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The Personal and Emotional in Climate Change
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### Emotional Responses
[Hopelessness over Climate Change](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/i-have-felt-hopelessness-over-climate-change-here-is-how-we-move-past-the-immense-grief)
- "My intellectual and rational understanding of it has shifted to much more of an emotional and personal one" - Rob Law
[Facing Extinction](http://www.catherineingram.com/facingextinction/)
### Psychology
### Life decisions
[Birthstrike](https://birthstrike.tumblr.com/) - deciding not to have children
Geographical
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### Local
Cambridge declared a "climate emergency" in 2009. They completed a [greenhouse gas inventory](https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/climateandenergy/greenhousegasemissions/communityemissions) for 2012
[State transportation policies fail communities of color](https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/power-on-chelsea/?fbclid=IwAR2m3K0WcDKdmbK_ag_VuAFlPw_R67OkNC0jZWrfl-nfD-5ZcmPnk2_PKUI): "Chelsea is home to some of the worst air quality in the state. The people of Chelsea suffer from the highest rates of asthma hospitalizations of any community in Massachusetts."
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MA energy demand - 2016
### National
At least 18 states have introduced [pipeline protest laws](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/08/wave-of-new-laws-aim-to-stifle-anti-pipeline-protests-activists-say)
### International
Online self-paced EdX Course on [Climate Science and Negotiations](https://www.edx.org/course/climate-change-science-and-negotiations), from UN's Sustainable Development Goals
[deforestation increasing in Brazil](https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-agribusiness-ranching/), with significant impact, following Bolsonaro's election
Social and Political
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### Climate Justice
[MA air pollution](http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/air-pollution-inequality-growing-in-massachusetts/)
### Social / Culture
Video: ["The DO MORE mindset is ruining the planet"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjV4lHoYsbo) The degrowth movement pursues the redistribution of wealth
### Policy
[Green New Deal's bipartisan support](http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/the-green-new-deal-has-strong-bipartisan-support/)
- "As expected, support is strongest among Democrats (92%). But a large majority of Republicans (64%) – including conservative Republicans (57%) – also support the policy goals in our description of the Green New Deal [...] partisan framing in communicating about the Green New Deal – by either the Right or the Left – could activate partisan associations and erode the existing bipartisan support for the concept."
16 min documentary on Ireland's experience with [citizen's assemblies](https://www.allhandsondoc.com/when-citizens-assemble) and the process
[long interview of Roger Hallam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKrVFFjkBs) There's probably some good stuff further on for thinking about strategy and tactics.. but since it has come up a lot here.. Hallam offers the three key elements of why XR was successful: disruption, sacrifice and respect - being nice to people.
Media
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[What if we covered climate like the start of WWII?](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/22/climate-crisis-ed-murrow-bill-moyers) "The combined coverage of climate change by the three major networks and Fox fell from just 260 minutes in 2017 to a mere 142 minutes in 2018"
Economics and Emissions
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1.5 degrees of [commited emissions from existing infrastructure](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1364-3), paper in _Nature_. Also covered in [The Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/07/01/fossil-fuel-plants-will-push-world-across-dangerous-climate-limit-research-finds/2uboADxXAxCzxeX5dPTB7I/story.html)
Ecosystems and biodiversity
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[Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature)
Solutions
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### Agriculture / Ecosystem restoration / Food
[soil stores carbon](https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/a-secret-weapon-to-fight-climate-change-dirt/)
[Potential carbon dioxide drawdown from planting a trillion trees](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions)
[global degradation of farmland]( http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/01/silent-invisible-crisis-destabilising-communities-subject-hope/)
[Biodiversity for Climate](https://bio4climate.org/resources/compendium/)
### Sustainable Economy
Climate Science
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### Basics
Effective representation of scale in this [comic timeline of temperature since prehistory](https://xkcd.com/1732/)
### Models and Projections
* [Climate Stabilization Targets]( https://www.nap.edu/read/12877/chapter/12)
I would ask people to read the best explanation of “earth system sensitivity” I’ve read, and after doing so, to consider the long-term viability of human civilization - Katherine Hayhoe