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<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; 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 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">First, this :</b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEMIKuQRNQdhPVLJPQUCFXQ8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowocv1CjCSptoCMPrTpgU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Heading 'into a buzzsaw': Why extremism experts fear the Capitol attack is just the beginning</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Protests planned for this weekend and inauguration are only the start. But experts worry the real threat may be what the Capitol attack unleashed long term.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMKHL9QowkqbaAg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">CNN</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> *************************************</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">North Central CASC Affiliated Researchers Awarded Rising Voices Funding to Enable Tribal Data Sovereignty</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Rising Voices program awarded funding to North Central Climate Adaptation Science Centerresearchers to support the data needs of Great Plains and Northern Rockies Tribes. The Rising Voices program facilitates intercultural, relational-based approaches for understanding and adapting to extreme weather and climate events, climate variability, and climate change. This project was one of three projects that received seed funding to catalyze their projects and advance the ethos of the Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences. <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/north-central-casc-affiliated-researchers-awarded-seed-funding-catalyzing-research-and" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Learn more>></b></span></a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">National Tribal Leadership Climate Change Virtual Summit</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Session II of the National Tribal Leadership Climate Change Virtual Summit will take place on January 12 with a focus on "Promoting Tribal Climate Resiliency". The summit is meant to engage leadership and staff in building resilience to meet pressing, complex challenges Indigenous communities must face through leadership engagement and increased familiarity with successful examples, tools, and technologies. U.S. Representative Debra Haaland will be among the guest speakers. The Northwest CASC is a sponsor of the event. <a href="http://atnitribes.org/climatechange/ts/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Learn more>></b></span></a> </span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> *************************************</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“How can scientists protect biodiversity? In the wake of August’s Great Elephant Census, which revealed a precipitous decline in numbers throughout Africa, there were the usual calls from researchers for more and better data. Only if we know where and how many of each species there are, this argument goes, can we hope to conserve them. </span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“This is nonsense.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Better data will not save elephants, rhinos or any other species. An enormous number of individuals, academic institutions, local, state and national governments, and multinational and non-governmental organizations have been collecting, assimilating and organizing such data for decades, essentially fiddling while our biological heritage burns.”</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Aaron M. Ellison. It’s time to get real about conservation. Nature 13 OCTOBER 2016</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/it-s-time-to-get-real-about-conservation-1.20773" class="">https://www.nature.com/news/it-s-time-to-get-real-about-conservation-1.20773</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> *************************************</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, points to another example.</span></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Things are happening right now with the ice sheets that were not predicted to happen until 2100,” Schlesinger says. </span></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“My worry is that we may have passed the window of opportunity where learning is still useful.” </span></p><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">John Bohannan, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Trying to Lasso Climate Uncertainty, Science October 13, 2006</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5797.243</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 32px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 38px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> *************************************</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php" class=""><b class="">A 'ghastly future' unless extraordinary action is taken soon on sustainability</b><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php" class="">UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php" class="">RESEARCH NEWS RELEASE <span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php" class="">News Release 13-Jan-2021<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1155cc" class=""></span></a></span></div><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Without immediate, drastic intervention, humans face a "ghastly future" -- including declining health, climate devastation, tens of millions of environmental migrants and more pandemics -- in the next several decades, according to an international team of 17 prominent scientists.</span></p><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">JOURNAL</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">Frontiers in Conservation Science</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full" class="">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> *************************************</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> “I just want it to be clear that the mainstream environmental movement has been </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">asking very little of people</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> for decades.”</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“There’s no element of, ‘We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we’re doing.” </span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">July 22 2019</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/</a></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> *************************************</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">It's too easy to blame the corporations for the climate crisis, when we subsidize them every time we buy what they’re selling. </span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Corporate policy does matter. At the same time, corporations are totally dependent on the spending by their customers. </span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"This buck stops everywhere."</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial</a></span>nial/>></div></div></div></div>
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