{"id":67084,"date":"2019-12-21T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67084"},"modified":"2019-12-21T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T21:56:21","slug":"what-youre-blind-to-will-bite-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67084","title":{"rendered":"What you’re blind to will bite you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Camero<\/strong>n — note, incidentally, that Scientists have gotten predictions of global warming right since the 1970s<\/a> ]
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Well, first let’s note that the UN a few days agoissued its Emissions Gap Report 2019<\/a> which is variously described as “bleak” (Washington Post) and “bleak (NY Times) — so it’s presumably bleak. The UN also issued:<\/p>\n

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  • UN, <\/strong>10 things to know about the Emissions Gap 2019<\/a>\n
  • UN, <\/strong>Visual feature: The Emissions Gap Report 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Still bleak. <\/p>\n

    But at least we have simple forms in which to absorb the message.<\/p>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, Yale <\/strong>has very helpfully packaged 24 recent reports on climate change, and there’s still one missing.<\/p>\n

    Let’s see:<\/p>\n

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  • Yale Climate Connections<\/strong>, 12 major climate change reports from 2019<\/a>\n
  • Yale Climate Connections<\/strong>, 12 reports on carbon pricing, climate security, and more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    And look, they cover everything from Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs<\/a> to Canada’s Changing Climate<\/a>, lessons on action against tobacco and fossil fuels<\/a> to the State of Climate Adaptation in Public Health of 16 U.S. States<\/a>, and Malaria eradication within a generation<\/a> to FEMA on Community Resilience<\/a> and so Are the public ready for net zero?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Tet last two come closest to what I think is missing. They consider human response to climate change in light of the climate change crisis — but they’re still exterior to the humans they consider — they’re from the realm of sociology, and I’m interested in the corresponding interior states, the psychology of human response. And in particular our capacity for denial and indifference, our stickiness \/ stuckness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    What’s the sludge through which we must make our way to awareness? Why does this feel so very much like trench warfare in World War I, re-enacted in mind? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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