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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 1, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ COP-out- 27 ] </i><br>
<b>Cop27 protesters will be corralled in desert away from climate
conference</b><br>
Visitors to Sharm el-Sheikh also face extensive searches and video
surveillance in taxis<br>
Ruth Michaelson<br>
Mon 31 Oct 2022<br>
Across Sharm el-Sheikh, a slim strip of manicured resorts, asphalt
and concrete near the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula, teams of
workers are putting the finishing touches to preparations for the
UN’s Cop27 climate conference.<br>
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New surveillance technologies are also in place, so much so that Maj
Gen Khaled Fouda, governor of South Sinai, recently boasted to a
local cable channel that any visitors entering overland will be
extensively searched at a gate encircling the city. He added that
500 white taxis commissioned to transport attenders during the
conference will be equipped with interior cameras, all connected to
a local “security observatory”, to monitor the footage.<br>
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There will be space for protesters to gather at Cop27, but only in a
purpose-built area out near a highway and away from the conference
centre or any other signs of life. Images of the designated protest
area show a row of white painted cabins between a row of palm trees
and a car park. It was unclear whether protesters will be permitted
to spread out among the vast open landscape, or be forced to crowd
next to the cabins to find relief from the desert sun.<br>
<br>
“It’s very chic, very clean. There are cafes and restaurants on
site,” said Fouda, and: “No one is allowed here without
registration.” He added that Egyptian authorities constructed the
protest area in response to a spate of calls from western diplomats
worried that demonstrations would be prevented at Cop27 in line with
a ban on public protest that has existed for almost a decade.<br>
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“This could be the most highly surveilled Cop in the history of the
conference,” said Hussein Baoumi, of Amnesty International.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/31/egypt-cop27-showcase-charms-sharm-el-sheikh-protest-mall">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/31/egypt-cop27-showcase-charms-sharm-el-sheikh-protest-mall</a><br>
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<i>[ Thunberg watch -- so reports Fortune magazine ]</i><br>
<b>COP27 leaders and says she’ll skip the ‘greenwashing’ climate
summit</b><br>
BY SOPHIE MELLOR<br>
October 31, 2022 <br>
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Speaking at a Q&A for the launch of her new book, Thunberg
announced she would be skipping the 2022 United Nations Climate
Change Conference, otherwise known as COP27, held in Egypt next
week, as it has become a platform for attention-grabbing
politicians.<br>
<blockquote>“I’m not going to COP27 for many reasons, but the space
for civil society this year is extremely limited,” Thunberg said.<br>
<br>
“COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in
power to get attention, using many different kinds of
greenwashing.”...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fortune.com/2022/10/31/greta-thunberg-blasts-attention-seeking-cop27-leaders/">https://fortune.com/2022/10/31/greta-thunberg-blasts-attention-seeking-cop27-leaders/</a><br>
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<i>[ Wise scientist Dr Jennifer Francis predicts the next el Nino
will be mean - a brief video]</i><br>
Oct 31, 2022<br>
<b>I spoke not long ago to Jennifer Francis of the Woodwell Climate
Research Center in MA.</b><br>
Jennifer is a highly respected senior scientist and researcher.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiU6PYHjsGY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiU6PYHjsGY</a><br>
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<br>
<i>[ Time to reconsider a new opinion text ]</i><br>
HOW TO BE DECENT<br>
<b>Climate Reparations Really Aren’t That Radical—or Hard</b><br>
Noah Gordon<br>
October 26, 2022<br>
Examples of reparations paid throughout history show that making
amends is much more feasible than rich countries today would have us
believe.<br>
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Reparations that involve transfers of value from one country to
another are more relevant for the climate case. The idea behind
calls for loss and damage funding is that the countries that have
done most to pollute the atmosphere, and grown rich doing so, should
compensate, per U.N. language, “developing countries that are
particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.”
In other words, countries like the U.S., France, and Japan should
pay countries like Brazil, Indonesia, or small island states like
Kiribati that will literally disappear beneath the waves.<br>
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Climate reparations must also overcome hurdles that have not applied
in past instances. For one, the crime is not only ongoing but
accelerating—more than half of all carbon dioxide emissions have
occurred since 1990. For another, the guilty and the wronged can
switch places: By some point in the late 2020s, China will have
emitted more greenhouse gases than the EU countries ever have. Yet
for the purposes of U.N. climate talks, China is officially a
developing country that would be a recipient of loss and damage
funds. And there’s a serious first mover problem: Would EU countries
agree to hand over large sums for loss and damage if Canada or the
U.S. refused to budge? Denmark recently became the first rich
country to make a substantial loss and damage pledge—$13 million.
But that’s still minuscule in the context of these talks...<br>
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If rich Western countries harbor any claims to moral leadership on
climate policy, they have to do better than their officials’ current
dismissive rhetoric on loss and damage, as exemplified by John
Kerry’s remarks in September. They must at least consider formal
apologies and meet unmet pledges for adaptation and mitigation
funding. And as for loss and damages payment, the least they could
do is make concrete offers for nonmonetary reparations of the sort
that the Caricom Caribbean Community has requested of their former
European colonizers, which in the climate case could include setting
up cultural institutions to preserve memories of cultures threatened
by climate change. Offering residence permits to citizens of small
island states that will one day be lost to the sea would be another
good place to start.<br>
<br>
Reparations aren’t radical, and they aren’t without precedent. COP27
will not deliver reparations commensurate to the offense, or in line
with potential recipients’ demands. But, as with climate mitigation,
it is better to take some step forward, however small, than to
stonewall. Better to push for a bike lane on your street or pass an
imperfect bill through Congress than to stick one’s head in the
sand. Better to set up a reparations commission or offer some
symbolic small-scale funding than to pretend that reparations are
inconceivable. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/168297/climate-reparations-radical-john-kerry">https://newrepublic.com/article/168297/climate-reparations-radical-john-kerry</a><br>
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<i>[ futurism -- some thoughtful discussions on decline - mostly
outside of climate change considerations ]</i><br>
<b>John Michael Greer - The Catabolic Collapse Of Civilization (Part
2)</b><br>
Oct 12, 2022 Is the collapse of modern civilization already
underway? John Michael Greer explains the "Catabolic Collapse"
stair-step model of decline and we discuss living standards,
corporate & financial losses, inflation, energy costs, and how
overall socioeconomic complexity contributes to the decline process.<br>
<br>
In today's interview, we address key audience questions related to a
number of topics from our first interview, including: anthropogenic
climate change, corporate & financial losses, inflation, masking
of decline issues through automation and privatization, standards of
living and "side gigs", the relative importance of peak oil, and the
contributions of complexity, and much more.<br>
<br>
John Michael Greer is an accomplished author who writes on ecology,
politics, appropriate technology, oil depletion and the occult. He
has published dozens of both books and articles, many of them on
peak oil, economics, history, philosophy and related topics. <br>
<br>
In a 2005 abstract, called "How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of
Catabolic Collapse", he described an ecological model of collapse in
which production fails to meet maintenance requirements for existing
capital, which we'll be discussing today.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seM8ZqdyfyE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seM8ZqdyfyE</a><br>
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<i>[ his paper ]</i><br>
<b>How Civilizations Fall : A Theory of Catabolic Collapse</b><br>
J. Greer<br>
Published 2005<br>
Economics<br>
The collapse of complex human societies remains poorly understood
and current theories fail to model important features of historical
examples of collapse. Relationships among resources, capital, waste,
and production form the basis for an ecological model of collapse in
which production fails to meet maintenance requirements for existing
capital. Societies facing such crises after having depleted
essential resources risk catabolic collapse, a self-reinforcing
cycle of contraction converting most capital to waste. This model
allows key features of historical examples of collapse to be
accounted for, and suggests parallels between successional processes
in nonhuman ecosystems and collapse phenomena in human societies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf">https://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf</a><br>
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<i> [ It is sometimes difficult to listen to fringe voices -- this
is a controversial science video "We might be in real trouble" -
recommending listening to old people ( that's me!!) ]</i><br>
<b>Joe Brewer - Planetary Collapse and the Path to Regeneration -
LIVING RESILIENCE SENSE MAKING COURSE</b><br>
The Poetry of Predicament<br>
Oct 31, 2022<br>
This is a reposting of an interview with Joe Brewer on the Nicky Rew
Podcast, December 2020. "Nicky Rew" appears to have discontinued his
podcast. We are very proud to include Nicky's fine interview with
Joe, in our online courses and curriculum.<br>
<br>
Here in Living Resilience, in addition to producing this Poetry of
Predicament Podcast, we offer support and study groups, special
guest events, and live and self-paced online courses... all in
service to the global Collapse-Aware community.<br>
<br>
The short version of our mission statement or elevator pitch for
this work: Profound Resources Facing Troubled Times.<br>
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We recommend that the viewer watch all 82 minutes of this interview.
Joe Brewer is one of the few Regenerative Human Systems Designers
alive today... and one of a very small handful of people actually
creating a real-time experiment in regenerative community and
living, in his project in Colombia.<br>
<br>
For those who are watching this with the particular focus of our
Living Resilience - Sense Making Course (available in our online
Community Space - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://living-resilience.mn.co">https://living-resilience.mn.co</a> )<br>
you may want to jump ahead to the chapter marker "Collapse
Projections" at approximately 49:43. This is followed by Joe's
description of his Regenerative Community and Living project.<br>
<br>
Our main reasons for including this interview with Joe Brewer in our
in-house Sense-Making course material are: Joe's remarkably clear
and concise recap of long-standing and prescient projections from
early research on human-caused collapse of both Earth and Human
Systems. We seem to be a self-terminating global culture. One
especially toxic feature of our self defeating ways is that we have
less and less ability to integrate any sort of historical context
for our now life-critical choices. Joe's synthesis of a couple of
particularly potent early predictions of our collapse stands in
sharp contrast to his remarkable work in creating regenerative
communities in the face of our daunting future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5C1je377s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5C1je377s</a><br>
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<i>[ a nice innocent Halloween report -- listening to a young news
enthusiast -- she is just relaying information - who also seems to
have a calm demeanor for this kind of news ]</i><br>
<b>Lula wins Brazil's presidential election, Egypt pushes gas as a
climate solution | The Climate Recap</b><br>
Beckisphere Climate Corner<br>
k34 views Nov 1, 2022<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw30JMASufk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw30JMASufk</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>November 1, 1987</b></i></font> <br>
November 1, 1987: At a Democratic presidential candidates' forum on
the environment in Manchester, New Hampshire, Boston Globe
environmental reporter Dianne Dumanoski asks Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis and Sen. Al Gore about their plans to address acid
rain and climate change. Dukakis and Gore note that the US must show
global leadership on both issues. <br>
<br>
(19:55-26:44)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir</a><br>
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