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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Elizabeth Kolbert:</b> "<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> And I think the point that Bill has made, and I agree with it, is</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> maybe we can avoid the worst possible future. But I don’t think at this point we can avoid a lot, a lot, a lot of damage.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Bill McKibben:</b> “Look, Betsy’s right. So we’re not playing for stopping climate change. We’re playing maybe for being able to slow it down to the point where it doesn’t make civilizations impossible. That’s an open question. There are scientists who tell you we’re already past that point. The consensus, at least for the moment, is that we’ve got a narrow and closing window, but that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">if we move with everything we have,</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""> then, perhaps, we’ll be able to squeeze a fair amount of our legacy through it. But Betsy is right, an already very difficult century is going to become a lot harder no matter what we do. It’s at this point trying to keep it from becoming not a difficult and even miserable century but a literally impossible one.”</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bill-mckibben-and-elizabeth-kolbert-on-the-un-extinction-report" class="">https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bill-mckibben-and-elizabeth-kolbert-on-the-un-extinction-report</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Greta Thunberg:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">voiding catastrophic climate breakdown </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">is to do the seemingly impossible. And that is what we have to do."</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“We live in a strange world. But it’s the world that my generation has been handed. It’s the only world we’ve got.”</span></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFvXc14g3AQ" class=""><font color="#1155cc" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?</span></font><font color="#1155cc" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><wbr class="">v=bFvXc14g3AQ</span></font></a></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">————————————————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The term refers to situations in society that contain </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">traps formally like a fish trap,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">no easy way to back out of or to avoid."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">—————————————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Excerpt: "Environmental psychologist Susi Moser, also talks about the importance of acknowledging our underlying fears and distress about climate change as an important coping strategy. She argues that this is a necessary step for developing ‘authentic hope’ about climate change. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> Moser (2012) calls it ‘the bravest thing’ – getting real, accepting reality without illusions, and accepting that better tomorrows may not come.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action" class="">https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/blog/how-do-people-cope-with-feelings-about-climate-change-so-that-they-stay-engaged-and-take-action</a></span></div></div></div>————————————————————</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/12/15/teenage-activist-calls-leaders-not-mature-enough-take-action-climate-change/" class="">Teen activist says leaders <b class="">not</b> '<b class="">mature enough</b>' to take action on </a></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/12/15/teenage-activist-calls-leaders-not-mature-enough-take-action-climate-change/" class="">climate</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 105, 217); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/12/15/teenage-activist-calls-leaders-not-mature-enough-take-action-climate-change/" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/12/15/teenage-activist-calls-leaders-not-mature-enough-take-action-climate-change/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Dec 15, 2018 ... Greta Thunberg spoke at the global climate conference in Poland, telling officials they 'are <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">too scared of being unpopular'</span> to take action on ...</span></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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