Special Rapporteurs are appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human
Rights Council to examine and report back on a specific human rights
theme or a country situation. The positions are honorary and the
experts are not paid for their work.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129242">https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129242</a>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 6, 2008</b></i></font> <br>
October 6, 2008: DeSmogBlog's Jeremy Jacquot praises the 2008
vice-presidential debate between Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) and
Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) for its focus on climate change and
energy issues:<br>
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"Palin made a big show of her ticket’s emphasis on 'energy
independence' – even ducking a question about bankruptcy laws to
cheer for more offshore drilling – and McCain’s 'all of the above'
policy. Though she went through the motions, I have my doubts that
she supports mandatory caps – or, frankly, that she supports any
real meaningful action on climate change. Now if only the next
debate moderator can get the presidential candidates arguing about
climate policy…"<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/biden-palin-finally-a-real-debate-about-climate-change-and-energy">http://www.desmogblog.com/biden-palin-finally-a-real-debate-about-climate-change-and-energy</a><br>
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