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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>April </b></i></font><font
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<i>[ revise the carbon footprint - helpful tier list - new ]</i><br>
<b>The ULTIMATE Carbon Footprint Tier List</b><br>
Planet Zero - Climate Change<br>
Apr 22, 2024 #carbonfootprint #earthday #tierlist<br>
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The looming presence of climate change has led many people to ask
themselves if there are ways to reduce their personal emissions to
help fight the problem. While the entire concept of blaming
consumers for the climate crisis was started by British Petroleum in
2004 to shift the blame from corporations to individuals, our daily
choices still have an impact on the climate. However, some choices
are more carbon-intensive than others. What changes are actually
worth making? To answer this loaded question, we now have the
ULTIMATE Carbon Footprint Tier List!<br>
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<i>[ Main concern is water temperature -- from independent
journalist </i><i>Nick Breeze </i><i> ]</i><br>
<b>Massive Marine Ecosystem Crash Along Galicia’s Coast Due To
Prolonged Atlantic Heatwave #climate<br>
</b>Nick Breeze ClimateGenn<br>
Premiere in progress. Started 15 minutes ago ClimateGenn #podcast
produced by Nick Breeze<br>
In this first published ClimateGenn episode for a couple of months,
I want to thank subscribers for your patience. I have not been
sitting idle but much more trying to digest the appalling
consequences of climate heating that we are now experiencing.<br>
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[Order COPOUT by Nick Breeze - <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/4boQfnl">https://amzn.to/4boQfnl</a>
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Everyday on social media, climate graphs and charts are posted with
varying degrees of deep red and other markers of urgency. Yet,
nothing happens except the posts become more shrill and the problem
of climate disaster becomes more irreversible.<br>
<br>
As someone who engages a lot with climate science and scientists,
somehow I had fallen into a space whereby the actual meaning of
these charts had become abstract. Codified and filed away in my mind
to avoid real exposure to true meaning.<br>
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Then something happened. I arranged to meet with Guillermo Díaz
Agras at the marine biology research station in La Grana in Galicia.
The research station is a satellite of Santiago University and the
team here conduct extensive research along the coast and in the
river valley’s, called rias.<br>
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What I expected to be an introductory overview of the research
station turned into a horrifying cerebral experience; an awakening
if you like. <br>
<br>
Guillermo showed me a long stream of images of dead dolphins,
turtles and otters, saying simply: ‘That was just last week!’. He
then explained how much of the indigenous shellfish are dying. The
mussels no longer forming in this stretch of coast, the seaweed that
bound the mussels to the rocks and the floating platforms, no longer
there. The ecosystems that were embedded within them, gone.<br>
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<i>[ restoring a forgotten term - mass immiseration ]</i><br>
Apr 22, 2024 #109 #thegreatsimplification #natehagens<br>
<b>Excerpted from The Great Simplification Episode #109 aired on
February 14th, 2024</b><br>
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<i>[ full interview ]</i><br>
<b>Ashley Hodgson: "The New Enlightenment and Behavioral Economics”
| The Great Simplification #109</b><br>
Nate Hagens<br>
Feb 14, 2024 The Great Simplification - with Nate Hagens<br>
On this episode, Nate is joined by Ashley Hodgson, a professor in
behavioral economics, where she offers a perspective on the
superorganism and what she calls ‘The New Enlightenment’. By taking
a wide-lens look at the way our human systems work, we can see the
incentives and structures that push power towards consumptive,
short-sighted, and destructive pathways. How could we ‘rejigger’
these systems to be more aligned with values and goals conducive to
supporting humans long into the future? What are the natural laws
that inherently depreciate systems - and how might we think about
counteracting them? As we enter a world where the perpetual growth
we’ve come to expect is no longer possible, how can we lean into the
creativity and ingenuity required when thinking about new economic
paradigms?<br>
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About Ashley Hodgson<br>
Ashley Hodgson is an Associate Professor of Economics and a
YouTuber. She teaches Behavioral Economics, Digital Industries,
Health Care Economics, and Blockchain Economics. Her YouTube
channel, The New Enlightenment, explores topics related to
economics, governance, and epistemics – that is, the determination
of truth and validity – in a world of social media and increasing
power concentration. <br>
Her channel is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/@thenewenlightenmentwithash8465/videos">https://www.youtube.com/@thenewenlightenmentwithash8465/videos</a><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEUhSSl83-Y&t=0s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEUhSSl83-Y&t=0s</a><br>
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<i>[ AKA Soccer, penalty kick. ]</i><br>
<b>Football's climate change threat: Flooded stadiums, too hot to
train</b><br>
Tom Chambers<br>
Apr 22, 2024<br>
"God blessed Fulham with great geography," the Premier League club's
owner Shahid Khan said in 2021 as he discussed his vision for Craven
Cottage's new £80 million stand on the north bank of the River
Thames.<br>
<br>
Once it is finally completed next season, the Riverside Stand and
its eye-catching Sky Deck will offer fans rooftop views of the
London skyline and "experiential food and drink pop-ups." Images of
the lavish construction released by the club in March also depict a
rooftop swimming pool. There is, though, one glaring issue with the
development: the stadium is predicted to be underwater by 2050.<br>
<br>
Fulham are by no means the only team predicted to suffer as sea
levels rise in line with global temperatures because of climate
change. Almost one in four stadiums in the top four divisions of
English football will experience total or partial flooding within
the next quarter of a century, according to the report "Playing
Against the Clock: Global Sport, the Climate Emergency and the Case
for Rapid Change," published by the Rapid Transition Alliance in
2020.<br>
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Premier League clubs, despite their riches, will not be exempt, with
the likes of Chelsea and West Ham United likely to face annual
flooding, as will U.S. sports teams including the Jacksonville
Jaguars, Miami Heat and New York Mets. The New York Giants and the
New York Jets' MetLife Stadium is also predicted to be submerged
every year.<br>
<br>
It's not just rising sea levels that pose a problem: heatwaves,
drought, fires and air pollution are all set to disrupt a multitude
of sports in the coming decades, from surfing in California to rugby
in Samoa. Scotland's Montrose golf course lost 23 feet to coastal
erosion last year, while Donald Trump's Doonbeg course in Ireland
has attempted to build a seawall to hold back the rising tide.<br>
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"Nothing I've ever written has ever brought so much stuff to my
door," the report's author, David Goldblatt, tells ESPN. The causes
and effects of climate change can often be hard to grasp, but by
applying real-world sporting examples, the leading academic and
co-founder of the nonprofit environmental charity Football For
Future forced people to sit up and take notice. Despite its
considerable media traction, Goldblatt's work has a complicated
legacy.<br>
<br>
"That document I would say has kind of set the agenda for a lot of
folks, [but] in terms of official response; f--- sake man, nothing,"
he says. "Of course, football clubs, they never, ever, ever respond,
certainly not proactively. I wrote to a couple of clubs, emailed
local journalists; Scunthorpe, Grimsby, places that are really in a
lot of trouble and... zilch, nothing, zero. And in fact, no club
that I talk about in that document that is in trouble has ever
responded. I have never seen a public response or a statement from
them on the issue at all."<br>
The 2023-24 football season in the UK has already been hit by 10
named storms including Babet, which cancelled all but two matches in
the Scottish Premier League and several more throughout the English
football league between Oct. 18 and Oct. 21. At a global level, the
World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that 2023 was the
warmest year ever recorded. A warmer atmosphere can hold more
moisture, leading to more intense and prolonged periods of rainfall,
which, along with higher temperatures melting polar ice, causes sea
levels to rise.<br>
<br>
"At least a third of all clubs [in the UK] have got serious
climate-related issues coming their way," Goldblatt says. "Like
Norwich: East Anglia is looking at a lot of drought over the next 30
years. I thought it was really interesting that a lot of clubs in
the northwest of England near the coast are going to be facing some
serious Atlantic storms, and we know that in 2022, ADO Den Haag's
stadium had the roof blown off by a storm and it wasn't like it was
a crap stadium, it was like a proper modern stadium and it had its
roof blown off. Barrow, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Burnley, Preston,
there's a lot of Atlantic storms coming their way. I don't see
anybody responding in public. I don't see anyone. It's absolutely
hopeless and gutless. It's like, come on, what are you waiting for?<br>
<br>
"I'm just beginning to hear in the lower levels of football more
grumbling and more explicit connection being made between extreme
weather events and all of the flooding that's been going on in
lower-league football and it's creeping up the pyramid, basically.
The bottom line is not very much [has changed.] That's the response.
So the response to 'Playing Against the Clock' on the one hand has
been completely amazing and then completely meaningless as well."<br>
<br>
The popularity and international nature of modern football means it
is a significant emitter of carbon dioxide -- the greenhouse gas
primarily responsible for global warming. A combination of private
jet usage, stadium construction, fan travel and above all the carbon
footprint of sportswear production contribute to Goldblatt's
estimation that football is responsible for nearly 1% of carbon
emissions in the UK. That pales in comparison to some other industry
sectors, but football is nevertheless capable of significant
environmental harm.<br>
<br>
"People often, with climate, think: energy production, agriculture,
belching industrial chimneys, et cetera, not 22 people running
around on a piece of grass," Goldblatt says.<br>
While on a broader level we are seeing the environmentally
problematic expansion of World Cups and other tournaments, some
organisations are leading the way with innovative schemes and
policies. Tottenham Hotspur's stadium and training ground run on
100% renewable energy and the club is working to reduce single-use
plastics in its operations. Manchester City have introduced free
shirt return points for fans, using depolymerisation technology that
allows kits featuring transfers and embroideries to be recycled.
UEFA has recently launched a carbon footprint calculator that allows
organisations to assess and understand their emissions.<br>
<br>
"There are obviously enthusiasts within the industry," Goldblatt
says. "[Tottenham chairman] Daniel Levy takes this stuff pretty
seriously. Tottenham's commitment is quite serious; I mean we can
make all sorts of criticisms, but no, there's real executive energy
and money and the same I would say is true of City and Liverpool,
Southampton. It's interesting. I wonder how things are faring
outside the Premier League [for other clubs] as budgets squeeze, but
there's been some good stuff there."<br>
<br>
In recent years, several leagues, governing bodies and clubs have
become signatories of the UN's Sports for Climate Action Framework
which commits them to halving emissions by 2030 and becoming net
zero by 2040.<br>
<br>
There are a growing number of players taking an active role in
tackling climate change. Footballers, and athletes more generally,
are increasingly prepared to use their platform to champion causes
close to their hearts. Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford's
successful campaign to pressure the UK government into continuing to
provide free school meals to vulnerable children in 2020 was a
particularly striking example.<br>
<br>
"The players have an extraordinary opportunity," Goldblatt argues.
"I mean Rashford has sort of set the bar high and obviously that's a
very particular story where his own personal experience, his own
lived experience, made him essentially invulnerable to the trolls
and gave him the power to really cut through. There's no one quite
in that position in the climate debate. But again, I often think
with these things that it's no point waiting for a single messiah.
This is a collective issue. It can't be just down to a Marcus
Rashford of climate."<br>
One individual attempting to play his part in contributing to
football's climate debate is David Wheeler. Appointed the first
sustainability champion of the Professional Footballers' Association
(PFA) in February 2023, the Wycombe Wanderers midfielder has
campaigned for change in the sport during events at Oxford
University and even the Glastonbury music festival. Wheeler, along
with Football For Future and the PFA, has also organised workshops
to educate fellow players about the effects of climate change.<br>
<br>
"They were basically to get current professional footballers and
ex-professional footballers and people that work within football
together to have a crash course of what climate change is and how it
affects football and how football affects it," Wheeler says. "And so
a few things in one go: it was kind of to increase that educational
awareness but also to bring out people from the woodwork that maybe
have been passionate about these issues for a while but haven't had
an outlet for it. And also, it's hopefully offered a safe space for
footballers to speak about it and their concerns."<br>
<br>
The vision of footballers meeting up to discuss societal issues
flies in the face of traditional notions of what players get up to
in their spare time. Are footballers really having conversations
about climate change within changing rooms?<br>
<br>
"Yeah, definitely," Wheeler says. "Especially because of my role and
how much I'm vocal about it. Obviously you can imagine I get a lot
of banter about it, but I feel like it does nudge the dial a little
bit and it brings it into the changing room. It brings it into
conversations a lot more because of that."<br>
<br>
Wheeler's work has resulted in Wycombe introducing electric car
charging facilities at both their training ground and stadium, as
well as striving to reduce energy consumption on matchdays. Despite
his efforts, Wheeler, who has said that he would not play for a team
that had a fossil fuel company as its shirt sponsor, is used to
being labelled a hypocrite. The accusation is a common one aimed at
athletes who have spoken out about a need to care for the
environment because of their careers in the carbon-intensive sports
industry.<br>
<br>
"It is kind of impossible to rid yourself of some kind of hypocrisy
in your life," he says. "I think that's probably the main point is
that you wouldn't necessarily want someone to be perfect because
then they'd be unrelatable. And I think that's the irony is that if
someone was perfect, then that's probably the argument that would be
flipped to: 'They're unrelatable' or 'they're a hippie' or 'they're
an extremist' or something like that."<br>
England has just experienced its wettest 18 months since records
began in 1836, with football matches outside the top two tiers
experiencing regular postponements. It is an issue that is having an
increasing effect for a number of teams.<br>
<br>
"I think to be honest, in the five years I've been at Wycombe we've
been at the same training ground and this year has probably been the
worst-ever year for the state of the pitch," Wheeler says. "It's
just been waterlogged for a large chunk of the season, and it's
never been perfect.<br>
<br>
"You're not getting sustained cold weather you used to get, it has
been raining a hell of a lot this year and that's obviously affected
our ability to train on a regular basis, but also in the summer as
well with the extreme heat, the sort of 40-plus degree heat, it's
just impossible really to train in. It's just pretty unbearable just
to be in."<br>
<br>
Despite what appears to be a fairly bleak outlook, football's
capacity to foster community, spark collective action and resonate
with the wider public mean it is unique in its ability to drive
social change and perhaps spearhead positive climate action.<br>
<br>
"Football, for whatever reason, has always been popular, always
symbolic," Goldblatt says. "I now believe that football is the most
important space for collective storytelling and collective imagining
-- it now exceeds the soaps by a very long way.<br>
<br>
"So football is not only uniquely poised [to combat climate change]
because of its position in popular culture generally, but it has a
longstanding deep culture that predisposes it to being an effective
advocate. I mean it remains one of the very few spaces in which
people really believe that collective action works.<br>
<br>
"Obviously climate change is a collective action issue, and people
for all sorts of reasons -- good, bad -- that space has diminished
and football people really believe that. And so I think that's very
powerful. I think football's also a space of hope."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39975010/footballs-climate-change-threat-flooded-stadiums-too-hot-train">https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39975010/footballs-climate-change-threat-flooded-stadiums-too-hot-train</a><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - How Senator
John McCain was labeled a "Maverick" ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>April 23, 2007 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> April 23, 2007: <br>
In a speech on climate change and energy at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Senator John McCain
(R-AZ) notes:<br>
<br>
"The burning of oil and other fossil fuels is contributing to the
dangerous accumulation of greenhouse gases in the earth's
atmosphere, altering our climate with the potential for major
social, economic and political upheaval. The world is already
feeling the powerful effects of global warming, and far more dire
consequences are predicted if we let the growing deluge of
greenhouse gas emissions continue, and wreak havoc with God's
creation. A group of senior retired military officers recently
warned about the potential upheaval caused by conflicts over water,
arable land and other natural resources under strain from a warming
planet. The problem isn't a Hollywood invention nor is doing
something about it a vanity of Cassandra like hysterics. It is a
serious and urgent economic, environmental and national security
challenge. <br>
<br>
"National security depends on energy security, which we cannot
achieve if we remain dependent on imported oil from Middle Eastern
governments who support or foment by their own inattention and
inequities the rise of terrorists or on swaggering demagogues and
would be dictators in our hemisphere. <br>
<br>
"There's no doubt it's an enormous challenge. But is it too big a
challenge for America to tackle; this great country that has never
before confronted a problem it couldn't solve? No, it is not. No
people have ever been better innovators and problem solvers than
Americans. It is in our national DNA to see challenges as
opportunities; to conquer problems beyond the expectation of an
admiring world. America, relying as always on the industry and
imagination of a free people, and the power and innovation of free
markets, is capable of overcoming any challenge from within and
without our borders. Our enemies believe we're too weak to overcome
our dependence on foreign oil. Even some of our allies think we're
no longer the world's most visionary, most capable country or
committed to the advancement of mankind. I think we know better than
that. I think we know who we are and what we can do. Now, let's
remind the world."<br>
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