<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; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">William Shatner comes down from space flight as advocate for climate action</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(92, 102, 110); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Thu, October 14, 2021, 11:33 PM·1 min read</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(92, 102, 110); 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://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/william-shatner-overwhelmed-with-sadness-while-discussing-space-flight-053339115.html" class="">https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/william-shatner-overwhelmed-with-sadness-while-discussing-space-flight-053339115.html</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 20, 23); 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(18, 20, 23); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpts </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 20, 23); 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(18, 20, 23); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“And I come back ... overwhelmed by sadness and empathy for this beautiful thing we call Earth.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 20, 23); 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(18, 20, 23); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Burying your head in the sand another instant about global warming and the destruction of the planet is suicide for all of us.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 20, 23); 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(18, 20, 23); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“What is tragic is, if our children, especially our children’s children, don’t have a chance to be part of this beautiful thing we call Earth... and it’s just sad,” Shatner lamented.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 20, 23); 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);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1424786109859565580" class="">Greta Thunberg on Twitter: "According to the new IPCC report ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #18191b; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1424786109859565580" class="">https://twitter.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › gretathunberg › status</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(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267" class="">Aug 9, 2021 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">According to the new IPCC report, the </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""><b class="">carbon budget</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> that gives us the best odds of staying below 1,5°C runs out in less than 5 and a half years</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68); 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(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div>
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<td valign="top" style="width: 784.0px" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 233);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-1174-2110/Bct/q-003a/l-sf-lead-0014:1bc74/ct2_0/1/lu?sid=TV2%3AtxzUYtXcG" class=""><b class="">Weeklong D.C. Climate Protests End With 600+ Arrests, Vows to Fight On</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 233);" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">by Brett Wilkins</i></b> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"There is no other planet to escape to. Water is life... They need to listen to the youth. They need to hear us speak our cries."</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">How intense is Montana drought as of October 14, 2021?</b></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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?MT" class="">https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?MT</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; 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;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">A core question: What is “resilience”?</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2018</b> — “Resilience is a popular narrative for conservation and provides an opportunity to communicate optimism that ecosystems can recover and rebound from disturbances.” (Emily S. Darling</span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">and </i>Isabelle M. Côté, Science, March 2, 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=""><b class="">2014</b> — “Emerging from a wide range of disciplines, resilience in policy-making has often been based on the ability of systems to bounce back to normality, drawing on engineering concepts. This implies the return of the functions of an individual, household, community or ecosystem to previous conditions, with as little damage and disruption as possible following shocks and stresses” (Tanner et al, Nature Climate Change, December 18, 2014). </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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">1938</b> — Resilience. 1- The act or power of springing back to a former position or shape. 2. The quantity of work given back by a body that is compressed to a certain limit and then allowed to recover itself, as a spring under pressure suddenly relaxed.” (Funk & Wagnall’s New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, vol.2, M-Z 1938</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; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></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 class="">
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