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<font face="Calibri"><b>How to Blow Up a Pipeline </b><br>
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A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission
to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that
is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate
crisis.<br>
Starring Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest
Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner & Jake
Weary.<br>
A Film By Daniel Goldhaber Ariela Barer Jordan Sjol Daniel
Garber<br>
Written By Ariela Barer Jordan Sjol Daniel Goldhaber<br>
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anxiety ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>How to Fight Climate Anxiety</b><br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
56,074 views Oct 21, 2022 #anxiety #socialism #climatechange<br>
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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>
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Climate anxiety resources you might find helpful :<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">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
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href="https://www.suicidestop.com/call_a_ho">https://www.suicidestop.com/call_a_ho</a>...
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<font face="Calibri">2. Climate Cafes: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatechangecafe.org/">http://climatechangecafe.org/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">3. Good Grief Network: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/">https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">4. Some US and International Climate Justice
Organizations you could join: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatejusticealliance.org/me">https://climatejusticealliance.org/me</a>...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">5. Gen Dread Newsletter: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://gendread.substack.com/">https://gendread.substack.com/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">6. For more exhaustive resources: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.climateandmind.org">www.climateandmind.org</a></font><br>
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<p><i><font face="Calibri">[calling all writers ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Writing Climate Pitchfest 2023
Applications </b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">From now until April 27th,
screenwriters concerned about the climate crisis are invited to
submit their climate-related TV and film scripts to present at
our pitch event taking place on June 22 at 7 pm PT for in-person
finalists and June 18-21 for virtual finalists.<br>
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This year’s 24 Pitchfest winners will receive:<br>
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producers, and agents<br>
▪️Pitch practice sessions with an industry mentor<br>
▪️Access to climate storytelling educational materials<br>
▪️Free tickets to the Hollywood Climate Summit’s in-person and
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Naomi Oreskes - audio and text - WBUR ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>'The Big Myth' explores the belief that free
markets are a fundamental American righ</b>t<br>
Updated March 03, 2023<br>
Scott Tong, Emiko Tamagawa<br>
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway know a provocative subject. Their
best-selling 2010 book "Merchants of Doubt" explored how four
physicists laid the groundwork for climate change denial by
arguing against government regulation and in favor of the free
market.<br>
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The idea of a pure, unadulterated free market and how it came to
be is the story in their new book, "The Big Myth: How American
Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market."
The book acknowledges a useful nature of market forces to set
prices and reward work. The myth referenced in the title is market
fundamentalism, says Oreskes, a science historian at Harvard
Univeristy.<br>
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“What we're trying to show in the book is how an ideal of the free
market in the singular was put forward by business interests in
the United States,” Oreskes says, “as a way to fight back against
regulation of the workplace, to fight back against people who are
trying to limit child labor and to persuade the American people
that government regulation of the marketplace was not in our
interest.”<br>
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Market fundamentalism plays out in Republican opposition to action
on climate change and regulation of drugs like opioids, Oreskes
says, as well as tax cuts for the rich and income inequality. The
latter come from the idea that letting the rich do business will
benefit everyone, but evidence shows that’s not true.<br>
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“Not too many people today would stand up in public and say greed
is good. But people do continue to say that self-interest is good,
that self-interest drives entrepreneurs, it drives people to
invent things and be creative,” she says. “And that's true up to a
point. But we also know that self-interest has to be tempered
against the common good, and that when we have inadequate
regulation of markets and workplaces, people get hurt.”</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri"><b>Book excerpt: 'The Big Myth: How
American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the
Free Market'</b><br>
By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway<br>
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Over the past several decades, American business has
manufactured a myth that has held us in its grip: the idea of
“the magic of the marketplace.”<br>
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Some people call it market absolutism or market essentialism. In
the 1990s, George Soros popularized the name we find most apt:
market fundamentalism. It’s a quasi-religious belief that the
best way to address our needs—whether economic or otherwise—is
to let markets do their thing, and not rely on government.
Market fundamentalists treat “The Market” as a proper noun:
something unique and unto itself, that has agency and even
wisdom, that functions best when left unfettered and
unregulated, undisturbed and unperturbed. Government, according
to the myth, cannot improve the functioning of markets; it can
only interfere. Governments therefore need to stay out of the
way, lest they “distort” the market and prevent it from doing
its “magic.” In the late twentieth century, market
fundamentalism was cloaked in the seemingly ancient raiment of
received wisdom.<br>
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Classical liberal economists—including Adam Smith—recognized
that government served essential functions, including building
infrastructure for everyone’s benefit, and regulating banks,
which left to their own devices could destroy an economy. They
also recognized that taxation was required to enable governments
to perform those functions. But in the early twentieth century,
a group of self-styled “neo-liberals” shifted economic and
political thinking radically. They argued that any government
action in the marketplace, even well intentioned, compromised
the freedom of individuals to do as they pleased—and therefore
put us on the road to totalitarianism. Political and economic
freedom were “indivisible,” they insisted: any compromise to the
latter was a threat to the former—any compromise at all, even to
address obvious ills like child labor or workplace injury. Why
did we ever come to accept a worldview so impervious to facts? A
worldview Smith himself, often thought of as the father of
free-market capitalism, would have rejected?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Between us we have been to all fifty states
and lived in twelve, including wilderness Alaska and a dying
mill town in northern New Hampshire. On our travels, we have
found that market fundamentalism is widespread in “blue” and
“red” states alike, and that some version of it underlies most
climate change skepticism. Many people seem to take Ronald
Reagan’s view that “the government” is the problem, as it stands
ready to steal both their money and their freedom. When asked
why they hold these views—why they are skeptical that climate
change is man-made or that government can do anything about
it—they often point to articles they read in Fortune, Forbes, or
the Wall Street Journal. As one of our students put it, the most
common answer, whether in Massachusetts or Montana, was
“markets, markets, markets.” Thus emerged the question that we
have spent the past decade studying: How did so many Americans
come to have so much faith in markets and so little faith in
government?<br>
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Market fundamentalism is not just the belief that free markets
are the best means to run an economic system but also the belief
that they are the only means that will not ultimately destroy
our other freedoms. It is the belief in the primacy of economic
freedom not just to generate wealth but as a bulwark of
political freedom. And it is the belief that markets exist
outside of politics and culture, so that it can be logical to
speak of leaving them “alone.”<br>
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As George Soros has summarized, “the doctrine of laissez-faire
capitalism holds that the common good is best served by the
uninhibited pursuit of self-interest.” That’s the core argument
Adam Smith made in 1776 and contented capitalists have accepted
ever since. Market fundamentalists, however, depart from Smith
by insisting there is no “common good,” merely the sum of all
the individual private goods. For this reason, they reject
government’s claims to represent “the people”: there are only
individuals who represent themselves, and they do this most
effectively not through their governments, even democratically
elected ones, but through free choices in free markets. Milton
Friedman, America’s most famous market fundamentalist, went so
far as to argue that voting was not democratic, because it could
too easily be distorted by special interests and because in any
case most voters were ignorant. But rather than consider how
special interests might be mitigated or how voters could be
better informed, he maintained that true freedom was not
expressed in the voting booth. “The economic market provides a
greater degree of freedom than the political market,” Friedman
said in South Africa in 1976, as he encouraged the citizens of
that country not to fuss over apartheid, but to preserve and
expand their market-based economy.<br>
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Friedman’s argument works when we are talking about the freedom
to buy, say, shoes of any type. But it fails when we consider
the larger picture, including deceptive advertising, aggressive
and misleading public relations campaigns, and what economists
call “external costs”: costs that are invisible to or
misunderstood by the shoe buyers, or that accrue to people who
didn’t buy those shoes at all. Pollution is an external cost.
What happens when the shoe manufacturer dumps toxic chemicals
behind the plant and hides that fact from its workers,
investors, and customers? Friedman downplayed the problem by
giving it the friendly label of “neighborhood effects,” and
claimed that any remedy would almost always be worse than the
disease, because of the loss of freedoms or compromises to
property rights typically associated with government
regulations. In some cases, he may have been right. Regulations
do compromise someone’s freedom in order to protect the freedom
(and welfare) of others. When it comes to pollution, the
“freedom” of factories to dump toxic wastes has been rightly
rejected. When it comes to climate change, the “freedom” of
corporations to sell oil, gas, and coal jeopardizes the rest of
us. This creates a fundamental dilemma for the fundamentalists.
But rather than rethink their arguments, market fundamentalists
protect their worldview by denying that climate change is real
or asserting that somehow “The Market” will fix it, despite all
evidence to the contrary.<br>
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Like all good myths, the myth of the magic of the marketplace
has a kernel of truth. As any economist could tell you, markets
can efficiently allocate resources. Markets are good for getting
productive uses out of the inputs that create wealth. They are
also good for amassing information. Markets reveal a lot about
what people want, how far they are willing to go to get it, and
how much they are willing to pay for it. If efficiency were our
only goal, then market fundamentalism might make sense. But
efficiency is a tool, not an end.<br>
<br>
This raises a profound question: Is capitalism itself to blame
for climate change, as critics such as Naomi Klein and Andreas
Malm argue? Or the opioid crisis? Or the lack of affordable
housing? We argue no: the culprit is how we think about
capitalism, and how it operates. The culprit is market
fundamentalist ideology, which denies capitalism’s failures and
refuses to endorse the best tool we have to address those
failures, which is democratic government. It also fails to
acknowledge the role of other tools available to us, like
corporate governance. Market fundamentalism touts the benefits
and virtues of deregulation and the value of economic freedom to
the near eclipse of other concerns.<br>
<br>
A group of individuals and institutions worked to make people
believe they had to choose between “The Market” and “The State,”
between unconstrained capitalism and Soviet-style centralized
planning. But there are all kinds of alternatives, and one
important one is to see governments and markets as
complementary, not as opposing camps. Adam Smith and other
foundational thinkers understood their field of study as one
integrated discipline—political economy—yet today we (wrongly)
treat politics and economics as separate spheres.<br>
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Market fundamentalism perpetuates a mistake in categories,
conflating capitalism, which is an economic system, with
democracy, which is a political system. We think that the
properly framed choice is not capitalism versus tyranny; it is
democracy versus tyranny, and well-regulated capitalism versus
poorly regulated capitalism. Whether its advocates were cynical
or sincere, market fundamentalism has hobbled our response to a
host of problems that face us today, threatening our wellbeing
and even the prosperity that markets are designed to deliver.
The rhetoric of the magic of the marketplace made meaningful
alternatives disappear.<br>
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This myth powers the enormous wealth gap between the top one
percent and the rest of us. It has been used to justify a sharp
decline in the safety and stability of the work most of us do to
get by. It has blocked the efforts we must take to reverse the
heating of our planet and protect the very existence of the
world as we know it. The big myth’s expiration date is long past
due. Our futures depend on rejecting it.<br>
<br>
From "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe
Government and Love the Free Market" by Naomi Oreskes & Erik
M. Conway, out now from Bloomsbury Publishing. Copyright © 2023
by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway. All rights reserved.</font><br>
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April 9, 2007: Environmental activist Laurie David and singer
Sheryl Crow begin a brief tour of colleges and universities across
the United States to raise awareness about climate change. Later
in the month, the Washington Post reports on the David/Crow tour.<br>
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