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<p> <font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 14, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ NYTimes ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Biden Administration Approves Huge
Alaska Oil Project</b><br>
The administration also announced new limits on Arctic drilling in
an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow
oil project, which has faced sharp opposition...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Oil industry officials criticized the planned
Arctic protections.<br>
<br>
“In the current energy crisis, the Biden administration should be
focused on strengthening U.S. energy security and standing with
the working families of Alaska by supporting the responsible
development of federal lands and waters — not acting to restrict
it,” said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy at
the American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><i>[ McKibben
slams Biden ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>A Run on the Planet</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">There's more ways than one for a bank to fail</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Bill McKibben</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Mar 13</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">To give just the most timely example, Conoco
Phillips, which has received $10 billion from those four banks
since the Paris climate accords were signed, won federal approval
today for a vast new oil complex in the Alaska wilderness. This
was a savage mistake by the Biden administration, which hopes for
a small political boost as it mulls a re-election bid. But it was
also a mistake by the banks, though they win a not-insubstantial
profit on such loans.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">That’s because the very slightly longer-term
cost is enormous. For Biden, he’s diminished dramatically his
standing as a climate champion, because the Willow project will
pour carbon into the air for many decades to come. Here’s Ellen
Montgomery of Environment America:</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">The Willow Project would extract 500 million
barrels of petroleum and release annual emissions equivalent of 76
new coal fired power plants operating in a single year.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">And the banks? Well, they further undermine the
planet’s environment, upon which all else depends. Including the
economy—which is a subset of the earth, and not the other way
around. </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-run-on-the-planet"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-run-on-the-planet</a></font><br>
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<p> <font face="Calibri"><i>[ Biden broke a serious promise - video
report and clear record ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Climate & Indigenous Activists Decry
Reports Biden Will Approve Willow Oil Drilling Arctic Project</b><br>
Democracy Now!<br>
Mar 13, 2023 Latest Shows<br>
The Biden administration is reportedly set to approve a massive
oil and gas development in Alaska known as the Willow project,
despite widespread opposition from environmental and
conservation groups that argue Willow will amount to a carbon
bomb. The administration also announced Sunday it will ban
future oil and gas leasing for 3 million acres of federal waters
in the Arctic Ocean and will limit drilling in a further 13
million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska’s
North Slope. For more, we speak with Siqiñiq Maupin, executive
director of Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic, who says
Willow would undermine Biden’s larger climate goals. “This
project would emit so much carbon, it would actually double the
amount that Biden had promised he would reduce,” they say.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VonJfBgHUSA"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VonJfBgHUSA</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><i>- -</i></font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ and not very smart ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Drilling for Alaskan Oil May Be Good
Politics, But It Still Ends Badly for Everyone</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The ocean, the storms, the droughts—none of
that cares about your political prowess.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Charles P. Pierce</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">MAR 13, 2023</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">It is axiomatic here at the shebeen that the
ocean doesn't give a damn who wins the political debate over
whether the climate crisis exists or what steps should be taken to
mitigate it. The ocean doesn't give a damn about rich or poor. It
will find a luxury beach house as tasty as a fishing shack.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">A decade or so ago, I spent a week in
Shishmaref, the barrier island in Alaska that is slowly being
eroded into an inlet or bay in the Chukchi Sea. There are famous
pictures of buildings there that are hanging over the edge of
cliffs that were not cliffs 50 years ago.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The ocean doesn't give a damn, and that village
of indigenous subsistence hunters are finding it difficult
to…well, subsist amid what the climate crisis is doing to them. In
that, there is no difference in the fishing shacks of Shishmaref
and the luxurious vacation homes along Cape Hatteras. The ocean
doesn't care. From the Washington Post:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Wave after wave, the ocean had
clawed away at the beach until the stilted homes finally gave
way. The collapses spread debris — and anxiety — for more than a
dozen miles along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. A video
that captured one house surrendering to the surf in May went
viral, bringing national attention to the urgency of the problem
along this scenic stretch of coast[...]At least a dozen more
houses in Rodanthe remain in serious danger of falling into the
ocean. Faced with shrinking options, numerous homeowners are
scrambling to move their homes — at a cost of hundreds of
thousands of dollars — further from the tides that seem to creep
ever closer. They have filed permits, lined up contractors and
teamed up with neighbors, all in a bid to buy more time from the
encroaching sea.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">Good luck with that. The beach in Shishmaref is
littered with the wreckage of generations of failed seawalls, like
military equipment abandoned in the field by a retreating army.
The pictures that accompany the Post story look exactly like the
famous pictures from Shishmaref, except the imperiled houses are
bigger and fancier. The ocean doesn't care.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">There is one reason—and one reason alone—why
all this is occurring: our continued reliance on fossil fuels.
Which is why the president's latest energy tradeoff bill seems so
predictably awful. From The New York Times:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">The Biden administration gave
formal approval Monday for a huge oil drilling project in Alaska
known as Willow, despite widespread opposition because of its
likely environmental and climate impacts. The president is also
expected to announce sweeping restrictions on offshore oil
leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North Slope in
an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow decision
and, as one administration official put it, to form a “firewall”
to limit future oil leases in the region. The Interior
Department said it would issue new rules to block oil and gas
leases on more than 13 million of the 23 million acres that form
the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">I'm sure this is a shrewd political maneuver,
and more than a few folks in the White House Office of Political
Affairs have earned their pay this week. The problem is that the
magnitude of the crisis makes political skill completely
irrelevant. I increasingly wonder if our political system can
handle what's coming. Because the ocean doesn't care.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43298261/biden-alaska-drilling-climate-change/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43298261/biden-alaska-drilling-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Can the
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<font face="Calibri">Just Have a Think</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">32,356 views Mar 12, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Electric vehicles are apparently on the cusp of
an exponential growth curve that will see hundreds of millions of
them on our roads by mid-century. But how will our electricity
grids cope? Will EVs cause regular meltdowns? Will the constant
sharing of electrons wreck your very expensive battery? Or, could
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Radical action - and property violence -
and the language of politics ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>What It
Really Takes To Save the Planet</b><br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
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<br>
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
what it really takes to save the planet. Specifically, I look at
the role of fossil fuel infrastructure sabotage in the climate
movement. I weigh whether property destruction and sabotage are
useful strategies for the broader climate action movement. The
video lends some historical context to a possible climate sabotage
wing and examines the radical flank effect.<br>
<br>
For this video, I leaned heavily on Andreas Malm's "How To Blow Up
A Pipeline": <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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[ radical book]<br>
<b>How to Blow Up a Pipeline </b>Paperback –<br>
by Andreas Malm (Author)<br>
4.4 out of 5 stars 295 ratings<br>
Property will cost us the earth<br>
<br>
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time
now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition
campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a
booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels,
and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we
moved beyond peaceful protest?<br>
<br>
In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of
SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for
the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of
ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel
extraction to stop--with our actions, with our bodies, and by
defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start
blowing up some oil pipelines.<br>
<br>
Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred,
from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the
movement against apartheid and for women's suffrage, Malm argues
that the strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence
has been the only route for revolutionary change. In a braided
narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of
London to the deserts of Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion
of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence, democracy and
social change, strategy and tactics, and a movement compelled by
both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on
fire.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Blow-Pipeline-Andreas-Malm/dp/1839760257/ref=sr_1_1"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.amazon.com/How-Blow-Pipeline-Andreas-Malm/dp/1839760257/ref=sr_1_1</a>
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<i>[ <u>White Skin, Black Fuel </u>-- Andre Malm et al, video
interviews ]</i><br>
<b>On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism, w Andreas Malm, Laudy van den
Heuvel, Anoushka Carter, Ash Sarkar</b><br>
housmansbookshop<br>
Jun 7, 2021<br>
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism – with
Andreas Malm, Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter in
conversation with Ash Sarkar<br>
<br>
What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against
climate change?<br>
<br>
Housmans is pleased to welcome Andreas Malm and Laudy van den Heuvel
and Anoushka Zoob Carter from the Zetkin Collective to discuss White
Skin, Black Fuel, the first study of the far right’s role in the
climate crisis.<br>
<br>
Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. White Skin,
Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political
constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. No one loved
them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing
forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the
solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks
down.<br>
<br>
Andreas, Laudy and Anoushka will be in conversation with Ash Sarkar,
senior editor at Novara Media.<br>
<br>
Speakers Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology, and the author
of The Progress of this Storm and of Fossil Capital, which won the
Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.<br>
<br>
Laudy van den Heuvel is a Dutch investigative journalist focusing on
conspirituality, libertarianism and health.<br>
<br>
Anoushka Zoob Carter is a researcher based at the University of
Sussex, exploring the nexus between land, food and right-wing
politics.<br>
<br>
Laudy and Anoushka are part of the Zetkin Collective, a group of
scholars, activists and students working on the political ecology of
the far right.<br>
<br>
Ash Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media, and lectures in
political theory at the Sandberg Instituut.<br>
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