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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>May</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 11, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ look to the sky ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Early Wildfires, Heat Waves Show
Grim Signs of Global Climate Crisis</b><br>
May 9, 2023<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">An early, aggressive wildfire season in
Alberta, alarming, summer-like temperatures in parts of the
Mediterranean, scorching, road-melting heat to South Asia, and
torrential rain causing deadly floods in Congo-Kinshasa, are all
signs this spring of anthropogenic climate change and a “grim
augur of things to come.”...</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Relatively cooler weather is helping the
more than 1,000 firefighters battling blazes across the northern
and east-central parts of Alberta, but the province remains in a
state of emergency and has asked the federal government for
military assistance. Nearly 30,000 people have been displaced from
their homes, and several precious structures have been lost to the
flames, with small Indigenous communities reporting significant
losses, reports CBC News. As of Tuesday morning, 89 wildfires were
burning across the province, 24 of them deemed out of control. The
Globe and Mail says that nearly 400,000 hectares have been burned
so far this year, compared to 417 hectares this time last year.<br>
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The government said it could be months before all the blazes are
brought under control, Reuters writes. Alberta’s oil and gas
producers have shut in at least 280,000 barrels of oil equivalent
per day—more than 3% of Canada’s output—taking precautionary
measures to protect equipment and workers...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">May is typically a fire month for Alberta, with
so much dead organic matter lying around after the winter. But
this year, a combination of unusual and early heat and ongoing
drought has generated more volatile conditions. A similar
situation may unfold in the Northwest Territories, with winter
long gone—spring having arrived sooner than usual—and hot, dry
conditions forecast for summer.<br>
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Climate change is causing wildfire seasons in Canada to grow
longer and more severe, said Mike Flannigan, research chair for
predictive services, emergency management and fire science at
Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. He noted that Alberta’s
spring wildfire season is already “off to a roaring start.”<br>
<br>
The combination of more frequent and intense lightning storms with
ever drier vegetation is leading to “higher intensity fires that
are difficult to impossible to extinguish,” he added. Which means
that “we’re almost moving to fire years instead of fire seasons.”<br>
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“That’s the result because we’re getting warmer.”<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/05/09/early-wildfires-heat-waves-floods-show-grim-signs-of-global-climate-crisis/">https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/05/09/early-wildfires-heat-waves-floods-show-grim-signs-of-global-climate-crisis/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ seeking help from the stress and chaos of
traumatic news ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <b>Communities</b><br>
Gen Dread is a free newsletter that talks about the emotional pain
that the climate and wider ecological crisis is causing, and how to
put it to work. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://gendread.substack.com/p/generation-dread-finding-purpose">https://gendread.substack.com/p/generation-dread-finding-purpose</a><br>
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Project InsideOut “applies the latest research and best practices in
psychology to help people on the journey from despair, passivity,
and denial toward courageous, more impactful environmental action.”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://projectinsideout.net/guiding-principles/">https://projectinsideout.net/guiding-principles/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://projectinsideout.net/">https://projectinsideout.net/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.allwecansave.earth/circles">https://www.allwecansave.earth/circles</a><br>
The All We Can Save Project envisions that, by 2030, women leading
on climate will hold the power to create transformational change and
will experience deep joy in their work to build a just and livable
future. <br>
<br>
The Climate Psychology Alliance spreads awareness of climate
psychology and mental health through educational events and climate
outreach. Also see Handbook of Climate Psychology. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/">https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/</a>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ We all face the same fate -- long
philosophizing interview <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Nve1E0MA_Ec">https://youtu.be/Nve1E0MA_Ec</a> ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>How Death Drives the Anthropocene |
Sheldon Solomon</b><br>
Planet: Critical<br>
May 10, 2023 #politicalcrisis #climatecrisis #socialcrisis<br>
Are you afraid of dying?<br>
<br>
Sheldon Solomon has been researching death anxiety and its
impact on our behaviour for decades, finding that unmitigated
death awareness drives mindless consumption, political
polarisation and more disordered behaviour. In short, our fear
of death could be driving the climate crisis. <br>
<br>
We discuss the link between death awareness and self-awareness,
how cultural beliefs are used to anesthetize death anxiety, how
Western culture has the ironic effect of exacerbating that very
anxiety that it's trying to solve, and why the solutions lie
with imagination and creativity. <br>
<br>
Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College.
His studies of the effects of the uniquely human awareness of
death on behaviour were featured in the award winning
documentary film Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality.
He is co-author of In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror
and The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life. <br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">00:00 intro</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">03:29 The community of people working on the
crisis</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">09:13 The psychology of the crisis</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">19:30 The role of imagination</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">21:44 The existential crisis</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">29:47 Learning to die</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">36:30 Death anxiety and individualism</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">43:33 The impact of individualism</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">54:43 Resurrecting humanity</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:06:40 The war on "woke"</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:14:49 Who would you like to platform?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nve1E0MA_Ec">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nve1E0MA_Ec</a></font>
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<i>[ James K Rowe ]</i><br>
Sep 16, 2013<br>
Dr. James Rowe is an Associate Professor with the School of
Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. In this
video, James discusses his research into political ecology.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMXjqP2SUA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMXjqP2SUA</a><br>
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<i>[ Forget CO2 - just the addition of heat to the Earth system
could lead to an overheated apocalypse - a recent YouTube video ]</i><br>
<b>I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about
400 years.</b><br>
Sabine Hossenfelder<br>
Feb 25, 2023 #science #climate #tech<br>
All power plants create waste heat that contributes to global
warming. At the moment, the contribution is fairly small, but if
mankind flourishes it is bound to increase and eventually it will
become a problem. The only thing we an do about it is to build an
air condition for the planet. Scientists have come up with some
ideas how to address the problem that I hope you will find
entertaining.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4</a><br>
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<i>[ Text posting at RealClimate ]</i><br>
<b>Lessons from Venus</b><br>
11 APR 2006 ...<br>
Venus has vastly more CO2 in its atmosphere than Earth, the same
basic principles govern the operation of the greenhouse effect for
both planets: the fact that air cools by expansion as it rises means
that the upper parts of the atmosphere are colder than the surface,
while the opacity of greenhouse gases to infrared means that
infrared radiation can only escape from the upper portions of the
atmosphere...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/lessons-from-venus/">https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/lessons-from-venus/</a><br>
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<i>[ Text posting at RealClimate ]</i><br>
<b>Venus Unveiled</b><br>
16 MAR 2008 BY RAYPIERRE<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/03/venus-unveiled/">https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/03/venus-unveiled/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ YALE and games ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>‘Highwater,’ the new video game that
immerses players in a dystopian world ravaged by climate change</b><br>
Created by Demagog Studios, ‘Highwater’ takes players on a
sometimes-satirical journey filled with moral questions. <br>
CC avatar<br>
by YCC TEAM<br>
MAY 9, 2023<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">A new video game called “Highwater”
immerses players in a dystopian world ravaged by climate
change-induced floods, war, and chaos.<br>
<br>
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In the game, players help a teenager named Nikos sneak onto a
rocket ship the rich have built to flee to Mars. <br>
“Since wars are raging, people are dying of dysentery, et cetera,
he wants to move to a better life,” says Igor Simic, CEO and
creative director of Demagog Studios, which created Highwater.<br>
<br>
To get there, Nikos must navigate the landscape by boat, collect
his friends, and fight adversaries.<br>
<br>
Along the way, players face moral questions.<br>
“So for example, you might decide not to help someone because
there isn’t enough space in your boat, or you might decide to help
them,” Simic says.<br>
<br>
The game is satirical at times. Simic says it’s meant for
entertainment, not to preach about climate change.<br>
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But the creators were influenced by natural disasters, such as
Hurricane Katrina and flooding in Serbia.<br>
<br>
“That triggered something, just the images of boats going around
the water that is up to the first floor or second floor,” Simic
says.<br>
<br>
So while the game depicts a fictional world, it reflects real
fears people have about climate disasters.<br>
<br>
Reporting credit: Ethan Freedman / ChavoBart Digital Media<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/05/highwater-the-new-video-game-that-immerses-players-in-a-dystopian-world-ravaged-by-climate-change">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/05/highwater-the-new-video-game-that-immerses-players-in-a-dystopian-world-ravaged-by-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Here's the game - it is locked into a
Netflix membership ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.Highwater">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.Highwater</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://help.netflix.com/en/node/128958">https://help.netflix.com/en/node/128958</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at the
link between oil and terrorism.]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>May 11, 2011</b></i></font> <br>
May 11, 2011: MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan and former Department of
Homeland Security head Tom Ridge discuss the nexus between oil and
terrorism.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dylan-ratigan-show/42995814#42995814">http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dylan-ratigan-show/42995814#42995814</a><br>
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