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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>May</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 24, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Significant studies will lead to
predictions ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Published: 22 May 2023<br>
<b>Quantifying the human cost of global warming</b><br>
Timothy M. Lenton, Chi Xu, Jesse F. Abrams, Ashish Ghadiali, Sina
Loriani, Boris Sakschewski, Caroline Zimm, Kristie L. Ebi, Robert
R. Dunn, Jens-Christian Svenning & Marten Scheffer <br>
Nature Sustainability (2023)Cite this article<br>
635 Altmetric<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">The costs of climate change are
often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical
issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left
outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically
highly conserved distribution of relative human population
density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that
climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million)
outside this niche. By end-of-century (2080–2100), current
policies leading to around 2.7 °C global warming could leave
one-third (22–39%) of people outside the niche. Reducing global
warming from 2.7 to 1.5 °C results in a ~5-fold decrease in the
population exposed to unprecedented heat (mean annual
temperature ≥29 °C). The lifetime emissions of ~3.5 global
average citizens today (or ~1.2 average US citizens) expose one
future person to unprecedented heat by end-of-century. That
person comes from a place where emissions today are around half
of the global average. These results highlight the need for more
decisive policy action to limit the human costs and inequities
of climate change.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Correlation, not causation - cultural,
scientific, equity and the morality of trade ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>How Modern Slavery Impacts the
Environment with Kevin Bales</b><br>
May/5/2023<br>
There are 45 million enslaved people in the world today. The links
between slavery, conflict, environmental destruction, economics
and consumption began to strengthen and evolve in the 20th
century. The availability of people who might be enslaved
dramatically increased in line with population growth. According
to Kevin Bales, professor of contemporary slavery and research
director of the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, the
large and negative environmental impact of modern slavery is just
now coming to light.<br>
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Slave-based activities, like brick making and deforestation, are
estimated to generate 2.54 billion tonnes of CO2 per year –
greater than the individual emissions of all the world's nations
except China and the U.S. Globally, slaves are forced to do work
that is highly destructive to the environment. This work feeds
directly into global consumption in foodstuffs, in minerals – both
precious and for electronics – construction materials, clothing,
and foodstuffs. Most of this work is unregulated leading to
extensive poisoning of watersheds, the clear-cutting of forests,
and enormous and unregulated emissions of carcinogenic gases as
well as CO2. Political corruption supports this slave-based
environmental destruction and its human damage.</font><br>
[ or see on YouTube
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW8nZG_eePs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW8nZG_eePs</a> ]<br>
<font face="Calibri">Kevin Bales, CMG, FRSA is Professor of
Contemporary Slavery and Research Director of the Rights Lab,
University of Nottingham. He co-founded the American NGO Free the
Slaves. His 1999 book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global
Economy has been published in twelve languages. Desmond Tutu
called it "a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing
expose of modern slavery." The film based on Disposable People,
which he co-wrote, won the Peabody Award and two Emmys. The
Association of British Universities named his work one of "100
World-Changing Discoveries." In 2007 he published Ending Slavery:
How We Free Today's Slaves (Grawemeyer Award). In 2009, with Ron
Soodalter, he published The Slave Next Door: Modern Slavery in the
United States. In 2016 his research institute was awarded the
Queens Anniversary Prize, and he published Blood and Earth: Modern
Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World. Check out
his TEDTalk. Recorded on 3/14/2023. (#38614)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Sponsor(s): UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uctv.tv/shows/38614">https://www.uctv.tv/shows/38614</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"></font><font face="Calibri"><i>[ WBUR
interviews Naomi Oreskes ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>The Big
Myth' explores the belief that free markets are a fundamental
American right</b><br>
March 03, 2023<br>
Scott TongEmiko 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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<font face="Calibri">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 Univerisity.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">“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.”<br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ promoting the Big Myth ]</font></i><br>
<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>
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?<br>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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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.<br>
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<i>[ it's warfare by any other name. Once a group is defined, it
gets certified - from ClimateNexus ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change and 'Heat Islands' Are Killing People Of Color:</b>
Extreme heat fueled by climate change kills more people in the US
than any other weather-related event each year, and those who are at
the greatest risk of dying are Black and brown people. People who
die from extreme heat are typically older, have underlying health
conditions, and don’t have access to air conditioning or any
greenspace in their neighborhood. A 2021 study of the 175 largest
urban areas in the US found that people of color were more likely
than white people to live on what are called “heat islands,” where
the buildings, roofs, roads, sidewalks, and parking lots absorb and
radiate the sun’s heat, while not providing any trees, parks, ponds,
or lakes that naturally cool the surrounding landscape. Black people
in New York City are twice as likely to die from heat than their
white counterparts, as there’s a 35-degree difference on a hot day
in the South Bronx compared to the Upper West Side. (The Root,
Derrick Z. Jackson column)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/heatislands">https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/heatislands</a>
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<i>[ Anyone spending more than a few days in a city will be able to
certify this -- feeling different heat on their skin according to
neighborhood ]</i><br>
<b>How Climate Change and 'Heat Islands' are Killing Black People</b><br>
The nation’s history of redlining and other forms of housing
discrimination means that climate change and the Black community are
on a deadly collision course.<br>
By Derrick Z. Jackson<br>
May 22, 2023<br>
If the late Marvin Gaye could add climate change to his ecological
masterpiece “Mercy, Mercy Me,” he might ask: Where did all the cool
nights go? Heatwaves in the ‘hood, no shade from the sky, no AC to
keep grandma from dying.<br>
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Why might the late Motown crooner sing that? Because on Wednesday,
the World Meteorological Organization announced that Earth will
almost assuredly see its warmest average temperature yet over the
next five years. To that end, there is a better-than-even chance
that one of those next five years will see the planet temporarily
breach limits set by the Paris climate accords to avoid the
catastrophic effects of climate change. The Paris Agreement
recommended that nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions to hold
Earth’s warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) over
preindustrial levels.<br>
The heat is already on this year, with the onset of summer still a
month away. Las Vegas had a record day of 93 degrees in April.
Seattle and Portland, which broke summer records two years ago with
108 and 116 degrees respectively, set new May records in the 90s.
Globally, new spring records up to 114 degrees Fahrenheit were set
across Portugal, Spain, Morocco Algeria, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and
Thailand.<br>
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Temperatures like that mean death. Extreme heat kills more people in
the United States annually than any other weather-related event,
such as hurricanes, floods, or tornadoes. In North America, the most
recent searing evidence of that was the more than 1,400 deaths under
the “heat dome” in 2021 that suffocated Oregon, Washington state,
and western Canada.<br>
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Because of the demographics of that part of North America, most of
the victims of that historic heatwave happened to be white. But
close attention to the key factors associated with the deaths in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Portland and Seattle, reveals threads
all too common with the day-in, day-out conditions of many African
Americans. Typically, the victim was a socially and materially
deprived elder, had underlying health conditions, and possessed no
air conditioning in neighborhoods lacking the cooling effects of
greenspace.<br>
Black people share those conditions to the level of being
disproportionately sealed under the dome of a hotter world, with
dire consequences likely if the nation does not fight climate
change. According to a 2021 study of the nation’s 175 largest urban
areas, people of color in the U.S. were more likely than white
people to live on what are called “heat islands.” This is the modern
term for the “concrete jungle,” referring to parts of cities where
the concentration of buildings, roofs, roads, sidewalks, and parking
lots relentlessly absorb and radiate the sun’s heat. Such
neighborhoods are often marked by a lack of trees, parks and ponds,
creeks, and lakes that naturally cool and moisten the landscape.<br>
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Black people, according to the study of 175 cities, have the highest
surface urban heat island exposure of any racial or ethnic group,
with Hispanics coming in second. It is not an issue of poverty. The
nation’s history of redlining and many other forms of housing
discrimination in neighborhoods that white interests see as
cooler—figuratively, and now, literally—have resulted in Black
people being marooned on heat islands regardless of their income.<br>
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No one yet knows what that means in actual number of deaths. The
federal government says about 700 people die annually in the U.S.
from heat-related illnesses, but a 2020 study estimated that number
is much closer to approximately 5,600 deaths a year. A Los Angeles
Times analysis calculated that California alone suffered 3,900
heat-related deaths from 2010-2019.<br>
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What we do know is that Black people are being disproportionately
affected. In New York City, where the health department says 370
people die annually from heat-related causes, Black people are twice
as likely to die from heat stress than their white counterparts. A
2021 New York Times story found a 35-degree difference on a blazing
day in August between the 119-degree sidewalk temperature on a
tree-less section of the South Bronx and the 84-degree sidewalk
temperature on the thickly-treed Upper West Side near the urban
forest of Central Park.<br>
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In California, racial disparities have been bubbling up like lava
from a volcano. From 2005 to 2015, the rate of emergency room visits
for heat-related illnesses soared by 67 percent for African
Americans, 63 percent for Latinos, and 53 percent for Asian
Americans. It should be noted that the rate of Black emergency room
visitors was more than twice the 27 percent increase for white
Californians.<br>
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Technically, these disparities in heat risk are not new. In the 1995
Chicago heatwave that killed more than 700 people, Black residents
had an age-adjusted death rate that was 50 percent higher than white
residents. The highest risk was for Black seniors, who had a death
rate nearly double that of white seniors.<br>
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Worse, it’s not like Black people don’t know they are in the
crosshairs of a sizzling climate. A 2020 poll commissioned by the
Harlem-based WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Environmental
Defense Fund found that 52 percent of Black respondents were “very
concerned” about heatwaves, nearly double the 28 percent of white
respondents who were very concerned.<br>
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The question is this: Will the part of our nation that enjoys the
cooling cross breeze under an oak canopy ever sweat enough to care
about climate change? Or even hear the S.O.S. from our blistering
heat islands? Mercy, mercy me. Things ain’t what they used to be.
What about this overheated land? What more abuse from man can she
stand?<br>
<i>Derrick Z. Jackson is a former Boston Globe columnist and a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary.</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theroot.com/the-heat-is-on-1850462642">https://www.theroot.com/the-heat-is-on-1850462642</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Some hot music -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/0QJXsmDBS8k">https://youtu.be/0QJXsmDBS8k</a> (I recall the original lyrics:
"pants on fire") ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Dolly Parton - World On Fire (From
The 58th ACM Awards)</b><br>
Dolly Parton official “World On Fire” Lyrics: <br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri"> Liar, liar the world’s on fire</font><br>
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Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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Fire, fire burning higher</font><br>
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Still got time to turn it all around</font><br>
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Now I ain't one for speaking out much </font><br>
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But that don’t mean I don’t stay in touch</font><br>
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Everybody’s trippin’ over this or that </font><br>
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What we gonna do when we all fall flat</font><br>
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Liar, liar the world’s on fire </font><br>
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What we gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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I don’t know what to think about us</font><br>
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When did we lose in God we trust</font><br>
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God Almighty, what we gonna do</font><br>
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If God ain’t listenin’ and we’re deaf too</font><br>
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Liar, liar the world’s on fire</font><br>
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Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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Fire, fire burning higher</font><br>
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Still got time to turn it all around</font><br>
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Don’t get me started on politics</font><br>
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Now how are we to live in a world like this</font><br>
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Greedy politicians, present and past</font><br>
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They wouldn’t know the truth if it bit ‘em in the ass</font><br>
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Now tell me what is truth</font><br>
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Have we all lost sight</font><br>
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Of common decency</font><br>
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Of the wrong and right</font><br>
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How do we heal this great divide</font><br>
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Do we care enough to try</font><br>
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Liar, liar the world’s on fire </font><br>
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What we gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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Billy got a gun, Joey got a knife</font><br>
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Janey got a sign to carry in the fight</font><br>
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Marching in the streets with sticks and stones</font><br>
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Don’t you ever believe words don’t break bones</font><br>
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Oh, can we rise above</font><br>
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Can’t we show some love</font><br>
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Do we just give up</font><br>
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Or make a change</font><br>
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We know all too well</font><br>
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We’ve all been through hell</font><br>
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Time to break the spell</font><br>
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In heaven’s name</font><br>
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Liar, liar the world’s on fire</font><br>
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Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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Fire, fire burning higher</font><br>
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Still got time to turn it all around</font><br>
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Liar, liar the world’s on fire</font><br>
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Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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Fire, fire burning higher</font><br>
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Still got time to turn it all around</font><br>
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(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
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Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down)</font><br>
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Show some love</font><br>
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(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire,</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Still got time to turn it all around)</font><br>
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Let’s rise above</font><br>
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(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
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Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down)</font><br>
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Let’s make a stand</font><br>
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(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
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Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down)</font><br>
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Let’s lend a hand</font><br>
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(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Still got time to turn it all around)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Let’s heal the hurt</font><br>
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(Liar, Liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Let kindness work</font><br>
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(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Let’s be a friend</font><br>
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(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Let hatred end</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
(Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Whatcha gonna do)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Liar, liar, the world’s on fire</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">
Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">
Music video by Dolly Parton performing World On Fire (From The
58th ACM Awards) (From The 58th ACM Awards). © 2023 Butterfly
Records, LLC under exclusive license to Big Machine Label Group,
LLC<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Interviewed on the Today show -- video ]</i></font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Dolly Parton opens up about the shift
in tone in her new music</b></font><br>
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views May 15, 2023 #dollywood #dollyparton #music<br>
Music superstar Dolly Parton opens up about her new rock anthem,
"World On Fire" in which she speaks out against the politics of
today and talks about the major shift in tone and sound of her
new album of covers. She also walks through Dollywood with NBC’s
Jacob Soboroff and shows off her new roller coaster — and shares
why she won’t ride it!<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - looking back at an
important show. ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><font size="+2"><i><b>May 24, 2006</b></i></font>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">May 24, 2006: "An Inconvenient Truth" is
released in the United States. <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Box Office Guru.com's Gitesh Pandya
notes:</font>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"Setting the limited release box
office on fire was the global warming documentary 'An
Inconvenient Truth' which opened in only four theaters but
grossed a hefty $367,311. That gave the Al Gore pic a stunning
average of $91,827 per location over four days. Distributed by
Paramount Vantage, the new incarnation of Paramount Classics,
Truth collected $281,330 over the Friday-to-Sunday portion
averaging a scorching $70,332. Total since Wednesday stands at
$490,860. Opening this weekend on multiple screens at a pair of
theaters in both New York and Los Angeles, Truth will add about
60 more playdates on Friday and expand throughout June hoping to
become the dominant doc of the summer."</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">(Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim would
appear on the June 2, 2006 edition of "EcoTalk" on Air America to
discuss the film.)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0">http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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