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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 17, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ what may happen at COP ]</i><br>
<b>Poor nations to demand climate justice, finance at UN summit</b><br>
Wanjohi Kabukuru, Associated Press<br>
<p>The chair of an “influential negotiating bloc” at UN climate
talks has called for funds for global-south countries suffering
from climate change to be “high up on the agenda” at COP27 taking
place in Egypt in November, Associated Press reports. Madeleine
Diouf Sarr, who chairs the Least Developed Countries group, tells
AP that the group would like to see “an agreement to establish a
dedicated financial facility” that pays nations that are already
facing “loss and damage” because of climate change. Sarr tells AP:
“We have delayed climate action for too long. We can no longer
afford to have a COP that is ‘all talk.’ The climate crisis has
pushed our adaptation limits, resulted in inevitable loss and
damage, and delayed our much-needed development.” (For more on
loss and damage, see Carbon Brief’s recent week-long special
series, including an in-depth Q&A exploring the question:
“should developed nations pay for ‘loss and damage’ from climate
change?”; an interactive timeline on the struggle over loss and
damage at the UN climate talks; a feature exploring “non-economic”
loss and damage; an article on its importance to COP27 featuring
voices from John Kerry to Vanessa Nakate; and an online webinar on
the topic.)</p>
Elsewhere, the New York Times reports that 20 of the world’s most
climate-vulnerable countries “are considering halting their
repayment of $685bn in collective debt” to rich countries. According
to the newspaper, Mohamad Nasheed, the former president of the
Maldives, warned that “poor nations were locked in a Sisyphean trap:
they must borrow money to ward off rising seas and storms – only to
see disasters made worse by climate change destroy the improvements
they make. But the debt remains, and often countries are left to
borrow once again.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CarbonBriefDailyBriefing/issues/carbon-brief-daily-17-10-2022-1407829">https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CarbonBriefDailyBriefing/issues/carbon-brief-daily-17-10-2022-1407829</a><br>
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<i>[ Activism in Berlin -- For immediate release ] </i><br>
<b>60 scientists from Scientist Rebellion disrupt opening of World
Health Summit in Berlin, Germany and demand urgent action on the
climate emergency</b><br>
Berlin, 16 October 2022. Scientists from Scientist Rebellion caused
a stir with their protest at the opening of the World Health Summit
in Berlin on Sunday evening. Around 6:30 pm, 40 scientists from all
over Europe blocked the entrance of the conference building, 7 of
them glued themselves with superglue. Another 20 academics dressed
in lab coats pasted large scientific publications about the climate
crisis to the entrance and held banners saying "CLIMATE CRISIS =
HEALTH CRIS", "1.5°C = Political Fiction" and "Unite against climate
failure". They were accompanied by 10 activists of the group "Letzte
Generation" (Last Generation), who also glued themselves to the
ground in front of the entrance. German chancellor Scholz opened the
conference ceremony. His speech was interrupted several times by a
fire alarm in the building set off by the scientists.<br>
<br>
"There is no plausible way to stay below 1.5 degrees and comply with
the Paris Agreement within our current economic system. Politicians
must be honest and stop misleading the public. It is in fact highly
likely that we will exceed 1.5 degrees of global warming within the
next ten years. This means immense suffering, especially in the
Global South, but also here in Europe. It is high time to
drastically change course," says Dr. Matthias Schmelzer from the
Institute of Sociology at the University of Jena, Germany.<br>
With their peaceful yet disruptive protests, the scientists want to
make clear to society the hard physical and ecological reality
versus political fiction. There is a real possibility of a global
catastrophe. With actions of civil resistance, Scientist Rebellion
demands immediate action to limit the escalating impacts of the
climate crisis – nationally and internationally...<br>
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Scientist Rebellion is a coalition of international scientists and
academics founded in 2021 to call for civil disobedience in the face
of political failure over the climate and ecological crisis. The
growing movement is mobilizing scientists from across Europe and is
part of a coalition of nonviolent civil resistance groups joining
forces in October 2022 with the #UniteAgainstClimateFailure campaign
to achieve damage control as quickly as possible. Coalition partners
include: Letzte Generation, Debt for Climate, End Fossil Occupy, und
Jetzt oder Nie - Eltern gegen die Fossilindustrie.<br>
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<i>[ scientists rebel in Berlin ]</i><br>
<b>We are scientists, calling for a climate revolution<br>
</b><b>We are currently heading directly towards civilizational
collapse.</b><br>
We need to switch into climate emergency mode as a society."<br>
Dr. Peter Kalmus<br>
As scientists, we have tried writing reports and giving
presentations about the climate and ecological crisis to those in
power. We must now have the humility to accept these attempts have
not worked. Now is the time for us to take action, so that we show
how seriously we take our warnings.<br>
A united academia has the power to shift the course of the climate
crisis.<br>
Over 500 academics have already signed.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.scientistrebellion.com/">https://www.scientistrebellion.com/</a>
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<i>[ radical flank opens up to moderate activists ]</i><br>
<b>Action And Activism: Is it time to mobilise the moderate flank?</b><br>
Premiered October 16, 2022 Recent activism in the UK has made
worldwide headlines. By bringing cultural treasures into the
discussion, it raises new anxieties and questions about what is at
stake.<br>
<br>
The visual impact of the soup hitting the van Gogh painting was
viscerally shocking to many, including myself. On reflection it
reminded me of when the painter Francis Bacon was asked what he
would save in a burning house if the choice was between a Rembrandt
self-portrait and cat. Without hesitation Bacon said the cat,
emphasising the value of life over art.<br>
<br>
With that in mind, the Living Planet Report, shows that animal
populations have declined by 70% since 1970. This is mass extinction
territory and it is the world that these protestors are trying to
draw the wider publics attention to.<br>
<br>
Regardless of what we think of their action, the post war boomer
generation and my own that have succeeded it, have partaken in this
destruction both of the complex web of life on Earth and also the
dreams and aspirations of the next and every successive generation.<br>
<br>
In this ClimateGenn episode, recorded a few weeks ago with, author,
philosopher and former XR spokesperson, Professor Rupert Read, and
his colleague 'Systems and culture change strategist’ Paddy
Loughton, we discuss urgent need for a mobilisation of the moderate
masses in what they define as a Moderate Flank. <br>
Social tipping points occur when enough when the force of change can
no longer be held back. But what does a Moderate Flank actually look
like?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzAsT0ZS8a4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzAsT0ZS8a4</a><br>
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<i>[ Young American journalist reads top climate news -- ]</i><br>
<b>Greta says Germany's messing up, Activists protest Truss' energy
moves | The Climate Recap</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zTiJ2EQUE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zTiJ2EQUE</a><br>
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<i>[ a new harsh reality publication - it may help with our
understanding ]</i><br>
<b>The Petroleum Papers</b><br>
Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change<br>
By Geoff Dembicki<br>
"An essential read."—The Washington Post<br>
<br>
"Essential … This book belongs on the shelf next to Merchants of
Doubt, Dark Money, and Kochland."—Roy Scranton, author of Learning
to Die in the Anthropocene<br>
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"The petroleum industry is guilty of a Big Tobacco–style public
cover-up, according to this vivid exposé."—Publishers Weekly STARRED
Review<br>
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Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is
what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959.
But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the
biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world―the oil sands in
Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals
in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil
sands flowing into the U.S. would turn out to be one of the biggest
reasons for the world’s failure to stop the climate crisis.<br>
<br>
In The Petroleum Papers, Dembicki draws from confidential oil
industry documents to uncover for the first time how companies like
Exxon, Koch Industries, and Shell built a global right-wing echo
chamber to protect oil sands profits—a misinformation campaign that
continues to this day. He also tells the high-stakes stories of
people fighting back: a Seattle lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco
and is now going after Big Oil, a Filipina activist whose family
drowned in a climate disaster, and a former Exxon engineer pushed
out for asking hard questions.<br>
<br>
With experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global
emissions under control, The Petroleum Papers provides a
step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice—and the
politicians and companies who deserve our blame.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Petroleum-Papers-Far-Right-Conspiracy-Climate/dp/1771648910/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Petroleum-Papers-Far-Right-Conspiracy-Climate/dp/1771648910/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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<i>[ modern classic photo from Biloxi MS ]</i><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.visitalpena.com/event-detail/john-ganis-troubled-waters/">https://www.visitalpena.com/event-detail/john-ganis-troubled-waters/</a><br>
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<i>[ The news archive - looking back at what Al Gore said ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 17, 2000</b></i></font> <br>
October 17, 2000: In the third presidential debate, Vice President
Al Gore declares:<br>
<blockquote> "I spend a good deal of time talking to young people,
and in my standard speech out there on the stump, I usually end my
speech by saying, 'I want to ask you for something, and I want to
direct it especially to the young people in the audience,' and I
want to tell you what I tell them. Sometimes people who are very
idealistic and have great dreams, as young people do, are apt to
stay at arm's length from the political process, because they
think their good hearts might be brittle, and if they invest their
hopes and allow themselves to believe, then they're going to be
let down and disappointed. But thank goodness, we've always had
enough people who have been willing in every generation to push
past the fear of a broken heart and become deeply involved in
forming a more perfect union. We're America, and -- and we believe
in our future, and we know we have the ability to shape our
future.<br>
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"Now, we've got to address one of the biggest threats to our
democracy, and that is the current campaign financing system. And
I know they say it doesn't rank anywhere on the polls. I don't
believe -- I don't believe that's a fair measure. I'm telling you,
I will make it -- I will make the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance
Reform bill the very first measure that I send to the Congress as
president. Governor Bush opposes it. I wish that he would consider
changing his mind on that, because I think that the special
interests have too much power and we need to give our democracy
back to the American people.<br>
<br>
"Let me tell you why. Those issues you mentioned, Social Security,
prescription drugs--the big drug companies are against the
prescription drug proposal that I've made. The HMOs are against
the patients' rights bill, the Dingell-Norwood bill, that I
support and that Governor Bush does not support. The big oil
companies are against the measures to get more energy independence
and renewable fuels. They ought to have their voices heard, but
they shouldn't have a big megaphone that drowns out the American
people. We need campaign finance reform, and we need to shoot
straight with young and old alike and tell them what the real
choices are. And we can renew and rekindle the American spirit and
make our future what our founders dreamed it could be. We can."<br>
</blockquote>
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href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PresidentialCandidatesDebate">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PresidentialCandidatesDebate</a>
(64:40--67:22)<br>
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