<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 class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“I just want it to be clear that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); 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(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" 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="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); 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(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">July 22 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">—————————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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" class="">“During WWII, … we transformed our economy incredibly quickly in order to protect ourselves. All hands were on deck.</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="">“Families including children were also mobilized — and 40 percent of vegetables were grown at home, in ‘victory gardens.’ </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="">“The government laid down strong regulations, such as a ban on the production of new consumer cars. More than 37 percent of our gross domestic product was spent on the war effort. </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="">“If the United States rises to the challenge of confronting the climate emergency, we can still “cancel the apocalypse” and begin restoring a safe climate and healthy society. The first step is telling the truth. We need a national acknowledgement that we face a climate emergency.”</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(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/449079-moving-into-emergency-mode-on-climate-change" class="">https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/449079-moving-into-emergency-mode-on-climate-change<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Carbon Brief April 10, 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); 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(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Analysis: Why children must emit eight times less CO2 than their grandparents</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-children-must-emit-eight-times-less-co2-than-their-grandparents" class="">https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-children-must-emit-eight-times-less-co2-than-their-grandparents</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 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(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Opening paragraphs</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(29, 29, 29); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Global emissions of CO2 need to decline precipitously over the next few decades, if the world is to meet the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to “well below 2C” and, ideally, below 1.5C. If these goals are to be met, young people would have to live the greater part of their lives without contributing significantly to global emissions. Essentially, they would have fewer “allowable” CO2 emissions during their lifetime, compared with older generations.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); 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(29, 29, 29); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“To determine just how much smaller their personal CO2 limits would be, Carbon Brief has combined historical data on emissions and population with projections for the future. In a world where warming is limited to 1.5C, the average person born today can emit only an eighth of the lifetime emissions of someone born in 1950.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); 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(29, 29, 29); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The interactive tool, below, shows the size of each person’s “carbon budget” during their lifetime – based on when and where they were born. It looks at two different scenarios: one where the world limits warming to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels by 2100; and one were warming is limited to 1.5C. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); 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(29, 29, 29); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">It also considers two different ways of sharing future allowable emissions: one where each country tracks “<a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-integrated-assessment-models-are-used-to-study-climate-change" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(32, 101, 182);" class="">optimal</span></a>” pathways taken from models; and another, focused on equality, where each person can use the same portion of future emissions, no matter where they live.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); 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(29, 29, 29); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In all cases, younger generations will have to make do with substantially smaller lifetime carbon budgets than older generations, if the Paris limits are to be respected. This is because most of the <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-much-carbon-budget-is-left-to-limit-global-warming-to-1-5c" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(32, 101, 182);" class="">allowable emissions</span></a> have already been used up, meaning young people will not have the luxury of unmitigated emissions enjoyed by older generations.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); 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(29, 29, 29);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Full text</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-children-must-emit-eight-times-less-co2-than-their-grandparents" class="">https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-children-must-emit-eight-times-less-co2-than-their-grandparents</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMigwFodHRwczovL3d3dy5tb3RoZXJqb25lcy5jb20vZW52aXJvbm1lbnQvMjAyMS8xMC9mb3NzaWwtZnVlbC1pbmR1c3RyeS1zdWJzaWRpZXMtbWlsbGlvbnMtcGVyLW1pbnV0ZS1pbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsLW1vbmV0YXJ5LWZ1bmQtaW1mL9IBAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Fossil Fuel Firms Are Subsidized at a Rate of $11 Million Per Minute – Mother Jones<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Mother Jones</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); 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(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“A death zone is creeping over the surface of Earth, gaining a little more ground each year. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); 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(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“As an analysis published this week in <i class="">Nature Climate Change</i> shows, since 1980, these temporary hells on Earth have opened up hundreds of times to take life (C. Mora <i class="">et al.</i> <i class="">Nature Clim. Change</i> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3322" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(74, 101, 132);" class="">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3322</span></a>; 2017). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); 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(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The analysis also reveals that even aggressive reductions in emissions will lead the number of deadly heatwaves to soar in the coming decades.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); 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(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">Nature</i> <b class="">546,</b> 452 (22 June 2017) doi:10.1038/546452a</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELXRb6N0mf2E9e_FMD75d5kqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow2Nb3CjDivdcCMOryngY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Even with current drive to renewables, CO2 emissions will grow through 2050, says U.S. government<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMNjW9wow4r3XAg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">CNBC<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); 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(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">“</b>When collapse-anticipation does get discussed in the mainstream media, even now it is lampooned, or labelled as unhelpful ‘doomism’. In my most <a href="https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2021.05" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 86, 99);" class="">recent academic article</span></a> I analyse the evidence-base of the claims that people who anticipate disruption and collapse are unhelpful for either enabling social change or public mental health. From both a sociological and psychological basis, I conclude those claims are not robust. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); 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(20, 20, 20);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“Therefore, they may reflect the desire of the authors to negatively frame and marginalise people with opinions that make them feel uncomfortable. That’s something worth naming to make it easier to discuss - <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2021/10/adaptation-delayism-preventing-urgently.html" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 86, 99);" class="">adaptation delayism</span></a>. The paper is also available in a 1 hour audio format <a href="https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/jem-bendell-psychological-insights-on-discussing-societal-disruption-and-collapse" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 86, 99);" class="">here</span></a>.<b class=""> </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); 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(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Reviewing the paper, the former financial coordinator of Extinction Rebellion (XR), Andrew Medhurst explains how his own acceptance that massive disruption had become inevitable <a href="https://andmed.medium.com/contemplating-collapse-should-we-speak-about-it-more-and-if-so-how-b835e32cd13c" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 86, 99);" class="">shook him out of his day job</span></a> and into full time activism. Something similar happened for XR founder member Skeena Rathor, who, yesterday, shared her reflections on a summer of bad climate news. She argues that we need more people in the public eye talking about compassionate responses to disaster, to offer an <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-10-06/its-meant-to-hurt-allowing-our-feelings-on-climate-will-promote-action-and-reduce-conflict/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 86, 99);" class="">alternative to the rise of authoritarianism</span></a>. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); 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(20, 20, 20);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“It is an important invitation for the environmental movement to consider, articulate and uphold key values, as more people in both national and intergovernmental processes wake up to the peril (at COP26 and beyond)<b class="">.”</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://mailchi.mp/deepadaptation/deep-adaptation-quarterly-8?" class="">https://mailchi.mp/deepadaptation/deep-adaptation-quarterly-8?</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">———————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEPn_7UcehMpnaMY65Wkj268qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowi_yDCzDblYADMKD-9QU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">How the American Right Lost Its Chance to Get Sane on Climate Change<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMIv8gwsw25WAAw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">New York Magazine<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); 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(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">———————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiECSlHVrsyygbHSAg3dK3ozoqFAgEKgsIACoFCAowgGAwADDklYsG?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Millions of Americans say they'd support violence to restore Trump to power</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBQgKMIBgMAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Salon</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">———————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEOclm6XNtR-cD035FG_9bj8qFAgEKgsIACoFCAowgGAwADDklYsG?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">GOP lawmaker : COVID deaths are Vatican plot — and vaccines contain "living organisms with tentacles"</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBQgKMIBgMAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Salon</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); 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(19, 63, 219); 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(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEPpVsED-SiJGuex2YfnybkYqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLi-lgc?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">GOP Lawmaker Pushes Insane Claim 'Octopus-Like Creatures' Are in Vax</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBggKMO7PATDQSA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">The Daily Beast</a></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 14px; 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;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Book review : <b class="">Under the Sky We Make</b>. Kimberly Nicholas, PhD</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Excerpt : </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Individual responsibility has become something of a flashpoint in the climate discourse. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">On the one hand, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">oil companies <a href="https://grist.org/energy/footprint-fantasy/" class="">love to harp on about</a> personal carbon footprints as a way of distracting from their much larger contributions to the climate crisis, both through the fossil fuel products they make and their longstanding, ongoing efforts to delay climate action and misinform the public. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">At the same time</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, prominent journalists and scientists have waved off individual climate actions as a distraction from the systemic changes that are needed to solve the crisis — changes like overhauling our electricity and transit systems through governmental investments in clean energy, better regulation, and carbon pricing. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">They’re joined by</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> a growing chorus of climate justice advocates who rightly point out that asking poor people to make difficult dietary shifts or give up the car they need to get to work is completely unfair.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">That’s not what Nicholas is doing. Her message isn’t aimed at folks struggling to make ends meet, but at people making a middle-class income or higher who live in a wealthy country like the United States, Germany, or France. Far from a distraction, Nicholas argues that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">the climate impact of the carbon elite is something we need to focus on — individually </span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">and </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">systematically</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">. She points out that globally, more than two-thirds of climate pollution can be </span><a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es803496a" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">attributed to household consumption</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">, and that the richest 10 percent of the world population — those making </span><a href="https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/34432/EGR20ch6.pdf?sequence=3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">more than $38,000 a year</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""> — is responsible for about half of those emissions. </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; 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: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://grist.org/culture/cutting-your-carbon-footprint-matters-a-lot-if-youre-rich/" class="">https://grist.org/culture/cutting-your-carbon-footprint-matters-a-lot-if-youre-rich/</a></span></div>
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