[MCN] Climate change is now worsening amidst a New World Disorder
Lance Olsen
lance at wildrockies.org
Sat Jun 18 08:23:06 EDT 2022
“… Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory of human activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one dimension.
“One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil’s calculations, but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take humanity to reach a crisis point.”
Stephen Running. “Approaching the Limits” Science 15 March 2013.
Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature. by Vaclav Smil . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN 9780262018562.
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David Craig: 'If business is to survive, it has to stop stealing from nature' <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMigAFodHRwczovL3d3dy5yZXV0ZXJzLmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy9zdXN0YWluYWJsZS1idXNpbmVzcy9kYXZpZC1jcmFpZy1pZi1idXNpbmVzcy1pcy1zdXJ2aXZlLWl0LWhhcy1zdG9wLXN0ZWFsaW5nLW5hdHVyZS0yMDIyLTA2LTA3L9IBAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Reuters.com <http://reuters.com/>
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“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are at risk of major transformation.”
Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change.
Science 31 August 2018
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“Violence, crime, and suicide may increase with temperature, adding to the rates of depression and anxiety already associated with climate change.”
By Gianna Melillo | June 9, 2022
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/3517379-hhs-report-warns-of-extreme-heat-risks-in-coming-months/ <https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/3517379-hhs-report-warns-of-extreme-heat-risks-in-coming-months/>
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“The gap between high- and low-income families has widened steadily since about 1980, hitting a new high every year since 1985. “
Business Week, November 21, 1994, p. 72.
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Drought Led to Collapse of Civilizations, Study Says - Nationa <https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/131024-drought-bronze-age-pollen-archaeology>l Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com › culture › article <https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/131024-drought-bronze-age-pollen-archaeology>
Oct 25, 2013 — A new study shows that drought spurred the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
Misery in Slow Motion: The Deep and Long Lasting Effects of Drought <https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/10/24/misery-in-slow-motion-the-deep-and-long-lasting-effects-of-drought>
https://www.worldbank.org › press-release › 2017/10/24 <https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/10/24/misery-in-slow-motion-the-deep-and-long-lasting-effects-of-drought>
Oct 24, 2017 — “We need to better understand the impacts of water scarcity, which will become more severe due to growing populations and a changing climate.”.
Severer, longer-lasting and more widespread drought <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/944717>
https://www.eurekalert.org › news-releases <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/944717>
Feb 25, 2022 — Severer, longer-lasting and more widespread droughts from 1901 to 2100 ... Global warming increases the likelihood for more extreme …
Climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations <https://climate.nasa.gov/news/1010/climate-change-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations/>
https://climate.nasa.gov › news › climate-change-and-th... <https://climate.nasa.gov/news/1010/climate-change-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations/>
Jan 20, 2014 — As archaeologists continue to turn up ever more signs of collapsed civilizations, they are finding plenty of evidence that climate shifts are at ...
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The Economist May 25, 2022
Wall Street’s housing grab continues
As rising rates deter families from buying, being a rentier looks as appealing as ever
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/05/25/wall-streets-housing-grab-continues <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/05/25/wall-streets-housing-grab-continues>
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Across the rich world house-hunters perturbed by high prices and rising rates are holding fire on mortgage applications. In America new home sales have crashed to two-year lows.
One group of buyers, however, remains unfazed: Wall Street. What began as an opportunistic bet on single-family housing during America’s subprime crash of 2007-10 has morphed into a mainstream asset class. Today all sorts of institutions—from private-equity firms to insurers and pension funds—are piling into the sector. They are unlikely to vacate it: being a rentier looks as appealing as ever.
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The New York Times June 17, 2022
Amid Jan. 6 Revelations, Election Lies Still Dominate the G.O.P.
By Jonathan Weisman <https://www.nytimes.com/by/jonathan-weisman>
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/politics/election-trump-republicans-jan-6.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/us/politics/election-trump-republicans-jan-6.html>
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Yet the most striking revelation so far may be how deeply Mr. Trump’s disregard for the truth and the rule of law have penetrated into the Republican Party, taking root in the fertile soil of a right-wing electorate stewing in conspiracy theories and well tended by their media of choice. The Republican response to the hearings — a combination of indifference, diversion and doubling down — reflects how central the lie of a stolen election has become to the party’s identity.
Like mint in the garden, the seeds that the Trump team planted between Election Day 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, are now growing out of control, aided by the former president’s allies.
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Almost half in new poll sees likelihood US will ‘cease to be a democracy in the future’ <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiiwFodHRwczovL3RoZWhpbGwuY29tL2Jsb2dzL2Jsb2ctYnJpZWZpbmctcm9vbS8zNTI0NzA4LWFsbW9zdC1oYWxmLWluLW5ldy1wb2xsLXNlZXMtbGlrZWxpaG9vZC11cy13aWxsLWNlYXNlLXRvLWJlLWEtZGVtb2NyYWN5LWluLXRoZS1mdXR1cmUv0gGPAWh0dHBzOi8vdGhlaGlsbC5jb20vYmxvZ3MvYmxvZy1icmllZmluZy1yb29tLzM1MjQ3MDgtYWxtb3N0LWhhbGYtaW4tbmV3LXBvbGwtc2Vlcy1saWtlbGlob29kLXVzLXdpbGwtY2Vhc2UtdG8tYmUtYS1kZW1vY3JhY3ktaW4tdGhlLWZ1dHVyZS9hbXAv?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
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If there’s one thing Ebi wants to avoid, it’s thinking of this catastrophic heat wave as the “new normal,” which she calls “really misleading” as it actually underestimates the gravity of the situation.
“We’re in a period when there’s going to be ongoing change for decades.”
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/western-canada-burns-and-deaths-mount-after-worlds-most-extreme-heat-wave-in-modern-history/ <https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/western-canada-burns-and-deaths-mount-after-worlds-most-extreme-heat-wave-in-modern-history/>
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More than 65 million Americans are experiencing 'severe to exceptional drought' <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEBaLL9c4g8UM3ELV5Ac48YAqMwgEKioIACIQBwB3h9S7eSAUFMWok1yrKioUCAoiEAcAd4fUu3kgFBTFqJNcqyow_P6VBw?uo=CAUie2h0dHBzOi8vZmluYW5jZS55YWhvby5jb20vbmV3cy9tb3JlLXRoYW4tNjUtbWlsbGlvbi1hbWVyaWNhbnMtYXJlLWV4cGVyaWVuY2luZy1zZXZlcmUtdG8tZXhjZXB0aW9uYWwtZHJvdWdodC0xMzI1MDg5ODkuaHRtbNIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Yahoo Finance <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAiEAcAd4fUu3kgFBTFqJNcqyoqFAgKIhAHAHeH1Lt5IBQUxaiTXKsq?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
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The West's unity over Ukraine could be starting to crack, just as Russia's invasion gains ground <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEIODTRJsHiLX_X_D4JDu31EqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow2Nb3CjDivdcCMJ_d7gU?uo=CAUibGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmNuYmMuY29tLzIwMjIvMDYvMTYvdXMtZXVyb3BlLXVuaXR5LW92ZXItdWtyYWluZS1pcy1zdGFydGluZy10by1jcmFjay1hbWlkLXJ1c3NpYS1vbnNsYXVnaHQuaHRtbNIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
CNBC <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMNjW9wow4r3XAg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
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“Now we have a way of dividing America.”
Newt Gingrich
Quoted in Greider, William
Who will tell the people. (p. 276)
1992. Simon & Schuster
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1 in 4 Americans say violence against the government ... - NPR <https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1076873172/one-in-four-americans-say-violence-against-the-government-is-sometimes-okay>
https://www.npr.org › 2022/01/31 › one-in-four-american... <https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1076873172/one-in-four-americans-say-violence-against-the-government-is-sometimes-okay>
Jan 31, 2022 — The number of Americans who support violent political protests has doubled over the last decade, she said. And to Kleinfeld, these poll …
Opinion | Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified ... <https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/01/political-violence-424157>
https://www.politico.com › political-violence-424157 <https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/01/political-violence-424157>
Oct 1, 2020 — Among Americans who identify as Democrat or Republican, 1 in 3 now believe that violence could be justified to advance their parties' political ...
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Grist Jun 13, 2022
Summer has transformed into ‘danger season,’ scientists warn
Hurricanes, heat, fires, smoke, drought: Is it time to stop sugar-coating summer?
Kate Yoder <https://grist.org/author/kate-yoder/>
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/summer-has-transformed-into-danger-season-scientists-warn/ <https://grist.org/extreme-weather/summer-has-transformed-into-danger-season-scientists-warn/>
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“Climate change has pushed a lot of these types of events into a new realm that is much more dangerous,” said Kristy Dahl, a climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
“I just want to say straight-up, frankly, 10, 15 years ago, when we would talk about these things, we didn’t want to scare people,” Cleetus said. “We wanted people to understand the science and really be invited into understanding the implications. And now we’re scared, we’re terrified, for what we have already unleashed on the world.”
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Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization? - Scientifi <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/civilization-food-shortages/>c American
https://www.scientificamerican.com › article › civilizati... <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/civilization-food-shortages/>
May 1, 2009 — Food scarcity and the resulting higher food prices are pushing poor countries into chaos. Such “failed states” can export disease, ...
New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilizations - Grist <https://grist.org/article/new-era-of-food-scarcity-echoes-collapsed-civilizations/>
https://grist.org › article › new-era-of-food-scarcity-ech... <https://grist.org/article/new-era-of-food-scarcity-echoes-collapsed-civilizations/>
Feb 7, 2013 — An unprecedented period of world food security has come to an end. ... Food shortages undermined earlier civilizations.
Missing: scarce | Must include: scarce <https://www.google.com/search?q=%22scarce%22+scarcity+food+social+society+civilization&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinnoTnoK34AhXsFjQIHdXoAp4Q5t4CegQIFBAB>
Food Scarcity: The Timebomb Setting Nation Against Nation <https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/food-scarcity-the-timebomb-setting-nation-against-nation>
https://ourworld.unu.edu › food-scarcity-the-timebomb... <https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/food-scarcity-the-timebomb-setting-nation-against-nation>
The overriding threats are now climate change, population growth, water shortages and rising food prices. The challenge is to save civilization itself.”.
Scarcity | National Geographic Society <https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/scarcity/>
https://www.nationalgeographic.org › encyclopedia › sc... <https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/scarcity/>
May 19, 2022 — Scarcity affects the monetary value people place on goods and services and how governments and private firms decide to distribute resources.
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A 1955 book on right-wing extremists predicted the Jan. 6 attack <https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/06/11/radical-right-extremism-bell-hofstadter/>
Nearly 70 years after the publication of “The New American Right,” as a congressional committee investigates the far-right attack on Jan. 6, 2021, the forgotten text has never looked more prescient.
By Theo Zenou
The Washington Post
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The Financial Times June 17, 2022
EU fears of being held to ransom by Russia over gas become a reality
Moscow’s decision to cut supplies to key buyers has shattered illusion that it would not turn on its biggest customers
By David Sheppard <https://www.ft.com/david-sheppard>, Energy Editor
https://www.ft.com/content/2da439ba-87d8-4a48-80ca-b6452d48669a <https://www.ft.com/content/2da439ba-87d8-4a48-80ca-b6452d48669a>
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Russia cutting gas supplies to Europe has long been one of the EU’s greatest fears. This week it became a reality.
Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, said the cuts by state-run Gazprom appeared to be a “strategic” move by Moscow that would remind Europe that it should not feel “too safe or too comfortable”.
What is clear is that Russia’s decision … has moved the energy crisis into a new and dangerous phase.
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20 Facts About US Inequality that Everyone Should Know <https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know>
https://inequality.stanford.edu › publications › 20-facts-... <https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know>
1. Wage Inequality ... Over the last 30 years, wage inequality in the United States has increased substantially, with the overall level of inequality now ...
1. Wage Inequality <https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know#:~:text=1.%20Wage%20Inequality> · 2. Ceo Pay <https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know#:~:text=2.%20CEO%20pay> · 3. Homelessness <https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know#:~:text=3.%20Homelessness>
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“Earth will survive climate change, deforestation, species extinctions, sea level rise, and pollution. After all, similar plagues and worse are recorded in Earth’s geologic past. But will we? The rise and fall of modern human society could become nothing more than a brief event horizon in the planet’s rock record, thicker and dominated by plastic as compared with the iridium layer that marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs, but fleeting nonetheless.”
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Volume 50, 2022
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-earth-033021-081125 <https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-earth-033021-081125>
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Feeling Hot Can Fuel Rage - Scientific American <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-hot-can-fuel-rage/>
https://www.scientificamerican.com › article › feeling-h... <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-hot-can-fuel-rage/>
Jan 1, 2014 — As the climate heats up, tempers may follow suit, according to a study published in August 2013 in Nature. ... The correlation held true for ...
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White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-supremacists-are-riling-up-thousands-on-social-media>
https://www.pbs.org › newshour › politics › white-supr... <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-supremacists-are-riling-up-thousands-on-social-media>
They hint darkly that the CIA or the FBI are behind mass shootings.
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Russia Shells Plant Sheltering Civilians, Ukraine Says <https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-shells-chemical-plant-sheltering-civilians-ukraine-says-11655031115?mod=hp_lead_pos8>
Moscow’s assault on the eastern city of Severodonetsk also took out a second bridge linking it to neighboring Lysychansk, according to the Luhansk region’s governor.
The Wall Street Journal
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Guns, March for Our Lives and the fear of being shot doing everyday things <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEAxcwBkodd6FdbfiFLDPpf8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowvIaCCzDnxf4CMN6B8gU?uo=CAUiUWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5iY25ld3MuY29tL3RoaW5rL29waW5pb24vZ3Vucy1tYXJjaC1mb3Itb3VyLWxpdmVzLXRlYWNoaW5nLXJjbmEzMjkxMtIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen> in the US
NBC News <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMLyGggsw58X-Ag?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
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America's 1% Has Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90% <https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/>
https://time.com › Ideas › COVID-19 <https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/>
Price and Edwards calculate that the cumulative tab for our four-decade-long experiment in radical inequality had grown to over $47 trillion ...
Sep 14, 2020
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The Financial Times June 12, 2022
Economic thinking is at a crucial inflection point
The market-friendly governing philosophy that triumphed in the 1980s is on the defensive
By Martin Sandbu
https://www.ft.com/content/4575b986-ef11-478d-a7e2-0451ae71b0e1 <https://www.ft.com/content/4575b986-ef11-478d-a7e2-0451ae71b0e1>
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Soaring energy prices have encouraged another form of inflation, this one rhetorical. Comparisons of our current challenges with the world’s economic and political struggles in the 1970s are now a dime a dozen.
The similarities end with the effects for political and economic thinking. Once the turmoil of the 1970s had discredited the mixed economies of the postwar era, it paved the way for the market-liberalising transformations pioneered by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
Back then, economic failure produced something approaching a consensus that “government is the problem”, as Reagan put it. But today the opposite is the case
This raises two questions. Why this difference in the political consequences of seemingly similar economic crises? And is today’s turn to a more interventionist state permanent or a flash in the pan?
The simplest answer to the first question is that when things feel intolerable, people blame the status quo and demand change. In the 1970s that meant deregulating a rigid economy. Today it may mean re-regulating an unchained one.
The current economic debate is about much more than managing cost of living pressures. The question is whether we will finally put the last 40 years behind us and settle on something better.
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Dozens of White Supremacists Arrested in Idaho Riot Plot, Authorities Say <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/us/idaho-pride-white-supremacists-arrested.html>
New York Times
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As Animals Migrate Because of Climate Change, Thousands of New Viruses Will Hop From Wildlife to Humans ... <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07062022/monkeypox-zoonotic-diseases-spread-climate-change/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoUMTIxMzI4OTk1MzE1MTc1MTU0NzAyGmVlMTZiNzlhYTNlZjA2ZGY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0s-tASvuJsLjvL8mSw_Shb>
Inside Climate News
Global climate change and evolving land-use patterns will increase the potential for cross-species viral transmission as animals that were once ...
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Ukraine fears a long war might cause West to lose interest <https://link.apnews.com/click/28008552.621063/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvcnVzc2lhLXVrcmFpbmUtcHV0aW4temVsZW5za3l5LWt5aXYtcG9saXRpY3MtY2QyNDBlYTQzMTE3MjNlMzY5YTU5MTYxMzdjMzEwODc_dXNlcl9lbWFpbD1iYTc5Mzk5NTE4OTBhZGEwNzZjOWIzNWI0OTliNTQyMmVlOWI4NmI3NTY2MmVhMmIyZmU2ZmE3OTU5MGY2ZmVl/61609696b96b9b55ad2cc90fB38f724a8>
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds into its fourth month, officials in Kyiv have expressed fears that the specter of "war fatigue" could erode the West's resolve to help the...Read More <https://link.apnews.com/click/28008552.621063/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvcnVzc2lhLXVrcmFpbmUtcHV0aW4temVsZW5za3l5LWt5aXYtcG9saXRpY3MtY2QyNDBlYTQzMTE3MjNlMzY5YTU5MTYxMzdjMzEwODc_dXNlcl9lbWFpbD1iYTc5Mzk5NTE4OTBhZGEwNzZjOWIzNWI0OTliNTQyMmVlOWI4NmI3NTY2MmVhMmIyZmU2ZmE3OTU5MGY2ZmVl/61609696b96b9b55ad2cc90fC38f724a8>
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US sees heightened extremist threat heading into midterms <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEKlSJmrsZWjKONqHXbCwFYQqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowhO7OATDh9Cgwu4lR?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
The Associated Press <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMITuzgEw4fQo?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
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13-Jun-2022 <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
Extreme weather and climate events likely to drive increase in violence towards women, girls, and sexual and gender minorities <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
<https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
As the climate crisis leads to more intense and more frequent extreme weather and climate-related events, this in turn risks increasing the amount of gender-based violence experienced by women, girls, and sexual and gender minorities, say researchers. <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
JOURNAL <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
The Lancet Planetary Health <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/955465>
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COVID Variants: What You Should Know - Johns Hopkins ... <https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/a-new-strain-of-coronavirus-what-you-should-know#:~:text=A%20variant%20of%20concern%20has,tests%2C%20or%20resist%20antiviral%20treatment.>
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org › health › coronavirus <https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/a-new-strain-of-coronavirus-what-you-should-know#:~:text=A%20variant%20of%20concern%20has,tests%2C%20or%20resist%20antiviral%20treatment.>
A variant of concern has been observed to be more infectious, and is more likely to cause breakthrough infections or reinfections in those who are vaccinated or previously infected. These variants are more likely to cause severe disease, evade diagnostic tests, or resist antiviral treatment.
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June 10, 2022 Online Disinformation Uses Culture Wars to Delay Climate Action, Study Says
https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/online-disinformation-uses-culture-wars-to-delay-climate-action-study-says/ <https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysclimate/online-disinformation-uses-culture-wars-to-delay-climate-action-study-says/>
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“Presenting a UN report in April that warned of the impending climate emergency, Secretary-General António Guterres said <https://www.un.org/press/en/2022/sgsm21228.doc.htm> 'Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But, the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels’."
The Toronto Star June 11, 2022
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/06/10/trans-mountain-pipeline-protester-tim-takaro-should-not-do-jail-time.html <https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/06/10/trans-mountain-pipeline-protester-tim-takaro-should-not-do-jail-time.html>
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The Financial Times June 8, 2022
Canada’s oil sands: why some of the world’s dirtiest fuel is now in hot demand
Excerpts
When Joe Biden scrapped a permit for the huge Keystone XL pipeline just hours after entering the White House last year, a death knell seemed to be ringing for Canada’s oil sands, by far the largest supplier of foreign oil to the US.
In Alberta, a province where just about everyone is related to someone who works in the oilfield, the new US president’s decision deepened the gloom.
Yet, 18 months later, the mood is brightening as surging oil prices start to revive the economy. Alberta’s producers — forced to contend with sub-zero oil prices just a couple of years ago — are using the windfall from $100 a barrel crude to repair their balance sheets and beef up dividends. Production is rising again. So is export capacity: a pipeline system to the Midwest has been expanded and another to the West Coast is due online next year.
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“The American way of life is not negotiable.”
George H. W. Bush. 1992
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Ecosystems are showing symptoms of resilience loss <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac73a8>
Juan C Rocha 2022 Environ. Res. Lett. 17 065013
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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”
Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies.
Nature Climate Change Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4>
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A Georgia woman known as ‘Burnitdown’ portends what the Trump movement is becoming <https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/12/election-suspicion-georgia-greene-trump/>
Suspicious of almost everything, trusting of almost nothing, believing in almost no one other than those who share her unease, Angela Rubino has in many ways become a citizen of a parallel America — one she believes to be awash in various nightmares revealed by the minute on her social media scrolls.
By Stephanie McCrummen <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/stephanie-mccrummen/>
The Washington Post
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Singapore's dengue 'emergency' is a climate change omen for the world <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmNubi5jb20vMjAyMi8wNi8wNi9hc2lhL2hlYWx0aC1kZW5ndWUtc2luZ2Fwb3JlLWVtZXJnZW5jeS1jbGltYXRlLWhlYXQtaW50bC1obmsvaW5kZXguaHRtbNIBamh0dHBzOi8vYW1wLmNubi5jb20vY25uLzIwMjIvMDYvMDYvYXNpYS9oZWFsdGgtZGVuZ3VlLXNpbmdhcG9yZS1lbWVyZ2VuY3ktY2xpbWF0ZS1oZWF0LWludGwtaG5rL2luZGV4Lmh0bWw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
CNN
9 hours ago
Excerpt
Dengue is not a pleasant disease. It causes flu-like symptoms <https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/01/health/dengue-fever-mosquito/index.html> such as high fever, severe headaches and body pains. In extreme cases, bleeding, breathing difficulties, organ failure and even death can occur
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Smithsonian Magazine June 24, 2020
A Brief History of Anti-Fascism
By James Stout <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/author/james-stout/>
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-anti-fascism-180975152/ <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-anti-fascism-180975152/>
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Historian Robert Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism—one of the definitive works on the subject—lays out the motivating passions of fasicsm, which include “the right of the chosen group to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law”.
At its heart, fascism is about premising the needs of one group, often defined by race and ethnicity over the rest of humanity; anti-fascists have always opposed this.
The leftists of Germany’s Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB) first used the famous clenched-fist salute <https://academic.oup.com/jdh/article-abstract/13/4/319/482592>as the symbol of their fight against intolerance; when, in 1932, they became Antifaschistische Aktion, or “antifa” for short, they fought Nazi anti-Semitism and homophobia under the flags with the red-and-black logo <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-018-0245-y> that antifa groups wave today <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-is-antifa-a-look-at-the-movement-trump-is-blaming-for-violence-at-protests>. That fist was first raised by German workers, but would go on to be raised by the Black Panthers, Black American sprinters Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/24/they-didnt-takeaknee-the-black-power-protest-salute-that-shook-the-world-in-1968/> and Nelson Mandela, among many others.
In the United Kingdom, anti-fascists became an important movement as anti-Semitism emerged as a salient force. In October 1936, Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists attempted to march through Jewish neighborhoods in London <http://www.cablestreet.uk/>. Mosley's 3,000 fascists, and the 6,000 policemen who accompanied them, found themselves outnumbered by the anti-fascist Londoners who had turned out to stop them.
Estimates of the crowd vary from 20,000 to 100,000. They raised their fists, like German anti-fascists, and chanted “No pasaran” ("They shall not pass!", the slogan of the Spanish militia), and they sung in Italian, German and Polish <https://libcom.org/library/fascists-and-police-routed-battle-cable-street>. They succeeded: The fascists did not pass, and Cable Street became a symbol of the power of a broad anti-fascist alliance in shutting down fascist hate speech on the streets.
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One area of particular concern is how climate change will affect the spread of insect-borne diseases. These include dengue fever, malaria, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya and yellow fever. They are spread through the bite of 'vectors' such as mosquitoes, ticks and flies.
Climate change and insect-borne disease: Facts and figure <https://www.scidev.net/global/features/climate-change-and-insect-borne-disease-facts-and-1/#:~:text=One%20area%20of%20particular%20concern,as%20mosquitoes%2C%20ticks%20and%20flies.>
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“if Americans were asked point blank whether they would agree to reduce their energy consumption by one-half, many would probably recoil in apprehension and reject the idea.
"Yet energy consumption in 1960 was about half of what is now [ 1970 ]. Many of us remember 1960. Surely we had a civilized country then, with roads, electricity, entertainment, and so on. Yet we we were consuming half the energy.”
Page 181 : The Conserver Society. Harper Colophon Books. Copyright 1979 by Kimon Valaskakas et al
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“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, ….
“Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury.
"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”
Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt>
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Climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations <https://climate.nasa.gov/news/1010/climate-change-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations/>
https://climate.nasa.gov › news › climate-change-and-th... <https://climate.nasa.gov/news/1010/climate-change-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations/>
Jan 20, 2014 — As archaeologists continue to turn up ever more signs of collapsed civilizations, they are finding plenty of evidence that climate shifts are at ...
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Global Warming and Violent Behavior - Association for ... <https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/global-warming-and-violent-behavior>
https://www.psychologicalscience.org › ... › February <https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/global-warming-and-violent-behavior>
by C Plante · 2017 · Cited by 16 — The researchers conclude, based on the collection of studies, that uncomfortably hot temperatures increase aggression.
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