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Biden’s bold climate plans could be thwarted in GOP-run Senate
As the votes from a handful of key states continue to be counted and with Joe Biden looking on course to take the presidency, global coverage of the US presidential election continues. Bloomberg reports that even if Biden does take the White House, he will struggle to get his “ambitious climate agenda” past a Senate that now seems likely to remain in Republican control. It quotes a Republican donor and oil drilling executive who says the Democratic candidate will not be able to “ram…a costly, zero-carbon mandate” through a Republican Senate. Instead, Biden will have to rely on federal agencies adapting “decades-old laws” to address climate change, but such regulations may face tough scrutiny in federal courts “reshaped” by more than 200 Trump-appointed judges, Bloomberg notes. The Financial Times reports that US oil-and-gas stocks rose and those of renewable energy producers fell on Wednesday in response to the likely lack of a Democratic majority in the Senate. It states that while $2tn of spending on clean energy had been pledged by Biden during his campaign, this proposal now “hangs in the balance” and looks especially unlikely given the Supreme Court’s recent shift to the right under the Trump administration. The newspaper quotes Bob McNally, a former adviser to President George W Bush, who says “court-packing, adding states and large tax hikes on oil and gas companies go out the window”. In its coverage, S&P Global Platts reports that the lack of a “strong blue wave” the Democrats had hoped for meant the ability to use the budget-reconciliation process or eliminate the filibuster, both moves discussed in the context of passing climate legislation, now looked unlikely.

In contrast, Reuters quotes a lobbyist who suggests that Biden’s relationships with senators formed over decades could help him push some “modest legislation” on energy and climate. InsideClimate News echoes the point that there could be some moderate progress in a Republican-majority Senate, but notes that the party “have not so far put forward any comprehensive climate plans”. The website also reports that Democrats will still control the House of Representatives, where they will likely “continue to press for action on climate change”. For more on the climate policies of both candidates and their parties, see Carbon Brief’s US election tracker, which compares the Democrat and Republican positions on climate change and energy. Analysis in Axios looks specifically at “climate’s role in the chaotic election”.

Following the US departure from the Paris Agreement, which coincided with the election, Reuters reports that a Japanese government spokesman has called the decision “extremely regrettable”. A New York Times article states that if the US rejoins the agreement, as Biden says he intends to, the country would find it has “a lot of catching up to do to both reduce emissions and rebuild trust with its international allies”. Climate Home News reports that climate campaigners have “reacted angrily” to Donald Trump’s unfounded claim that he won the presidential election. Its coverage quotes several activists criticising the president and calling on the authorities to “count every vote”.

In other US politics news, the Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has proposed a “mainstream climate scientist”, Betsy Weatherhead, to lead the next National Climate Assessment. “Her appointment stands in sharp contrast to two recent high-level political hires…[and is] also is in contrast to the climate change views of President Trump,” the article notes.

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It's normal to feel anxious or overwhelmed by climate change, says psychologist Renée Lertzman. Can we turn those feelings into something productive? In an affirming talk, Lertzman discusses the emotional effects of climate change and offers insights on how psychology can help us discover both the creativity and resilience needed to act on environmental issues.

How to turn climate anxiety into action | Renée Lertzman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f52LJJFBCLc

https://projectinsideout.net/

Project InsideOut seeks to create a new mindset for engaging communities on our urgent climate and sustainability issues. We are a Resource Hub that brings together activists and clinical psychologists to drive sustainable behavior change for our planet. We provide practical tools based on evidence-based research and clinical best practices that sustainability leaders and advocates can apply directly to their work.

Project InsideOut - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfNzAOB0aoivDlL2engycKA


We have launched this Hub with an invitation for the climate campaigning community to self-assess our theories of change and to shift our mind sets and skill sets toward Guiding. This is less of a methodology as a set of robust, flexible and powerful Guiding Principles. Within each Guiding Principle are applications for your work, whether it informs how you understand your stakeholders and members, or designing your entire engagement strategy. Our hope is that this is taken as a holistic approach, and you experiment and practice with each other and colleagues.

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While PIO draws strongly on the best practices in clinical psychological research, this is not all about feelings. This is about addressing the complex and messy experiential dimensions of engaging with climate change and how we, as a human society, will change. These are cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimensions, which as our Quadrant illustrates, are integrated and must be joined up. Our work is about meeting people where they are, engaging everyone as partners and stakeholders in this work, and bringing a high level of “emotional intelligence” to what we do. We also recognize the highly varied and diverse lived experiences, perspectives, and conditions across human communities and populations. We are grounded in the respect and belief that there is no “right way” to engage with these issues across culture and societal contexts. That said, based on our extensive experience and research, we assert acknowledging and addressing our feelings is a vital and often missing piece of our work.

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we’re always a combination of approaches across the Quadrant.

We tend to prioritize certain theories of change over others, depending on our background, training, personal preferences, organizational culture, and trends in the field.

However, as practitioners, it’s vital that we are aware and intentional about what theories of change we choose to use, where our biases are, and if we are relying too heavily on one or two approaches to driving scalable, systemic, and transformative change. What is the story your results tell about you, your organization, and the field?

Where can you grow? What might be opportunities to build new capabilities? What underlying assumptions are in need of revisiting and challenging?

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We have found the Experiential quadrant is least understood and applied. Many of us have used tactics from social marketing, challenges, pledges, nudges, feedback systems, tools and resources, data visualization, positive and inspiring storytelling—but maybe haven’t addressed people’s Three As, used conversation-based platforms or applied a more emotionally honest approach. This is due to a number of reasons mainly because this orientation reflects a leading edge of our work, research, and innovation in the field. Hence, Project InsideOut’s mission and purpose.

Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World: Albrecht, Glenn A.: 9781501715228: Amazon.com: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Emotions-New-Words-World/dp/1501715224

dl: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=C7B231807B3F51531FEDBB0BBD3D13B0

Earth Emotions is a bracing attempt to advance the debate on global heating, which constitutes a human health and identity crisis, Albrecht convincingly argues, alongside a widening biological and social catastrophe. In going forward, we will need to address that psychological and existential damage too, and the concept of solastalgia helpfully alerts us to the unique form of "desolation" that arises when the fauna and flora, the weather and the seasons change around us (p. 38)—a negative mindset that will only spread and intensify as those changes accelerate in the coming years. Like climate change, solastalgia is here to stay, and Albrecht skillfully explains its features via detailed comparisons with related forms of ecological grief and hope. Furthermore, Albrecht is right that our course can only be reversed with the help of a new cultural narrative that counteracts bad "Earth emotions" like ecophobia (p. ix) without parroting facile slogans involving "sustainability" and "resilience" (p. 93), and that underlines the priority of the planet we are living on—in sharp contrast to the fantasies of entrepreneurial "space invaders" like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk (p. 161). In line with recent research on vegetal life and multispecies knots, Albrecht also makes a compelling case that this new cultural narrative should cultivate empathy for animals, plants, and fungi, and for symbiotic processes involving life forms that are invisible to the human senses, like the bacterial life inside our bodies and inside the earth's crust. In one memorable example of this multispecies entanglement, he explains how small kangaroo-like marsupials called woylies help to make water and nutrients available to Australian woodland ecosystems by digging into the soil and breaking up waxy eucalyptus residues that otherwise turn the ground hard and water-repellent (p. 125). Instead of adopting the morose tone of much Anthropocene discourse, moreover, Albrecht feels that this new narrative should provide optimistic conceptual tools for what he names "Generation Symbiocene" (p. xi). Those who want to address ecological grief will accordingly find an invigorating roadmap here, which follows a confident trajectory from negative to positive earth emotions.

THROUGH THE DOOR: a therapeutic practice for the commons. Next Event: 28th November 2020.
https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/...ic-practice-for-the-commons-next-event-insert-date-here

In these experiential workshops we will explore issues such as what happens when:

* collective anxiety leads to dysfunctional activations
* symptoms such as helplessness, grief and resentment are widespread but denied
* the articulation, witnessing and validation of such feelings is difficult
* boundaries and permissions for therapeutic comment are ambiguous

This can happen with chance encounters of those interested in climate and Covid-19 matters or through the intentional convening of climate cafés and other specific groups, whether through Zoom or not. While we may be trained to stay with the client’s difficulties and attend to unconscious process, the very different context of more public events requires an unlearning of expectable therapy transactions and an opening to new opportunities to be with the process.

‘Going through the door’ evokes the liminal space of transiting a cultural threshold, a passage through the uncertainty that requires relinquishing the ‘normal’ and being open to another reality. Our training and practice may have allowed us to tolerate the anxiety that goes with this transition and hence we can be containers and even catalysts for transformation. The workshop intends to give a taste of this and also encourage practical explorations such as with Climate Cafés where such skills can be brought to fruition.

eko-psychoterapie

vlasata

Lidí, kteří se trápí kvůli ohrožení přírody, je mnoho. Narážejí na nepochopení
https://denikreferendum.cz/...kteri-se-trapi-kvuli-ohrozeni-prirody-je-mnoho-narazeji-na-nepochopeni

Rozhovor se Zdeňkou Voštovou: Duševní nemoc může být i odrazem vnějšího světa
https://denikreferendum.cz/...or-se-zdenkou-vostovou-dusevni-nemoc-muze-byt-i-odrazem-vnejsiho-sveta

eko-psychoterapie

voštová

Zdeňka Voštová: Psychická (ne)pohoda v době sucha a co s tím - Ekolist.cz
https://ekolist.cz/...nazory-a-komentare/zdenkan-vostova-psychicka-ne-pohoda-v-dobe-sucha-a-co-s-tim

Jsme součást širšího celku - Pravý domácí časopis
https://www.vostova.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pdc1909-Zdenka-Vostova.pdf

Environmentální žal. Jak si poradit s hlubokým smutkem z vymírání druhů a klimatických změn? | Radio Wave
https://wave.rozhlas.cz/...al-jak-si-poradit-s-hlubokym-smutkem-z-vymirani-druhu-a-7785444#player=on

EGEB: First US Gulf Coast oil refinery shuts down since COVID - Electrek
https://electrek.co/2020/11/06/egeb-us-gulf-coast-shell-oil-refinery-russia-paris-agreement/amp/

Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday that it is closing its refinery in Convent, Louisiana.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to try to meet the Paris Agreement.

This search engine helps fight climate change — and all you have to do is browse.

petromaskulinita

CPA Newsletter November 2020 - Climate Crisis Digest: Petromasculinity.
CPA Newsletter November 2020 - Climate Crisis Digest: Petromasculinity.
https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/...er-november-2020-climate-crisis-digest-petromasculinity

For Dagett, ‘Taking petro-masculinity seriously means paying attention to the thwarted desires of privileged patriarchies as they lose their fossil fantasies.’ A trend in the US called “rollin’ coal” enacts in ritual fashion what Dagett succinctly sums up as ‘fossil fuel violence experienced as masculinised power’. ‘Rollin’ coal involves retro-fitting a diesel truck so that its engine can be flooded with excess gas, producing thick plumes of black smoke.’ An old practice in the world of diesel truck racing, in 2014 rollin’ coal went on to the roads to protest against environmental protections. Reading this, I think I learned something about the sacredness of fossil fuels to many Modern men that I’d not appreciated before.

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When petro-masculinity is at stake, climate denial is best understood through desire, rather than as a failure of scientific communication or reason. In other words, an attachment to the righteousness of fossil fuel lifestyles, and to all the hierarchies that depend upon fossil fuel, produces a desire to not just deny, but to refuse climate change. Refusing climate change is distinct from ignoring climate change, which is effectively what many people who otherwise acknowledge its reality do.

hehe https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1324439705522524162