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my blorbos

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snipped from sound installation prepared in Budapest (autumn 2019) during BARTR residency program more info: http://www.budapestartr.space/patryk-daszkiewicz

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BARTR Exhibition // Kiállítás 2019

5-10/12/2019 BUDAPEST

„Love letters” Sound installation

cassette players / loop cassettes / video

https://www.facebook.com/events/2472917096278771/?active_tab=about

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Accurate, Adequate, Meaningful, and Effective

[**Bart R requested that I find seven exemplary, accurate, pragmatic, persistent politicians who’ve directly making accurate scientific statements about climate, with adequate economic plans to address relevant issues meaningfully and effectively. Here's a first tentative.**] That might be tough to find, but perhaps that’s not impossible. I’d even venture that when all these good representatives stop rehearsing talking points, they start making sense. To me, what matters are the talking points, as they become thinking points [1]. Your challenge is tempting. I wonder how you’d score Bernie Sanders’ proposal:

Legislation that I introduced(pdf) with the support of leading environmental organizations in the country can actually address the crisis and do what has to be done to protect the planet. Senator Barbara Boxer of California, chairman of the Senate environment and public works committee, co-sponsored the bill that would reverse greenhouse gas emissions in a significant way. It also would help create millions of jobs as we transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and such sustainably energies as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. A major focus of this legislation is a price on carbon and methane emissions. **This fee on the largest fossil-fuel polluters affects fewer than 3,000 entities nationwide but covers 85% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the US, according to the Congressional Research Service.** The legislation ends fossil fuel subsidies. It also protects communities by requiring that drillers engaged in a new technology called fracking must comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act and disclose chemicals they use. To help consumers, 60% of the carbon fee revenue will be rebated to every US resident. To level the playing field for US manufacturers and create incentives for international cooperation, there would be a border fee on imported fuels and products unless the nation they were shipped from had a similar carbon price. To transform our energy system, the legislation would make the boldest ever investment in energy efficiency and sustainable energy. That includes **weatherizing** 1m homes a year, as President Obama has advocated. It also means tripling the budget for advanced research and investing hundreds of billions through incentives and a public-private Sustainable Technologies Fund focusing on energy efficiency and clean transportation technology, as well as solar, wind, geothermal and biomass alternatives. In our bill, we also provide funds to train workers for jobs in the sustainable energy economy and to help communities become resilient in the face of extreme weather. We accomplish all of this while paying down the debt by roughly $300bn over 10 years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/16/bernie-sanders-climate-change-legislation Would that kind of proposal meet your capitalistic requirements? As a ninja, I must admit that the emphasized bit does appeal to me. I also like the concept of weatherizing, if only because I will try to include it in my poetic project: http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/tagged/weatherandclimate Please note that I am not an American citizen. I am encountering most of these names for the first time. That’s the main reason for paying due diligence to their claims regarding climate, for which barackobama.com’s page was quite suboptimal. The thinking points these good people promote (in a technical sense) deserve more exposure. [1] http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/resource-center/thinking-points/

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You could just talk circles around a corkscrew in a blender on a pedalboat in a tornado.

BartR

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Joseph Aldy on **Tapping the Power of Markets to Protect the Environment**, via BartR

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READ HARDER

Bart R, distilling 10 rules of intellectual honesty.

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Suppressed or Oppressed?

So far as I can tell, Americans are being suppressed all the way to the (deregulatedly inept) bank. Suppressed into schools that show each generation wonders the previous one never knew. Suppressed into voting regularly and honestly for candidates from among their own number who are scrutinized to a ludicrous degree for years prior to election. Suppressed, many of them, into subsidized cars on subsidized streets with subsidized fuel pumped through subsidized pipelines and cared for in subsidized medical facilities when their subsidized own folly leads to their subsidized obese inebriation causes them subsidized self-harm. Suppressedly armed to the teeth — and better than most armies — with access to military-grade telecommunications and freedom of assembly and the press, and yet so gullible that they’ll believe anything they see so long as it doesn’t come from The Establishment. Suppression isn’t a problem. Paranoid delusion is, and is far more insidiously oppressive than any imagined Wurld Gubmint. You can change your government. But there’s no cure for stupid.