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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>February 25, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"></font><i><font face="Calibri">[No time for
lunacy -- political, financial, environmental lunacy ]</font></i><br>
<b>Response: Biden has nominated a dangerous Wall Street executive
for World Bank President</b><br>
FEBRUARY 23, 2023BY OCI TEAMBLOG POST, FEATURED, NEWS, PRESS
RELEASES, STOP FUNDING FOSSILS<br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
February 23, 2023<br>
Contact:<br>
Bronwen Tucker, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bronwen@priceofoil.org">bronwen@priceofoil.org</a><br>
Collin Rees, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:collin@priceofoil.org">collin@priceofoil.org</a><br>
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Oil Change International response to Biden’s dangerous nomination of
a Wall Street executive for World Bank President. He shouldn’t be
allowed to name one in the first place.<br>
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WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Biden Administration announced its
nominee for the next President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga. Banga
is the former president and CEO of MasterCard and a former executive
at CitiBank and Nestlé. In response, Oil Change International
experts released the following statements:<br>
<br>
Collin Rees, United States Program Co-Manager at Oil Change
International:<br>
<br>
“President Biden’s choice of Ajay Banga is deeply disappointing.
This moment demands a World Bank leader who will prioritize the
urgency of the climate crisis, not another Big Business executive
with no experience in development, environmental work, or the public
sector.<br>
<br>
“Banga’s long career at predatory banks and corporations does not
inspire confidence that he would transform the World Bank into an
institution that can work for people and the planet. On the
contrary, it’s sadly ironic that his past work as a Nestlé executive
aligns with the World Bank’s damaging history of water
privatization.”<br>
<br>
Bronwen Tucker, Public Finance Campaign Co-Manager at Oil Change
International:<br>
<br>
“Biden has chosen a planet-wrecking CEO for World Bank President. He
shouldn’t be allowed to name one in the first place. This isn’t over
— the rest of the world’s governments still have the opportunity to
step in. They can and should nominate their own candidates, vote
freely, and demand a fair process.<br>
<br>
“The rest of the World Bank shareholders’ to-do list is clear. The
World Bank cannot be trusted with more money for anything, let alone
climate finance, until it stops doing harm. When you are in a hole,
the first step is to stop digging. This means governments must make
sure the Bank stops funding all fossil fuels, passes democratic
voting reforms, and pursues serious debt cancellation.” <br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ more informed opinions ]</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/biden-must-retract-world-bank-nomination-immediately/">https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/biden-must-retract-world-bank-nomination-immediately/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://foe.org/news/biden-world-bank-president/">https://foe.org/news/biden-world-bank-president/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/biden-must-retract-world-bank-nomination-immediately/">https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/biden-must-retract-world-bank-nomination-immediately/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/world-bank-president-nomination.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/world-bank-president-nomination.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Snow in Los Angeles? Explained 12 years
ago, more heat, means more water vapor, means more
precipitation, means more TV forecasters. Still works ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"><b>Get This:
Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow</b></font></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">February 15, 2010<br>
Heard on Morning Edition<br>
CHRISTOPHER JOYCE<br>
"The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30
years ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water
vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was, say, in the
1970s," he says.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2010/02/15/123671588/get-this-warming-planet-can-mean-more-snow">https://www.npr.org/2010/02/15/123671588/get-this-warming-planet-can-mean-more-snow</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri">[ video report from more than 13 years ago ]<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Climate Science 1956: A Blast from
the Past</b><br>
greenman3610<br>
32,038 views Nov 7, 2010<br>
To support Climate Crocks: go to<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climatecrocks.com">http://www.climatecrocks.com</a><br>
Many climate deniers still seem to think global warming was
invented by Al Gore, in 2006.<br>
As this recently uncovered recording from 1956 shows, the outlines
of climate change science have been clear for many decades.<br>
<br>
More Greenhouse history: "In the 70s, they said there'd be an Ice
Age"<br>
• In the 70s, They ... <br>
Excursions in Science, complete recording<br>
• Climate Change an... <br>
The Discovery of Global Warming<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/in">http://www.aip.org/history/climate/in</a>...<br>
summary of climate science history<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/su">http://www.aip.org/history/climate/su</a>...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The last 55 million years - Hansen et al,
Target CO2<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/Ta">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/Ta</a>...<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ TV news asks: and yes it is a true threat,
yes, yes it is ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Is climate change truly a threat to humanity
or are threats exaggerated?</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">by: Jeff Berardelli</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Posted: Feb 23, 2023 </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Through the millennia, Earth’s climate has
gradually shifted from ice ages to periods even warmer than today
due to natural cycles. But the current moment is different, the
rate of warming is unprecedented in the history of modern human
civilization – and it’s being forced by humans, due mainly to the
burning of fossil fuels.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">We know there’s danger ahead, but are these
alarming headlines accurate? Or is the alarm, simply alarmist?...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">WFLA’s Chief Meteorologist and Climate
Specialist Jeff Berardelli spoke to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Chief
Scientist from The Nature Conservancy and one of the World’s
leading climate scientists to discuss just how concerned we should
be.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Hayhoe says humans are conducting an
unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, “When you
look at plants and animals, people say well they have adapted to
greater changes in the past, and they have, but not this fast. The
changes that are happening are orders of magnitude faster than the
warming between the last ice age and today. So what’s at stake is
everything, everyone, every place, that we care about.”</font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">For some, Hayhoe’s message will sound heavy,
and hard to believe. But what science is telling us, as scary as
it may sound, must not be sugar-coated...</font><font
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</font><font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Progress is being made and Hayhoe says there’s
a chance to not just avoid catastrophe, but to turn this climate
challenge into an opportunity to make a better life for humanity.
There’s just no time to waste.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Hayhoe stresses, “The bottom line is, Jeff, if
we wait until the connection is evident and clear to everybody on
the economic impacts and the personal impacts, it’s too late.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">"The Earth has already warmed by two degrees
Fahrenheit and there are certain impacts that are now baked into
our new climate – we will just have to adapt. But scientists
incessantly stress that every sliver of a degree matters. Any
progress we make towards limiting warming will make the outcome
that much better for us."</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wfla.com/weather/climate-classroom/is-climate-change-truly-a-threat-to-humanity-or-are-threats-exaggerated/">https://www.wfla.com/weather/climate-classroom/is-climate-change-truly-a-threat-to-humanity-or-are-threats-exaggerated/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Buy the new book ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>The Great Displacement: Climate
Change and the Next American Migration Hardcover – February 21,
2023</b><br>
by Jake Bittle <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">“The Great Displacement is closely
observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky<br>
<br>
The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the
personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits
of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications
for all of us as we confront a changing future.<br>
<br>
Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still
think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global
warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people
will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What
we often don’t realize is that the consequences of climate change
are already visible, right here in the United States. In
communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing
thousands of people away from their homes.<br>
<br>
A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great
Displacement is “a vivid tour of the new human geography just
coming into view” (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times bestselling
author of The Uninhabitable Earth). From half-drowned Louisiana to
fire-scorched California, from the dried-up cotton fields of
Arizona to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people
are moving. In the last few decades, the federal government has
moved tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and
tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the
aftermath of natural disasters. Insurance and mortgage markets are
already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing people
out of risky areas.<br>
<br>
Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up
in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what
will be the largest migration in our country’s history. The Great
Displacement compassionately tells the stories of those who are
already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how
radically climate change will transform our lives—erasing historic
towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping
the geography of the United States.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Displacement-Climate-American-Migration/dp/1982178256/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Great-Displacement-Climate-American-Migration/dp/1982178256/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Post-Doom, no gloom - video 49 min -
trust is more important than hope ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Collapse
Acceptance with Michael Dowd</b><br>
Andrii Zvorygin<br>
Streamed live Jan 9, 2023<br>
Interview with Michael Dowd on Collapse Acceptance, he is a pastor
and hosts the Post-Doom podcast, very spiritual eco-theologian,
lots of great suggestions on mentally coping with collapse,
accepting it and transitioning to a joy filled life of service to
the ecology and people.<br>
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<blockquote><b><font face="Calibri">Questions include:</font></b><br>
<font face="Calibri">Could you give us a brief introduction and
your credentials? </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Could you summarize what you feel are the
most important lessons of your favoured book "Overshoot"?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Earlier you mentioned "Collapse Acceptance",
can you tell us what was your epiphany journey</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">from the time you learned about the
possibility of collapse, to accepting it?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">What do you find are some of the most common
stumbling blocks people have along the way to collapse
acceptance?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">You mentioned that you no longer believe in a
global "collective We" that is capable of mitigating collapse, </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Could you briefly explain to the audience why
they can't relly on a saviour to transition on their behalf?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">What level of group action do you think is
still viable at this time? </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Do you believe in reconstructionism, the idea
that we can prepare to help people get through the seneca
bottleneck and into the rebound?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">What do you think are some of the most
important things for reconstructionists to be doing now </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">to help get through the bottlneck and help
future generations?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">When times are tough and the gloom is getting
to you, what do you find the most helpful practices in getting
back on the path of joy?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">From the Peak Oil Community:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">New kinds of religion post peak?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">How to explain post-doom to children?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Simon Michaux's work about renewable
inviability?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPkhhVaKNw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPkhhVaKNw</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ warnings on fossil-fascism and
eco-fascism video - 24 min ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Why You Can't Ignore This Far-Right
Trend</b><br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
76,469 views Feb 10, 2023 #fascism #climatechange #politics...<br>
- -<br>
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
the rise of fossil fascism and ecofascism on the far right. As the
world gets warmer and fossil fuels become increasingly untenable
there are now glimpses of two trends within the far right that are
a reaction to climate change. Ecofascism and fossil fascism. <br>
<br>
I leaned heavily on the book White Skin, Black Fuel which you can
find here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812-white-skin-black-fuel">https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812-white-skin-black-fuel</a><br>
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Help me make more videos like this via Patreon:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingClimate">https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingClimate</a><br>
Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/OurClimateNow">https://twitter.com/OurClimateNow</a><br>
Facebook: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/occvideos/">https://www.facebook.com/occvideos/</a><br>
Instagram: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.instagram.com/occ.climate/">https://www.instagram.com/occ.climate/</a><br>
Reddit: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/OurChangingClimate/">www.reddit.com/r/OurChangingClimate/</a><br>
_______________________<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Timestamps:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">0:00 - Intro</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">1:23 - What is Fascism?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">6:09 - The Specter of Fossil Fascism</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">11:51 - The Specter of Ecofascism</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">18:14 - What We Shouldn't Be Doing</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">19:56 - Snuffing the Flames of Fascism</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">21:54 - Support OCC</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGlrX6lA9O8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGlrX6lA9O8</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at the poor rate of progress ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>February 25, 2005</b></i></font> <br>
February 25, 2005: In a piece on state-level efforts to address
carbon pollution, the Boston Phoenix's Deirdre Fulton notes:<br>
<br>
"Though the United States accounts for almost 25 percent — more
than any other single country — of the world’s global-warming
emissions, advocates say there’s been little federal action on
this issue since at least 2001. That’s when George W. Bush,
echoing concerns that had also been voiced by his predecessor Bill
Clinton, opted out of Kyoto, citing national economic concerns and
calling on developing nations to commit to greater sacrifices than
they do under the current agreement. No wonder China, India,
Mexico, and Brazil signed on, say US and Australian leaders. They
have much less to lose as more stringent emissions regulations go
into effect for other nations worldwide.<br>
<br>
"The US position may or may not be fair, but we do know this much:
it doesn’t move us very far toward addressing the looming problem
of global warming. And that makes regional and state-level efforts
all the more important."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp">http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp</a><br>
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