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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How to talk about fiction that engages with global warming? This is difficult — thinking about global warming -- in terms of classifying novels and movies into genres or subgenres of any kind. Let the stories stand for themselves. No genre labels are needed. While I understand that some labels may work well for others, and that classifications can help us, I feel it is best for now to produce novels and movies with no labels at all. Just the story. Just the novel. Just the movie. We don't need genre jungles to clutter things up now. What we need today is clarity, clairvoyance, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4flAZEgtjs" target="_blank">Creedence Clearwater Revival</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-83683474582602074912017-01-03T23:11:00.003-08:002017-01-03T23:16:24.903-08:00The site formerly known as ''CliFiBooks'' has now become Cli-Fi.Net<h3 class="r">
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The site set up in 2013 and formerly known as ''CliFiBooks'' (''formerly CliFiBooks'') became ''The Cli-Fi Report'' in 2014 and set up under a different adminstration at <a href="http://cli-fi.net/" target="_blank"> Cli-Fi.Net</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-64026401497746487582017-01-03T23:05:00.000-08:002017-01-03T23:05:02.059-08:00John Berger has died at 90.<li>John Berger <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-art-critic-and-author-dies-aged-90" target="_blank">has died</a> at 90.</li>
<li>How George Plimpton's unknowingly turned the "defiantly leftist Hemingway into a <a href="https://www.guernicamag.com/george-plimpton-and-papa-in-cuba/" target="_blank">US propaganda tool</a>.”</li>
<li>On the novels and <a href="http://www.full-stop.net/2016/12/31/features/essays/aaronbady/after-before-el-libro-de-carmen-boullosa/" target="_blank">belated English reception</a> of Carmen Boullosa.</li>
<li>On <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/milo-yiannopouloss-cynical-book-deal" target="_blank">Milo Yiannopoulos’ cynical book deal</a>.</li>
<li>On “female writers whose work has most recently <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/30/women-writers-celebrated-2016-alex-clark" target="_blank">come in for enthusiastic appraisal</a>.”</li>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-28916830085263444752017-01-03T23:01:00.001-08:002017-01-03T23:01:25.830-08:00Both Aurora and 2312, two of his recent novels, reference half-submerged coastal cities as the norm. The relatively small bits of those novels that take place in future NY described this ramshackle metropolis as an adaptive and beautiful place. <span style="color: red;">Both ''Aurora'' and ''2312,'' two of Kim Stanley Robinson's recent novels, reference half-submerged coastal cities as the norm. So looking forward to reading his first full-fledged cli-fi novel ''NEW YORK 2140.'' The relatively small bits of those novels that take place in future NY described this ramshackle metropolis as an adaptive and beautiful place.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-71620586512112271832017-01-03T22:52:00.001-08:002017-01-03T22:52:46.282-08:00The anti-Trump crowd still won't let go of the false/fake news that Trump actually believes that global warming is a hoax that China invented to secure an unfair trade advantage with the USA. He was joking, joking. He did tweet that tweet but he was joking ub 2012 when he tweeted it. Yet in 2017 the New York Times's Justin Gillis and Edwin Wong and Business Insider's Lindsay Dodgson and reporters at other publications continued to insist that Trump says (present tense says) that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese.<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="258" data-total-count="439">
The anti-Trump crowd still won't let go of the false/fake news that Trump actually believes that global warming is a hoax that China invented to secure an unfair trade advantage with the USA. </div>
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He was joking, joking. He did tweet that tweet in 2012 -- 4 years ago -- but he was joking in 2012 when he tweeted it. </div>
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Yet in 2017 the New York Times's reporters Justin Gillis and Edwin Wong and Business Insider's Lindsay Dodgson and reporters at other publications continued to insist that Trump says (present tense says) that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese. He was joking. Yet those who hate Trump and all that he stands for won't let the meme die. They keep bringing it up, even though he has explained what he was doing with that tweet in 2012.</div>
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True, n 2012, he <a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385?lang=en">posted on Twitter</a> a couple of messages that asserted that <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about global warming.">climate change</a> was a hoax that <a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about China.">China</a> had devised to secure an unfair trade advantage, presumably because the Obama administration was seeking to curb coal consumption in the United States.</div>
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“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” Mr. Trump wrote. That message has been reshared more than 104,000 times and “liked” nearly 66,000 times.</div>
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JUSTIN GILLIS in the NEW YORK TIMES on January 2, 2017:</div>
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''With <a class="meta-per" href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Donald J. Trump.">Donald J. Trump</a> about to take control of the White House, it would seem a dark time for the renewable energy industry. After all, Mr. Trump has mocked the science of <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about global warming.">global warming</a> as a Chinese hoax, threatened to kill a global deal on climate change and promised to restore the coal industry to its former glory.''</div>
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YES BUT.... <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/03/hillary-clinton/yes-donald-trump-did-call-climate-change-chinese-h/">http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/03/hillary-clinton/yes-donald-trump-did-call-climate-change-chinese-h/</a></div>
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<a class="fancybox" href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20170104/IMG_0831_01.jpg" rel="group" style="display: none; text-align: left;" title="The interior of the bookstore is adorned with fresh flowers from the online flower shop of Day's daughter. (Chris Chang, The China Post, Courtesy of EP-BOOKS)"><img alt="" src="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20170104/IMG_0831_01.jpg" /></a> <a class="fancybox" href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20170104/IMG_6339.JPG" rel="group" style="display: none;" title="Sharing his recent favorite, Day marvels at the novel flavors in this book by macaron master Pierre Herme. (Chris Chang, The China Post, Courtesy of EP-BOOKS)"><img alt="" src="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20170104/IMG_6339.JPG" /></a> <a class="fancybox" href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20170104/IMG_6148(1).JPG" rel="group" style="display: none;" title="After retiring from Wowprime Group, Day realizes his long time dream of opening a bookshop. (Chris Chang, The China Post, Courtesy of EP-BOOKS)"><img alt="" src="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20170104/IMG_6148(1).JPG" /></a> <span class="HeadLineNewsContent1">In Taipei, Taiwan, a retired restaurant entrepreneur named Steve Day (戴勝益 in the Chinese characters used in Taiwan) decided he wanted to open a unique kind of bookstore in new life after the restauran business. So he opened a place called EP-BOOKS (益品書屋 in Chinese characters) and in doing so he revolutionized the concept of traditional bookstores, opening the doors in July 2016. </span><br />
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<span class="HeadLineNewsContent1">The former CEO of the Wowprime Group (王品集團) told local newspaper reporters what lurned him into running this kind of bookstore THAT DOES NO SELL BOOKS. <strong><span style="font-size: large;"> ''We do not sell books, so there is no pressure to make a purchase. The entrance fee is $NT100 [US$3] and you are welcomed to stay here for as long as you like and with unlimited access to tea, coffee and other drinks. ''</span></strong> </span><br />
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<span class="HeadLineNewsContent1"><strong>Dedicated to reviving Taiwan's reading culture, one of Day's main missions while traveling around the world is to scout for new books. The interior of the bookstore is adorned with fresh flowers from the online flower shop of Day's daughter.</strong> </span><br />
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<span class="HeadLineNewsContent1">"The motivation behind this bookstore was to bring back the simple pleasure of reading and to create a stress-free reading environment. It was also the chance for me to do something with what I love the most. I was always a bookworm and I majored in literature in university. Opening a bookstore where everyone could enjoy reading has been my dream since then. Even when I was working at Wowprime, I did not forget that this was what I wanted to do ultimately in life.'' </span><br />
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<span class="HeadLineNewsContent1">''During my days with Wowprime, I went trekking at Mount Everest Base Camp two times on staff trips. On those occasions, it was interesting to see the differences between Asians, who were usually chatting in groups during break time, and Westerners, who often enjoyed the mountain view with a book in hand. This reminded me how crucial reading is for self-nourishment and to become a person of culture. '' </span><br />
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<span class="HeadLineNewsContent1">''I wanted to provide a place for people to relax and read. Bookstores and libraries tend to make people feel stiff and self-conscious. It is awkward to read at bookstores. When you read there for three to four hours a day, there is that thought of store clerks looming in the background and staring you down for not buying anything. This takes away the fun of reading. You would not have this problem in libraries, but it wouldn't be possible to get a coffee or tea to go along with your book. The idea of EP-BOOKS stemmed from finding a way to solve both problems. '' </span><br />
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''It goes back to creating a reading-friendly environment. Here, the atmosphere is much more lively, which allows everyone to find their own corner to hide away and dive into a book. We have fresh flowers and a violinist playing in the background in the afternoons and a spacious reading area. We do not sell books, so there is no pressure to make a purchase. The entrance fee is $NT100 [US$3] and you are welcomed to stay here for as long as you like and <strong>with unlimited access to tea, coffee and other drinks.</strong> ''<br />
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<span class="HeadLineNewsContent1">''Buying the right books that have appeal is more of a concern for me. For readers to pick up a book after the bookshelf, the topic needs to pique their curiosity to begin with, so there should also be plenty of images inside to make it easy to read. Therefore, our books fall under the categories such as aesthetics, food and dining, lifestyle, travel and children's books. '' ''There is also the issue of establishing trust between the customers and us. We have no policies of getting your hand re-stamped for re-entry, nor do we have surveillance cameras. If we had these rules, it would be too complicated and ruin the satisfaction of savoring books.'' ■ </span><br />
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<span class="kicker"><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/category/climate-change/">Climate Change</a></span> <!-- date published --><time class="dateline " datetime="2016-10-21T17:42:50+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">Oct 21 1:42 pm</time> <!-- date updated --><span class="visually-hidden updated">Oct 21 1:42 pm</span><span class="postMetaHeaderCommentCount commentCount"> <i class="icon"></i> <a class="commentCountLink commentCountNumberOnly" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/coals-link-to-global-warming-explained-in-1912/#commentsContainer">67</a> </span> </div>
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<webonly><span class="update" id="t17h17s">Various updates | </span></webonly>Scientific analysis <a href="https://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm">pointing to a human role in warming the climate</a> through burning fossil fuels goes back to 1896, with Svante Arrhenius’s remarkable paper, “<a href="http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf">On the Influence of Carbonic Acid [<em>Carbon Dioxide</em>] in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground</a>.”</div>
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Starting in the late 1930s, <a href="https://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm#SC">Guy Stewart Callendar,</a> a British engineer and amateur meteorologist, stirred the field by calculating that rising carbon dioxide levels were already warming the climate. Check out his 1938 paper on the subject: “<a href="https://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/qjcallender38.pdf">The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature</a>.”</div>
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By 1956, The New York Times was <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/pioneering-greenhouse-analyst-appraised/?_r=0">writing on combustion-driven global warming</a>.</div>
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But when did news coverage <em>begin</em>?</div>
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The earliest (and most concise!) article I’ve seen was published on Aug. 14, 1912, in a couple of New Zealand newspapers, the Rodney and Otamatea Times and Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette: <a class="more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/coals-link-to-global-warming-explained-in-1912/#more-58613">Read more…</a></div>
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Earlier this week I spoke at Arizona State University on ways to pursue a least-regrets approach to human development. My talk (building on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxP26Jn0png&feature=youtu.be&t=10m34s">one you can watch here</a>) launched an interdisciplinary workshop on <a href="https://sustainability.asu.edu/planetworks/events-planetary-design/">developing the capacity to manage the climate system</a> in the face of relentlessly rising emissions of greenhouse gases.*</div>
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The university already has initiatives on everything from “<a href="https://sustainability.asu.edu/urbanresilience/">urban resilience to extremes</a>” to “<a href="https://engineering.asu.edu/cnce/">negative emissions</a>” — developing ways to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in amounts large enough to matter at climate scale. (Think billions of tons a year, a scale that the Paris climate agreement <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/the-reality-gap-in-the-push-to-close-the-global-warming-emissions-gap-in-paris/">presumes, without much evidence, will be possible later this century</a>.)</div>
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But leaders of the university’s sustainability initiatives want to inspire more cross-cutting collaborations, particularly including the humanities and social sciences. There’s plenty to draw on there. How many schools have an “<a href="https://climateimagination.asu.edu/">Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative</a>“?</div>
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That kind of linkage is essential given the mix of values and science that will implicitly shape human pursuits in the decades and centuries ahead. It was invigorating to join an array of scholars and students stepping out of their disciplinary silos to grapple with overarching questions like these: <a class="more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/building-visions-of-humanitys-climate-future-in-fiction-and-on-campus/#more-56809">Read more…</a></div>
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<figcaption class="caption" itemprop="description"><span class="caption-text">In "<a href="http://theaterthreecollaborative.org/extreme-whether/">Extreme Whether</a>," a play on climate change by Karen Malpede, a family feud erupts as a brother in law invested in fossil fuels is confronted by nature-loving relatives.</span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder"><span class="visually-hidden">Credit</span> Beatriz Schiller</span></figcaption></figure></div>
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If you’re in the New York metropolitan region, I encourage you to see “<a href="http://theaterthreecollaborative.org/extreme-whether/">Extreme Whether</a>,” an pioneering and brave effort by playwright and director <a href="http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/6453.php">Karen Malpede</a> to use theater to explore the clashing passions around human-driven global warming and our fossil fuel fixation. There are a few more performances in the play’s initial run at <a href="http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/extremewhether.htm">Theater for the New City</a>, many with an invited guest discussing the climate challenge after the show (see the list at the end of this post).</div>
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I recently saw the play and spoke afterward. You can see excerpts from my conversation with the audience (and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXgM3Fbr_4&list=UUdeDjsgVdGBoqEuT2d70YbQ">mini concert</a>) below.</div>
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“Extreme Whether” is a refreshing experiment in bringing the emerging fictional genre called “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/29/will-fiction-influence-how-we-react-to-climate-change" title="cli-fi">cli-fi</a>” to a theatrical stage. (Another example is “<a href="http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/2071">2071</a>,” coming next month at the Royal Court Theatre in London.)</div>
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Malpede’s play is laced with darkness and humor, even in the double meaning of the word “whether” in the title — which I found nicely reflects the deep uncertainty that still surrounds the worst-case outcomes from the continuing buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.</div>
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The play centers on a fractured family that is a stand-in for the human family writ large. John Bjornson, a crusading climate scientist modeled closely on the retired NASA scientist Jim Hansen, is muzzled by political appointees and betrayed by his twin sister and brother in law — both of whom are blinded to looming environmental danger by their investments in fossil fuels. His foes conspire to drill for gas on a shared family estate. Bjornson, a widower, is buoyed by a student who’s become an important Arctic expert (and his lover), and his nature-loving daughter and an elderly uncle who is the estate caretaker take up arms against the gas-drilling plan.</div>
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Survivors grapple with overwhelming heat in an epilogue, but with hints of an alternative future in projected images of wind turbines.</div>
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As with any experiment, there are flaws. <a class="more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/extreme-whether-explores-the-climate-fight-as-a-family-fued/#more-53439">Read more…</a></div>
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After finishing my post on <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/keep-in-mind-scientific-and-societal-meanings-of-collapse-when-reading-antarctic-ice-news/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Climate%20Change&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body">the inevitability of substantial long-term sea-level rise</a> from <a href="http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/2014/05/note-collapse/">Antarctic ice loss</a>, I sent this question to <a href="http://curtstager.com/">Curt Stager</a>, a paleoclimatologist and author of “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312614624" title="Deep Future by Curt Stager">Deep Future</a>,” <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kim-Stanley-Robinson/e/B000APVJXC" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a>, the novelist <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/in-300-years-kim-stanley-robinsons-science-fiction-may-not-be-fiction/274392/">focused on “cli fi”</a> before that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/31/global-warning-rise-cli-fi" title="cli fi novels">term was conceived</a>, and the astrobiologist <a href="http://funkyscience.net/" title="Curt Stager">David Grinspoon</a>:</div>
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Here are their responses: <a class="more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/three-long-views-of-life-with-rising-seas/#more-52239">Read more…</a></div>
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Nearly six years ago, I first encouraged Dot Earth readers to enliven and, to some extent, humanize and tame this conversation about the human journey by <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/your-dot-meet-the-neighbors/" title="Video greetings from Dot Earth readers">offering short YouTube greetings</a> that could serve as a calling card. Here’s Wang Suya, who was the first such contributor:</div>
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I’d like to revive this option. While some say familiarity breeds contempt, my sense is that, on the whole, it does more to produce civility. (Read <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/one-planet-living-darwin-to-havel/" title="Charles Darwin on a post tribal future">what Charles Darwin said about this</a> back in 1871.)</div>
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Anonymous commentary is not banned here in part because some people, for professional or other reasons, can’t weigh in freely under their real names. (A <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/the-psychology-of-online-comments.html" title="anonymity and internet commentary">fine New Yorker post</a> digs in on the benefits and downside of anonymity on the Internet.) But I’m a fan of rewarding authentic, constructive discourse, as I sometimes do through the “<a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/a-carrot-for-real-comment-contributors/">Your Dot</a>” feature.</div>
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I’ll do what I can to boost the visibility of those who take things a step further and show themselves as living, moving, feeling human beings. Below you can meet more YouTube contributors from the early days. Consider joining them. <a class="more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/face-to-face-with-blog-contributors-can-familiarity-breed-conviviality/#more-32957">Read more…</a></div>
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<strong>Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan</strong>, is on a one-man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst-case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: <a href="http://blog.mongabay.com/2008/03/18/polar-cities-is-an-idea-whose-time-i-hope-never-comes/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">life in “polar cities”</span></a> arrayed around the shores of an ice-free Arctic Ocean in a greenhouse-warmed world. </div>
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Dr. Lovelock, who in 1972 conceived of Earth’s crust, climate and veneer of life as a unified self-sustaining entity, Gaia, foresees humanity in full pole-bound retreat within a century as areas around the tropics roast — a scenario far outside even the worst-case projections of climate scientists. </div>
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After reading <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/james-lovelock-the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-morbid-fever-that-may-last-as-long-as-100000-years-523161.html"><span style="color: #0066cc;">a newspaper column</span></a> in which Dr. Lovelock predicted disastrous warming, Mr. Bloom (a frequent comment poster on Dot Earth these days) teamed up with Deng Cheng-hong, a Taiwanese artist, and set up Web sites showing <a href="http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">designs for self-sufficient Arctic communities</span></a>. </div>
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Mr. Bloom told me his intent was to conduct a thought experiment that might prod people out of their comfort zone on climate — which remains, for many, a someday, somewhere issue. <a class="gmail-more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/polar-cities-a-haven-in-warming-world/#more-90"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Read more…</span></a></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon">I’m immersed in four different reporting threads today so I can only add a quick update on the Antarctic ship accident — the <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hxjInmUdgYq9pZfdark_TvI9osSwD94SKPO01"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Chilean Navy has rescued the passengers</span></a> — and some fresh statistics related to Antarctic tourism. The graph above shows the rise in numbers of people visiting the frozen continent (click on the image to expand it and see the numbers). Ian Austen wrote an excellent overview of the issues related to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/world/americas/26ship.html"><span style="color: #0066cc;">ever more people exploring</span></a> an essentially uninhabited and ecologically pristine place. </i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon">One quirky Antarctic question for me — on a much longer time scale — relates to the prolonged warming along the Antarctic Peninsula. In the end, will there be rising pressure to settle that arm of land as the ice continues to pull back and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/science/earth/25ice.html"><span style="color: #0066cc;">grass grows in Antarctica</span></a>? (I know there’s a treaty, but time has a way of changing things.) <strong>Danny Bloom — inspired by James Lovelock — long ago proposed “</strong><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/polar-cities-a-haven-in-warming-world/"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong>Polar Cities</strong></span></a><strong>” but was mainly focused in the far north. Will the first such settlement be down south?</strong> </i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">Earlier this week I spoke at Arizona State University on ways to pursue a least-regrets approach to human development. My talk (building on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxP26Jn0png&feature=youtu.be&t=10m34s"><span style="color: #0066cc;">one you can watch here</span></a>) launched an interdisciplinary workshop on <a href="https://sustainability.asu.edu/planetworks/events-planetary-design/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">developing the capacity to manage the climate system</span></a> in the face of relentlessly rising emissions of greenhouse gases.*</i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">The university already has initiatives on everything from “<a href="https://sustainability.asu.edu/urbanresilience/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">urban resilience to extremes</span></a>” to “<a href="https://engineering.asu.edu/cnce/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">negative emissions</span></a>” — developing ways to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in amounts large enough to matter at climate scale. (Think billions of tons a year, a scale that the Paris climate agreement <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/the-reality-gap-in-the-push-to-close-the-global-warming-emissions-gap-in-paris/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">presumes, without much evidence, will be possible later this century</span></a>.)<span><span><u>evidence, will be possible later this century</u></span></span></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">But leaders of the university’s sustainability initiatives want to inspire more cross-cutting collaborations, particularly including the humanities and social sciences. There’s plenty to draw on there. How many schools have an “<a href="https://climateimagination.asu.edu/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative</span></a>“?</i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">That kind of linkage is essential given the mix of values and science that will implicitly shape human pursuits in the decades and centuries ahead. It was invigorating to join an array of scholars and students stepping out of their disciplinary silos to grapple with overarching questions like these: <a class="gmail-more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/building-visions-of-humanitys-climate-future-in-fiction-and-on-campus/#more-56809"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Read more…</span></a></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">Nearly six years ago, I first encouraged Dot Earth readers to enliven and, to some extent, humanize and tame this conversation about the human journey by <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/your-dot-meet-the-neighbors/" title="Video greetings from Dot Earth readers"><span style="color: #0066cc;">offering short YouTube greetings</span></a> that could serve as a calling card. Here’s Wang Suya, who was the first such contributor:</i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">I’d like to revive this option. While some say familiarity breeds contempt, my sense is that, on the whole, it does more to produce civility. (Read <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/one-planet-living-darwin-to-havel/" title="Charles Darwin on a post tribal future"><span style="color: #0066cc;">what Charles Darwin said about this</span></a> back in 1871.)</i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">Anonymous commentary is not banned here in part because some people, for professional or other reasons, can’t weigh in freely under their real names. (A <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/the-psychology-of-online-comments.html" title="anonymity and internet commentary"><span style="color: #0066cc;">fine New Yorker post</span></a> digs in on the benefits and downside of anonymity on the Internet.) But I’m a fan of rewarding authentic, constructive discourse, as I sometimes do through the “<a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/a-carrot-for-real-comment-contributors/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Your Dot</span></a>” feature.</i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">I’ll do what I can to boost the visibility of those who take things a step further and show themselves as living, moving, feeling human beings. Below you can meet more YouTube contributors from the early days. Consider joining them. <a class="gmail-more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/face-to-face-with-blog-contributors-can-familiarity-breed-conviviality/#more-32957"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Read more…</span></a></i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><strong>Meet Wang Suya</strong>, a Dot Earth comment contributor who is originally from Mongolia but now lives in Japan and has been a frequent and <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/the-food-and-energy-research-gaps/#comment-36497"><span style="color: #0066cc;">interesting voice </span></a>here. UPDATE 5/21: <strong>Meet <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/your-dot-meet-the-neighbors/#comment-37929"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Elizabeth Tjader</span></a></strong>, too. <strong>UPDATE 5/22: Meet <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/your-dot-meet-the-neighbors/#comment-38498"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Robert Verdi</span></a>.</strong> <strong>UPDATE 7/2: <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/jeff-huggins-a-ball-a-gallon-of-gas-a-jar-of-oil/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Meet Jeff Huggins</span></a>.</strong><strong>UPDATE 8/11: Meet <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/wanted-young-eco-geniuses/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Paul Horan</span></a>.</strong> <strong>UPDATE 5/17/09, Meet Danny Bloom (below).</strong></i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">I’d been wanting to open up the comment threads here to photographs when appropriate (a Dot Earth Flickr group is nigh; here’s <a href="http://flickr.com/revkin"><span style="color: #0066cc;">my Flickr page</span></a>), and last week I invited comment writers to post a video greeting, if they choose. Among other things, it’s a way to stake a claim to verisimilitude and cut through the fog and potential misrepresentation of Web anonymity (for those who choose to do so). It’s also simply a way to build a community. Here’s the plan: <a class="gmail-more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/your-dot-meet-the-neighbors/#more-263"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Read more…</span></a></i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><span class="gmail-kicker"><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/category/climate-change/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Climate Change</span></a></span> <time class="gmail-dateline" datetime="2016-10-21T17:42:50+00:00">Oct 21 1:42 pm</time> <span class="gmail-visually-hidden gmail-updated">Oct 21 1:42 pm</span><span class="gmail-postMetaHeaderCommentCount gmail-commentCount"> <i class="gmail-icon"><a class="gmail-commentCountLink gmail-commentCountNumberOnly" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/coals-link-to-global-warming-explained-in-1912/#commentsContainer"><span style="color: #0066cc;">67</span></a> </i></span><i class="gmail-icon"> </i></i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><span><span class="gmail-update" id="gmail-t17h17s">Various updates | </span></span>Scientific analysis <a href="https://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm"><span style="color: #0066cc;">pointing to a human role in warming the climate</span></a> through burning fossil fuels goes back to 1896, with Svante Arrhenius’s remarkable paper, “<a href="http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf"><span style="color: #0066cc;">On the Influence of Carbonic Acid [</span><em><span style="color: #0066cc;">Carbon Dioxide</span></em><span style="color: #0066cc;">] in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground</span></a>.”</i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">By 1956, The New York Times was <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/pioneering-greenhouse-analyst-appraised/?_r=0"><span style="color: #0066cc;">writing on combustion-driven global warming</span></a>.</i></i></i></div>
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<i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon"><i class="gmail-icon">The earliest (and most concise!) article I’ve seen was published on Aug. 14, 1912, in a couple of New Zealand newspapers, the Rodney and Otamatea Times and Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette: <a class="gmail-more-link" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/coals-link-to-global-warming-explained-in-1912/#more-58613"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Read more…</span></a><span><span></span></span></i></i></i></div>
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A major news portal, <a href="http://cli-fi.net/">THE CLI-FI REPORT</a>, with several icon buttons to choose from here<strong>: </strong><a href="http://cli-fi.net/"><strong>cli-fi.net</strong></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Any new interviews or news articles or opeds on the horizon?</span></strong><br />
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A big interview with a literary website in the USA is coming up soon, scheduled now and the reporter is calling next week.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Any good literary articles or book reviews of cli-fi novels recently?</span></strong><br />
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Biggest next big thing is Kim Stanley Robinson's new cli-fi novel titled<a href="http://google.com/"> ''NEW YORK 2140''</a> and skedded for a March 14, 2017 pub date.] SEE REDDIT comments below:<br />
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I find KSR's prose a bit stodgy but he is nonetheless one of my favorite authors, I like the level of hardness of the sci in his fi. <span style="color: red;"> Also I am on a big climate-fiction binge right now and I'm working my way through his Green Earth</span> </div>
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I guess I kind of found that Baxter's Northland Trilogy fit the bill as well. Each of the three books deals with people from an ever-widening area of the world deal with major climate disruptions, and I am still debating with myself whether the disruption in Iron Winter could or should be classed as somehow man-made (don't want to give away too many spoilers). Other than that, yeah, Bacigalupi and KSR. And a variety of short stories that come up in the anthologies I've read, like in Wastelands 1 and 2 and even some of the stories in the GRRM Heroes/Rogues/Dangerous Women anthologies. I read more short fiction than novels, so I just kind of buy anthologies as they come out and read everything, but I certainly find the near-future, hard sci fi dealing with climate change is the stuff I'm enjoying most right now.</div>
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Are you aware of this?<br />
<a href="http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2016/03/28/toc-drowned-worlds/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2016/03/28/toc-drowned-worlds/</a><br />
It seems it would be right up your street.<br />
Also, I'm currently ploughing through the first third of EJ Swift's Osiris, which is set on a city very similar to the one described in the KSR blurb. Great feeling for the environment, although currently the plot is a bit straightforward. </div>
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Oh, that anthology looks excellent, thanks for bringing it to my attention!</div>
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I just finished Red Mars this morning, enjoying everything but the middle section where John was meeting with the different groups. The book seemed to grind to a halt until the action at the end. Would you say Green Mars is more of the "setting up, terraforming, and recreation of a livable habitation " story, or more of the "endlessly talking about people talking to people" story? </div>
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It's been more than 10 years since I read them, maybe even more than 20. It moves slowly and he goes into a lot of detail. I think it would be fair to characterize it as "endlessly talking about people talking to people". It's weird, the prose was dense and I enjoyable and there wasn't really much of a describable plot, but I would still class the Mars trilogy as one of my favorite and most influential reads of all time.</div>
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In a way I think KSR wanted us to get annoyed with his characters. They were in many ways annoying at their core. They are selfish and stubborn, vengeful and manipulative. It wouldn't be as good of a story if every character was a plain copy of each other just to give an excuse for the author to talk to himself like Scalzi (re: Old Man's War and Redshirts) or if the characters had no faults etc.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Both Aurora and 2312, two of his recent novels, reference half-submerged coastal cities as the norm. The relatively small bits of those novels that take place in future NY described this ramshackle metropolis as an adaptive and beautiful place. I look forward to a book that focuses on it. I've been on a KSR binge lately.</span></div>
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I love KSR novels and, from now on,<span style="color: red;"> i will look forward to New York 2140</span>. But it is very hard to wait another year.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Cli-fi in Hollywood. Any new cli-fi movies in production or pre production or ready for release soon?</span></strong><br />
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The new Nicolas Cage movie is shooting in Canada now, and set in 2030 near future. Dystopian cli-fi. Cage will star in the action thriller <strong><u>“The Humanity Bureau,”</u></strong> with shooting in British Columbia.<br />
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Rob King is set to direct from a script written by Dave Schultz. Sarah Lind, Jakob Davies and Hugh Dillon have also joined the cast.<br />
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The story is set in 2030 with global warming wreaking havoc in parts of the American Midwest. In its attempt to take hold of the economic recession, a government agency called The Humanity Bureau exiles members of society deemed unproductive and banishes them to a colony known as New Eden.<br />
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Cage will play an ambitious and impartial caseworker who investigates a case appealed by a single mother (Lind) and her son (Davies). RELEASE DATE: SUMMER 2017<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">In academia, any new cli-fi classes set for this semester or next? Any recent academic articles or quotes from them worth highlighting?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, a lot is happening within academia and among academics worldwide now with cli-fi. Symposiums, online forums, academic papers, and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A professor tells this blog: "I’m awaiting word now on a possible grant for a project on cli-fi where I, in collaboration with two colleagues from another college, will have reading groups read cli-fi novels in their location (so, ''The Water Knife'' in AZ, Kim Stanley Robinson's "NEW YORK 2140" in NYC), journal about their reading, and discuss it with us. We’ll try to take some measure of the effects of cli-fi novels on their imaginations of the future and their climate politics." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">See </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>''</strong></span><span style="font-size: small;">The Holocene Hangover''</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> by University of Chicago professor <a class="authorLink " href="http://www.publicbooks.org/authors/94FTCoW"><span style="font-size: small;">Fredrik Albritton Jonsson</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> .</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thomas Davis in the English department at OSU in Ohio notes that he will be teaching a cli-fi seminar in the spring of 2018, adding: "A bit far off, but I’m collecting materials now."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The short article is part of an extended forum on the meaning of the term “cli-fi” for American Studies in the journal Amerikastudien/American Studies. It examines American climate fiction through the lens of risk theory (Beck) and through psychological approaches to the perception of risk (Slovic, Leiserowitz), including both fiction and non-fiction formats in its deliberations as well as a number of hybrid formats that imagines the risks associated with climate change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Water Knife is perhaps Paolo Bacigalupi’s his most successful attempt to date at conjuring future climatic conditions in a way that allows readers to imaginatively experience them. The essay uses the analytical tools of cognitive ecocriticism to demonstrate how Bacigalupi’s dystopian novel uses the human bodies of characters and their sensual and affective capacities in order to allow readers to imaginatively experience a decidedly unpleasant future world. Bacigalupi uses anthropogenic climate change as a catalyst for drastic developments in the ecological, economic, and social realm, inviting readers to understand on a visceral level that changed climatic conditions will inevitably lead to such conflicts and vulnerabilities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The article focuses on the psychological dimensions of readers’ engagements with dystopian young adult climate fiction, arguing that the mental simulation of a fictional climate-changed world can offer much more than simple entertainment or escapism. Instead, it might impact teenagers’ understanding of the social, economic and ecological risks associated with climate change. The article builds on research in the psychology of fiction in its examination of the narrative strategies of Paolo Bacigalupi’s YA cli-fi novel Ship Breaker. It demonstrates how the novel invites young readers to an imaginary and yet embodied experience of a dystopian future world that may wish to avoid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The essay explains how film techniques and technologies play on human brains’ embodied simulation to create empathetic responses in viewers, and then analyzes Jeff Orlowski’s Chasing Ice and the results of the reception study about the film that I conducted together with Brigitte Hipfl. It not only shows how the film creates emotional responses in viewers, but also addresses the reasons that those responses do not necessarily translate into action. Despite the ways in which we “live in denial,” the essay argues that such films can contribute to long-term cultural change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>QUOTE FROM ACADEMIC IN EUROPE:</strong> - "The term cli-fi has not only been proliferating at recent international conferences, but also within university curricula as educators in many disciplines embrace the recent spate of fiction and film dealing with climate change in humanities courses and beyond. ...In my study of cli-fi, I consider the proliferation of the term and theorize about its usefulness. If the novelty of the term itself provokes discussion, perhaps that too makes it an asset in generating interest climate change-related fictional and screen texts.''</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Cli-fi novels. Any word on new and upcoming cli-fi novels in the pipeline, either from the publishing world or self-publishers?</span></strong><br />
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The ''next big thing'' is Kim Stanley Robinson's new cli-fi novel titled<a href="http://google.com/"> ''NEW YORK 2140''</a> and skedded for a March 14, 2017 pub date<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Where's cli-fi headed these days?</span></strong><br />
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#Writersofcolor penning ''cli-fi'' novels worldwide - part of our 25-part #CliFi YouTube Video series <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4_PbuCnVb8&t=21s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4_PbuCnVb8&t=21s</a> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Who's in charge of cli fi these days and who owns the term, if anyone?</span></strong><br />
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Nobody is in charge, it's an open meme, and nobody owns cli-fi or ever has. It belongs to the world, and has taken on a life of its own after its initial quiet and almost invisible launch. Most people still have never heard of the term yet -- 90 percent of the general public have never heard the term or seen the term in print. It's still early days. But things are cooking, yes. Slowly. Simmering.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>neporadíte mi dobrý non-fiction o ekologii, civilizačních kolapsech, dystopickejch vizích a věcech jako je svalbard global seed vault?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "pmingliu";"></span><span style="font-family: "pmingliu";"><u><span style="color: #1b95e0;"><strong>Jan Nemček</strong> <span class="m_4423357271963013457gmail-username m_4423357271963013457gmail-js-action-profile-name"><s>@</s><b>jan_nemcek</b></span> </span></u> <small class="m_4423357271963013457gmail-time"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><a class="m_4423357271963013457gmail-tweet-timestamp m_4423357271963013457gmail-js-permalink m_4423357271963013457gmail-js-nav m_4423357271963013457gmail-js-tooltip" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=zh-TW&q=https://twitter.com/jan_nemcek/status/804246852640063488&source=gmail&ust=1480824712173000&usg=AFQjCNF7dAq7kXC_ve0OFvgdO_5sEyaDTw" href="https://twitter.com/jan_nemcek/status/804246852640063488" target="_blank" title="上午12:52 - 2016年12月1日"><span style="color: #1b95e0;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="m_4423357271963013457gmail-_timestamp m_4423357271963013457gmail-js-short-timestamp m_4423357271963013457gmail-js-relative-timestamp">18小時</span><span class="m_4423357271963013457gmail-u-hiddenVisually">18 小時前</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></small> </span><div class="m_4423357271963013457gmail-js-tweet-text-container">
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WRITERS WANTED: we want to interview cli fi novelists worldewide who are working on dark cli-fi novels about the END TIME, circa 500 years from now, and how they novelists envision the End Times and how we can help prepare our descendants for what's coming -- psychologically, spiritually, mentally, -- as things get progressively worse over the next 30 generations.<br />
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SEND EMAILS TO ABOVE ADDRESS: we still have time, lots of time, but HURRY!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-32738648411561888482012-12-30T19:15:00.002-08:002012-12-31T16:57:36.385-08:00David K.L. Jones reviews POLAR CITY RED, cli fi novel by Jim Laughter BOOK REVIEW <br />
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When a book producer and book packager asked me if I could review Jim Laughter's new cli fi book POLAR CITY RED, I said ''sure, send me a copy and I will review for the paper here, probably in August or September, when I have the time''. So Jim sent me a copy of the novel here in Alabama, I confirmed I received it in the mail, and would read it and review it for the paper before the end of the year, if my way busy schedule permitted it, and <a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">here</a> is my review:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Global Heating Novel 'Polar City Red' Not For Everyone, But I Enjoyed It Immensely: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">IT'S THE FUTURE! AND A TERRIFIC READ!</span><br />
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I have seen the future and it's dank, dark and dystopian. At least in<br />
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one Oklahoma author's eyes, it is. Alaskans need to read this book<br />
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with care and concern.<br />
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When veteran sci-fi writer Jim Laughter sat down last year to start in<br />
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on a new novel about mankind's shaky future on this third rock from<br />
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the sun, he wasn't sure where the book was actually going.<br />
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Seven months later, after typing each chapter of "Polar City Red" on<br />
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his computer keyboard, Laughter, 59, was finished and ready to face<br />
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critics on the right and on the left. Climate denialists are going to<br />
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say it's not science, and die-hard climate activists are going to say<br />
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it's just fiction.<br />
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Sarah Palin is not going to read it, that's for sure. Neither will<br />
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Mitt Romney or other national politicians with their heads in the<br />
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sand. But Laughter's book could make a cool movie in the future<br />
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dystopia department, following up on such Hollywood films as "City of<br />
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Ember" and "The Road."<br />
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Laughter's pulp "polar western" is set in the Last Frontier of Alaska<br />
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in 2075 and it poses a very important and headline-mirroring question:<br />
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will mankind survive the climapocalypse coming our way as the Earth<br />
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heats up over the next few centuries?<br />
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As sea levels rise and millions of "climate refugees" make their way<br />
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north to Alaska, Canada, Russia and Norway, think scavenger camps,<br />
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"Mad Max" villages, and U.N.-administered ''polar cities'' -- cities<br />
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of domes, as Laughter (his real name) calls them.<br />
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"Polar City Red" is more than mere sci fi. Laughter is a retired USAF<br />
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technical writer who has lived all over the world on military<br />
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assignment. The retired grandfather of four comes across as a probing<br />
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moralist and a modern Jeremiah. His worldview befits a Christian<br />
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pastor who has built two churches and finds in religion both an anchor<br />
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and a place for hope.<br />
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His book is not just about climate change or northern dystopias. It's<br />
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also about the moral questions that must guide humanity as it tries to<br />
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keep a lid on global warming's worst-case scenarios while also looking<br />
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for solutions to mankind's worst nightmare -- the possible final<br />
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extinction of the human species due to man's own folly and extravagant<br />
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ways. Can a small 200-page book do all that? No, it's just<br />
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entertainment, a good book to put on your summer reading list.<br />
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Writing the novel took Laughter seven months of non-stop research and<br />
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keyboarding, he told me, but I have a feeling that what he wrote will<br />
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last 100 years.<br />
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It's more than a cli-fi thriller. It also exposes the underbelly of<br />
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humankind's most terrifying nightmare: the possible end of the human<br />
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species and God's deep displeasure at what His people have done to His<br />
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Earth. Even if you're an atheist, as I am, Laughter touches a nerve.<br />
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The book is prophetic, futuristic and moralistic. You as reader will<br />
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get through this one alive, but will our descendants, 100 or 1000<br />
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years from now, survive the Long Emergency we find ourselves in now?<br />
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That's the question that Laughter poses.<br />
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Fortunately, the book ends on a note of hope and redemption, so it's<br />
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not a downer at all. You and your loved ones need to read it. As<br />
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Laughter himself says in the introduction, quoting Christopher Morley:<br />
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''When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of<br />
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paper and ink and glue -- you sell him a whole new life."<br />
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"Polar City Red" won't give you a whole new life, and it'll probably<br />
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just give you a headache and heartburn. But Alaskans might benefit<br />
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from reading it, since<br />
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it's about Alaska front and center, as the world heats up.<br />
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David K.L. Jones is a freelance writer in Alabama.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-65127368232788624762012-12-30T19:05:00.000-08:002012-12-30T19:05:02.538-08:00Polar cities in the futire and the people of the Alaskan Mesa <u>
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FAIRBANKS - Did you know, Alaska was once the setting for an environmental shift so dramatic it forced ANCIENT people to evacuate the entire North Slope? Yes,, according to Michael Kunz, an archaeologist with the Bureau of Land Management.
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<u>About 10,013 years ago</u>, a group of hunting ESKIMO people lived on the North Slope, the swath of mostly treeless tundra that extends north from the Brooks Range to the sea. These people, known as Paleoindians, used a chunky ridge of rock west of the Colville River as a hunting lookout. Michael Kunz first discovered stone spear tips at the site, known as the Mesa, in 1978.<br />
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The people of the Mesa lived at a time when the Arctic was undergoing a change similar to what Alaska is undergoing today. As the world emerged from the last ice age, grasslands covered much of the Bering Land Bridge, a swath of land as wide as the distance from Barrow to Homer.<br />
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To survive in a place like the North Slope, where life is dicey in the best of times, humans needed a few things, Kunz said. One was technology, which the Mesa people had in the form of bone needles they used to sew weather-tight clothing. Another vital element was a large, plentiful source of food. Caribou were scarce during the time of the Mesa people, but bison roamed the grasslands in good numbers. Those bison are the key to how climate change affected these ancient Alaskans, Kunz said.<br />
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For many thousands of years, the area that is now Alaska was part of an enormous swath of dry grasslands that made up much of the Bering Land Bridge. About 15,000 years ago, the planet started evolving from the last ice age. Air temperatures became warmer, and things started to change. Glaciers began melting, sea level rose, and salt water slowly drowned the Bering Land Bridge. The encroachment of the ocean caused an increase in precipitation around the North Slope that allowed cottongrass and other sedges to nudge out the grasses preferred by bison.<br />
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About 12,000 years ago, as the North Slope evolved to what it looks like today, bison disappeared. The last evidence of the Mesa Paleoindians comes from around the same time. Kunz thinks the extinction of the bison from the North Slope, along with the simultaneous scarcity of caribou, caused the Mesa people to move or die out.<br />
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“This is totally the effect of the environment,” Kunz said. “Not only did it run the Paleoindians out of there, it made the place unlivable for anyone for 1,500 years.”<br />
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By examining bones and stone tools, archaeologists found that people moved back to the North Slope about the same time caribou returned after what seems like a population crash that lasted more than 3,000 years.<br />
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Kunz pointed out that car exhaust did not trigger the warming that may have chased the Mesa people from the North Slope. He said climate change has occurred many times before and is inevitable today. He suggests that the human species as a whole should think of how it will work around problems, such as rising sea level and the changes in agricultural zones caused by different weather patterns.<br />
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“The system has always been dynamic,” he said. “We’re not going to stop climate change. Just like the Mesa Paleoindians — if you can’t adapt or adjust, you’re going to disappear.” <br />
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And to adapt, when millions of climate refugees flood Alaska in the coming centuries, polar cities just might save the day for the human species. Or it might be curtains.<br />
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And in the future, if we do not take action, soon, Alaska will be flooded by millions of climate refugees from the Lower 48 and Asia and Mexico, in 30 generations or so as climate chaos hits the world hard and only "polar cities" will save mankind at the time. the time is prepare for polar cities is now.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-35886548339740822392012-12-29T20:24:00.006-08:002012-12-29T20:24:48.971-08:00So Much Information, So Little Time: Making Sense of a Big Data WorldSEMINAR TITLE in ASPEN COLORADO in 2013:<br />
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<em>Digital technology has made it possible to create, move and store information at previously unthinkable magnitudes. </em><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-2992250573747562892012-12-29T19:53:00.001-08:002012-12-31T17:00:23.396-08:00Carbonist Manifesto by Jeff Berkowitz in OREGON USAJeff Berkowitz has worked for a variety of computer, instrumentation and software companies since the 1970s. His programming travels have included embedded systems, proprietary Unix kernels, RDBMS toolware, middleware, and both web and desktop application development. Jeff is equally uncomfortable with Unix and Microsoft programming environments, having been intermittently successful with both. Over the past few years Jeff has enjoyed the virtues of verifiable bytecode while developing systems in Java and C#. Jeff has lived in the Portland, Oregon area since 1988 and is presently employed by Oracle Corporation in Portland. Jeff is married and<span style="background-color: red;"> enjoys nothing better than a warm day spent hovering over the smoker, microbrew in hand, slow cooking some kind of barbecue.</span><br />
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In ''The frightening elegance of 'The Carbonist Manifesto''' <u>DOWNLOAD HERE</u><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red;">No, this is not a Mayan prophesy. More like a Gaian prophesy.</span></strong></blockquote>
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This is the premise of a fantastical and fascinating essay written in <u>1992</u>, some 20 years, ago by a self-described “extremely nerdy” computer programmer named Jeff Berkowitz who loves nothing more than to sit outwide in the backyard with a microbrew and some good stuff on the BBQ grille on a nice summer or fall afternoon in Oregon and who also has a a longtime interest in both environmentalism and alternative energy, though he hasn’t worked professionally in either.<br />
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Earlier this year, I came across the <span style="font-size: x-large;">6</span>-page essay, which could easily be mistaken for a scientific treatise but for the author’s précis stating that, while “loosely grounded in recent research in ecology and paleoclimatology,” the paper was “distinctly tongue in cheek.”<br />
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The paper, titled <span style="background-color: red;"><u>“The Consequences of Gaia, or The Carbonist Manifesto”</u></span> (download if you google for it) was written in 1992 by a then 35-year-old computer programmer named Jeff Berkowitz. It is rooted in the Gaia hypothesis (also referred to as the Gaia theory or principle), the notion that Earth's biosphere is a dynamic, self-regulating system, first formulated in the 1970s by scientist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Their hypothesis states that the Earth is not just an amalgam of rocks and trees and water but a giant cell capable of adjusting to both small and large changes in an intelligent and holistic manner.<br />
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According to "<span style="background-color: red;">The Carbonist Manifesto,"</span> we humans are one of those adjustments.<br />
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Berkowitz begins his essay by explaining how the temperature of the biosphere is largely controlled by the quantities of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere. Seeking equilibrium, various geophysical and biological processes cooperate to lower the level of CO2 when the biosphere warms and release CO2 when it cools. But over the past 500 million years, the amount of available carbon in the biosphere has slowly decreased, as carbon was captured in hydrocarbon deposits, such as coal, oil, and seafloor sediments. That is to say, for millions of years, Earth gradually cooled as CO2 was sequestered.<br />
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Here, I’ll let Berkowitz take over the story:<br />
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<u>The last 100,000 years have seen some of the coldest times in the 500 million years that have elapsed since the Ordovician period. These 100,000 years form less than 1/1000th of the intervening 500 million years. Oddly, they're the same 100,000 years that Homo Sapiens Sapiens have existed on Earth. Clearly, the biosphere has reached a point of crisis. The relatively stable processes of self-regulation that have worked for the past hundreds of millions of years have reached the limit of their ability to correct.</u><br />
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In response to the impending crisis, Gaia evolved a solution. At the edges of the ice sheets that flowed down over the northern hemisphere during the last ice age, Gaia brought it to fruition: a short-term corrective process designed to restore the natural balance of free carbon dioxide in the biosphere.<br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">Yes, Man</span>. Not the destroyer, the pillager, the environmental rapist of the popular lore; an utterly different view of Man the restorer, the savior, the solution to an environmental crisis more dangerous to the biosphere than even the giant stone that ended the age of dinosaurs. Man, whose only purpose in the Gaian system is to extract carbon from the rocks and put it back in the atmosphere where it belongs.<br />
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Whatever you think of all this, it’s hard to refute that, while frightening to ponder, it is an elegant and somewhat poetic theory: that our primary role on Earth is to liberate the carbon on behalf of a larger geological and biological purpose. And that we’re damn good at what we do — we’re succeeding mightily at fulfilling our mission. So much so that we'll eventually work ourselves out of existance.<br />
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Recently, I tracked down Berkowitz, now 55, married, and living near Portland, Oregon, where he works as a principal software engineer for the computer company, Oracle. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I began our conversation by asking how "The Carbonist Manifesto" <u>came to be</u>.</span><br />
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<em>“It was just one of those amusing, contrary things that came to me,” he responded. "I've read a lot of science fiction all my life, and at the time I was particularly taken with the Gaia hypothesis. So it just came together in my head.” </em><br />
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Berkowitz grew up in Santa Barbara, Calif., and was a teenager in 1969 during the massive oil spill there — the largest in the United States at the time. It was one of several catalysts for the first Earth Day, in 1970, which began the modern environmental movement.<br />
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<em>“That's always been a part of my thinking about the world,” he explained. “<u>In addition, my dad was a big technology guy.</u> After the Arab oil embargo in 1973, a lot of money became available to study alternative energy. So I had a bunch of these sort of environmental concepts and alternative-energy concepts floating around in my head, even as a kid.”</em><br />
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I asked Berkowitz how much he actually believed in what he wrote. <br />
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<em>“Rather than directly answer your question,” he said, “I'll just say this: The essay sounds like nonsense. And I rarely if ever believe in nonsense. But I can't prove that it's nonsense, and neither can you or anyone else. That's the beauty of it.”</em><br />
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Berkowitz describes himself as <u>an extreme skeptic</u>, quick to question conventional wisdom. <u>For example, he doesn’t view the possibility that a lot of species could be wiped out in by climate change as a tragedy.</u> <span style="background-color: red;">He acknowledges that this could make him sound “at worst insane or at best incredibly callous.”</span><br />
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<em>“I don't believe I'm either insane or callous,” he says. “I admit no metaphysics in my world view. I think the history of the universe is a set of random events followed by other random events. For those of us who really think this way, the idea of putting value judgments on random events is kind of silly. Of course, I'd hate to be hit by a meteor — or, more likely here in Cascadia, crushed in a 9.2 quake.</em><br />
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<em>“But the ‘I'd hate that’ part is about me; it's not about the event. Events are neutral. Goodness and badness happen inside the observer and are based on the observer's narrow perspective. The dinosaur killer was terrible if you were there, but maybe without it there would never have been any higher primates. So is that good or bad? I could ask the equally meaningless question: Is the existence of higher primates a good thing or a bad thing? Questions like this are just silly.”</em><br />
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According to Berkowitz, it’s equally silly to label consumers immoral for wanting certain products at the best price, or to label their suppliers immoral for supplying them. <u>His point is that the sum total of human interactions is as “natural” a disaster as an asteroid hitting the planet leading to mass extinction.</u><br />
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<em>“We're a species, naturally evolved, that at some point began passing cultural knowledge about modifying our environment to a much greater extent than any species before us,” he said. “That's all. It happened in the natural course of events. The common use of the word ‘unnatural’ to describe some of our more advanced technologies is perhaps the most dangerous of all our fallacies about the world. It implies that somehow we are separate from nature, or that the consequences of our actions can somehow lie above or outside of nature. That's a fundamentally broken way to think about the world and I believe it underlies some of our most serious problems.”</em><br />
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Berkowitz recognizes that his view is at odds with most people who call themselves environmentalists. And he’s concerned that it sounds negative and fatalistic. <em><u>“My arguments about the neutrality of events in no way prevent us from using our free will to choose and guide certain outcomes at the expense of others for whatever reasons we may prefer. I bet I love polar bears as much as you or anyone else, and I'm willing to modify my economic behavior, within limits, to try and ensure that they survive.”</u></em> <br />
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<u>One of the things I found remarkable about Berkowitz’s 20-year-old paper is that it could have been written today.</u> <span style="background-color: red;">Indeed, it’s that much more salient given that it was penned well before climate change and global warming were well understood. And the questions he raises are as relevant as ever. Whether and how we successfully address climate change will depend on the collective actions of humanity.</span><br />
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<u>“In order to prevent the widespread consequences of global warming, we need to make pragmatic choices about actions that will work,” says Berkowitz. “Making those choices starts with a hard-headed worldview that's not cluttered up with unexamined notions about natural versus unnatural, good versus evil, or some grand plan of a big guy upstairs.”</u><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">He concludes: “Getting people to think about these questions is perhaps the point of the essay.”</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-39857097842015068922012-12-28T20:40:00.000-08:002012-12-28T20:40:59.454-08:00Muttering movie morass in Communist China as ''black'' and ''white'' "water armies'' piss on the movie industry<strong>
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As soon as <u>The Last Supper</u> debuted on Nov. 29th, director Lu Chuan knew he was in trouble. His historical drama about a ruthless emperor was getting the lowest possible scores on Douban and Mtime, two websites that aggregate movie feedback - this in contrast with the mostly positive reviews he got from critics. Lu realized he was being targeted by the nation's "water army".<br />
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"Water army" is a nickname for web users who are hired to talk up or talk down a product. For a product with a limited shelf life but intensive response, the impression of waves of praise or disparagement can make or break it before the press and the audience discover it for themselves.<br />
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"When plugging a new release, everyone would say great things about one's own work. I can accept that," says Lu Chuan. "But our profession has reached the moral low of hiring people to throw mud at the competition."<br />
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To counteract the effect of the avalanche of manufactured ill will (some 9,000 negative comments per day), Lu admitted in a press interview that he had spent 50,000 yuan ($8,005) to "bump up" his movie's online score, thus becoming the first Chinese filmmaker to acknowledge the employment of the "water army".<br />
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Lu did not use the term <span style="background-color: red;">"water army",</span> but a more euphemistic <u>"word-of-mouth protection team"</u> instead. "I would never pay someone to badmouth my competitor," he adds.<br />
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However, Lu Chuan's admission placed himself in an extremely unfavorable situation. As phony comments mingle with real ones online, one may not be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a certain remark is definitely the result of rivals running amok, or that there is a force behind these bad words.<br />
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Instead of getting sympathy from the public, Lu got suspicion at most, with some media commentators saying he should focus on making a better movie rather than battling negative comments.<br />
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Gao Jun, an executive involved in film production and exhibition, said it was foolish of Lu to make such a confession to the public. (Lu later shifted his statement, saying that the hiring was done by his subordinates without his prior knowledge.)<br />
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Some insiders charge that every movie resorts to such secret agents for creating buzz, each at a cost of over 1 million yuan. But this was refuted by Zhang Baiqing, president of China Film Criticism Association, who explains that at least half of China's feature films cost less than 5 million to make and therefore cannot afford such practices.<br />
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"The dueling with the aid of the water army happens among some big-budget commercial films," he says, "and the trick is getting less and less effective."<br />
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If you are a soldier of a water army, you are invisible. You will not tell your family or colleague you love or hate this movie. All you're required to do is to talk a movie up to the sky, or malign one to the bottom and do it online. For every post, you'll be paid 10 to 50 Chinese cents.<br />
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Those who talk up are called "white water army", and those who talk down "black water army". White or black, they tend to be proud of their collective power, but not proud enough to admit to what they conduct with online anonymity. This accounts for the difficulty of actually interviewing an individual foot solider, but they are said to be mostly students or young people with lots of spare time.<br />
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A water soldier who devotes all his or her time to the job, though, can bring in somewhere between 1,000 to 3,000 yuan a month. <br />
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Those who do the dirty job are entitled to only 40 percent of what film companies spend on it. The rest goes to online promotion firms that act as the middleman. According to a People's Daily blog post, most of these firms have fewer than 10 employees. They rely on a massive number of account holders through online communication tools. Once they get a job, they subcontract it to the thousands who make postings to drown out legitimate appraisals.<br />
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Some of these firms claim that, with as little as 100,000 yuan, they can make a movie into the talk of the town. But, on the other hand, movie promotion makes up a small part of their business, albeit with a high profile.<br />
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Discerning readers can find traces, if not conclusive evidence, of "water army" activities. For example, they tend to give the highest score to one movie and the lowest to another one screened around the same time, or use the most extreme language in their commentary, yet give no detail to back it up.<br />
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They also tend to be new account owners, with little or no previous activity with the accounts. Bai Jie, a publicity official for CN Movie, says that most accounts that attacked Lu Chuan's movie were opened a day after the movie's premiere. But she cautions that firms managing a water army sometimes buy or keep legitimate accounts to increase the level of credibility.<br />
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By all accounts, the war of online hype or harm has shifted to Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like micro-blogging service, where big accounts have verified users and celebrities have followers in the millions. To have one of these accounts push a movie is perceived to be much more effective. <br />
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Therefore, when someone you trust extols a movie or any other product, he or she may have been paid to do so, yet without disclosing the fact. Pop star Zhang Jie, with 17 million followers, once claimed that he was undergoing a full-body scan, but the gold chain in his photo turned into a smoking gun because one has to remove such items before using the device, thus inadvertently revealing the post's true nature as an advertisement.<br />
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When it comes to movies, again it is small potatoes, with the payment of 800 yuan going to an account of some 100,000 followers. Big accounts tend to endorse films for the account owners or their friends. But that does not mean their praise cannot be bought.<br />
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This kind of culture has essentially ruined the authenticity of film criticism in China. When Mudiao Chanshi, a film producer and critic, said a film critic could make as much as 60,000 yuan a month, it could be an exaggeration - but how such a sum, or a much smaller one, can be earned tickles the mind. (The answer: Get paid by film companies, of course, in which case it is not film criticism any more, but publicity material.)<br />
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Back to Lu Chuan's case. The director will not say who is behind the mudslinging. Logically, it is a no-brainer, but evidence is hard to come by.<br />
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In early 2011, The Lost Bladesman became the first movie to defend itself against the secret war of denigration. But the evidence they could collect showed only they were victimized, but not by whom.<br />
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"You should not jump to conclusions," warns Zhang Wenbo, who has a film promotion business.<br />
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"It could be your rival with a new release in the same period; it could be a peer who gloats over others' misfortune; or it could be fans who hate stars they see as rivals of their favorites."<br />
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When public opinions can be forged or bought, it is not just hapless filmmakers who fall prey. Ultimately, filmgoers as consumers have to pay the biggest price.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-20982403864080181952012-12-28T20:09:00.003-08:002012-12-28T20:09:43.092-08:00Newtown: Tragedy, empathy, and growing our ''circle of concern'' And ''growing our circle of concern'' means following and trying to understand Danny Bloom's Polar Cities Project and his 30 Generations Project for setting up adaptation methods for survivors of climate chaos in 30 generations. It's a stretch, sure, but it means something, too, especially if you have kids.<br />
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I have four sons not too much older than the children killed in Newtown, Connecticut. They go to schools with no metal detectors or armed guards, watched over by teachers who have never seemed more human and fragile. Like everyone else, I’ve spent the last few weeks in a state of semi-shock, crying along with the president and getting angry about guns in America. This is a tragedy every parent — everyone who knows and loves a child — fears above all else. It is intensely personal for me.<br />
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This is what it means to be a social animal: We feel for those in whom we see ourselves. It is a response of the gut, not the head, as much biochemical as intellectual. That surge of empathy brings out much that is best in us, as the outpouring of support for Newtown has shown.<br />
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''With their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves, our child, is suddenly exposed to the world, to possible mishap or malice, and every parent knows there’s nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm. And yet we also know that with that child’s very first step and each step after that, they are separating from us, that we won’t — that we can’t always be there for them.<br />
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They will suffer sickness and setbacks and broken hearts and disappointments, and we learn that our most important job is to give them what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient, ready to face the world without fear. And we know we can’t do this by ourselves.<br />
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It comes as a shock at a certain point where you realize no matter how much you love these kids, you can’t do it by yourself, that this job of keeping our children safe and teaching them well is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community and the help of a nation.<br />
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And in that way we come to realize that we bear responsibility for every child, because we’re counting on everybody else to help look after ours, that we’re all parents, that they are all our children.''</blockquote>
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In his own lyrical way, Obama is talking about a basic shift in moral perspective. We begin with a concern for our own children that is instinctual, biological. And through an act of intellect (“come to realize”) we extend that concern to the larger social ecology in which our children are enmeshed. In that way, our love for our children is “a love that takes us out of ourselves and binds us to something larger.” They are all our children.<br />
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It is not always easy for us to make this kind of transition. As we push our circle of concern outward — from family to community, from community to country, from country to world — we move farther away from the visceral and into the abstract and statistical. It is one thing to realize that children in a different city or country, perhaps of a different race or socioeconomic status, are “our children.” It is another for the love itself, the feeling of love, to follow that realization. By evolutionary design, we respond powerfully to faces, to presence; we care more for a single identifiable victim than we do for large populations.<br />
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To draw the distant and universal into our guts, to feel them as we feel our own children’s presence, requires a mix of intellect and will that is not familiar, or easy. For all our love and concern toward those like us, we have an equally strong propensity toward moral disregard, even callousness, toward those outside our circle of empathy. Especially in situations of stress or uncertainty, we tend to pull our circle inward, husbanding our love, concern, and sacrifice for those closest by.<br />
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Pushing the circle back outwards, in many ways counter to our instincts, is the essence of moral development, both in individuals and for humanity in general. It has been the best impulse of every religion, spirituality, or moral philosophy throughout history. And it has never been more important. If we are to survive the 21st century, and all the way to 2500 AD, as Danny Bloom suggests, we must learn to, as the hoary old saying goes, “think globally” and start planning polar cities for survivors of climate chaos some 30 generations from now. It's not only about my 4 sons now. It's about 30 generations from now, too. <br />
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We’re not actually doing as badly as the shocking images and heated disputes in the media might have you believe. On a global level, things are mostly moving in the right direction. Armed conflict is declining worldwide, as are poverty, hunger, and disease. Life expectancy and literacy are rising. Children still die all over the world from preventable causes, but fewer today than a decade ago. We have built international institutions and a set of universal principles and expectations that are, however fitfully and inconsistently, driving improvement in human welfare.<br />
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But now we face an even more difficult moral challenge. We now know — we have “come to realize” — that our actions do not just affect our tribe, our country, and our world. Our interdependence is temporal as well. We are feeling the effects of decisions our grandparents made, and our actions will affect the well-being of our future descendants, the children of a world 500 years hence, that is to say 30 generations from now, as Bloom already has envisioned with his Polar Cities meme, of which I am now an avid advocate.<br />
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We know that the decisions we are making today are on track to create irreversible and inexorable changes in the global climate that our children and their children will inherit. We know that those changes threaten to slow or reverse our hard-fought gains in peace and health, leaving our descendants in 2500 AD a world in violent, unceasing transition, with rising seas, greater droughts, more intense storms, shifting zones of fertility and disease, and waves of climate refugees trekking north to POLAR CITIES in Alaska, Canada and Russia. We discovered this not through shock or confrontation but through the slow accumulation and careful interpretation of evidence. It is still, to most people, almost entirely an intellectual phenomenon, something they know but do not feel. Relative to the gut-wrenching images out of Newtown, the evidence of the climate threat to children is, by and large, abstract and ethereal. Even those who “know” the extent of climate change find it difficult to feel authentic moral outrage about it.<br />
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Yet for every ton of carbon we emit, we are firing a bullet into the air. We may not live to see it, but those bullets will rain down on the children of the future, and they will suffer for it. <u>Obama said of the nation’s young:</u><br />
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<em>''We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.''</em><br />
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He also said, of our efforts to protect them: <em>“Surely we can do better.”</em><br />
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Yes. Surely we can do better in protecting today’s children from random acts of violence. But surely we can also do better in protecting tomorrow’s children from suffering that, however distant and theoretical it may seem to us now, will yield just as many broken lives and broken hearts.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-16708616536695017332012-12-28T19:58:00.000-08:002012-12-28T19:58:17.642-08:00Etc.David Roberts at Grist recently posted a deeply moving essay about<br />
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using empathy as a means to take on tough issues. He built the piece<br />
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around USA President Obama’s heartfelt reaction and response to the<br />
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Connecticut elementary school Christmas 2012 massacre and, followed by Joe Romm,<br />
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noted the lack of any such response from the president or society on<br />
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the greenhouse buildup despite the risk posed by human-driven climate<br />
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change. (Current and past greenhouse-gas emissions will affect the<br />
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climate for generations, actually millenniums, to come).<br />
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Roberts’ piece should be read in full. There’s a wonderful section,<br />
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for example, on the reality that humans’ “circle of concern” is<br />
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rapidly expanding through global connectedness — echoing what Andrew C. Revkin of DOT EARTH calls <br />
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“Knowosphere” as well as a prediction of<br />
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Darwin in 1871.<br />
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But Roberts’ main interest is in harnessing empathy — for yet-unborn<br />
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generations 30 generations from now, in Danny Bloom's words (SEE 30 GENERATIONS FROM NOW PROJECT) as well as today’s vulnerable people — as a path to<br />
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progress on greenhouse gases. Here’s the most relevant portion of the Roberts post:<br />
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We know that the decisions we are making today are on track to create<br />
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irreversible and inexorable changes in the global climate that our<br />
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children and their children will inherit. We know that those changes<br />
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threaten to slow or reverse our hard-fought gains in peace and health,<br />
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leaving our descendants a world in violent, unceasing transition, with<br />
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rising seas, greater droughts, more intense storms, shifting zones of<br />
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fertility and disease, and waves of climate refugees. We discovered<br />
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this not through shock or confrontation but through the slow<br />
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accumulation and careful interpretation of evidence. It is still, to<br />
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most people, almost entirely an intellectual phenomenon, something<br />
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they know but do not feel. Relative to the gut-wrenching images out of<br />
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Newtown, the evidence of the climate threat to children is, by and<br />
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large, abstract and ethereal. Even those who “know” the extent of<br />
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climate change find it difficult to feel authentic moral outrage about<br />
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it.<br />
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Yet for every ton of carbon we emit, we are firing a bullet into the<br />
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air. We may not live to see it, but those bullets will rain down on<br />
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the children of the future, and they will suffer for it. Obama said of<br />
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the nation’s young:<br />
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We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when<br />
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we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We<br />
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don’t go wrong when we do that.<br />
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He also said, of our efforts to protect them: “Surely we can do better.”</blockquote>
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Yes. Surely we can do better in protecting today’s children from<br />
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random acts of violence. But surely we can also do better in<br />
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protecting tomorrow’s children from suffering that, however distant<br />
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and theoretical it may seem to us now, will yield just as many broken<br />
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lives and broken hearts.<br />
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It’s great to see this line of thinking, and feeling, explored afresh.<br />
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I’ve been criticized in the past for seeing work that builds the human<br />
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capacity for connectedness and empathy as more valuable than demanding<br />
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targets for the concentration of carbon dioxide.<br />
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The problem with the argument for greenhouse-gas action based on<br />
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morality and empathy is that it clashes with other moral imperatives.<br />
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The two billion people on the planet who lack a light bulb or scrabble<br />
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for firewood for cooking or heat (sometimes getting into knife fights<br />
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in the process) need affordable, convenient energy sources now —<br />
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whether from a solar panel or biogas, or from a conventional power<br />
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plant or propane tank.<br />
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People in fast-growing countries like China and India would almost<br />
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certainly expect a concerned person in a wealthy nation to recognize<br />
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the primacy in such places of real-time energy needs over long-term<br />
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climate concerns. Their leaders absolutely do, and that’s why, even<br />
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though they will be the dominant source of warming gases in coming<br />
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decades, the climate treaty talks have remained stuck in “you first”<br />
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mode.<br />
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The issue of inter-generational empathy on climate risk butts up<br />
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against even tougher barriers, the ones that make this a truly “super<br />
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wicked” problem. One is our habit of “hyperbolic discounting” of<br />
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long-term, murky threats, but that’s just the start. Much more is<br />
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summarized by Richard Lazarus in a paper (cited here several times)<br />
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subtitled “Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future.”<br />
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Read that paper and the vital early paper that underpins it, by Kelly<br />
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Levin and others, then circle back to the top of this post and<br />
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consider the response to the Newtown shootings and the realities of<br />
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global warming.<br />
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In the end, I see efforts to boost the global capacity for<br />
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connectedness and empathy — to concretize the once-fuzzy notion of the<br />
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“global village” — as vital if the goal is a relatively smooth ride<br />
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for humanity in this century and beyond (along with the capacity for<br />
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innovation and resilience). Spend 45 minutes with one of my<br />
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“Knowosphere” talks to get the details.<br />
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But it’s vital to recognize that a full assessment of moral gaps, and<br />
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responsibilities, includes far more than figuring out ways to<br />
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constrain greenhouse gases.<br />
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When I do that, the importance of curbing carbon dioxide emissions<br />
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falls well behind* the immediacy of energy gaps (and work to limit<br />
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vulnerability of poor places to today’s norms for climate and coastal<br />
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hazards).<br />
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I’m sure others considering this question would feel (I use that word<br />
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differently.<br />
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And that, to a significant extent, is the point of this piece.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-73292677481127410092012-12-28T19:48:00.001-08:002012-12-28T19:48:27.177-08:00Be considerate of future generations — and future species, too <strong><u>Emma Marris writes from the pages of <a href="http://pcillu101.blogpot.com/" target="_blank">GRIST</a>: with a nod to Danny Bloom at the POLAR CITIES PROJECT</u></strong><br />
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Climate change may not be forever, but it’ll be for a long, long time. Who — or what — will be around thousands or millions of years hence, when the consequences of our casually massive carbon emissions are still playing out? And do we owe them anything?</blockquote>
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According to philosopher William Grove-Fanning, currently at the Environmental Studies Program at Trinity University in San Antonio, the phrase “future generations” first started showing up in the late 1960s, in discussions of bioengineering and nuclear waste. These days, it shows up constantly in discussions of climate policy (and on “Seventh Generation” household products marketed to the eco-conscious — but no longer bought by our household since we noticed that they dye their diapers brown to make them look more ‘natural’ or ‘recycled’). As the climate changes, it won’t just — or even mostly — affect those alive today. We may bite the big one before things get truly strange and/or horrendous. But people toss off the phrase “future generations” so glibly, without really specifying whom they are talking about.<br />
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Grove-Fanning figured that most people probably imagine their grandchildren or great grandchildren. And most people are right; the next two or three or four generations may well suffer a great deal thanks to our actions. But, by sheer numbers, there will be more people in the many, many future generations after that. So even if the worst harm will be in the “short” term of the next few hundred years, the vast majority of the people who will suffer at least some harm are in the far future. To figure out how far, in both time and genetics, he did some research on two questions:<br />
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1. How long will the effects of climate change last?<br />
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2. Who will be around at the end of that period?<br />
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Direct climate effects of CO2 releases to the atmosphere “will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years into the future,” according to at least one study. But if climate change drives many species extinct, it could take roughly 10 million years for Earth to become as diverse as it is now again. For Grove-Fanning, forcing future generations to live in a biologically impoverished world is clearly harming them, since biodiversity provides many ecological services and provides psychological benefits.<br />
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In answer to No. 2, Grove-Fanning cites a recent paper from the journal Evolution on the surprisingly brisk turnover in hominin species, which estimates the average lifespan of hominin species as about 2.3 million years.<br />
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The unavoidable conclusion, if these time estimates are in the right ballpark, is that some of the future generations that may be harmed by climate change won’t even be human.<br />
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There are two key implications to this. One is that — wow — we could be on track to mess things up so badly that not only our children and our children’s children will be mad at us, but an entire new species may be shaking whatever kind of appendage their fists have evolved into and cursing our names with new languages and new religions. That should give us pause. The other is that, hey, if these guys won’t be human, maybe we don’t owe them the same moral obligations we owe our own species. This is the general view of Grove-Fanning. “The proper metaphor for obligations isn’t like a light switch. It is more sliding scale. Yeah, I have obligations to people in the deep future, but they are probably much weaker than the ones I have for my great grandchildren.”<br />
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This research came out of Grove-Fanning’s work on what motivates people to act to help people or prevent harm. In general, he finds, evolution has endowed us with a moral radar that responds very well to the “particular and the concrete.” If a town is wiped out by a hurricane, people will flock to the scene, eager to help. But suggest that their actions will hurt an abstract concept like “biodiversity” or a shadowy and temporally distant group called “future generations” and they do nothing. The fact that many of the future generations won’t even be human probably ain’t going to help, even if National Geographic commissions an illustration of a sad and sweaty looking post-human hominin.<br />
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But all this talk of far future generations does make one think. Sure, human brains may be incapable of caring about distant and abstract people, thanks to evolution. But before another thousand years are out, humanity may be able to choose to change that with biotechnology. In Unfit for the Future, philosophers Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu propose just that. They call it “moral bioenhancement.”<br />
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If we take them up on it, I wonder if the end of the human species might come sooner than we expect. For if we became that forward thinking, thoughtful, and morally rational, could we really still call ourselves human?<br />
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<em>Emma Marris is a freelance writer specializing in science and the environment. Her book on the future of conservation and the death of the Big Pristine is called Rambunctious Garden.</em></blockquote>
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/be-considerate-of-future-generations-and-future-species-too/">http://grist.org/climate-energy/be-considerate-of-future-generations-and-future-species-too/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">ecowriter COOMENTS • 6 days ago</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">Look, all this speculation on how climate change will affect distant generations is typical academic navel gazing. There is boatloads of evidence that we and billions of other people alive right now are going to be walloped by climate change. Sure, future generations will bear the brunt of our sad inaction, but once we recognize that we're hurting ourselves first we no longer need to frame climate change only as a moral issue. Instead, we can look at mitigating climate change as an urgent survival issue.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-16252351721883078832012-12-26T20:44:00.001-08:002012-12-26T20:44:50.727-08:00 The Taiwanese ''news media'' -- scare quotes intendended -- is reporting this unsubstantiated and completely bullshit article as news. NOTE TO READERS OVERSEAS: The Taiwanese ''news media'' -- scare quotes intendended -- is reporting this unsubstantiated and completely bullshit article as news. Not once in the original article does any expert speak up and say the photo is fake. Is this the kind of face Taiwan wants to show to the outside world? Bear in mind that this fake news story did not appear in a supermarket tabloid but in a serious national newspaper of high prestige, the Liberty Times, at www.libertytimes.com.tw<br />
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transparent bipedal figure walking. OH LAST YEAR? WHY THE TIME DELAY IN REPORTING THIS NOW?<br />
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mountain lake which it CLAIMS BUT CANNOT PROVE shows the image of an “alien being,” but<br />
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photograph taken by a policeman at Jiaming Lake (嘉明湖) — located at an<br />
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altitude of 3,310 meters on the southern section of the Central Mountains in<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-6841016022848950052012-12-26T19:15:00.001-08:002012-12-26T19:19:33.502-08:00Living Pods for Polar City in Alaska Go On Sale for US$50K Each<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">for US$50K Each</span></strong><br />
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Fairbanks, Alaska -- An enterprising climate activist who hopes to raise public<br />
awareness about the risks of climate change and global warming is offering the first 100 Living Pods for a POLAR CITY to be sited in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, not from from Fairbanks and the University <br />
of Alaska - Fairbanks campus.<br />
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"Ten pods will be reserved for science fiction writers and their descendants, including Bruce Sterling, Hamish MacDonald, Gareth Renowden, Cory Doctorow, Margaret Atwood, Stephan Malone and Jim Laughter," according to former Alaskan newspaper editor Dan Bloom who has set the sales project up after planning it since 2006. "Once the time comes to move into the polar city, the first 100 units will be sold and will be ready to move in to. But there is still time, and we are in no hurry, although reservations are free and on a first come first serve basis, so hurry if you want to get a place for your descendants to live in the world's first POLAR CITY when the time comes."<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-86801857147902815312012-12-25T22:23:00.001-08:002012-12-25T22:23:28.080-08:00Dear Editor ( a series of letters to the editor on diverse topics in Taiwan)Dear Editor,<br />
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A recent Sunday comic by cartoonist Dan Piraro titled "Bizarro" was published by the Taipei Times on December 23, just two days before Christmas, and the blasphemous cartoon was both sacrilieous and repugnant. I am cancelling my subscription to your newspaper. The cartoon showed a manger scene with the baby Jesus and his mother Mary and father Joseph, with Santa Claus and his photo assistant, asking the parents if their so wanted to sit on Santa's lap and get a Christmas photo taken with him. Mary says to Santa: "Who are you and why in god's name would he want his picture with you?<br />
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The word "god" was lowercased and not capitalized, and this is anti-Christian and sacrilegiuous. Why the cartoonist chose to lowercase the word god when in fact, the rules of the Associated Press and all other newspaper style guides, say to cap the word god as "God." I hope that next Christmas you will have found<br />
a better cartoonist to grace your comics pages. Dan Piraro is just plan bizarre, and I hope he rots in Hell.<br />
And notice I capped Hell. Stet.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
A Chrsitian believer in TaiwanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-16439039205335397002012-12-25T21:32:00.001-08:002012-12-25T21:32:17.400-08:00#IfTheMovieWasJewishTwitter is not a Jewish company, nor is it know for many Jewish<br />
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<br />
themes, but on Christmas Day -- December 25 for those who need a<br />
<br />
calendar date, and a day when American Jews often spend the time taking in a movie<br />
or going out to eat at some nice Chinese joint -- some Jewish humorist started <u>a thread</u> on twitter<br />
<br />
titled <span style="color: red;">"#IfTheMovieWasJewish"</span> and asked Twitter users to have some fun<br />
<br />
coming out with imaginary movie titles, telling Twitter audiences<br />
<br />
worldwide: <em>" Today, many Jews are celebrating Chinese Food & A Movie</em><br />
<em><br /></em>
<em>Day. Let's have some fun. Let's play #IfTheMovieWasJewish! "</em><br />
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<br />
<br />
No sooner was the game plan published online, than hundreds, thousands<br />
<br />
of people, mostly Jews, but many Indians and Sikhs and Brits and Christians as well, started chiming in with <u>the silly and the</u><br />
<u><br /></u>
<u>sublime:</u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">TO WIT:</span><br />
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<br />
Apocalypse Now? What, You Can't Wait Five Minutes!"<br />
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<br />
<br />
"You Call THIS A Wonderful Life?"<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''The Lincoln movie: You want there should be blood? ''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The Guilt Trip' (Wait, isn't that a real one?!)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
''It's About Time Peggy Sue Got Married .''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Who framed Roger's Rabbi?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Eat, Pray, Love a Nice Doctor<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Borsht Identity The Borsht Supremacy The Borsht Ultimatum The<br />
<br />
Borsht Legacy The Borsht Imperative<br />
<br />
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<br />
"Zero Dark Thirty" What, would it hurt you to turn on a light?<br />
<br />
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<br />
Rudolph, the Reindeer with Persistent Sinus Infection<br />
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"A Letter to Three Wives" ... What, you can't pick up the phone? Would<br />
<br />
it kill you to call once in a while?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Eat, Pray, Love, Call Your Mother<br />
<br />
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<br />
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<br />
Around The World In 80 Days And Not One Call<br />
<br />
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War, Peace, War, Peace, Remind Me Why We Moved Here?<br />
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<br />
Debbie Does Nothing<br />
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Debbie Does Talmud<br />
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Harry Potter and the Goblet for Kiddush<br />
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<br />
Willy Wonka and the Matzah Factory<br />
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<br />
The Girl with No Tattoo<br />
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<br />
L'hit L'hit Love!<br />
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Cheech and Chong: Up in Schmaltz<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Magic Mendel #IfTheMovieWasJewish<br />
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*This* is 40??<br />
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<br />
Safety is Guaranteed or your money back<br />
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The Dark Rye Rises<br />
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<br />
The Jewish American Princess Bride<br />
<br />
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<br />
Charlie and the Matzo Factory<br />
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"Its a wonderful mitzvah"<br />
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<br />
"Wreck it Shlomo"<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Jacob Reacherberg<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Oy, Miserable<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While You Were Sleeping I Made You Some Matzo Ball Soup<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
It's A Meshuganah Meshugenah Meshugenah Meshugenah World<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Followed by TheJackB<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Jewish Million dollar baby: That's waaay to expensive for a baby<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Day the Earth Stood Still While Moses' Friends Helped Hold Up His Staff<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Stop Singing In The Rain, You'll Catch a Cold!<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Break bread, wear robes, have namesh like thish<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
12 Angry Men, They Should Eat Something, They'll Feel Better<br />
<br />
Fried Green Matzo Balls
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<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
Eat Tatala, Eat. You Can Pray and Love Later.<br />
<br />
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<br />
Greater Expectations<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Gefilte Fish Called Wanda<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
The Color of Gelt<br />
<br />
No Country for Alte Kakers<br />
<br />
><br />
<br />
> Rosh Hashanah: Judgement Day<br />
<br />
><br />
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><br />
<br />
> Once Upon a Time In The Old Country<br />
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><br />
<br />
> Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Cap<br />
<br />
><br />
<br />
> My Big Gazunta Jewish Wedding<br />
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><br />
<br />
> Reuven St. Cloud<br />
<br />
><br />
<br />
> Twilight Saga: Breaking Matzo<br />
<br />
><br />
<br />
> Chai Noon<br />
<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-50198197241941435192012-12-25T21:21:00.000-08:002012-12-25T21:21:25.917-08:00Killing as art: Hollywood promotes guns better than the NRA<br />
<em>Back in <span style="background-color: red;">August 2012</span>, long before the Sandy Hook Christmas Massacre, u.S. media critic and pundit Edward Wasserman wrote:</em><br />
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The media seem to move on from mass killings more quickly nowadays than they used to, and within three days of the Aurora, Colo., cinema massacre the killer's first appearance in court didn't make the front of The New York Times. Denying him notoriety is fine with me, but once the stories of heroism and sacrifice were told and the dead were memorialized, there seemed little interest in learning anything from the shooting of 70 people who had little in common beyond the movie they had come to watch.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Once, slaying 12 innocents would have touched off a national wave of introspection and debate, and it's hard to resist the scary conclusion that such horrors have quietly come to be accepted as part of our society's overhead, a cost of doing business.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Still, what's remarkable is that so little attention has gone to the obvious irony that the killer was acting out much the same slaughter that was being portrayed on the multiplex screen.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Raising the issue of media violence feels like indulging in some ancient controversy from the 1970s, and that's too bad. I think we need to foreground the pop-cultural side of the killings, specifically the ways that Hollywood has drifted in recent years toward sanctifying firearms as the most powerful means of self-validation in action films, the go-to remedy for most wrongs, real and imagined, the universal vehicle of catharsis, cleansing, rectification.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Face it, the most dangerous promoter of gun violence in contemporary society isn't the gunmaker or the National Rifle Association, it's Hollywood. Movies are how guns are exhibited, marketed and sold. When did you last see an advertisement from Glock or Ruger or Smith & Wesson? Unless you read a specialty magazine, never.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
That's because the market for firearms isn't widened and regenerated through consumer advertising. That happens through lurid, breathtaking portrayals of gun violence, lovingly depicted in harrowing detail, as plot elements indispensable to the contemporary action film.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Cinematic technique has made huge advances in depictions of all violence, from dismemberment to fist fights, but the achievement with guns has led the field. The visuals, as the shooter blazes away, are almost a cliche: Lyrical, slow-motion close-ups of the slide of the semi-automatic pistol spitting out the spent shell and chambering the next round, the viscous slide of the now-empty magazine dropping from the grip, the snap of the new clip as it's shoved home, the cutaway to the cascade of shells hitting the floor. There's a grim pornography to the camera work. And then the money shots as the bullets hit bone and flesh.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
What was in the mind of the Aurora shooter during the weeks of planning and calculating, while he was figuring out which weapons to buy and how much ammo he'd need, waiting for the shipments, building his bombs, picking out his commando wardrobe? Do you need to ask?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
A 24-year-old American lad, marinated in revenge fantasies -- how many cinematic montages has he seen, the quietly determined protagonist fashioning his straps and holsters, lubricating and reassembling his weapons, squeezing cartridges into clips, DeNiro in "Taxi Driver," Jean Reno in "The Professional," Keanu in "The Matrix": "Guns, lots more guns." The essence of cool.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There's a suspicious synchronicity between the guns most lovingly featured in the movies and the guns that make the industry the most money. Once, Dirty Harry packed a .44 Magnum, "the most powerful handgun in the world."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
But it was a mere revolver, and it has now given way on screen to semi-automatics and assault weapons, which the industry prefers because they cost more than six-guns and invite owners to burn through bullets by the boxload.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
In what has likely been the winningest -- and least transparent -- campaign of product placement in Hollywood history, those weapons became the norm on the big screen, and back home the punk who might have settled for a snubnose .38 was so tantalized with the far more devastating .45 or AR-15 or 9mm that they became the streetwise norm. (It was a 9 mm that the killer of six Sikh worshippers used in a suburban Milwaukee temple Aug. 5.)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Hollywood didn't cause the Aurora slaughter, but it's impossible to imagine Aurora without Hollywood.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
And now that action films have become the most reliable money-makers of our fully globalized movie industry, we should look at comparable massacres abroad not as reassurance that gun violence isn't some pathology unique to U.S. society, but as a sickening reminder that it isn't just here that violence spills off the screen.<br />
<br />
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<em>Edward Wasserman used to be a professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University (www.edwardwasserman.com). He wrote this for The Miami Herald. He is now the dean of a journalism school in California.</em><br />
<br />
<em><span style="font-size: x-large;">On his blog few days earlier he had written:</span></em><br />
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Killing as a cinematic art form<br />
<br />
<br />
Posted on August 13, 2012 <br />
11 Comments <br />
<br />
The media seem to move on from mass killings more quickly nowadays than they used to, and within three days of the Aurora, Colo., cinema massacre the killer’s first appearance in court didn’t make the front of The New York Times. Denying him notoriety was fine with me, but once the stories of heroism and sacrifice were told and the dead were memorialized, there seemed little interest in learning anything from the shooting of 70 people who had little in common beyond the movie they had come to watch.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Once, slaying 12 innocents would have touched off a national wave of introspection and debate, and it’s hard to resist the scary conclusion that such horrors have quietly come to be accepted as part of our society’s overhead, a cost of doing business. Still, what’s remarkable is that so little attention has gone to the obvious irony that the killer was acting out much the same slaughter that was being portrayed on the multiplex screen.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Raising the issue of media violence feels like indulging in some ancient controversy from the 1970s, and that’s too bad. I think we need to foreground the pop-cultural side of the killings, specifically the ways that Hollywood has drifted in recent years toward sanctifying firearms as the most powerful means of self-validation in action films, the go-to remedy for most wrongs, real and imagined, the universal vehicle of catharsis, cleansing, rectification.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Face it, the most dangerous promoter of gun violence in contemporary society isn’t the gunmakers or the National Rifle Association, it’s Hollywood. Movies are how guns are exhibited, marketed and sold. When did you last see an advertisement from Glock or Ruger or Smith & Wesson? Unless you read a specialty magazine, never.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
That’s because the market for firearms isn’t widened and regenerated through consumer advertising. They’re marketed through lurid, breathtaking portrayals of gun violence, lovingly depicted in harrowing detail, as plot elements pivotal to the contemporary action film. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Cinematic technique has made huge advances in depictions of all violence, from dismemberment to fist fights, but the achievement with guns has led the field. The visuals, as the shooter blazes away, are almost a cliché: Lyrical, slow-motion close-ups of the slide of the semi-automatic pistol spitting out the spent shell and chambering the next round, the viscous drop of the now-empty magazine from the grip, the snap of the new clip as it’s shoved home, the cutaway to the cascade of shells hitting the floor. There’s a grim pornography to the camera work. And then the money shots as the bullets hit bone and flesh.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
What was in the mind of the Aurora shooter during the weeks of planning and calculating, while he was figuring out which weapons to buy and how much ammo he’d need, waiting for the shipments, building his bombs, picking out his commando wardrobe?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Do you need to ask? A 24-year-old American lad, marinated in revenge fantasies—how many cinematic montages has he feasted on, the quietly determined protagonist fashioning his straps and holsters, lubricating and reassembling his weapons, squeezing cartridges into clips, DeNiro in Taxi Driver, Jean Reno in The Professional, Keanu in The Matrix: “Guns, lots more guns.” The essence of cool.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There’s a suspicious synchronicity between the guns most lovingly featured in the movies and the guns that make the industry the most money. Once, Dirty Harry packed a .44 Magnum, “the most powerful handgun in the world.” But it was a mere revolver, and it has now given way on screen to semi-automatics and assault weapons, which the industry prefers because they cost more than six-guns and invite owners to burn through bullets by the boxload.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
In what has likely been the winningest—and least transparent–campaign of product placement in Hollywood history, those weapons became the norm on the big screen, and back home the punk who might have settled for a snubnose .38 was so tantalized with the far more devastating .45 or AR-15 or 9mm that they became the streetwise norm. (It was a 9mm that the killer of six Sikh worshippers used last week in a suburban Milwaukee temple.)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Hollywood didn’t cause the Aurora slaughter, but it’s impossible to imagine Aurora without Hollywood. And now that action films have become the most reliable money-makers of our fully globalized movie industry, we should look at comparable massacres abroad not as reassurance that gun violence isn’t some pathology unique to U.S. society, but as a sickening reminder that it’s not just here that violence spills off the screen.<br />
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=11 Responses to Killing as a cinematic art form<br />
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Wally Moran <br />
August 13, 2012 at 2:33 pm <br />
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What is most ironic in my mind is that Hollywood and its denizens comprise the spiritual home of the anti-gun folk. Yet, and your essay here makes it obvious, Hollywood is the best thing that has ever happened to the NRA. A shame that all these stars put money ahead of their principles when making these violent movies.<br />
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<u>edwardwasserman </u><br />
<u>August 13, 2012 at 3:16 pm </u><br />
<u>Reply </u><br />
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<u>A good point, but my own suspicion is that there’s a robust gun culture in Hollywood, its liberalism notwithstanding. There’s no way you could have so many movies that pivot on detailed knowledge of weaponry without having screenwriters and directors and the like who are intimately familiar with guns.</u><br />
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Larry Murray <br />
August 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm <br />
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You write: “Raising the issue of media violence feels like indulging in some ancient controversy from the 1970′s, and that’s too bad.” I am not sure that I agree.<br />
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Sometime in the middle ’70′s when I was in academia (professor of history and popular culture), I attended a Pop Culture symposium. I wound up in a rather heated discussion/debate with one of the producers of the “Dirty Harry” series. As I recall, my statements were very reminiscent of your arguments today. What I do remember clearly is the complete and total denial by the producer of any involvement, let alone responsibility, of the film industry with violence in our society.<br />
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. <br />
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Larry Murray, Big Pine Key, FL<br />
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ed<u>wardwasserman </u><br />
<u>August 13, 2012 at 5:56 pm </u><br />
<u>Reply </u><br />
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<u>Actually, I think we do agree. What I was trying to say is that it’s too bad the issue seems so outdated, since, as you say, it’s just as urgent now as it was 40 years ago. Just another matter that gets kicked around and discarded without ever being resolved.</u><br />
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John Boak <br />
August 15, 2012 at 3:07 pm <br />
Reply <br />
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”All images are real.” — Jean-Luc Godard. It matters what you make and what you watch. Pay attention to what you pay attention to.<br />
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Rebecca Berkey <br />
August 15, 2012 at 4:15 pm <br />
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Thank you for speaking out on such an important issue. I would add, however, there are also other culprits equally culpable besides Hollywood– nightly news media that focusly mainly on the negative, popular book authors who regularly include the most violence in their novels, and the violent and abusive lyrics of a good deal of young popular song artists. Great applause to you and all socially conscious news media who have the courage to speak out. Let’s hear more!<br />
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Peg Haynes <br />
August 16, 2012 at 2:56 am <br />
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I read in the Lake Havasu Herald today, your view and I totally agree with what it said.<br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">Richard McHenry </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red;">August 17, 2012 at 12:18 am </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red;">Reply </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: red;">I read your article about movies and guns in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette today.I am a Marine vet of the Vietnam war.I have seen what bullets do to real people and it is sickening.I have a young son who played those inane video games several years ago. I tried to talk with him reasonably about the real truth of combat. Of course he laughed it off! He is older and wiser now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">My take on all of this is very simple…somehow, someway we have cheapened the life of another. From the “womb to the tomb “, we are totally unaware of really seeing death administered.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">In Vietnam I watched a family cry after we had killed their son or brother. Just today I saw the increase in suicide in the Army published and the generals are puzzled?!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">Take a look at “War and the Soul ” by Ed Tick. You will begin to see how killing in war literally takes away a man’s soul.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">Keep up your attention on how the movies and games cheapen life. You are on a mission and I, for one, have your “back “.</span><br />
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>>A 24-year-old American lad, marinated in revenge fantasies – how many cinematic montages has he seen, the quietly determined protagonist fashioning his straps and holsters, lubricating and reassembling his weapons, squeezing cartridges into clips, DeNiro in “Taxi Driver,” Jean Reno in “The Professional,” Keanu in “The Matrix”: “Guns, lots more guns.” The essence of cool.<<.<br />
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OH, PLEEZE. What crap. This was a 24-year-old "American lad" with serious psychiatric problems just as the rest of the mass shooters appear to have been… such as Hinkley, the Long Island Railroad shooter, the VA Tech shooter and so on and on. All had serious mental illness which those around them KNEW ABOUT and did nothing. None of these shootings had a damn thing to do with cinematic portrayals.<br />
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August 27, 2012 at 12:13 am <br />
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I don’t thnk you read it all, because that was not how I read this essay. He’s writing that “Hollywood didn’t cause the Aurora slaughter”, which is what you’re implying, but he does say that “it’s impossible to imagine Aurora without Hollywood.” And it is.<br />
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I am 100% against blaming movies and video games, but there’s no denying that these lunatics has found _inspiration_ in popular media. <u>Seung-Hui Cho’s favorite movie was Oldboy, and it is obvious that the movie played an important role in how he wanted to “pay back” society.</u> While Oldboy didn’t create Cho’s anger or make him go through with the killing spree, he connected with the main character, just like a teenage girl could have connected with some crushed girl in a teen flick. In Hollywood action movies, guns are usually glorified. They are not “dangerous” to anyone but “the others” and action scenes can often be shot in beatiful landscapes, special angles, slow motion, and various other “cool” ways. People love it. They mimick it, they quote it.<br />
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I’ve never seen a real gun in my entire life, yet I know many manufacturers and models, I know basically how they work and how to handle them. I have some vague ideas of which weapons I would have chosen in various situations. Picking up a handgun I would think “dodge this”, *boof*, just like Trinity does in The Matrix. All for fun of course. I wouldn’t actually point it at someone, I’m not a moron. A lunatic that hates society and wants to kill as many as possible at his work might see it differently. He thinks “dodge this”, *boof*. And when he does he pictures his boss. He then see himself as a cool guy, not the “pathetic guy” that was laid off. It could boost his confidence, just like it boosted Cho’s. Oldboy was the only thing that “got him”, everyone else was against him.<br />
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If you look at the various spree shooters you will probably see that they have serious psychiatric problems, but you will probably also see that they have looked up to the Hollywood action movies. If normal people find it cool when Harry pulls out his .44 and says “Do you feel lucky?”, why wouldn’t the crazies? If I wanted to go on a shooting spree it wouldn’t be caused by a movie, a video game or anything similar, but it would probably contribute to the way that I went through with it, and maybe give me some comfort, like with Cho.<br />
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Richard McHenry <br />
August 27, 2012 at 8:17 pm <br />
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My opinion…everyone is quick to say “psychotic”.Then they dismiss it more easily. I believe that life is being cheapened in many ways today and the video games are part of it all. Guns, crowds,etc..were available twenty years ago..yet we are going through an “epidemic” of these mass killings. Why..? To me it is the “big picture”..all the issues coming together now. Want to watch a war..?? Sit tight there may be some news tonight you can watch or take a look at YouTube.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-68756069451965800962012-12-24T19:41:00.001-08:002012-12-24T19:41:22.491-08:00New Report Finds That West Antarctica Is Warming at an Alarming Rate, Thus Bringing the Need for Polar Cities for Survivors of Global Warming to the Forefront Again; GOOGLE "polar cities" and read POLAR CITY RED a novel by Jim LaughterNew Report Finds That West Antarctica Is Warming at an Alarming Rate<br />
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By <a href="http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca J. Rosen </a><br />
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In a region where melting could contribute *10 feet* of global sea-level rise, new measurements show temperatures ticking up twice as fast as previously thought.<br />
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The Byrd Station in West Antarctica in 2001 (Antarctic Photo Library)<br />
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For more than half a century, scientists at a remote outpost in western Antarctica have been tracking the region's weather, and a new analysis published in Nature Geoscience comes to alarming conclusions: Temperatures have lept up by 4.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1958 -- twice as much as previously thought, making the area one of the fastest-warming in the world. <br />
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Should temperatures continue on this path, scientists fear warmer and longer periods of melting for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which could result in a rapid partial collapse, as happened at the Larsen B ice shelf in just one month's time in 2002. Over the course of hundreds of years, prolonged melting in the region could contribute 10 feet of global sea-level rise.according to The New York Times. For now, though, the mean temperatures during the summer are still below freezing, but, the authors warn that the rising temperatures have "enhanced the probability of extensive melting events" as happened in the region during a period of warm weather in 2005.<br />
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The study's implications are limited to the area of Antarctica surrounding the Byrd research station, as shown in this map:<br />
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The study places western Antarctica on the short list of spots in the world experiencing this degree of climate change over the last five decades, which, as you can see, are concentrated in icier -- and therefore susceptible to melting -- parts of the globe.<br />
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The new measurements fill in the gaps of an earlier study, published in 2009, that found substantial warming in the Antarctic penninsula, just to the north. But, because the data in that study was incomplete, it came under fire by skeptics (pdf) who charged that it overestimated the rate of warming. The new paper, led by David H. Bromwich of Ohio State, focuses on newly recovered data from a single temperature record -- the Byrd station's. This more detailed portrait shows that, yes, the earlier paper was indeed a bit off in its findings, but in the other direction: It underestimated the increase in temperatures, particularly in the summer months when the ice is in danger of melting. Eric Steig, the author of the 2009 paper, told The Times, "I think their results are better than ours, and should be adopted as the best estimate."<br />
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With summer ahead in Antarctica, we'll soon have another season's worth of data to study, more information with which to fill in this picture a bit. Keep filling it in, keep filling it in. The picture is getting sharper, more detailed, and more alarming year after year.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189370505125033122.post-75201268728554823742012-12-24T19:32:00.002-08:002012-12-24T19:33:56.517-08:00#LastPrintIssue - NEWSWEEK: But be careful what you wish for: reading on screens is not really READING and is really just SCREENING: there will be hell to pay for throwing PRINT away in favor of pixels and E-Ink! Reading on paper is vastly superior in terms of brain chemstry for info processing, info retention and info analysis: mark my words!<a href="http://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/282863173277720577/photo/1">http://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/282863173277720577/photo/1</a><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red;">#LastPrintIssue - NEWSWEEK: But be careful what you wish for: reading on screens is not really READING and is really just SCREENING: there will be hell to pay for throwing PRINT away in favor of pixels and E-Ink! Reading on paper is vastly superior in terms of brain chemstry for info processing, info retention and info analysis: mark my words!</span></strong></blockquote>
<br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Google "reading + screening + MRI PET SCAN studies + Dan Bloom"</span></span></strong>
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