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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>May</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 4, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ disinformation battle expose' ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Oil Company Gave $200K to Group Accusing
Pipeline Opponents of Taking Secret Money</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Alberta-based Indian Resource Council quietly
received funding from CNRL, corporate documents reveal.</font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">By Geoff Dembicki</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">May 1, 2023 </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">A First Nations advocacy group whose leader has
accused pipeline protesters of being beholden to hidden financial
interests has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from one of
Canada’s top oil and gas producers, newly reviewed corporate
documents reveal. <br>
<br>
Stephen Buffalo, CEO of the Alberta-based Indian Resource Council,
is one of the most outspoken Indigenous voices in favor of oil and
gas expansion, testifying several times to Canada’s federal
government and appearing frequently in mainstream media outlets.<br>
<br>
On multiple occasions he’s used his platform to attack the
credibility of First Nations people and environmentalists who
oppose new oil and gas development, alleging they are being
controlled by secretive funders and one time asking “who’s really
pulling the string here?”<br>
<br>
But Buffalo’s organization has been quietly receiving
contributions from Canadian Natural (CNRL), one of the largest oil
and gas producers in Canada. That’s according to recent federal
disclosures, which show that CNRL gave $200,000 to the Indian
Resource Council between 2020 and 2022. <br>
<br>
Those disclosures are required under Canada’s Extractive Sector
Transparency Measures Act, an anti-corruption law requiring
companies to report payments to governments and other entities. <br>
<br>
Neither CNRL nor the Indian Resource Council responded to detailed
questions about the contributions...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- - <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">“So, when you see this activism, it’s
somewhat challenging because we don’t know who’s speaking
anymore,” Buffalo told APTN News. “The hard part again is who’s
really pulling the string here?” <br>
<br>
Yet that same year the Indian Resource Council received a $100,000
contribution from CNRL, which describes itself as “a large
producer of natural gas in Canada with a vast land base,
significant owned and operated infrastructure and a deep inventory
of drill to fill opportunities.”<br>
<br>
CNRL’s drilling rights in gas-rich regions of northwest Alberta
and northeast British Columbia are “one of the largest among our
peers,” the company says. <br>
<br>
Chief Na’Moks said the only vested interest he has is ensuring the
health of the Wet’suwet’en people and the territory they’ve lived
on for thousands of years. “We look at the long term, we look
centuries ahead,” he said. “What we’re trying to do is protect
what is left of the clean water, the clean land, our access to the
land.”<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/05/01/oil-company-gave-200k-to-group-accusing-pipeline-opponents-of-taking-secret-money/">https://www.desmog.com/2023/05/01/oil-company-gave-200k-to-group-accusing-pipeline-opponents-of-taking-secret-money/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Children should own their future, but
they've been robbed ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Protecting
Children in a Warming World | Carter Dillard</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Planet: Critical</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">May 3, 2023 #politicalcrisis #climatecrisis
#socialcrisis</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The climate fight is a fight for children’s
rights.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">When Carter Dillard began researching family
planning systems he found a fallacy in international policy: The
Children’s Rights Convention, ratified by the UN, entitles
children to health, education, well-being and fulfilled
potential—but no country implements family planning systems around
these rights. Family planning systems are based around what
parents want, not what children need. Every country, in effect, is
breaking the Children’s Rights Convention. </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Why? For economic growth.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Carter’s research shows a series of policy
interventions in the 20th century made family planning a private
matter. This absolved states of the responsibility to invest in
children and redistribute wealth, whilst guaranteeing a boom in
population to feed the economic machine. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“If we'd had to invest in children to give them
everything they need to ensure that children are born in what, in
the conditions that comply with the convention, we would not have
had growth.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Carter is the author of the Justice as a Fair
Start in Life: Understanding the Right to Have Children, and the
Policy Director of the Fair Start Movement, an organisation
committed to raising awareness of the Children’s Rights
Convention. They are currently petitioning the UN Human Rights
Council claiming the UN has misinterpreted the right to have
children, and have forthcoming constitutional litigation in the
USA. He joins me to discuss this work, his research into the
history of family planning, and the impact of climate change on
children. He also provides a vision for reframing family planning
reform as an active climate policy which could advocate systemic
change through one simple message: that everybody deserves a fair
start in life. </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">00:00 Intro</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">02:59 The Fair Start Movement</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">06:38 Population growth to create labourers
& wealth</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">09:18 The Children's Rights Convention</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">11:57 Why parenthood became a matter of
personal privacy</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">16:44 How nations are breaking the Children's
Rights Convention</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">18:45 The impact of global warming on children</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">21:42 The myth of development </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">26:11 Direct Action to invest in children's
futures</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">29:35 Litigation to force redistribution</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">35:31 When governments ignore pledges and
conventions</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">42:26 Bilateral approach to financial
redistribution</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">46:58 The planetary cost of large vs small
families</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">55:10 A vision for a world which cares for
children</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:01:01 Who would you like to platform?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:02:15 Outro</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">🔴 Fair Start Movement:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fairstartmovement.org/">https://fairstartmovement.org/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">🔴 Carter's book: – <b>Justice as a Fair Start
in Life: Understanding the Right to Have Children:</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-2237832918/">https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-2237832918/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">🌎 Support Planet: Critical:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/planetcritical">https://www.patreon.com/planetcritical</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">🌎 Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.planetcritical.com/">https://www.planetcritical.com/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">🌎 Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/PlanetCritical">https://twitter.com/PlanetCritical</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUsFE0RopWM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUsFE0RopWM</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ "All Things Considered" Humans are
ill-suited to this "problem from Hell" ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>How our perception of time shapes our
approach to climate change</b><br>
January 4, 2023<br>
Heard on All Things Considered</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Most people are focused on the present: today,
tomorrow, maybe next year. Fixing your flat tire is more pressing
than figuring out if you should use an electric car. Living by the
beach is a lot more fun than figuring out when your house will be
underwater because of sea level rise.<br>
<br>
That basic human relationship with time makes climate change a
tricky problem.<br>
<br>
"I consider climate change the policy problem from hell because
you almost couldn't design a worse fit for our underlying
psychology, or our institutions of decision-making," says Anthony
Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication.<br>
<br>
<b>Our obsession with the present obscures the future</b><br>
Those institutions — including companies and governments that
ultimately have the power to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas
emissions — can be even more obsessed with the present than
individuals are.<br>
<br>
For example, says Leiserowitz, many companies are focused on
quarterly earnings and growth. That helps drive short-term
behavior, such as leasing new land to drill for fossil fuels, that
makes long-term climate change worse.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">And there are also big incentives for political
leaders to think short-term. "The president gets elected every
four years. Members of the Senate get elected every six years. And
members of the House get elected every two years," Leiserowitz
points out, "so they tend to operate on a much shorter time cycle
than this problem, climate change, which is unfolding over
decades."<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">There are deadlines looming for those elected
leaders. The Biden administration pledged to cut emissions in half
by 2030. By 2050, humans need to eliminate greenhouse gas
emissions entirely in order to avoid the most catastrophic effects
of climate change later this century.<br>
<br>
Fortunately, our collective focus on the present also offers
hints, psychologists say, about how to harness that hyperfocus on
the present to inspire action.<br>
<br>
<b>To spur action, speed up the psychological rewards for
addressing climate change now</b><br>
For example, there are ways to highlight the quick payoff for
addressing climate change. In the political realm, that could mean
that an elected official gets more votes because they support
policies that reduce emissions. The promise of a benefit in the
next election may be more galvanizing than the goal of protecting
future generations, even if the latter has more moral weight.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">"The benefits that we get today are more
salient, and we want them more than benefits that may be larger,
but will accrue in the future," explains Jennifer Jacquet, a
researcher and associate professor of environmental studies at New
York University who studies the psychology of collective action,
including on climate change.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jacquet says the huge spending bill passed last
year by Congress, called the Inflation Reduction Act, is another
example of using our focus on the present to drive
climate-conscious behavior. The bill includes financial incentives
for people who buy electric vehicles or install solar panels.<br>
<br>
"They're trying to speed up the benefits," says Jacquet. "That's
smart. That's good. That plays into how we think about things."<br>
<br>
<b>Extreme weather is starting to catch everyone's attention</b><br>
In some ways, our focus on the present is less and less of a
problem as climate change makes itself more and more obvious today
— in our daily lives. Everyone on Earth is experiencing the
effects of a hotter planet. That makes it a problem of the
present, not of the future.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">That immediacy is already showing up in how
Americans view climate change, according to Leiserowitz, who has
been leading an annual poll on the topic for more than 15 years.
As extreme weather is becoming more common, he says support for
climate policies is also growing, especially at the local level.<br>
<br>
For example, the vast majority of respondents in a September 2021
poll said they support local governments providing money to help
make homes more energy efficient, to increase public
transportation and to install bike lanes. And the majority of
respondents supported investments in renewable energy.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>There's no time to waste</b><br>
Widespread public support for climate policies can help push
politicians and corporate leaders to act quickly – which is
important, because scientists warn that greenhouse gas emissions
need to drop dramatically, and immediately, to avoid runaway
warming later this century.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">"We have big societal choices to make," says
Leiserowitz, and those changes need to happen now. In the present.
"People working together to demand action by their leaders is
going to be an absolutely critical piece."<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/04/1139782291/time-perception-climate-change-risk">https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/04/1139782291/time-perception-climate-change-risk</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ local shows climate humor is rare and
difficult ]</i><br>
<b>April 2023 FULL SHOW: CU Boulder Inside the Greenhouse
climate comedy</b><br>
Climate Comedy<br>
May 3, 2023 in Boulder, Colorado Friday, April 21 2023 with
students from Creative Climate Communication class performing
and with professional comedian Chuck Nice headlining &
emceeing.<br>
filmed by Tyler Graim and Carlos Malache<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydkw0WYClZQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydkw0WYClZQ</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at
Heartland attack ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>May 4, 2012</b></i></font> <br>
May 4, 2012: The Chicago-based climate-change-denial outfit known
as the Heartland Institute puts up, and quickly pulls down, a
digital billboard with an image of killer Ted<br>
<br>
Kaczynski next to the words: "I still believe in global warming.
Do you?" The controversy surrounding the ad campaign prompts
several major corporations to wash their hands of Heartland, and
also prompts several Heartland employees to resign.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5Sx3A1Mxk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5Sx3A1Mxk</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://grist.org/list/heartland-institute-going-broke-due-to-dickish-billboard-campaign/">http://grist.org/list/heartland-institute-going-broke-due-to-dickish-billboard-campaign/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/June-2012/Chicagos-Heartland-Institute-and-its-Unabomber-Billboards/">http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/June-2012/Chicagos-Heartland-Institute-and-its-Unabomber-Billboards/</a><br>
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