<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: 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; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiTWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmxpdmVzY2llbmNlLmNvbS81ODg5MS13aHktMi1kZWdyZWVzLWNlbHNpdXMtaW5jcmVhc2UtbWF0dGVycy5odG1s0gEA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">How Would Just 2 Degrees of Warming Change the Planet?<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="">Live Science</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, 19, 21); 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(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Earth's climate changes over time — the last ice age is evidence of that — but it's the rapid rate of change and the amount of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide filling up the atmosphere that have scientists concerned, deMenocal said. Moreover, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/topics/global-warming" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0c5791" class="">global warming</span></a> doesn't just increase temperatures; </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">it also threatens the<b class=""> food</b>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> water, shelter, energy grid and health of humans, he said.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); 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(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Food</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Climate change affects the ecosystems that provide food, "and therefore our security of food is linked to the security of those ecosystems,"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> deMenocal said.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The oceans, for instance, provide people with about 20 percent of their dietary protein, deMenocal said. However, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/41765-ocean-acidification-anxious-fish.html" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0c5791" class="">ocean acidification</span></a> caused by climate change makes it difficult, if not impossible, for thousands of species, including oysters, crabs and corals, to form their protective shells, which in turn disrupts the food web, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/27594-ocean-acidification-affects-us-coasts.html" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0c5791" class="">Live Science previously reported</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); 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(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">On land, an increase of 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) would almost double the water deficit and would lead to a drop in wheat and maize harvests, <a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2458/why-a-half-degree-temperature-rise-is-a-big-deal" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0c5791" class="">according to NASA</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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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="">The Financial Times January 8, 2022</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="">Food prices remain high into 2022 on shortages due to extreme weather</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="">Crop damage linked to climate change could lead to stockpiling or trade restrictions, experts warn</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="">By Camilla Hodgson and Steven Bernard</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.ft.com/content/fd57ad0b-b98a-4e34-b6b7-f9bbae2ce12e" class="">https://www.ft.com/content/fd57ad0b-b98a-4e34-b6b7-f9bbae2ce12e<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" class=""></span></a></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="">Opening paragraphs</b></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="">Extreme weather events in 2021 triggered spikes in the prices of agricultural commodities, which remained elevated into 2022, as the unusual conditions that damaged crops resulted in ongoing </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">shortages</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">.</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);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The price of goods including Brazilian coffee, Belgian potatoes and Canadian yellow peas — in demand as a protein substitute in plant-based foods — rose sharply last year</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> in response to extreme temperatures and flooding.</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, 10);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Scientists have warned that these conditions will become more frequent and intense as climate change accelerates.</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="">Logistical issues and changes to consumption habits resulting from the pandemic also drove up the price of staple goods such as sugar and wheat last year.</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; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">“Agriculture is one of the most exposed sectors to climate change,”</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> at risk from both individual extreme weather events and long-term shifts in climatic patterns, said a report by Stockholm Environment Institute. The risks were “many times greater” than the opportunities for the sector, it said.</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, 10);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A succession of extreme weather events that occurred around the world during the middle of 2021 damaged a range of crops, which drove up prices.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 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);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">———————————————————————————</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(120, 120, 120); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class=""><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21508925" class="">Ecosphere</a> </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">First published: </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #151617" class="">29 May 2015</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(8, 64, 97); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00400.1" class=""><b class="">https://doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00400.1</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(89, 15, 100); 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(89, 15, 100);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Open Access</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 23); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 23);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Assessing the impacts of projected climate change on biodiversity in the protected areas of western North America</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(8, 64, 97);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Langdon%2C+Jesse+G+R" class="">Jesse G. R. Langdon</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #787878; background-color: #ffffff" class="">,<a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Lawler%2C+Joshua+J" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Joshua J. Lawler</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 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(50, 51, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Abstract</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 23); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Protected areas are a fundamental component of many conservation strategies.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> …. As climates continue to change, species distributions, ecological communities, and ecosystems will be altered. ….Here, we quantify the relative amount of projected potential climate-driven ecological change across a protected area network by calculating three metrics. We assessed future projected changes in temperature and precipitation, shifts in major vegetation types, and vertebrate species turnover for the protected areas of the Pacific Northwestern region of North America. In general, the degree of projected change in the three metrics followed a longitudinal gradient from the Pacific coast inland toward the continental interior. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Protected areas expected to experience the least change are at low elevations near the coast and throughout the Coastal Mountains, whereas areas expected to experience the most change are found at higher elevations in the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin regions.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> The resulting spatial variation in these impact measures underscores the importance of developing appropriate, location-specific, climate-adaptation strategies in response to disparate trends in future environmental change.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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" class="">———————————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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="">Global Change Biology </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #787878; background-color: #ffffff" class="">First published: </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #151617; background-color: #ffffff" class="">30 October 2021</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #636363; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(8, 64, 97);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15962" class=""><b class="">https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15962</b><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 23); 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(21, 22, 23);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(8, 64, 97);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Elsen%2C+Paul+R" class="">Paul R. Elsen</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #787878; background-color: #ffffff" class="">,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Saxon%2C+Earl+C" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Earl C. Saxon</span></a>,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Simmons%2C+B+Alexander" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">B. Alexander Simmons</span></a>,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Ward%2C+Michelle" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Michelle Ward</span></a>,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Williams%2C+Brooke+A" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Brooke A. Williams</span></a>,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Grantham%2C+Hedley+S" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Hedley S. Grantham</span></a>,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Kark%2C+Salit" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Salit Kark</span></a>,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Levin%2C+Noam" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Noam Levin</span></a>,<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Perez-Hammerle%2C+Katharina-Victoria" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class="">Katharina-Victoria Perez-Hammerle</span></a><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15962#" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class=""><b class=""> … See all authors </b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); 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(50, 51, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Abstract</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 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(21, 22, 23);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Excerpts </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 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(21, 22, 23); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Rapid climate change is impacting biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human well-being. ….Comparing the contemporary and future life zone distributions shows the pace of life zone changes accelerating rapidly in the 21st century. By 2070, such changes would impact an additional 62 million km2 (42.6% of land) under “business-as-usual” (RCP8.5) emissions scenarios. Accelerated rates of change are observed in hundreds of ecoregions across all biomes except Tropical Coniferous Forests ….The accelerated pace of life zone changes will increasingly challenge adaptive conservation and sustainable development strategies that incorrectly assume current ecological patterns and livelihood provisioning systems will persist.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 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);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">——————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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="">Global Change Biology February 2022</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(8, 64, 97);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15966" class=""><b class="">Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change</b><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #084061" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(99, 99, 99); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Carlson%2C+Colin+J" class="">Colin J. Carlson</a>, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Bevins%2C+Sarah+N" class="">Sarah N. Bevins</a>, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Schmid%2C+Boris+V" class="">Boris V. Schmid</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 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(21, 22, 23); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The impacts of climate change on human and wildlife health remain poorly understood. Carlson and colleagues develop a new method for reconstructing these impacts, and show that since 1950, environmental conditions in the western United States have become more favorable for plague (<i class="">Yersinia pestis</i>), including both its maintenance in wild mammals and spillover risk for humans.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 22, 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);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">———————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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 fact is that we, humans, have changed the composition of the atmosphere with respect to heat-trapping gases enough to start the progression of global climate, not into a new steady state, but into </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">an open-ended warming that is pulling the environment out from under this civilization.”</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="">George Woodwell</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0000e9" class=""><<<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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" class="">———————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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="">“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">traps.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> The term refers to situations in society that contain traps </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">formally like a fish trap, </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy way to back out of or to avoid."</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="">John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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" class="">———————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); 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="">Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Lance Olsen</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" 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></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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">———————————————————————————</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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">People under 40 will experience 'unprecedented life' of climate change disasters, study says.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; color: #103cc0" class=""><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/" class="">https://news.yahoo.com</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> › people-under-40-experience-...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Sep 28, 2021 — People under 40 will experience 'unprecedented life' of climate change disasters, study says.</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); 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="">Majority of US Population Now Under Age 40 - VOA Learning ...</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://learningenglish.voanews.com/" class="">https://learningenglish.voanews.com</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class=""> › study-majority-o...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Aug 13, 2020 — A new study shows that Americans under the age of 40 now make up a majority of the U.S. population. </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" class="">——————————————————————————</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="">On August 21,</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> 2009</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, The Wall Street Journal reported that “…many scientists say deep emissions cuts are necessary … to prevent … dangerous consequences of global warming,” and concluded that, "Getting from here to there would require a massive economic shift.”</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="">There’s likely been no better summary of the Green New Deal’s basic rationale. In just these few words, The Wall Street Journal had pointed its readers directly to a dangerous trend, identified how to reduce the danger with major economic shift, and did that 10 years before the Sunrise Movement caught the attention of newly elected US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.</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="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class=""><<<a href="https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country</span></a>>></span></div><div class="">
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