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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Wallace-Wells interview, "we are NOT YET sufficiently alarmed
by climate change" ]</i><br>
<b>Here's What You Need To Know About Climate Change (with David
Wallace-Wells) | TNL Sunday</b><br>
The Bulwark<br>
Jan 21, 2024<br>
In a special climate episode of TNL Sunday, David Wallace-Wells,
author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, joins Tim to
discuss the current state of climate change and efforts to reverse
the damage that's been done.<br>
<blockquote>0:00 - Intro<br>
1:18 - How David Wallace-Wells Became Climate Change Journalist<br>
4:17 - How Alarmed Should we be about Climate Change<br>
7:19 - Biggest Attributors to Slowing Global Warming<br>
11:23 - What Will Daily Life Look Like as Climate Change Deniers
Become Less Prominent<br>
19:28 - Why People Aren’t Migrating Away from Extreme Weather<br>
26:55 - What Will Be The Turning Point Climate Event<br>
33:21 - Conspiracies of Climate Change Skeptics<br>
35:51 - Innovations versus Degrowth and Caps<br>
46:46 - Younger Generation’s Fear of the Future Because of Climate
Change<br>
51:34 - Most Encouraging Aspects of Inflation Reduction Act<br>
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<i>[ Stockholder anger ]</i><br>
<b>Exxon throws a fit over shareholders exercising their rights</b><br>
Tim De Chant@tdechant <br>
January 22, 2024<br>
It's a dirty little secret in business that everybody has a boss,
even the bosses. Top executives report to the CEO, the CEO answers
to the board, and the board serves at the whim of the shareholders.<br>
<br>
Exxon’s management has now decided that it doesn’t like what its
bosses have to say.<br>
<br>
On Sunday evening, the oil supermajor filed a lawsuit in federal
court asking for permission to ignore a shareholder resolution at
its next annual meeting. The resolution was proposed by Arjuna
Capital and Follow This, two activist investors that are seeking to
compel Exxon to rein in its vast carbon emissions.<br>
<br>
Hang on a minute, aren’t shareholders supposed to be sacrosanct?
Isn’t the whole point of a corporation to please its shareholders?
That’s what Milton Friedman said when he argued in favor of
shareholder primacy back in 1970:<br>
<blockquote>In a free‐enterprise, private‐property system, a
corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business.
He has direct responsibility to his employers. That responsibility
is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires, which
generally will be to make as much money as possible while
conforming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied
in law and those embodied in ethical custom. (Emphases added.)<br>
</blockquote>
The new shareholder resolution calls on the oil company to reduce
its Scope 3 emissions or those that result from the use of its
products. In Exxon’s case, that’s mostly the burning of fossil
fuels.<br>
<br>
The problem Exxon faces is that the “basic rules of society,”
specifically “those embedded in ethical custom,” are changing, and
the company now finds itself on the wrong side of them. Two-thirds
of Americans say we should prioritize alternative energy over fossil
fuels, and 69% say the U.S. should move toward net-zero emissions by
2050, according to the Pew Research Center. Internationally, most
people want their governments to do something about climate change.<br>
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Exxon would normally take its grievances to the SEC, filing a
request with the regulator to omit the proposal from this year’s
proxy statement. But under the Biden administration, the SEC has
been siding more frequently with shareholders. After all, who’s the
boss?<br>
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Years ago, the only shareholders who were a thorn in managements’
sides were activist investors who would amass substantial positions
in a bid to gain board seats and steer company strategy. Other
shareholders tended to be deferential to management, letting them
run their business as they saw fit...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/22/exxon-sues-activist-investors/">https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/22/exxon-sues-activist-investors/</a><br>
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<i>[ Artificial Intelligence on climate ask ClimateGPT ]</i><br>
<b>ClimateGPT</b><br>
Alien from a planet that has stopped global warming, here to share
unique insights in climate change and climate tech.<br>
By LEE CHERN WEI<br>
Sign up for ChatGPT Plus to chat with ClimateGPT<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://chat.openai.com/g/g-mALBt24dr-climategpt">https://chat.openai.com/g/g-mALBt24dr-climategpt</a><br>
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<i> [ looking ahead ]</i><b><br>
</b><b>Many Folk Expect Major Hardships Like Losing Their Homes as
Climate Change Worsens. What do we do?<br>
</b>Paul Beckwith<br>
Jan 21, 2024<br>
An IPSO poll conducted last year just before COP28 surveyed people
about how they personally expected to be affected by ongoing climate
change.<br>
<br>
The results are fascinating. Many people expect climate destruction
to affect them in the near term (less than 10 years). People get it
more than any governments and policymakers.<br>
<br>
Here are the links that I chat about in this video:<br>
<blockquote>1) “Two Billion People Are Prepared to Lose Their
Homes”:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newsweek.com/two-billion-people-prepared-lose-their-homes-climate-change-1847694">https://www.newsweek.com/two-billion-people-prepared-lose-their-homes-climate-change-1847694</a><br>
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2) IPSO poll results article: “Seven in ten people anticipate
climate change will have a “severe effect” in their area within
the next ten years”:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/seven-in-ten-people-anticipate-climate-change-will-have-severe-effect-their-area-within-next-ten-years">https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/seven-in-ten-people-anticipate-climate-change-will-have-severe-effect-their-area-within-next-ten-years</a><br>
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3) Cognitive Dissonance: “Climate Change is Happening. Why do so
many of us still act like it’s not?”: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90987246/">https://www.fastcompany.com/90987246/</a>...<br>
<br>
4) How to Prepare to Lose Your Home in a Climate Disaster:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@climatesurvivor/preparing-for-a-climate-disaster-9701e3c644a4">https://medium.com/@climatesurvivor/preparing-for-a-climate-disaster-9701e3c644a4</a><br>
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One thing is for sure: we are living in a new world, soon to be
unrecognizable compared to the old world. You can grab the popcorn
and buckle your seatbelts, but expect that one day you will not be
the bystander. You will be the one affected.<br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UzaHBmRWBw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UzaHBmRWBw</a></p>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> January 23, 2007: <br>
• After six years, President George W. Bush finally addresses global
climate change in his State of the Union address. <br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoM1AgE9ig">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoM1AgE9ig</a>
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