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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 10, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<p><font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Yeah? Well,.. duh! ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Treasury Secretary Yellen warns that
losses tied to climate change could ‘cascade through the
financial system’</b><br>
PUBLISHED, MAR 7 2023</font><i><br>
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<blockquote>-- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned
that climate change could cause asset-value losses throughout the
country’s financial system in the coming years.<br>
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-- Yellen made the remarks during the first meeting with the
Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee.<br>
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-- “A delayed and disorderly transition to a net-zero economy can
lead to shocks to the financial system as well,” Yellen said.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/yellen-warns-climate-change-is-causing-major-financial-losses-in-us-.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/yellen-warns-climate-change-is-causing-major-financial-losses-in-us-.html</a><i><br>
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<i>[ "Part of the anxiety is the feeling that nobody is doing
anything about it" 27 min audio file]</i><br>
<b>DR. SUSAN CLAYTON – HOW IS YOUR CLIMATE ANXIETY?</b><br>
If you are not worried about climate change, you don’t know, don’t
want to know, or try hard not to think about it. But experts find
millions of people are suffering psychologically. They have climate
anxiety, or depression, and other symptoms that damage lives.<br>
<br>
In a worried world, Dr. Susan Clayton is busy. She is an
acknowledged expert in the field. Clayton helped develop a scale to
measure climate anxiety. She publishes assessments for the American
Psychological Association. Susan helped cover this growing problem
in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. In Ohio, at the College of Wooster, Clayton is a social and
environmental psychologist. She is also a visiting fellow at the
Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris.<br>
- - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_SClayton.mp3">https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_SClayton.mp3</a><br>
The Center for Disease Control just issued a serious warning about
deteriorating mental health in American teens. The CDC said: “In
2021, more than 4 in 10 [(42%)] students felt persistently sad or
hopeless.” One child in ten attempted suicide. This is terrible!
The pandemic did not help. But is climate anxiety part of it, and
how do you know?<br>
<br>
My studio is in British Columbia, Canada. My wife and I lived
through the record-smashing heat dome in 2021. That was after the
wild fires burned half the area around us in years before. We used
to love summer, but now my wife dreads it. Susan Clayton and team
did a study on the 2021 heat dome in B.C. and how people felt about
it. This was fortuitous, because a full survey of residents was done
just before the fires. With a follow-up, these researcher were able
to track the impacts, the changes in people’s feeling and attitudes.
The paper is: Bratu, A., et al. (2022). The 2021 Western North
America heat dome increased climate change anxiety among British
Columbians: Results from a natural experiment. Journal of Climate
Change and Health.<br>
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In B.C. after the fires, Clayton et al found: “Most participants
indicated that they were much (40.1%) or somewhat (18.4%) more
worried about climate change due to the heat dome. “<br>
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With her Wooster colleague Brian Karazsia, you developed a climate
anxiety scale. It has been tested and validated in several
countries, including Poland and Germany. “To this end, Clayton and
Karazsia (2020) recently proposed a climate change anxiety scale
(CCAS). The CCAS is designed to capture the extent to which people
experience cognitive-emotional and functional impairment as a result
of thinking about climate change.”<br>
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That Anxiety Scale paper is “Development and validation of a measure
of climate change anxiety”<br>
April 2020 Journal of Environmental Psychology 69:101434<br>
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TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CLIMATE AND MENTAL HEALTH…<br>
A whole lot of major institutions are waking up to the massive
problem of mental health during the destruction of nature. Susan
Clayton is with the American Psychological Association. The American
Psychiatric Association has pamphlets online about this. The World
Health Organization has named mental health as a priority in climate
risk and response. Susan Clayton helped write the first strong
language about this threat in the latest report from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<br>
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One thing I ask Susan: Do you think millions of people could become
anxious or depressed to the point they cannot react to obvious
climate damage? Is climate change disabling the ability to respond
to climate change?<br>
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<p>Clayton and Manning published an influential book on the subject
in 2018: “Psychology and climate change: Human perceptions,
impacts, and responses.” Susan also published a review “Climate
Change And Mental Health” In Jan. 2021 in Current Environmental
Health Reports [$paywall]</p>
<p>Interview recording - -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_SClayton.mp3">https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_SClayton.mp3</a></p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ecoshock.org/2023/02/are-you-too-worried-about-climate-change.html">https://www.ecoshock.org/2023/02/are-you-too-worried-about-climate-change.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ To measure Climate Change Anxiety ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Climate Change Anxiety Scale</b><br>
The Climate Change Anxiety Scale is a 22-item measure of the
emotional response to climate change. The measure has four
sub-scales including cognitive and emotional impairment,
functional impairment, personal experience of climate change, and
behavioral engagement. The scale has been validated in the U.S.<br>
Categories<br>
Geographies Tested: United States of America<br>
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Populations Included: Female, Male, Other<br>
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Age Range: Adults<br>
Items: Please rate how often the following statements are true of
you.<br>
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Cognitive-emotional impairment<br>
1. Thinking about climate change makes it difficult for me to
concentrate.<br>
2. Thinking about climate change makes it difficult for me to
sleep.<br>
3. I have nightmares about climate change.<br>
4. I find myself crying because of climate change.<br>
5. I think, “why can't I handle climate change better?”<br>
6. I go away by myself and think about why I feel this way about
climate change.<br>
7. I write down my thoughts about climate change and analyze them.<br>
8. I think, “why do I react to climate change this way?”<br>
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Functional impairment<br>
9. My concerns about climate change make it hard for me to have
fun with my family or friends.<br>
10. I have problems balancing my concerns about sustainability
with the needs of my family.<br>
11. My concerns about climate change interfere with my ability to
get work or school assignments done.<br>
12. My concerns about climate change undermine my ability to work
to my potential.<br>
13. My friends say I think about climate change too much.<br>
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Personal experience of climate change<br>
14. I have been directly affected by climate change.<br>
15. I know someone who has been directly affected by climate
change.<br>
16. I have noticed a change in a place that is important to me due
to climate change.<br>
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Behavioral engagement<br>
17. I wish I behaved more sustainably.<br>
18. I recycle.<br>
19. I turn off lights.<br>
20. I try to reduce my behaviors that contribute to climate
change.<br>
21. I feel guilty if I waste energy.<br>
22. I believe I can do something to help address the problem of
climate change.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Response Options:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Never - 1</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Rarely - 2</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Sometimes - 3</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Often - 4</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Almost always - 5</font>
<p><font face="Calibri">Original Citation<br>
Clayton, S., & Karazsia, B. T. (2020). Development and
validation of a measure of climate change anxiety. Journal of
Environmental Psychology, 69, 101434.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101434">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101434</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://emerge.ucsd.edu/r_1otfxsqqgiayc80/">https://emerge.ucsd.edu/r_1otfxsqqgiayc80/</a></font>
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<i>[ Is true Adaptation ultimately </i><i>about wealth? Or about
morality? What say Billy? ]</i><br>
<b>Bill Gates: Expecting people to stop eating meat or consumers to
cut back won’t be enough to fix climate change</b><br>
MAR 8 2023<br>
Catherine Clifford<br>
KEY POINTS<br>
<blockquote>- - It’s unrealistic to expect climate change to be
meaningfully mitigated by expecting global demand for energy to
drop significantly or people to stop eating meat, Bill Gates said
at an event in India earlier in March. Instead, innovation of new
and better solutions is a more likely and productive outcome.<br>
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- - Gates also brought up air conditioning, which, as the world
gets warmer, is going to be used more and more. If that air
conditioning is powered by electricity which generates emissions
that cause climate change, then you have created a
counterproductive positive feedback loop.<br>
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- - Gates also addressed nuclear energy. He’s an investor in both
nuclear fission and fusion and says both would be “good for
humanity” if they can be executed well.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/bill-gates-asking-people-to-stop-eating-meat-wont-fix-climate-change.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/bill-gates-asking-people-to-stop-eating-meat-wont-fix-climate-change.html</a><i><br>
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<i>[ Study from the Pew Research Center ]</i><br>
<b>How Young Adults Want Their Country To Engage With the World</b>Focus
group findings from France, Germany, the UK and the U.S.<br>
BY LAURA SILVER, MOIRA FAGAN, JORDAN LIPPERT, SHANNON GREENWOOD,
CHRIS BARONAVSKI AND MICHAEL KEEGAN<br>
MARCH 8, 2023<br>
<p>Decades of cross-national surveys have found that younger people
tend to be more internationally oriented than older adults. They
usually have more positive views of international organizations
and foreign countries and are more likely to prioritize
international cooperation.</p>
<p>But young people differ from one another over how they want their
country to engage with the world. Some feel their country has an
obligation to people beyond their borders. Others doubt their
country has the resources to pursue international actions. To
better understand these perspectives, we conducted 16 focus groups
with young adults in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the
United States.</p>
<p>In each country, there were four focus groups, organized around
their participants’ ideologies and views on foreign engagement.
Despite different histories and current political climates, four
distinct attitudes about how best to engage with the world were
consistent cross-nationally:</p>
<p>The left-leaning, internationally engaged groups emphasize the
moral duty to be involved overseas. Still, there is a great deal
of doubt about whether they can trust their government to get
involved for the right reasons.</p>
<p>The left-leaning, domestically focused groups also feel a moral
obligation to help overseas. But skepticism about their government
and a widespread sense that their own country needs dramatic
changes leads them to prioritize “getting their own house in
order.”...</p>
The right-leaning, domestically focused groups see their country in
a state of economic distress. They feel that their country’s
resources are limited and that it is more important to focus on
domestic issues than to send resources abroad – and that their
country should strive for self-sufficiency...<br>
The right-leaning, internationally engaged groups see their country
as intertwined with others. They view international cooperation as
benefiting their country’s economic and security interests...<br>
<blockquote><b>Domestically focused young adults see domestic and
foreign policy as ‘zero-sum’...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Domestically focused young people want to ‘get their own house
in order’...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Left-leaning young people see their country’s overseas
involvement making things worse...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Even young adults who emphasize problems at home don’t want to
be isolationists...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Internationally engaged young people see benefits and moral
obligation to focus overseas...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Young adults think climate change requires a global solution...</b><br>
<b>Right-leaning, domestically focused young people often stress
energy independence...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Overall, internationally oriented young adults prefer a
diversification of energy sources...</b><br>
<b>Internationally oriented young adults want their countries to
be leaders in diplomacy and mediation...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Internationally oriented young adults see organizations as a
way to increase their country’s power and security...</b><br>
<b>Right-leaning young people particularly value security-focused
organizations like NATO...</b><br>
<b>Despite seeing some benefits, domestically focused young adults
are more critical of EU...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Those on the left praised the UN in the abstract but argued for
its reform...</b><br>
<b>Left-leaning young adults see a global debt based on their
country’s history...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Right-leaning young people want more focus on the positives of
history...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>For young Germans, the country’s World War II legacy leads
young people toward international collaboration over pursuing
superpower status...</b><br>
<b>More action on climate change is seen as a key policy change
for most young adults...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Young people want politicians to take clearer stands and act
more decisively...</b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Young people desire greater transparency in their countries’
global affairs...</b><br>
</blockquote>
This essay was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew
Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its
primary funder.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/03/08/how-young-adults-want-their-country-to-engage-with-the-world/">https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/03/08/how-young-adults-want-their-country-to-engage-with-the-world/</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>March 10, 2016</b></i></font> <br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
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"Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, met with President
Obama on Thursday for the first official visit by a Canadian
leader in 19 years, a diplomatic honor made possible in part by
new pledges of cooperation on combating climate change.<br>
<br>
"Mr. Obama and Mr. Trudeau announced Thursday morning new
commitments to reduce planet-warming emissions of methane, a
chemical contained in natural gas that is about 25 times as potent
as carbon dioxide and that can leak from drilling wells and
pipelines."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/world/americas/obama-trudeau-canada-climate-change.html?mwrsm=Email">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/world/americas/obama-trudeau-canada-climate-change.html?mwrsm=Email</a>
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