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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ a thoughtful way to start the new year - Just Have a Think - 13
min video ]</i><br>
<b>Does energy efficiency just make us use more stuff?</b><br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Dec 31, 2023<br>
Improvements in energy efficiency could give us as much as 50% of
the carbon reductions we need by 2050, according to the
International Energy agency. But the 'Jevons Paradox' says the more
efficient and cheaper we make things, the more we use them. So are
we in a no-win situation or is there actually a way out?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp5EoTT_FQk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp5EoTT_FQk</a><br>
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<p>[ video discussion from The Guardian article ]<br>
<b>Will 2024 Be When We Find Out We Won’t Act On Climate?</b><br>
Climate Chat<br>
Dec 31, 2023<br>
In this Climate Chat episode we discuss whether the world will
start to take climate action seriously in 2024.<br>
<br>
Guardian article on "World will look back at 2023 as year humanity
exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say":<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/world-will-look-back-at-2023-as-year-humanity-exposed-its-inability-to-tackle-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/world-will-look-back-at-2023-as-year-humanity-exposed-its-inability-to-tackle-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw</a><br>
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For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: /
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9hL61EJI4o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9hL61EJI4o</a><br>
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[TheGuardian article ]<br>
<b>World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its
inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say</b><br>
Disastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in
Europe and North America<br>
Jonathan Watts Global environment editor<br>
@jonathanwatts<br>
Fri 29 Dec 2023<br>
The hottest year in recorded history casts doubts on humanity’s
ability to deal with a climate crisis of its own making, senior
scientists have said.<br>
<br>
As historically high temperatures continued to be registered in many
parts of the world in late December, the former Nasa scientist James
Hansen told the Guardian that 2023 would be remembered as the moment
when failures became apparent.<br>
<br>
“When our children and grandchildren look back at the history of
human-made climate change, this year and next will be seen as the
turning point at which the futility of governments in dealing with
climate change was finally exposed,” he said.<br>
<br>
“Not only did governments fail to stem global warming, the rate of
global warming actually accelerated.”<br>
<br>
After what was probably the hottest July in 120,000 years, Hansen,
whose testimony to the US Senate in 1988 is widely seen as the first
high-profile revelation of global heating, warned that the world was
moving towards a “new climate frontier” with temperatures higher
than at any point over the past million years.<br>
<br>
Now director of the climate programme at Columbia University’s Earth
Institute in New York, Hansen said the best hope was for a
generational shift of leadership.<br>
<br>
“The bright side of this clear dichotomy is that young people may
realise that they must take charge of their future. The turbulent
status of today’s politics may provide opportunity,” he said...<br>
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“We do not understand why the ocean heat increase is so dramatic,
and we do not know what the consequences are in the future,” he
said. “Are we seeing the first signs of a state shift? Or is it [a]
freak outlier?”<br>
<br>
In the Antarctic, scientists have also been perplexed and worried by
the pace of change. The new Brazilian scientific module Criosfera 2,
a solar and wind-powered laboratory that collects meteorological
information, measured the lowest extent of sea ice in the region
both for summer and winter.<br>
<br>
“This environmental alert is a sign of ongoing global environmental
changes and poses a daunting challenge for polar scientists to
explain,” said Francisco Eliseu Aquino, a professor of climatology
and oceanography at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and
the deputy director of Brazil’s polar and climatic centre.<br>
<br>
West Antarctica was affected by several winter heatwaves associated
with the landfall of atmospheric rivers. In early July, a Chilean
team on King George Island, at the northern tip of the Antarctic
peninsula, registered an unprecedented event of rainfall in the
middle of the austral winter when only snowfalls are expected.<br>
<br>
In January, a massive iceberg, measuring about 1,500 sq km, broke
off from the Brunt ice shelf in the Weddell Sea. It was the third
colossal calving in the same region in three years.<br>
<br>
Aquino said human influence – through the burning of fossil fuels –
had also created “frightening” dynamics between the poles and the
tropics. Cold wet fronts from the Antarctic had interacted with
record heat and drought in the Amazon to create unprecedented storms
in between. Floods in southern Brazil killed 51 people in early
September and then returned with similarly devastating force in
mid-November.<br>
<br>
Aquino said this “record record” was a taste of what was to come as
the world entered dangerous levels of warming. “From this year
onwards, we will understand concretely what it means to flirt with
1.5C [of heating] in the global average temperature and new records
for disasters,” he said.<br>
<br>
This is already happening. This year’s deadliest climate disaster
was the flood in Libya that killed more than 11,300 people in the
coastal city of Derna. In a single day, Storm Daniel unleashed 200
times as much rain as usually falls on the city in the entire month
of September. Human-induced climate change made this up to 50 times
more likely.<br>
Forest fires burned a record area in Canada and Europe, and killed
about 100 people in Lahaina on Maui island, the deadliest wildfire
in US history, which happened in August. For those who prefer to
calculate catastrophe in economic terms, the US broke its annual
record of billion-dollar disasters by August, by which time there
had already been 23.<br>
<br>
Raul Cordero, a climate professor at the University of Groningen and
the University of Santiago, said the effects of this year’s heat
were being felt across South America in the form of unprecedented
water stress in Uruguay, record-breaking fires in Chile, the most
severe drought in the Amazon basin in 50 years, prolonged power
shortages in Ecuador caused by the lack of hydropower, and increased
shipping costs along the Panama canal due to low water levels.<br>
<br>
Cordero said El Niño was forecast to weaken in the coming year, but
above average or record temperatures were likely to persist for at
least the next three months.<br>
<br>
And, as science has proved beyond any doubt, global temperatures
would continue to rise as long as humanity continues to burn fossil
fuels and forests.<br>
<br>
In the years ahead, the heat “anomaly” and catastrophes of 2023
would first become the new norm, and then be looked back on as one
of the cooler, more stable years in people’s lives. As Hansen
warned, unless there is radical and rapid change, failure will be
built into the climate system.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/world-will-look-back-at-2023-as-year-humanity-exposed-its-inability-to-tackle-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/world-will-look-back-at-2023-as-year-humanity-exposed-its-inability-to-tackle-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw</a><br>
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<i>[ Major study ]</i><br>
<b>Work-Life Balance</b><br>
OECD study <br>
Finding a suitable balance between work and daily living is a
challenge that all workers face. Families are particularly affected.
The ability to successfully combine work, family commitments and
personal life is important for the well-being of all members in a
household. Governments can help to address the issue by encouraging
supportive and flexible working practices, making it easier for
parents to strike a better balance between work and home life.<br>
<br>
Employees working long hours<br>
<br>
An important aspect of work-life balance is the amount of time a
person spends at work. Evidence suggests that long work hours may
impair personal health, jeopardise safety and increase stress. 10%
of employees in the OECD work 50 hours or more per week in paid
work. Mexico is the country with the highest proportion of people
working very long hours in paid work, with 27%, followed by Turkey
with nearly 25% and Colombia with almost 24% of employees; all of
these countries saw a drop in the proportion of people working very
long hours in paid work compared to 10 years ago. Overall, more men
work very long hours in paid work; the percentage of male employees
working very long hours in paid work across OECD countries is almost
14%, compared with about 6% for women.<br>
Time devoted to leisure and personal care<br>
<br>
Furthermore, the more people work, the less time they have to spend
on other activities, such as personal care or leisure. The amount
and quality of leisure time is important for people's overall
well-being, and can bring additional physical and mental health
benefits. A full-time worker in the OECD devotes 63% of the day on
average, or 15 hours, to personal care (eating, sleeping, etc.) and
leisure (socialising with friends and family, hobbies, games,
computer and television use, etc.). Fewer hours in paid work for
women do not necessarily result in greater leisure time, as time
devoted to leisure is roughly the same for men and women across the
22 OECD countries studied.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/work-life-balance/">https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/work-life-balance/</a><br>
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<i>[ return to a classic lecture from "Cognitive Challenges of
Climate Change" video ]</i><br>
<b>Day 9 - Robert Costanza: Overcoming our societal addiction to
growth</b><br>
MC: Alexia Ostrolenk, Ph.D Candidate in Psychiatric Science (UdeM);
Science Communicator (ComScicon-QC, BrainReach)<br>
Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM<br>
Oct 5, 2021 ISC Summer School 2021 - Cognitive Challenges of
Climate Change / École d'été ISC 2021 - Défis cognitifs du
changement climatique<br>
ISC 2021 Summer School – Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites">https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites</a>...) <br>
Bio:<br>
Professor Robert Costanza is a Vice-Chancellor’s Chair in Public
Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian
National University. He is also currently a Senior Fellow at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, an Affiliate
Fellow at the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont, and a
deTao Master of Ecological Economics at the deTao Masters Academy in
Shanghai, China. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences in
Australia (ASSA) and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in the UK, and
is an Overseas Expert in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).<br>
<br>
Professor Costanza’s transdisciplinary research integrates the study
of humans and the rest of nature to address research, policy and
management issues at multiple time and space scales, from small
watersheds to the global system. His specialties include:
transdisciplinary integration, systems ecology, ecological
economics, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, integrated
socio-ecological modeling, ecological design, energy analysis,
environmental policy, social traps and addictions, incentive
structures, and institutions.<br>
<br>
He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for
Ecological Economics and was founding chief editor of the society’s
journal Ecological Economics. He currently serves on the editorial
board of ten other international academic journals. He is also
founding co-editor in chief of Solutions a unique hybrid
academic/popular journal and editor in chief of the Anthropocene
Review.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCuNLh2Wss">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCuNLh2Wss</a><br>
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<i>[ Positive action in the nearly extinct Chestnut -- this is a
metaphor for a laudable approach and continuing use of science to
attack a real problem ]</i><br>
<b>Rebirth of the American Chestnut as a Dominant Forest Species in
Eastern North America</b><br>
UGACED<br>
Nov 10, 2023<br>
EECP Lecture Series<br>
October 24, 2023<br>
Scott Merkle, Professor of Forest Biology, UGA<br>
"Rebirth of the American Chestnut as a Dominant Forest Species in
Eastern North America"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjLrwXntYjw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjLrwXntYjw</a><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - The Vatican
seems the most vociferous ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>January 1, 2010 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> January 1, 2010: In his World Day of
Peace message, Pope Benedict XVI declares:<br>
<blockquote>"In 1990 John Paul II had spoken of an 'ecological
crisis' and, in highlighting its primarily ethical character,
pointed to the 'urgent moral need for a new solidarity.' His
appeal is all the more pressing today, in the face of signs of a
growing crisis which it would be irresponsible not to take
seriously. Can we remain indifferent before the problems
associated with such realities as climate change, desertification,
the deterioration and loss of productivity in vast agricultural
areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers, the loss of
biodiversity, the increase of natural catastrophes and the
deforestation of equatorial and tropical regions? Can we disregard
the growing phenomenon of 'environmental refugees,' people who are
forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it –
and often their possessions as well – in order to face the dangers
and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive
in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to
natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on
the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food,
health and development."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20091208_xliii-world-day-peace_en.html">http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20091208_xliii-world-day-peace_en.html</a><br>
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