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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Inside China Podcast 28 min audio ] </i><br>
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an emerging food, water and power crisis</b><br>
South China Morning Post<br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Kevin Anderson opinion
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Is it too late for 1.5°C? Interview with
Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson</b><br>
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<font face="Calibri">May 3, 2023 GND Media<br>
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This week on the show we are delighted to have back on the podcast
Professor Kevin Anderson. Kevin is a energy and climate scientist
formerly of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change. We discuss
what is Net Zero and why it is hindering our ability to reduce
emissions. Is 1.5°C warming still viable? And what would that mean
for the planet? Kevin also talks us through what governments of
the world need to do right now to keep the planet safe. <br>
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Links<br>
Climate Uncensored: Kevin's new climate science education project.<br>
Shout outs<br>
Michael Gove MP: for focusing the country on the government's
disastrous fossil fuel projects, including the Cumbria coalmine.<br>
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò: for their excellent work on climate change and
colonialism. We'd love you to come on the show!<br>
Everyone out there building and fighting for a better world in
2023.<br>
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</i><i><font face="Calibri"> [ Beckwith video essay about climate
and far-right politics essays in the Guardian 50 mins ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Vicious Accelerating Feedbacks Between Far
Right Politics and Climate Catastrophe</b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Jun 17, 2023<br>
There is no denying it. There are vicious amplifying feedbacks in
play between the far-right political mobs and accelerating climate
change, and they love it. <br>
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As the far-right gains more and more political power, they trash
climate change policies, and anybody working to reduce climate
change. Thus, climate catastrophe worsens, and humanity
experiences more and more extreme weather events, with higher
intensity and impacts, for longer durations. This causes large
numbers of people to migrate as they lose their homes, cities, and
livelihoods. These climate refugees have to go somewhere, and they
try to immigrate to safer havens. This, in turn, leads to many
countries being inundated with hopeful would be immigrants, and
after a while leads to far-right populous political parties
blaming them for all the problems, so there is a backlash within
many countries, with hard right parties gaining power, and then
immediately trashing all climate policies. The vicious cycle gets
amplified, over and over again.<br>
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Let’s use wildfires in Canada as an example, since these fires are
on peoples minds.<br>
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Climate change has caused Canada, a northern country to warm about
2 degrees C. This spring has been the warmest and driest in the 84
years of reanalysis records. No surprise then, that many wildfires
have been triggered, mostly by lightning and human carelessness,
or sparks, or cigarette butts, or hot mufflers.<br>
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The far-right never wastes an opportunity to lie and spread the
most outlandish conspiracy theories. Without evidence, they blame
arsonists for setting all these fires, and weather people for
making up the heat waves and droughts, and immigrants for
destroying the country. Their vicious echo chambers spread lies at
the speed of light around the world, and there are more and more
people believing their nonsense.<br>
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If this vicious cycle is not broken, we have zero chance to avoid
a very dystopian world, much sooner than people think. <br>
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My call on the US election. Trump will win the election from his
jail cell, then pardon himself and all the Jan 6 people, and then
put Biden in jail.<br>
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Dystopia will rule.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ New book from Naomi Oreskes ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Book Review | ‘The Big Myth: How American
Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free
Market’ by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway</b><br>
An Exploration of Market Fundamentalism by the Authors of
‘Merchants of Doubt’<br>
By Brian Tanguay<br>
Fri Jun 16, 2023 <br>
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<font face="Calibri">“False information need not be coherent to be
effective, and the specters of vanished liberty and tyrannical
government regulation are easy enough to conjure.” So wrote critic
A.O. Scott in the New York Times in 2015 about Merchants of Doubt,
a documentary film based on the book of the same title by Naomi
Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. <br>
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Merchants of Doubt chronicled climate-change denialism. Oreskes
and Conway investigated “why intelligent, educated people would
deny the reality of man-made climate change.” Why such people,
predominantly men, some of them scientists, would wage a concerted
campaign to cast doubt on settled science. Was it simply to obtain
position and privilege and wealth? <br>
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Turns out the primary motivation was ideological. As the authors
write in the introduction to their latest collaboration, The Big
Myth, “these men feared that government regulation of the
marketplace — whether to address climate change or protect
consumers from lethal products — would be the first step on a
slippery slope to socialism, communism, or worse.” <br>
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Market fundamentalism is a belief in the notion that free markets
are not only the optimal way to run an economic system, but the
only means of organization that will not ultimately destroy other
freedoms. Generating wealth is part of economic freedom, but what
distinguishes market fundamentalism is casting economic freedom
and political freedom as inseparable. The authors spent a decade
scrutinizing this notion and more than 400 pages unpacking and
debunking it.<br>
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It’s an inquiry that ranges widely over 20th-century America, from
machinations by the National Electric Light Association to hinder
the government from delivering rural electrification, to the
National Association of Manufacturers trying to influence the
curriculum taught in universities, to the ultimate pitchman for
market fundamentalism, Ronald Reagan, assuring the American people
that big government was the root of our problems and the magic
market the solution. Intellectual justification was provided by
such notables as Adam Smith, Friedrich von Hayek, and Milton
Friedman, with a significant assist from industry moguls who
initially funded the Chicago School of Economics. <br>
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Creating the myth of the market as free, benevolent, fair, just,
and infallible required nearly a century of concerted effort,
money, propaganda, and ceaseless proselytizing. Ideas take root in
society when they’re developed, sustained, and promoted by
credible individuals and institutions. Capitalism and freedom were
cast as two sides of the same coin, indivisible and conjoined,
with the implied warning that communism, socialism, or tyranny
would result, should they be decoupled. Before long, capitalism
and democracy were synonymous, as was the idea that capitalism
aligned with Christian values. Self-interest and profit were
sanctified. One could feel justified in turning away from the poor
and embracing the rich and come to believe that no such thing as
the common good existed. As the authors note, “The captains of
American industry had found a way to turn Protestant theology on
its head, from embracing the poor to celebrating the rich.”<br>
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By the second half of the 20th century, the mantra of American
conservatism was limited government, low taxation, personal
responsibility, and personal freedom. This ethos filled the void
caused by the weakening of the New Deal coalition, the War on
Poverty, the Great Society, and the decline of organized labor.
The world was changing; former adversaries like Germany and Japan
were beginning to challenge America’s industrial and economic
hegemony. According to Milton Freidman and others from the Chicago
School, American business was overtaxed and excessively regulated;
labor unions had too much sway and were an impediment to
competitiveness; government at the state and federal level was
bloated, slow, and inefficient when compared to the nimble private
sector. <br>
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Historical memory tends to be brief. A new generation of Americans
forgot that the Progressive Era and the New Deal were remedies for
the failures of market capitalism. <br>
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Revolutions usually topple ruling elites. Not so the revolution
ushered by Reagan, the former pitchman for General Electric.
Reagan promoted the interests and ideology of the wealthiest and
most powerful Americans. But, as Oreskes and Conway make clear,
the turn from the era of big government was a bipartisan project
begun when president Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, deregulated the
airline and trucking industries. Carter sought to lower prices and
modernize sectors of the economy, a reasonable objective in the
late 1970s. While it’s fair to note that Carter started the trend,
by the time Bill Clinton’s administration deregulated the
telecommunications industry in 1996, followed by the financial
services industry at the tail end of his second term, deregulation
was a mania.<br>
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The results? Consumers gained more choices, and in some cases
lower prices, at least at the outset. But according to Oreskes and
Conway, deregulation of telecommunications decreased competition,
encouraged mergers and acquisitions, and virtual monopolies, while
in financial services it laid the foundation for the 2008 subprime
mortgage debacle, the worst economic collapse since the Great
Depression. The financial markets failed and the government raced
to the rescue of institutions that had become “too big to fail” at
a cost to taxpayers of a half trillion dollars. So much for
self-regulation and magic. <br>
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Like other types of fundamentalism, market fundamentalism bows
beneath the weight of its many contradictions. The assumption that
business can do no wrong and government no right has contributed
to making the United States fabulously wealthy for the few and
destructively unequal for many. In terms of life expectancy,
health, education, and overall quality of existence, the United
States trails behind much poorer countries. The intellectual
proponents and cheerleaders for market fundamentalism as the only
possible capitalist arrangement either didn’t recognize, or chose
to ignore, that under regulated markets can be as tyrannical as a
dictatorship. <br>
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I hope this book crosses the path of legislators, governors,
mayors, bankers, CEOs, judges, and others, who know, on some
level, that extreme inequality of wealth and opportunity will
never be ameliorated by the market. As Oreskes and Conway put it,
“In domain after domain after domain, overreliance on markets and
under reliance on government have cost the American people
dearly.”<br>
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This review originally appeared in the California Review of
Books. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://calirb.com/">https://calirb.com/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.independent.com/2023/06/16/book-review-the-big-myth-how-american-business-taught-us-to-loathe-government-and-love-the-free-market-by-naomi-oreskes-and-erik-m-conway/">https://www.independent.com/2023/06/16/book-review-the-big-myth-how-american-business-taught-us-to-loathe-government-and-love-the-free-market-by-naomi-oreskes-and-erik-m-conway/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ The news archive - looking back at when
MIT got serious ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>June 18, 2015</b></i></font> <br>
June 18, 2015:<br>
The Boston Globe reports:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"In a sweeping new report, a
climate change committee at MIT has thrown its support behind
targeted divestment from coal and tar sand companies and called
for the creation of a new institute dedicated to global warming.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">"The 52-page report, released this
week, described climate change as 'society’s grandest challenge
of the present day, possibly of all time,' and urged broad
action in confronting it.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"'The time has come for MIT to play a
prominent, visible part in the action and solutions needed to
confront the climate challenge,' the report stated.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Final recommendations will be presented to
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Rafael Reif this
summer. Reif is expected to unveil a climate change plan this
fall."</font><br>
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