<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">”Someday I must tell my son what I have done. My comfortable, safe life is in large part a product of the <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page5.php" class="">internal combustion engine</a>. Fossil fuels power the trains that take us to the beach, the factories that make his plastic bucket and spade, the lights I switch off when I kiss him good night. We can make small adjustments: recycling, buying reusable bottles for our water and ice coffee, foregoing the occasional plastic bag. But these small things, even multiplied by a large population, are still small in the end.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"I cannot deny my son or myself the ease of modern life, and I have no wish to isolate him from friends and family by insisting on radical changes. A carbon-free life seems a solitary one: no travel to see grandparents, awkward refusals of invitations, precious time with friends replaced by gardening, canning, mending, building, working. I search for political solutions, an advocacy muted by the cowardice of my personal choices. In the end, I am responsible for the gases that are changing the climate and, in raising my son in comfort and convenience, and am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #555555; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Kate Marvel, physicist, climate scientist,</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #919191; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Columbia University’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #555555; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><<<a href="https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent;" class="">https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">=========================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYmh0dHBzOi8vY2xlYW50ZWNobmljYS5jb20vMjAyMC8xMS8wOC9pbmNyZWFzZWQtYXdhcmVuZXNzLW9mLWhvbWUtZW5lcmd5LXVzYWdlLWVtaXNzaW9ucy1pcy1hLW11c3Qv0gFmaHR0cHM6Ly9jbGVhbnRlY2huaWNhLmNvbS8yMDIwLzExLzA4L2luY3JlYXNlZC1hd2FyZW5lc3Mtb2YtaG9tZS1lbmVyZ3ktdXNhZ2UtZW1pc3Npb25zLWlzLWEtbXVzdC9hbXAv?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Increased Awareness Of Home Energy Usage & Emissions Is A Must</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Research suggests new approaches are necessary to control home energy emissions.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">CleanTechnica</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">=========================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class="">News Release 29-Oct-2020</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class="">Resistance and challenges to Green Deals should not be underestimated</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); min-height: 25px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class=""><b class=""></b></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class="">EUROPEAN ACADEMIES' SCIENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class="">A Perspective by the EASAC Environment Steering Panel</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpts : </b>Demand for energy and resources has been growing as a result of population growth and increased consumption, to the point where all the scientific evidence shows we are bumping up against fundamental planetary boundaries on which our civilizations depend. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">EASAC summarises this evidence with a focus on climate and biodiversity, describing what many international scientists have been thinking since the 1970s - that current unsustainable trajectories are built into our economic theories and our political reward systems. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The short-term perspective of<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">many</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> vested interests in </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">continuing the status quo </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(</span>whether in fossil fuels, resources extraction, high consumption in the linear economy, overfishing, conversion of forests and so on) is a formidable barrier to change.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Climate warming is proceeding too fast to meet the Paris Agreement objective of avoiding dangerous climate change. Positive feedback effects that accelerate warming are already occurring.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">=========================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"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.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change MAY 2018</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Published online: 27 April 2018 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">=========================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“What we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can consume.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Naomi Klein</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/" class="">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">=========================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a" class="">CNN Oct 8, 2018 - </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A stark new report from the global scientific authority on </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #6a6a6a" class="">climate</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> ... But to do that, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #6a6a6a" class="">Climate</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Change (</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #6a6a6a" class="">IPCC</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">) says, would ... change their </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #6a6a6a" class="">lifestyle</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> and consumption patterns to more sustainable ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/world/ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl/index.html" class="">What the new report on climate change expects from you - CNN<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/world/ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl/index.html" class="">https://www.cnn.com › world › ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">=========================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"Direct effects of climatic warming can be understood through fatal decrements in an organism's performance in growth, reproduction, foraging, immune competence, behaviors and competitiveness."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Portner and Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. Science October 31 2008</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 38, 0); color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">=========================================</span><br class="">Kate Marvel, physicist, climate scientist<br class=""><br class="">”Someday I must tell my son what I have done." …. "In the end, I am responsible for the gases that are changing the climate and, in raising my son in comfort and convenience, am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him."<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/" class="">https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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;"><br class=""></div>
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