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<font size="+2"><i><b>January 12, 2023</b></i></font><br>
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</i><i>[ follow the money CENTRAL BANKS]</i><br>
<b>Major central bankers dispute role in tackling climate change as
they battle inflation</b><br>
PUBLISHED WED, JAN 11 20236<br>
Elliot Smith<br>
@ELLIOTSMITHCNBC<br>
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<b>KEY POINTS</b><br>
<blockquote>-- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that
the Fed would not become a “climate policymaker” or get involved
in matters beyond its congressionally established mandate.<br>
-- European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel said the
Frankfurt-based institution needs to become more climate friendly.<br>
-- Fellow ECB policymaker and National Bank of Belgium Governor
Pierre Wunsch argued that it was down to governments to combat
climate change and that talk of monetary policy financing the
green transition was a “misunderstanding of what our role is.”<br>
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LONDON — Divisions are forming among the world’s most influential
central banks over their role in tackling climate change, as
policymakers focus on reining in inflation.<br>
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told a conference hosted
by Sweden’s central bank on Tuesday that the Fed would not become a
“climate policymaker” or get involved in matters beyond its
congressionally established mandate.<br>
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Some Democratic lawmakers had expressed a desire for the Fed to play
an active role in shoring up the U.S. financial system to weather
climate-related risks...<br>
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In a June 2022 statement, the Bank of England said a key aspect of
its mission to ensure U.K. monetary and financial stability was to
“manage the financial risks and economic consequences arising from
the physical effects of climate change and the transition to
net-zero emissions on our policy functions and internal operations.”<br>
<br>
Yet Governor Andrew Bailey echoed Powell’s apparent hawkishness on
Tuesday by indicating that the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee
would not take interest rate decisions based on their potential
impact on climate change.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/major-central-bankers-dispute-role-in-tackling-climate-change-as-they-battle-inflation.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/major-central-bankers-dispute-role-in-tackling-climate-change-as-they-battle-inflation.html</a><br>
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<i>[ And next year will likely cost more - text and audio ]</i><br>
<b>Extreme weather, fueled by climate change, cost the U.S. $165
billion in 2022</b><br>
January 10, 2023<br>
Heard on All Things Considered<br>
NATHAN ROTT<br>
A town-flattening hurricane in Florida. Catastrophic flooding in
eastern Kentucky. Crippling heatwaves in the Northeast and West. A
historic megadrought. The United States endured 18 separate
disasters in 2022 whose damages exceeded $1 billion, with the total
coming to $165 billion, according to a new report from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).<br>
<br>
The annual report from the nation's premier meteorological
institution highlights a troubling trend: Extreme weather events,
fueled by human-caused climate change, are occurring at a higher
frequency with an increased cost — in dollars and lives.<br>
<br>
"Climate change is creating more and more intense, extreme events
that cause significant damage and often sets off cascading hazards
like intense drought, followed by devastating wildfires, followed by
dangerous flooding and mudslides," said Dr. Rick Spinrad, NOAA's
administrator, citing the flooding and landslides currently
happening in California.<br>
<br>
In five of the last six years, costs from climate and
weather-related disasters have exceeded $100 billion annually. The
average number of billion-dollar disasters has surged over that
time, too, driven by a combination of increased exposure of people
living in and moving to hazardous areas, vulnerability due to
increasing hazards like wind speed and fire intensity, and a warming
climate, the NOAA report said...<br>
- - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/NOAA/status/1612843284753260547">https://twitter.com/NOAA/status/1612843284753260547</a><br>
To reduce the threat of deadly and costly weather events, scientists
say the world needs to limit warming by urgently cutting
climate-warming emissions. But as evidenced by recent events, the
impacts of climate change are already here and adaptation efforts
are needed as well.<br>
<br>
"This sobering data paints a dire picture of how woefully unprepared
the United States is to cope with the mounting climate crisis and
its intersection with other socioeconomic challenges in people's
daily lives," said Rachel Cleetus, a policy director at the Union of
Concerned Scientists said in a statement. "Rather than responding in
a one-off manner to disasters within the U.S., Congress should
implement a comprehensive national climate resilience strategy
commensurate with the harm and risks we're already facing."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/10/1147986096/extreme-weather-fueled-by-climate-change-cost-the-u-s-165-billion-in-2022">https://www.npr.org/2023/01/10/1147986096/extreme-weather-fueled-by-climate-change-cost-the-u-s-165-billion-in-2022</a><br>
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<p><i>[ video from Strong Towns
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94-_yE4IeU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94-_yE4IeU</a>]</i><br>
<b>Would You Fall for It? [ST08]</b><br>
Not Just Bikes<br>
879K subscribers<br>
217,346 views Premiered Jan 9, 2023<br>
Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-would-you-fall-for-it-st08">https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-would-you-fall-for-it-st08</a><br>
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In the 1950s, the US automobile industry was lobbying hard to get
more funding for roads and highways. Part of this effort included
propaganda targeted to the general public.<br>
<br>
In this video, I look back at one of these automobile industry
propaganda videos, "Give Yourself the Green Light" by General
Motors, and show what was promised versus what the reality is
today for American cities. The automobile industry got everything
they wanted, but the problems they were trying to solve only got
worse.<br>
<br>
Patreon: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://patreon.com/notjustbikes">https://patreon.com/notjustbikes</a><br>
Reddit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes">https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes</a><br>
Mastodon: @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com<br>
<br>
NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel):
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw</a><br>
---<br>
References & Further Reading<br>
If you'd like to watch the whole film, you can watch my
cleaned-up/upscaled version here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/eXQayNKrj_Y">https://youtu.be/eXQayNKrj_Y</a><br>
<br>
Or watch the original on archive.org:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw</a><br>
Give Yourself the Green Light<br>
General Motors Corporation, Department of Public Relations<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://archive.org/details/0542_Give_Yourself_the_Green_Light_05_01_03_28">https://archive.org/details/0542_Give_Yourself_the_Green_Light_05_01_03_28</a><br>
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To learn more about Strong Towns, visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://strongtowns.org">https://strongtowns.org</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94-_yE4IeU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94-_yE4IeU</a><br>
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[ video lecture - academic ]<br>
<b>Christine Cornea: Post-Apocalyptic Imaginaries in UK and US
Television, 1970s to Present Day</b><br>
Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies<br>
See "The Man Who Fell to Earth" ( television series )<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAxDgjs5Ciw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAxDgjs5Ciw</a><br>
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<p>[ a PBS classic discussion - how we grasp our mythology ]<br>
<b>Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth | Ep. 2: 'The Message of
the Myth'</b><br>
Kino Lorber<br>
456,265 views Aug 23, 2022 #documentary #mythology #tv<br>
In this episode of The Power of Myth Bill and mythologist Joseph
Campbell compare creation myths from the Bible and elsewhere.<br>
Watch Episode 3: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/Ij5cJtYLkvE">https://youtu.be/Ij5cJtYLkvE</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aee5DJ9DSwU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aee5DJ9DSwU</a><br>
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[ Classic research publications ] <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18373/chapter/4#52">https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18373/chapter/4#52</a><br>
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<p><i>[ One of the best talks with Bill Rees -- long but pick it
ups in the middle if you must ]</i><br>
<b>William Rees - Measuring Our Ecological Footprint</b><br>
The Green Interview - Re-invent the world<br>
1,471 views Jul 26, 2022 #ClimateChange #TheGreenInterview<br>
Dr. William Rees, who devised the famous “Ecological Footprint,”
which measures the proportion of the earth’s resources any group
of people is using – a single person, a village or region, or the
entire human race.<br>
<br>
Dr. William Rees has been a professor at the University of British
Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) since
1969. He founded SCARP’s ‘Environment and Resource Planning’
concentration and from 1994 to 1999 served as director of the
School.<br>
<br>
Born December 18, 1943, Bill Rees grew up on a farm in in southern
Ontario, and dates his environmental awakening to a boyhood day
when “I happened to glance down at my plate full of young new
carrots, little potatoes, fresh lettuce, and I realized that there
wasn’t a single thing on the plate that I hadn’t had a hand in
growing. I suppose it was like an epiphany kind of experience.”<br>
<br>
--<br>
This interview is part of The Green Interview, an archive of
resources pertinent to an understanding of the future of life on
earth and humanity’s roles and responsibilities in sustaining it.
The archive was produced by the late Silver Donald Cameron and
Chris Beckett during the 10 years before Cameron’s death in 2020.
Through the efforts of family and friends and the generosity of
private donors, The Green Interview has been made freely available
to all who would find it of benefit. Its permanent home is with
the Science, Environment and Economy Archives of Library and
Archives Canada.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQIYOuelWX4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQIYOuelWX4</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at when we first learned - what
we are now forgetting ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 12, 2000</b></i></font> <br>
January 12, 2000: The National Academy of Sciences issues a report<br>
indicating that "strong evidence exists to show that the warming of<br>
the Earth's surface is 'undoubtedly real,' and that surface<br>
temperatures in the past two decades have risen at a rate<br>
substantially greater than average for the past 100 years."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://clinton5.nara.gov/Initiatives/Climate/sciences.html">http://clinton5.nara.gov/Initiatives/Climate/sciences.html</a><br>
( document not found... check <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://nap.nationalacademies.org/collection/34/climate-change">https://nap.nationalacademies.org/collection/34/climate-change</a>
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