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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>September 30</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ XR Netherlands continued actions ] <br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>Permanent A12 blockade Stop
Fossil Subsidies<br>
</b></font><font face="Calibri">Saturday, September 9 at 12:00
noon is the moment of the Big One: we will demonstrate for the
eighth time on the A12. And also for the last time. Because no
matter what the Hague municipal council allows the police to do,
we will stay or come back day in and day out. Until the government
meets our demand: an immediate end to all fossil subsidies.
Together we can do this. Get involved and join us!<br>
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The most recent IPCC report is clear: continuing on the current
path will lead to between 2.2 and 3.5 degrees of warming. Even
now, the situation in the Global South is extreme: hundreds of
thousands of people die every year as a result of the climate and
ecological crisis. In 2022, 43,000 people died in Somalia alone
due to drought. Yet our government stimulates the fossil industry
with up to 30 billion euros in fossil subsidies every year.
Bizarre policy with devastating consequences!<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://extinctionrebellion.nl/en/events/permanente-a12-blokkade-stop-fossiele-subsidies-20/">https://extinctionrebellion.nl/en/events/permanente-a12-blokkade-stop-fossiele-subsidies-20/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Democracy Now reports on climate activism
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</i> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Top U.S. & World
Headlines — September 28, 2023</b><br>
Democracy Now!<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaQ6V-6k0c&t=526s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaQ6V-6k0c&t=526s</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ bothersome collaborations Video ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Climate Lobbyists Hijack Progressive Climate
Bills - Rebecca Burns</b><br>
theAnalysis-news<br>
</font>Sep 15, 2023 #climatechange #uspolitics #fossilfuels<br>
Rebecca Burns, journalist at the investigative news outlet The
Lever, discusses her reporting on extensive lobbying efforts to hold
up legislation which would require companies to disclose all of
their greenhouse gas emissions. In a recent report, she details how
the same lobbyists who seek to derail progressive climate
legislation in California are also getting paid by counties and
cities along the California coast to deal with the impact of coastal
erosion and fires.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC_Wki0QnUI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC_Wki0QnUI</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ YaleEnvironment360 asks climate
refugees, or emigrant, or a displaced person ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>As Waters
Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?</b><br>
Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the
Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is
grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees
and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their
homes and move to higher ground?<br>
BY JON HURDLE -- SEPTEMBER 28, 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">“In this case, you have really significant
environmental justice questions, and really significant flood
risk,” he said. “It’s the idea of trying to take an equitable
approach to flood resilience, telling people of color who have
been subjected to other types of environmental injustices [such as
siting landfills within their communities] that there is a way
that you could stay in your community, and in so doing restore
green space.”<br>
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But many residents don’t see it that way. A land swap that would
move them to higher ground, even if it’s still within Eastwick, is
still a move from their block, their neighbors, and all that is
familiar.<br>
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Whitfield, for one, said she has no plans to move to a new house
on higher ground. Instead, she’s pinning her hopes on a levee.
“Once you become a senior, it is very hard to uproot yourself and
start over again,” she said...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The relocation of whole communities, or
sections of them, has been pursued throughout the U.S. since the
1980s. In New Jersey, for example, a state-run program called Blue
Acres buys chronically flooded properties from willing sellers at
market prices, then demolishes them and creates open space to
absorb future floods. The program has bought about 1,000 such
homes since its inception in the 1990s, mostly along the Atlantic
Coast and Delaware Bay, and has helped displaced residents find
new homes in safer areas. But critics say these efforts are
dwarfed by the challenges of climate change, which is expected to
raise the state’s sea level about two feet by 2050.<br>
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Nationally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency bought some
40,000 properties between 1989 and 2019 through its
managed-retreat program, according to a paper by A.R. Siders, who
researches climate-change adaptation at the University of
Delaware.<br>
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Gordon Branham, 71, has lived less than a mile from Eastwick’s
Planet Streets since 1982. A disabled Vietnam veteran who said his
PTSD is worsened by the constant threat of flooding, Branham said
he loves his neighborhood and is open to the proposed land swap.
But he worries that the move wouldn’t be protective enough and is
considering leaving Eastwick altogether. “I’m not going to move to
another potential flood-prone area because we know the seas are
going to continue to rise.”<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Earl Wilson is also open to discussing the idea
of a “land swap,” but like Whitfield he argued that it would need
buy-in from all residents in the affected area. If some residents
are unwilling to move, he said, they’ll remain vulnerable to
flooding even if others agree to relocate.<br>
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“Some are open to the idea [of moving],” he said. “But a lot of
people are set in their street and would only want to see the
flood situation developed to the point where they could feel safe
where they are. I want to make sure that these people are given
their fair shake.”<br>
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The city has already received FEMA funding for flood mitigation in
Eastwick through the Biden Administration’s requirement that 40
percent of federal infrastructure funding benefit underserved
communities, and it expects to receive more funding through the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and climate initiatives in the
Inflation Reduction Act...</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">The Office of Sustainability stressed
that the final decision on flood-control measures will prioritize
what the community wants, but it predicted that agreement won’t be
quick. “These conversations are very delicate and take time,
especially because we are also working on building trust with
residents that have gone through substantial harm,” the agency
said.<br>
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In the meantime, the city and its federal partners are considering
installing temporary “HESCO” flood barriers — wire baskets covered
with synthetic textiles and filled with soil — to mitigate risk,
and it is advising residents on how to flood-proof their homes.<br>
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Margaret Cobb, who has lived in Eastwick for 40 years, isn’t
counting on flood-proofing. When a big storm is forecast, she
backs her car from her garage, where it would be ruined, and
drives to a nearby hotel. The 80-year-old returns when the water
recedes and watches while the repairs to her home are completed.<br>
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But with the expectation of worse to come, Cobb said she’s now
open to the idea of the proposed land swap, especially if it
allowed her to stay in Eastwick.<br>
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“I would approve of that because it’s very stressful going through
this every year,” she said. “Even the Hurricane Lee that’s
passing, you wonder what direction it’s going to take,” she added,
referring to the storm that was moving northward through the
Atlantic in mid-September. “The older we get, the more stress it
is for us seniors.”<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/chronic-flooding-eastwick-philadelphia">https://e360.yale.edu/features/chronic-flooding-eastwick-philadelphia</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at a
presidential debate]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 30, 2004</b></i></font> <br>
September 30, 2004: In his first debate with President Bush,
Democratic challenger and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry incurs
the wrath of the right wing by declaring:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"The president always has the
right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That
was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War. And it was always
one of the things we argued about with respect to arms control.
No president, though all of American history, has ever ceded,
and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to
protect the United States of America. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"But if and when you do it, Jim [Lehrer], you
have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the
global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully
why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the
world that you did it for legitimate reasons. Here we have our
own secretary of state who has had to apologize to the world for
the presentation he made to the United Nations.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"I mean, we can remember when President
Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis sent his secretary of state
to Paris to meet with DeGaulle. And in the middle of the
discussion, to tell them about the missiles in Cuba, he said,
'Here, let me show you the photos.' And DeGaulle waved them off
and said, "No, no, no, no. The word of the president of the
United States is good enough for me."</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"How many leaders in the world today would
respond to us, as a result of what we've done, in that way? So
what is at test here is the credibility of the United States of
America and how we lead the world. And Iran and Iraq are now
more dangerous -- Iran and North Korea are now more dangerous.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Now, whether preemption is ultimately what
has to happen, I don't know yet. But I'll tell you this: As
president, I'll never take my eye off that ball. I've been
fighting for proliferation the entire time -- anti-proliferation
the entire time I've been in the Congress. And we've watched
this president actually turn away from some of the treaties that
were on the table.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> "You don't help yourself with other nations
when you turn away from the global warming treaty, for instance,
or when you refuse to deal at length with the United Nations.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> "You have to earn that respect. And I think
we have a lot of earning back to do." </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FullS">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FullS</a></font><font
face="Calibri"> (59:20--61:22)</font><br>
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