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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 22, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ COP27 results ] </i><br>
<b>World still ‘on brink of climate catastrophe’ after Cop27 deal</b><br>
Experts say biggest economies must pledge more cuts to carbon
emissions but hail agreement to set up loss and damage fund<br>
Fiona Harvey in Sharm el-Sheikh<br>
Sun 20 Nov 2022<br>
The world still stands “on the brink of climate catastrophe” after
the deal reached at the Cop27 UN climate summit on Sunday, and the
biggest economies must make fresh commitments to cut greenhouse gas
emissions, climate experts and campaigners have warned.<br>
<br>
The agreement reached in Sharm el-Sheikh early on Sunday morning,
after a marathon final negotiating session that ran 40 hours beyond
its deadline, was hailed for providing poor countries for the first
time with financial assistance known as loss and damage. A fund will
be set up by rich governments for the rescue and rebuilding of
vulnerable areas stricken by climate disaster, a key demand of
developing nations for the last 30 years of climate talks...<br>
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Oil-producing countries had thwarted attempts to strengthen the
deal, said Laurence Tubiana, one of the architects of the 2015 Paris
climate agreement, now chief executive of the European Climate
Foundation. “The influence of the fossil fuel industry was found
across the board,” she said. “This Cop has weakened requirements
around countries making new and more ambitious commitments [on
cutting emissions]. The text [of the deal] makes no mention of
phasing out fossil fuels, and scant reference to the 1.5C target.”<br>
<br>
She blamed the host country, Egypt, for allowing its regional
alliances to sway the final decision, a claim hotly denied by the
hosts. Next year’s conference of the parties under the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (Cop) will take place in Dubai, hosted
by the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s biggest oil
exporters.<br>
<br>
Tubiana warned: “The Egyptian presidency produced a text that
clearly protects oil and gas petro-states and the fossil fuel
industries. This trend cannot continue in the UAE next year.”...<br>
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Alok Sharma, the UK’s Cop26 president, sacked as a minister by Rishi
Sunak, was visibly angry at the close of the conference. “Those of
us who came to Egypt to keep 1.5C alive, and to respect what every
single one of us agreed to in Glasgow, have had to fight
relentlessly to hold the line. We have had to battle to build on one
of the key achievements of Glasgow, the call on parties to revisit
and strengthen their [national plans on emissions].”<br>
<br>
In Glasgow, in the final moments a commitment to phase out coal was
watered down by China and India to a phase down of coal, a
last-minute trial that reduced Sharma to the brink of tears. At
Cop27, he joined with efforts to include a phase down of all fossil
fuels in the text, but it was reduced in the final stages to a
simple repetition of the Glasgow commitment to phase down coal.<br>
<br>
Sharma listed commitments weakened or lost, hitting the table for
emphasis: “We joined with many parties to propose a number of
measures that would have contributed to this. Emissions peaking
before 2025, as the science tells us is necessary. Not in this text.
Clear follow-through on the phase down of coal. Not in this text. A
commitment to phase out all fossil fuels. Not in this text. And the
energy text, weakened in the final minutes [to endorse
“low-emissions energy”, which can be interpreted as a reference to
gas].”<br>
<br>
In the end the responsibility will lie with everyone, as Meena Raman
of Third World Network, an adviser to developing countries, points
out. “Since the EU and Alok Sharma are disappointed that fossil fuel
phase-out is not in the text, we would like them to take leadership
and revise their NDCs [nationally determined contributions] and put
into plans their fossil fuel phase-out urgently and stop expansion
of fossil fuels including oil and gas. [It’s] not enough to play to
the gallery but act if they really want to save the planet and not
hide behind 2050 net zero targets, which will bust the remaining
carbon budget for 1.5C.”<br>
<br>
Sharma concluded: “I said in Glasgow that the pulse of 1.5C was
weak. Unfortunately, it remains on life support.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/20/world-still-on-brink-of-climate-catastrophe-after-cop27-deal">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/20/world-still-on-brink-of-climate-catastrophe-after-cop27-deal</a>
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<i>[ trigger warning - defining and directly addressing eco-anxiety
and climate anxiety - video 23 mins ]</i><br>
<b>How to Stay Sane in a Dying World</b><br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
42,481 views Oct 21, 2022<br>
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Watch the full companion video on the wellness industry here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nebula.tv/videos/occ-how-the-wellness-industry-profits-off-of-your-anxiety">https://nebula.tv/videos/occ-how-the-wellness-industry-profits-off-of-your-anxiety</a><br>
<br>
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
how you can fight climate anxiety. Specifically, I look at the root
causes of eco-anxiety and climate anxiety, why climate anxiety might
only become more prevalent, and then offer up some ideas on how to
cope and move through eco and climate anxiety. <br>
<br>
<b>Climate anxiety resources you might find helpful :</b><br>
1. If you or someone you know is thinking about harming themselves,
please reach out for help. You can reach the US National Suicide
hotline 24/7 at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or visit this link for a list
of international suicide hotlines:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.suicidestop.com/call_a_hotline.html">https://www.suicidestop.com/call_a_hotline.html</a><br>
2. Climate Cafes: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climatechangecafe.org/">http://climatechangecafe.org/</a><br>
3. Good Grief Network: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/">https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/</a><br>
4. Some US and International Climate Justice Organizations you could
join: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatejusticealliance.org/members-of-the-alliance/">https://climatejusticealliance.org/members-of-the-alliance/</a><br>
5. Gen Dread Newsletter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gendread.substack.com/">https://gendread.substack.com/</a><br>
6. For more exhaustive resources: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.climateandmind.org">www.climateandmind.org</a><br>
7. For the readings and sources I used for this video:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fascinated-soccer-ac0.notion.site/Climate-Anxiety-Resources-b9d75a1816794041b8f3405586edd867">https://fascinated-soccer-ac0.notion.site/Climate-Anxiety-Resources-b9d75a1816794041b8f3405586edd867</a><br>
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<blockquote>Timestamps:<br>
0:00 - Intro<br>
1:22 - What is Climate Anxiety<br>
5:02 - Why Are We Climate Anxious?<br>
9:00 - Is This Really An Individual Problem?<br>
12:29 - Internal Activism<br>
16:51 - External Activism<br>
19:23 - Living With Climate Anxiety<br>
20:20 - Sign up for CuriosityStream and Nebula<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B07DLgzOQEg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B07DLgzOQEg</a><br>
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<i>[ Philosophical - political presentation - misinformation - video
treatise 23 min - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWuJOcdXAAw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWuJOcdXAAw</a> ]</i><br>
<b>Why I Don't Care About Your Flight Emissions</b><br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
Nov 18, 2022...<br>
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
climate hypocrisy and carbon guilt. Specifically, I dig into why I
don't care about your flight emissions, and how our attention to
individual carbon footprints and worries about being seen as
hypocritical distract from the task of dismantling the fossil fuel
industry. Indeed, the fossil fuel industry and pundits allied with
oil and gas wield the negativity of hypocrisy to stymie climate
movements and fracture power. In short climate hypocrisy and carbon
guilt individualizes a crisis that can only be tackled collectively.<br>
<br>
I highly recommend checking out this article by writer Mary Annaise
Heglar (which definitely influenced this video):
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal">https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal</a><br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWuJOcdXAAw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWuJOcdXAAw</a><br>
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<i>[ Blaming the consumer ]</i><br>
<b>I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you
recycle.</b><br>
Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas
industry instead.<br>
By Mary Annaise Heglar Updated Jun 4, 2019...<br>
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The belief that this enormous, existential problem could have been
fixed if all of us had just tweaked our consumptive habits is not
only preposterous; it’s dangerous. It turns environmentalism into an
individual choice defined as sin or virtue, convicting those who
don’t or can’t uphold these ethics. When you consider that the same
IPCC report outlined that the vast majority of global greenhouse gas
emissions come from just a handful of corporations — aided and
abetted by the world’s most powerful governments, including the US —
it’s victim blaming, plain and simple.<br>
<br>
When people come to me and confess their green sins, as if I were
some sort of eco-nun, I want to tell them they are carrying the
guilt of the oil and gas industry’s crimes. That the weight of our
sickly planet is too much for any one person to shoulder. And that
that blame paves the road to apathy, which can really seal our
doom...<br>
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While we’re busy testing each other’s purity, we let the government
and industries — the authors of said devastation — off the hook
completely. This overemphasis on individual action shames people for
their everyday activities, things they can barely avoid doing
because of the fossil fuel-dependent system they were born into. In
fact, fossil fuels supply more than 75 percent of the US energy
system...<br>
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We need to broaden our definition of personal action beyond what we
buy or use. Start by changing your lightbulb, but don’t stop there.
Taking part in a climate strike or showing up to a rally is a
personal action. Organizing neighbors to sue a power plant that’s
poisoning the community is a personal action.<br>
<br>
Voting is a personal action. When choosing your candidate,
investigate their environmental policies. If they aren’t strong
enough, demand better. Once that person is in office, hold them
accountable. And if that doesn’t work, run for office yourself —
that’s another personal action.<br>
<br>
Take your personal action and magnify it into something bigger than
what kind of bag totes your groceries.<br>
<br>
<b>I don’t care</b><br>
Here’s my confession: I don’t care how green you are. I want you in
the movement for climate justice.<br>
<br>
I don’t care how long you’ve been engaged in the climate
conversation, 10 years or 10 seconds. I don’t care how many
statistics you can rattle off. I don’t need you to be
all-solar-everything to be an environmentalist. I don’t need you to
be vegan-er than thou, or me, for that matter. I don’t care if you
are eating a burger right this minute.<br>
<br>
I don’t even care if you work on an oil rig. In some parts of the
country, those are the only jobs that pay enough for you to feed
your family. And I don’t blame workers for that. I blame their
employers. I blame the industry that is choking us all, and the
government that is letting them do it.<br>
<br>
All I need you to do is want a livable future. This is your planet,
and no one can advocate for it like you can. No one can protect it
like you can.<br>
<br>
<b>We have 11 years — not to start but to finish saving the planet.</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>I’m not here to absolve you. And I’m not here to abdicate
you. I am here to fight with you. </b><br>
<br>
Mary Annaïse Heglar is a climate justice essayist and the director
of publications at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New
York. Find her on Twitter or Medium.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal">https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal</a><br>
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<i>[ a little musical song -- don't forget where we are ]</i><br>
<b>Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life</b><br>
Monty Python<br>
Nov 13, 2008<br>
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Galaxy Song, taken from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Terry
Jones picked this as part of his Top 10 Monty Python Movie Moments
for Esquire Magazine -<br>
"It's such a lovely song. I think it's one of the best things Eric
[Idle]'s ever done. There was going to be more animation but Terry
was so busy with other parts of the film we ended up using more of
the live-action parts that I'd shot for safety."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk</a><br>
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<br>
<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>November 22, 2009</b></i></font> <br>
November 22, 2009:<br>
CNN reports on the disproportionate toll climate change takes on
women.<br>
<blockquote>According to the report, universal access to
reproductive healthcare and family planning -- a UNFPA goal since
1994 -- in combination with improved education of girls and gender
equality would lead to significant declines in fertility,
stabilizing the population of the planet at a level far below
estimates commonly used in scientific models of future climate
change.<br>
<br>
In turn, the argument goes, carbon emissions would also fall,
reducing the risk of global warming reaching a "tipping point" and
running out of control.<br>
<br>
"Helping women to make their own decisions about family size would
protect their health, make their lives easier, help put their
countries on a sustainable path towards development -- and ensure
lower greenhouse-gas emissions in the long run," said Obaid.<br>
<br>
But critics said that conflating population control with efforts
to tackle climate change was overly simplistic. Caroline Boin, an
analyst at London-based think tank International Policy Network,
also said the report was patronizing to women in the developing
world.<br>
<br>
"Whatever the problem, UNFPA repeats the same old mantra -- the
culprit is population and the solution is condoms," she said.
"Food scarcity, water shortages, and health problems in poor
countries truly are threats for women. Population and climate
control policies are not the solution, and if anything, will give
governments an excuse to remain complacent in addressing poverty."<br>
<br>
But Obaid said the debate over tackling climate change needed to
take into consideration "how individual behavior can undermine or
contribute to the global effort to cool our warming world,"
especially in the run-up to December's COP15 summit in Copenhagen.<br>
<br>
"We cannot successfully confront climate change if we neglect the
needs, rights and potential of half the people on our planet," she
said.<br>
<br>
"Women should be part of any agreement on climate change -- not as
an afterthought or because it's politically correct, but because
it's the right thing to do. Our future as humanity depends on
unleashing the full potential of all human beings, and the full
capacity of women, to bring about change."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/</a><br>
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