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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 7, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ "Greenwashing" - is COP 27 - video 7 mins ]</i><br>
<b>Q: "Do you have any hope of COP27 achieving a great deal?" | A:
Rupert Read, "Very little..."</b><br>
Rupert Read<i><br>
</i>Nov 6, 2022<br>
Rupert continues, "We sort of play this game year after year don't
we. We go into a new climate COP hoping that it will give us
something real... but as my young friend and colleague Great
Thunberg says, it's mostly just 'BLAH BLAH BLAH'." <br>
<br>
We need a new way of thinking, about politics, about philosophy, and
about our role in the world. My website contains a collection of my
thoughts in these areas. My writings and media appearances, which
are collected there, address the mix of issues around the climate
and ecological ‘emergencies', and how we ought to respond to them.
Please check it out: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://RupertRead.net">https://RupertRead.net</a> <br>
...I enthusiastically welcome your comments, (civil/constructive)
criticisms and thoughts over there: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/GreenRupertRead">https://twitter.com/GreenRupertRead</a>
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<i>[ clips from this most important article in the Guardian ] </i><br>
<b>US voters hit hardest by climate crisis: ‘I need politicians to
care about this’</b><br>
The devastating effects of climate change are motivating how voters
cast their ballots in the midterm elections<br>
Maanvi Singh, Frida Garza, Gabrielle Canon, Oliver Milman and Nina
Lakhani<br>
Sat 5 Nov 2022<br>
Across the US, temperature records tumbled in a summer of heatwaves,
enormous floods drowned entire towns and, in the west, an ongoing
drought is now so severe that corpses are being uncovered in rapidly
drying reservoirs.<br>
<br>
Despite these increasingly ominous signs, the climate crisis has
struggled to gain much visibility in the lead-up to next week’s
midterm elections. “Many voters are more focused on things like
inflation, understandably, because people are struggling to get by
in this economy,” said Geoffrey Henderson, an expert in climate
policy at Duke University.<br>
But, Henderson added, this will still be a “very high-stakes
election for climate change”, with probable Republican control of at
least one chamber of Congress likely to result in the gumming up of
Joe Biden’s climate agenda. While the president managed to get a
huge climate bill passed in the summer, any further legislation or
even moves to implement the Inflation Reduction Act, will face
obstruction.<br>
<br>
We spoke to six voters to ask what the climate crisis means for them
ahead of the midterms.<br>
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“It is important to me that a candidate actually has a plan,” he
said, emphasizing that that includes a greater acknowledgment of the
intersectionality between climate action and equity and inclusion.
“I tend to vote Democrat but there are independents and even the
Green party that have better platforms,” he added, noting that his
home district’s distinctly purple hue has at times skewed his
support blue.<br>
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“A lot of these areas are under threat,” he said, adding “I need
politicians to care about this.” So, Palley plans to cast his votes
with an eye toward the escalating threats looming now and in the
future – with full knowledge of what’s at stake.<br>
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“What’s the point of anything else if we don’t have a livable
planet?”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/05/us-voters-climate-change-midterm-elections">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/05/us-voters-climate-change-midterm-elections</a><br>
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<i>[ text and audio track from Political (audio from Amazon Polly
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<b>Populists vs. the planet: How climate became the new culture war
front line</b><br>
US midterms show populism is now the ‘biggest obstacle’ to
addressing global warming, say greens.<br>
BY KARL MATHIESEN<br>
NOVEMBER 6, 2022 <br>
Delegates landing in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh for
U.N. climate talks this week are a global elite bent on tearing down
national borders, stripping away individual freedoms and condemning
working people to a life of poverty. <br>
<br>
That dark view is held by a range of far-right or populist parties —
among them Donald Trump’s Republicans, who are seeking to retake
control in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections. Some of these radicals
are rampaging through elections in Europe while others, such as
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro last week, have been defeated only
narrowly.<br>
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Republican and Trump acolyte Lauren Boebert derides the
environmentalist agenda as “America last;” Britain’s Brexit-backing
Home Secretary Suella Braverman says the country is in thrall to a
“tofu-eating wokerati;” and in Spain, senior figures in the
far-right Vox party dismiss the U.N.'s climate agenda as "cultural
Marxism."<br>
Right-wingers of various strains around the world have co-opted
climate change into their culture war. The fact this is happening in
countries that produce a large share of global greenhouse gas
emissions has alarmed some green advocates. <br>
“Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling
climate change,” wrote three climate leaders, including Brazil’s
former Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira, in a recent
commentary.<br>
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In the U.S., Republicans are eyeing a return to power in one or both
houses of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Many at the COP27
talks will be reliving the first week of the U.N. climate conference
in Morocco six years ago when Trump’s election struck the climate
movement like a hurricane.<br>
<br>
A Republican surge would gnaw at the fragile confidence that has
built around global climate efforts since President Joe Biden’s
election, raising the specter of a second Trump term and perhaps the
withdrawal — again — of the U.S. from the landmark 2015 Paris
climate deal.<br>
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“I don't want to think about that,” said Teixeira’s co-author
Laurence Tubiana, a former French diplomat who led the design of the
Paris Agreement and who now leads the European Climate Foundation.<br>
Some on the American right are pushing a more conciliatory message
than others. “Republicans have solutions to reduce world emissions
while providing affordable, reliable, and clean energy to our allies
across the globe," said Utah Congressman John Curtis, who will lead
a delegation from his party to COP27...<br>
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<b>Loving the losers</b><br>
The far right's focus on the losers has been "turbo charged" by the
energy crisis, said Jennie King, head of civic action and education
at ISD, which populists have wrongly argued is the fault of green
policy. The European Parliament’s coalition of far-right parties has
grown and capitalized on the energy crisis by joining with
center-right parties to vote down environmental legislation.<br>
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Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson — newly elected with
Åkesson's support — aims to dilute the country's ambitions for
cutting some greenhouse gas emissions, a move center-right Liberal
Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari justified in familiar
terms: “That is a reaction to the reality people are facing.” And in
Britain, Brexit leader Nigel Farage retooled his campaign to become
an anti-net zero mouthpiece...<br>
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Strains of right-wing ecology may also mean that not all groups are
actively hostile to the climate agenda, said Lubarda. Italy’s new
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is a huge fan of the books of J.R.R.
Tolkien, which center on the Shire, an idealized bucolic homeland.
Meloni says she wants to reclaim environmentalism for the right, but
the protection of national economic interests still comes first. <br>
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“There is no more convinced ecologist than a conservative, but what
distinguishes us from a certain ideological environmentalism is that
we want to defend nature with man inside,” she said in her inaugural
speech to parliament last month. <br>
<br>
While Meloni has announced that she will attend COP27, she has also
renamed the Ministry for the Ecological Transition the Ministry for
Environment and Energy Security. The governing program of her
Brothers of Italy party includes a section on climate change, but it
strongly emphasizes the need to protect industry. <br>
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It’s this broad sense of demotion and delay that alarms those who
are watching these ideas grow in stature among populists on the
right. They say that while it may not sound like climate denial, the
result is effectively the same.<br>
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“You can say that you are climate friends,” said Belgian Socialist
MEP Marie Arena. “But in the act, you are not at all. You are
business friends first.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.politico.eu/article/populists-vs-the-planet-the-rights-new-playbook-on-climate-change-cop27-egypt-sharm-el-sheikh-donald-trump-midterms-republicans-meloni/">https://www.politico.eu/article/populists-vs-the-planet-the-rights-new-playbook-on-climate-change-cop27-egypt-sharm-el-sheikh-donald-trump-midterms-republicans-meloni/</a><br>
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<i>[ the top voice at COP27 ]</i><br>
<b>UN Secretary General #COP27 WARNS OF CLIMATE CHAOS sending a
distress signal that must be answered</b><br>
Nick Breeze ClimateGenn<br>
António Guterres Transcript: Follow us on <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gennc.cc">https://gennc.cc</a><br>
As COP27 gets underway, our planet is sending a distress signal.<br>
<br>
The latest State of the Global Climate report is a chronicle of
climate chaos.<br>
<br>
As the World Meteorological Organization shows so clearly, change is
happening with catastrophic speed -- devastating lives and
livelihoods on every continent.<br>
<br>
The last eight years have been the warmest on record, making every
heatwave more intense and life-threatening, especially for
vulnerable populations.<br>
<br>
Sea levels are rising at twice the speed of the 1990s - posing an
existential threat for low-lying island states, and threatening
billions of people in coastal regions.<br>
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Glacier melt records are themselves melting away - jeopardising
water security for whole continents.<br>
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People and communities everywhere must be protected from the
immediate and ever-growing risks of the climate emergency. That is
why we are pushing so hard for universal early warning systems
within five years.<br>
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We must answer the planet’s distress signal with action --
ambitious, credible climate action.<br>
#COP27 must be the place – and now must be the time.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIrxSMMwGz8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIrxSMMwGz8</a><br>
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<i>[ From the Financial Time$ ]</i><br>
<b>Maersk warns oil groups are holding back clean energy transition</b><br>
Shipping company says more affordable green fuel must be offered by
suppliers<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/1d037414-bbb0-48e6-a507-cafc54ada026">https://www.ft.com/content/1d037414-bbb0-48e6-a507-cafc54ada026</a><br>
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[ avoiding "the ambush of hope" and the deification of human
willpower -- discussions w Michael Dowd ]<br>
<b>Meg Wheatley - Post Doom, No Gloom - Hope and Its Shadow: Fear</b><br>
thegreatstory<br>
Nov 6, 2022<br>
This post-doom conversation, "Hope and Its Shadow — Fear", between
Margaret Wheatley and Michael Dowd, was recorded in October 2022.
Previous post-doom conversations with Meg (one with Terry Patton, in
2020, the other with Michael Shaw, in 2022) can be found at the top
of this page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://postdoom.com/conversations/">https://postdoom.com/conversations/</a>
(Both are excellent, quite different from this one, and highly
recommended!)<br>
<br>
"We Have to Talk About Hope" (An Invitation to Explore Our
Dependence on Hope), Led by Margaret Wheatley on Zoom - The Berkana
Institute:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mailchi.mp/2d7677d98c5e/we-have-to-talk-about-hope-9287878?e=e559cd6c65">https://mailchi.mp/2d7677d98c5e/we-have-to-talk-about-hope-9287878?e=e559cd6c65</a><br>
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"Freeing Ourselves from the Addiction to Hope" — by Margaret
Wheatley<br>
TEXT:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@WarriorsForTheHumanSpirit/freeing-ourselves-from-the-addiction-to-hope-4b6c88920229">https://medium.com/@WarriorsForTheHumanSpirit/freeing-ourselves-from-the-addiction-to-hope-4b6c88920229</a><br>
AUDIO:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/margaret-wheatley-freeing-ourselves-from-the-addiction-to-hope">https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/margaret-wheatley-freeing-ourselves-from-the-addiction-to-hope</a><br>
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The Place Beyond Fear and Hope -- Margaret Wheatley<br>
TEXT:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://margaretwheatley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BeyondHopeandFear.pdf">https://margaretwheatley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BeyondHopeandFear.pdf</a><br>
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<b>When hope is a hindrance</b><br>
<blockquote>For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to
courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world
is to act:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://aeon.co/essays/for-arendt-hope-in-dark-times-is-no-match-for-action">https://aeon.co/essays/for-arendt-hope-in-dark-times-is-no-match-for-action</a>
(text AND audio narration)<br>
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Michael Dowd's EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS on hope, hopium, etc — <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/user/thegreatstory/videos">https://www.youtube.com/user/thegreatstory/videos</a><br>
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Post-Doom, No Gloom (Hope-Free) Audio, Text, and Video Resources —
(A): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://postdoom.com/resources/">https://postdoom.com/resources/</a>
and (B) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://postdoom.com/discussions/">https://postdoom.com/discussions/</a><br>
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Youtube Playlist: "Pro-Future (Wise) Living: Beyond Hope and Fear"
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcAlqMeyeaW-jGoWXIWUhbTHi3eB0P9nt">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcAlqMeyeaW-jGoWXIWUhbTHi3eB0P9nt</a><br>
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<b>HOPE RELATED QUOTES…</b><br>
<blockquote>“Grief requires us to know the time we’re in. The great
enemy of grief is hope. Hope is the four-letter word for people
who are unwilling to know things for what they are. Our time
requires us to be hope-free. To burn through the false choice of
being hopeful or hopeless. They are two sides of the same con
job. Grief is required to proceed.” ~ Stephen Jenkinson<br>
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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but
the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it
turns out. It is the ability to work for something because it is
good, not because it stands a chance to succeed.” ~ Vaclav Havel,
author, poet, and former president of the Czech Republic<br>
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“Do not lose heart; we were made for these times.” ~ Clarissa
Pinkola Estés<br>
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“The depth of your grief is the measure of your love.” ~ Joanna
Macy<br>
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“Inattention to the world’s ecological state is well advised.
Because attention to it mitigates against your happiness,
contentment, and your sense of well-being. Having a conscience
now is a grief-soaked proposition. … “If you awaken in our time,
you awaken with a sob.” ~ Stephen Jenkinson<br>
</blockquote>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCsHn3tTfM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCsHn3tTfM</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Disinformation danger - DeSmog comes to the rescue ]</i><br>
<b>DeSmog Launches Project to ‘DeBunk’ Climate Misinformation</b><br>
Heard it all before? So have we. That’s why we are trying out a
new way to fight climate science denial.<br>
<br>
By Adam BarnettonOct 31, 2022 <br>
With the pivotal COP27 UN climate summit taking place in Egypt in
November, the forces of climate denial and delay are likely to go
into overdrive.<br>
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So for a limited period we are going to try a new way to set the
record straight. DeSmog is launching a project to debunk these
false narratives and arm people with the correct information about
climate change. <br>
<br>
<b>How it Works</b><br>
Our plan is three-fold. First, we will rebut high-profile examples
of climate misinformation on Twitter, and second, publish “cheat
sheets” with the killer facts to debunk these denial and delay
arguments. <br>
<br>
There are already organizations dedicated to expert factchecks, so
our role will be to collect and summarise the best available
evidence, and Tweet it out into the world in bite-size chunks.<br>
<br>
Third, we will draw on our investigative journalism and Climate
Disinformation Database to expose the track records of serial
misinformers and their pro-fossil fuel agenda. <br>
<br>
So when climate saboteurs take the mic, we will be ready. When
groups like Net Zero Watch and their allies in parliament blame
high energy bills on the UK’s net zero policies, we’ll provide the
evidence to disprove this false claim. When pundits like
Hartley-Brewer use their media platforms to attack the IPCC, we’ll
stand up for climate science and show why such claims are wrong. <br>
<br>
Our hope is that these DeBunk tweets and “cheat sheets” will
provide a useful resource in the fight against anti-climate
propaganda, and will help shore up support for climate action and
net zero policies. <br>
<br>
We will be publishing our first DeBunk later this week, so watch
this space. <br>
<br>
To find out more or get involved, email us at <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:debunk@desmog.com">debunk@desmog.com</a> . <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/31/desmog-launches-project-to-debunk-climate-misinformation/">https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/31/desmog-launches-project-to-debunk-climate-misinformation/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmog.com/debunk-rebutting-false-climate-narratives/">https://www.desmog.com/debunk-rebutting-false-climate-narratives/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/">https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-focus/factchecks/">https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-focus/factchecks/</a><br>
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<i>[ serious doomerism -- video discussion ]</i><br>
<b>"What Is a Doomer?" - Prof. Eliot Jacobson, live with David B.</b><br>
Collapse Club<br>
Sep 27, 2022<br>
Prof. Eliot Jacobson is a doomer, but he is not disengaged from the
world. He keeps careful track of greenhouse gases, global
temperatures, and other indices of onrushing global disaster. He
analyses the data using skills developed in a 26-year career as a
professor of mathematics and computer science. See his "Collapse of
Everything Blog" at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecasino.net/">https://climatecasino.net/</a>
and follow him on Twitter at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson">https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson</a><br>
<br>
Prof. Jacobson is convinced we are facing a global catastrophe, but
he believes we can still act to good effect: <br>
<br>
"As a doomer, I don’t believe there is anything we can do to stop
the coming collapse. The timing and overall severity may change
though. We may yet be able to save a few species from extinction.
With more action, we could possibly preserve a few more habitats for
nature to regenerate after we’re gone. Maybe the oceans won’t become
a vast algae clogged slough. Humanity’s full impact on this planet
is yet to be written."<br>
<br>
Even though he believes that "humanity has a collective terminal
illness," Prof. Jacobson advocates for a fully engaged attitude
toward life:<br>
<br>
"Doomers believe that in this particular crisis there is an
opportunity. They can use this common moment of suffering to find
ways to be kind to others. They can use whatever personal abundance
they might have to be generous as much as they are able. And while
they still have the energy and mobility for action, they can look
for ways to be of service."<br>
<br>
See his seminal essay 'On Being a Doomer' at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecasino.net/2021/09/on-being-a-doomer/">https://climatecasino.net/2021/09/on-being-a-doomer/</a><br>
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I'll ask Prof. Jacobson about his swings between a sad, calm
equanimity, on the one hand; and anger at "climate and collapse
f&%ery" (his words) on the other. Please join us!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGQ2E58a_Fo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGQ2E58a_Fo</a><br>
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[ video channel ]<br>
<b>Collapse Club</b><br>
How are we to live in the time of collapse? In this period of crisis
and catastrophe, our comfort is to be with other people who
understand what we're going through. Collapse Club is a home for
public conversations among people who are seeking an authentic
understanding of the world and themselves, and who are aligning
their lives with their understanding.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/c/CollapseClub">https://www.youtube.com/c/CollapseClub</a><br>
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<p> Local news in North Carolina - WRAL ]<br>
<b>Eco-anxiety: A looming mental health crisis</b><br>
A growing number of Americans are suffering from climate change
distress, called eco-anxiety. Young people and those on the front
lines of environmental disasters are particularly at risk.<br>
Nov 3<br>
By Liz McLaughlin, WRAL Climate Change Reporter<br>
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It wasn’t until her friends and family started reaching out,
concerned about her rapid weight loss and wellbeing, that Fassett
realized she’d gone too far.<br>
<br>
“My entire relationship with food changed because I was afraid to
buy anything in containers,” she said.<br>
<br>
Though Fassett’s environmental efforts were above and beyond that
of the average American, she said she would often wake up in the
middle of the night, paralyzed in fear that she wasn’t doing
enough to stop climate change.<br>
<br>
“It felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders, because
I felt personally responsible for the world and future generations
of civilization,” she said.<br>
<br>
Fassett is one of a growing number of people with eco-anxiety. The
American Psychological Association describes the affliction as “a
chronic fear of environmental doom.”<br>
<br>
Climate-related stress has only shown up in mainstream
psychological conversation over the past five years, but has
likely been a problem for much longer. According to the APA, more
than two-thirds of Americans have moderate to significant distress
about climate change, a figure that has doubled since 2017.<br>
<br>
“This is particularly prevalent in young people, for whom this is
much more vividly their future,” said Elizabeth Haase, a
psychologist and chair of the APA’s committee on climate change
and mental health. Some colleges, including the University of
Michigan and the University of Oregon, have launched programs to
specifically address this type of stress.<br>
<br>
“Eco-anxiety or ecological distress really encapsulates all of the
emotions that people can have in response to climate change, such
as the grief that people feel, the rage that they feel, the
betrayal and hopelessness, the fear on an immediate level for
their own safety, as well as on an existential and
intergenerational level,” Haase said.<br>
<br>
Like Fassett, many people with eco-anxiety become overwhelmed by
personal goals to mitigate their own carbon footprint.<br>
<br>
Sami Grover is an author who writes about this struggle in his
book "We’re all Climate Hypocrites Now."<br>
<br>
“If you read up on the science, it's really, really worrying … but
one of the things I've learned is that worry and anxiety only get
you so far,” Grover said.<br>
<br>
In Grover's book, he lays out the dichotomy of caring about the
environment and living in a world that caters to consumption.<br>
<br>
“The anxiety can be a useful signal that something is wrong and
that we need to do something, but it can also be debilitating and
stop you from doing the work that needs to be done,” Grover said.<br>
<br>
Though composting and biking instead of driving are worthwhile
endeavors, it is a small part of the solution. According to 2018
data, the fossil fuel industry accounts for 89% of all global
carbon emissions.<br>
<br>
“I really encourage people to think of this as a collective
journey,” Grover said. “It's not your individual responsibility to
get your carbon footprint down to zero. Instead, what’s your role
in getting our collective footprint down to zero?”<br>
<br>
Grover encourages readers to devote 95% of their environmental
energy to the one place they have the most leverage and power.
That might look like an executive pushing green company policies,
a council member pushing green initiatives, or a pastor getting an
electric church van for Sunday school.<br>
<br>
Others have a more hopeless version of eco-anxiety, expressed as
the grief of losing parts of the natural world as climate change
wipes out barrier reefs, icecaps, and entire species of animals.<br>
<br>
David Monje is a professor at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He teaches a class about climate communication.<br>
<br>
“I don’t have a lot of hope in the future as far as the human
ability to resolve these problems that are happening,” Monje said.<br>
<br>
Monje said Grover’s advice helped him to feel more empowered by
his role in the classroom.<br>
<br>
“This is an exercise in how to be a better teacher and present
information in a way that’s digestible, in a way that’s
meaningful, and in a way that doesn’t lead directly to despair,”
Monje said.<br>
<br>
Another type of climate distress affects those on the front lines
of natural disasters, who have already lived through the trauma of
seeing their life’s work wash away in floods or fear an uncertain
future. Researchers say in addition to the growing financial cost
of climate change-fueled storms, there’s a mounting mental health
crisis.<br>
<br>
Duke psychiatry professor Raj Moray has been studying the mental
health toll of climate disasters and projects that the impact will
continue to accelerate.<br>
<br>
“There's just going to be a lot more people suffering from
depression, anxiety, and PTSD,” Moray said. “It’s going to be
essential that there are more mental health resources than we
currently have available.”<br>
<br>
Though the acknowledgment of eco-anxiety is expanding, it’s still
a relatively new topic in the world of psychology. Some sufferers
said that they felt their concerns were not taken seriously by
their therapist, further discouraging them. One student, who
wanted to remain anonymous, said she went to her counselor in
tears because she felt so hopeless about the future that she was
afraid to have children. She wanted to discuss her feelings and
learn strategies to manage her stress, but instead felt that her
concerns were dismissed and invalidated.<br>
<br>
Haase said hearing about those experiences was an impetus to start
a climate-aware training program for mental health professionals.
Now, the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and the Climate Psychology
Alliance developed a brief training course to help therapists be
better equipped to empathize with and help patients manage their
ecological distress.<br>
<br>
For those feeling eco-anxiety, Haase says the first step is
acknowledging their feelings. “It’s completely normal to feel this
way,” said Haase. She suggests speaking with a climate-aware
therapist, journaling, spending time in nature, and joining
together with like-minded individuals for community support or
collective action.<br>
<br>
Fassett says after therapy and re-learning to be “normal about
trash,” she’s found a happy medium between her emotional wellbeing
and her environmental activism.<br>
<br>
“Go green, just don’t go crazy,” she said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wral.com/eco-anxiety-a-looming-mental-health-crisis/20554764/">https://www.wral.com/eco-anxiety-a-looming-mental-health-crisis/20554764/</a>
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November 7, 2012: The 350.org "Do the Math" tour commences in
Seattle.<br>
<blockquote> The message is simple: Go Fossil Free. McKibben was the
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