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==an 12 22In September 2022, an international group of climate scientists published a study showing that the world was close to, or in some cases had even surpassed, <a href="https://grist.org/climate/report-climate-tipping-points-new-level-danger/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">key tipping points in the climate crisis</a> that would trigger irreversible changes in the world’s ecosystems. These include the collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets, tropical coral reef die-off, the abrupt thawing of Northern permafrost, the loss of Barents Sea ice, the melting of mountain glaciers, the dieback of the Amazon rainforest, and changes to the West African monsoon that will impact the Sahel region of Africa.This article was produced by <a href="https://independentmediainstitute.org/earth-food-life/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Earth | Food | Life</a>, a project of the Independent Media Institute.These points launch the world into the unknown and unknowable, as they engage feedback loops the consequences of which we cannot accurately predict. And yet those predictions concern the mass suffering and death of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/dishashetty/2021/07/30/climate-change-would-cause-83-million-excess-deaths-by-2100/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">tens of millions</a>, and maybe more. We are at a tipping point. And President Biden has yet to declare the climate emergency he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/28/joe-biden-climate-emergency-declaration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">publicly pondered in July 2022</a>. He likely (and legitimately) fears a political backlash; populism is <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/populism-threat-to-climate-policies-in-brazil-europe-united-states-by-izabella-teixeira-et-al-2022-09" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">seen now as a barrier</a> to climate reforms.What’s wrong? Threats to our species as a whole, and to our survival, are amorphous things. They are too large, and too slow, for us—<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/nov/10/brain-climate-change-science-psychology-environment-elections" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">for the slowly evolving human brain</a>—to see properly. But threats framed as originating from other persons, from the people around us are not. Our species is quite accustomed to dealing with such threats—this is the history of war. And in the case of things like pandemics, where amorphous threats like contagions were framed as threats by the government to deprive us of liberty, they have <a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/11/why-pandemic-and-populism-still-work-together" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">triggered terrifying populist responses</a>.The climate crisis certainly is a form of oppression, exacted upon a vast majority of middle and low-income folks by a wealthy few in a fossil fuel industry that <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-big-oil-knew-about-climate-change-in-its-own-words-170642" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">knew and hid the facts of what it was doing</a>, and the relatively few politicians and world leaders that authorized and enabled their acts. And while we are accustomed to scientists and those same politicians <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2004/11/24/lakoff-and-framing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">framing</a> news regarding the crisis, or very young persons like Greta Thunberg with their <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/greta-thunberg-climate-response-rogoff-greenpeace-unccd/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">angry but relatively muted responses</a> centered on the rights of future generations, we can imagine other framings.What if the news that climate crisis-driven <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2022/07/19/climate-change-is-killing-people-europes-extreme-heatwave-continues" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">heat waves are killing people</a> were not framed as a study or science at all, but the still true vision of a handful of wealthy elites and the few thousand political cronies that protect their profits by committing the indiscriminate killing of children, of grandmothers, and of <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/climate-change-and-health-pregnant-breastfeeding-and-postpartum-women" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">pregnant women</a>. Why not see it this way, in the terms our brains might react to? Why not frame it in terms of class, which triggers action on the right and left, often beyond the margins? Yes, climate change is an ethereal thing we cannot touch, like the bullets of Putin’s army, but that’s merely a choice of how we perceive it. Who pays the price of the crisis and who benefits from it, and the science that shows such a flow of responsibility, is a fact.It could be that we do not frame it in this way because that framing does not present any particular solution, any better solution, than more amorphous frames. We still need to go to courts and other bodies <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01102022/in-pivotal-climate-case-un-panel-says-australia-violated-islanders-human-rights/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">to determine liability</a>. We still need governments, and their processes to regulate emissions or build systems of sequestration. We still need massive regulatory networks to implement climate mitigation plans.All of this is true, but it is also true that—like the trials at Nuremberg—the world has faced unprecedented threats and the situations that followed them with unprecedented systems of justice. Perhaps climate change is such an unprecedented threat, justifying solutions—like the demanding particularly culpable corporations follow the lead of companies like Patagonia—and <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/clothing-company-save-planet-patagonia-find/story?id=90265309" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">begin to transform their structure accordingly</a> to start to repair the damage they have caused.That sort of demand, regardless of governments, would be particularly appropriate were <a href="https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/11/29/climate-reparations" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the repairs treated as reparations</a> and the beneficiaries future generations—the most likely class of persons to be harmed. Future generations could be best compensated through effective <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/its-earth-overshoot-day-future-generations-are-calling-opinion-1728512" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">family planning incentives, entitlements, and reparations</a> awarded to their parents through novel devices like private baby bonds that encourage sustainably sized families likely to maximize the resilience of their children. If we believe that government derives from the people, these solutions—ones that involve the creation of those people—<a href="https://www.elivapress.com/en/news/news-1099770514/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">precede and exceed</a> the ability of governments, and the companies they protect, to refuse.Moreover, how we frame the crisis can trigger the governmental processes described above by motivating officials to act, much the way the framing of the pandemic created massive political backlashes. There are many other examples of amorphous threats transformed into tangible ones. Certainly, the harms caused by the crisis, and the irreversible harms the tipping points promise, are cause for a populist backlash, if we just find a way to see it as the oppression of many by a few that it is.Author Bio: Carter Dillard is the policy adviser for the <a href="https://fairstartmovement.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Fair Start Movement</a>. He served as an Honors Program attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and also served with a national security law agency before developing a comprehensive account of reforming family planning for the <a href="https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yhrdlj/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal</a>.==<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-panel-downplays-climate-motivation-patagonia-founder-who-gave-his-company-fight">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-panel-downplays-climate-motivation-patagonia-founder-who-gave-his-company-fight</a>=<h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/patagonia-ceo-politics-2613614515.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;">'Go Out and Vote' Patagonia Endorses Candidates For First Time in Its History</a></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2613614515" data-authors="Lorraine Chow" data-headline="'Go Out and Vote' Patagonia Endorses Candidates For First Time in Its History" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief">Outdoor brand <a href="https://www.patagonia.com/home/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Patagonia</a> is endorsing candidates for the first time in its history in an effort to protect the country's at-risk <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/public-lands" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">public lands</a> and <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/waters" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">waters</a>.The civic-minded retailer is backing two Democrats in two crucial Senate races: the re-election of Sen. Jon Tester of Montana; and Rep. Jacky Rosen, who is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Dean Heller in Nevada</div></div></div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/patagonia-fights-corporate-takeover-national-monuments">http://www.alternet.org/environment/patagonia-fights-corporate-takeover-national-monuments</a> Sunday, Patagonia released its first <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCVNk0H9Erc" style="text-decoration-line: none;">TV commercial</a> since its founding 44 years ago. Rather than selling <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/08/24/44-years-patagonia-released-first-commercial-clothing/#50b5575e3c80" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">outdoor gear</a>, the one-minute commercial comes out against the selling off of America's national parkland to private interests.The ad features the clothing company's founder, Yvon Chouinard, who asks viewers to pressure Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to protect public lands. Zinke gave President Trump recommendations this week to shrink four outdoor national monuments, as a followup to Trump’s April <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/26/presidential-executive-order-review-designations-under-antiquities-act" style="text-decoration-line: none;">executive order</a> to review national monuments over 100,000 acres.Reassessing public land <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/11/climate/doi-monument-review-five-to-watch.html?mcubz=3&mtrref=www.nytimes.com" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">worries environmentalists</a>, ranchers and others because it would potentially reopen the lands to corporate use. Trump has tried to misrepresent federal protection of land as a "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/climate/antiquities-act-federal-lands-donald-trump.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">massive federal land grab</a>."Patagonia's commercial, which cost <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/08/24/44-years-patagonia-released-first-commercial-clothing/#7d109b2d3c80" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$700,000</a> to produce, features stunning landscape shots of national parks, as Chouinard calls out the "few self-serving politicians" who want to make money from selling off public lands. He explains that, "Behind the politicians are the energy companies and the big corporations that want to use up those natural resources. It's just greed." Chouinard ends the ad by emphasizing how public lands are "our heritage." ...<h3 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457807038193_3759" class="yiv0433868517null" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: left;"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457807038193_3760" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ecowatch.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=214ab5fbb3f6015d74ffab4ec&id=9fab86db89&e=c2e8fdabfa" style="word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Patagonia to Fund Rooftop Solar Installations on 1,500 Homes</a></h3><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/21/patagonia-vote-environment">
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