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As the planet heats and we experience more weather events, climate distress will rise, so researchers at Simon Fraser University are investigating a new way of measuring that anxiety and knowing when to alert healthcare providers.
Researchers at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver are studying whether social media can be used as an early warning system for climate change anxiety.
A nice day for walking and seeing waterfowl rather than driving and fouling the air.
Nature takes its course in a forest on the west coast of Canada (Vancouver Island) with a jumble of fallen branches and trunks feeding new trees and plants.
Hard to believe the climate barely got a mention in the electioneering of recent weeks. If we, as a species, had any survival instincts it would be the main thing talked about. Tomorrow, vote with your survival instincts.
Cartoon from a recent The Big Issue Australia.
Influencers in political movements have sought to sway public opinion throughout history. New social media algorithms now give them a powerful boost. What you watch is watched and analyzed, and as you watch more, you get more. Polarization increases, vitriolic attacks replace informed debate, and hate speech masquerades as free speech.
From an interview with Prof. Stewart Prest from SFU on the persuasive power of political social media videos + new algorithms designed to boost your engagement in ways that may lead people deeper in echo chambers on some social media websites.
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Coal and Colonialism: how India became the scapegoat of COP26
Picture this, it’s 1902, a warm evening during the British Empire’s grasp on the Raj. A Boris Johnsonesque Colonial official reprimands an Indian child for not appropriating white behaviours quickly enough. Fast forward to November 12th 2021, and you can see the exact archetypal figures spitting vehemently at Indian delegates, but this time it’s the words coal is wrong; you’re wrong.
There is a lot to unpack in these interactions, from the evident bullying to the more subtle but equally insidious patronising and paternalistic attitudes of wealthier countries who believe they have the authority to reprimand the same countries they have historically exploited and whose energy trajectory they have been entirely implicit.
Coal, for example, is out of fashion in the West and has been for some time. Whilst I don’t advocate coal as a sustainable energy form, I support global equality and truth. We must then acknowledge the historical power imbalances which have resulted in the timeline of coal’s decline in the West, whilst the Global South has been left dependent on nonrenewable energy sources like coal and other fossil fuels out of necessity.
It is not unusual for the Western capitalist supernations to deflect blame onto the Eastern countries of the world. This power imbalance which Edward Said coined in his pivotal book Orientalism, published in 1978, is evident in the scapegoating of Eastern countries India and China as the ‘bad guys’ in the aftermath of the disappointing COP26 climate deal.
Asad Rehman, executive director of War on Want, the anti-poverty London Based charity which challenges the root causes of inequality and injustice through partnerships with social movements in the global South and campaigns in the UK, described the deal as;
a betrayal in which only the fossil fuel industries will be celebrating.
It is a deal where global sized countries received the blame, whilst the richest countries, the United Kingdom, the USA and the European Union (also the countries most accountable for the violence and destruction of imperialism) bullied the smaller and poorer nations through treacherous omissions, and by controlling the venue and negotiating rooms by barring members of civil society whilst those big business lobbying corporations had no issue accessing platforms both digital and in person.
The guilty three also blocked progress on promises of loss and damage demanded by the Global South who make up 80% of the world’s population and whose inhabitants have already seen and lived through the threats imposed by the climate crisis, which intersects across the board of political and health inequity with which these countries are relentlessly battling against.
The colonial perception continues to manifest in the UK’s hosting of such a problematic COP and the Western media’s shameless and unoriginal portrayal of the East as the binary of bad and backward to the West, which heralds change and progress. Consequently, I’m reading Black Gold by British journalist Jeremy Paxman who celebrates the classic British mentality: the UK’s deeply connected social and economic history with coal, describing it as essentially the vehicle which birthed the British Nation as a major modern economic power. Whilst Alok Sharma may be 'deeply frustrated’ by India and China over coal, as it stands, India’s green energy policies have increased five-fold in the last ten years. Whilst the innovative Bhadla Solar Park is evidence of the country’s commitment to investing in renewable energy (often done through private finance) to decarbonise the power industries and make the country a cleaner and more stable home for its vast population. India then represents, in truth, not frustration but hope.
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Had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Tim Takaro, Prof Emeritus of SFU, for Earth Day and he continues to warn about the health crisis being generated by our lack of action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions….
According to Dr. Takaro, “the difference in deaths is in the tens of thousands that we can expect just from the particulate pollution alone.”
Dr. Takaro says reductions in GHG emissions will not only lessen the impact of global warming but create the co-benefit of saving lives that might have been lost to air pollution.
Another health concern is water supply and quality.
Dr. Takaro says community water systems that rely on surface water from lakes and reservoirs fed by glaciers and the annual snowpack are threatened.
“Those sources are not as reliable as they once were and the future looks very grim for communities that rely on glacial and snowpack water sources because those water sources are leaving, and they’re leaving permanently. We really need to get serious about our emissions and a lot of benefits will come from that.”
He warns our children and their children are going to be “profoundly affected by the impacts of global warming and climate change” and will affect our health in many ways.
The theme of this year’s Earth Day is Invest in Your Planet. An expert on health and climate in British Columbia says that means stopping ne
Yungang Buddha (Datong, China) Photograph edited and digitally altered.
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Smoker’s Moment of Reflection in a courtyard in Pingyao, China.
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