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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>Terrific email from Mary Sabolsi!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>This is the kind of passion that is needed to get something to happen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>if we are to save our climate and life on earth!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>Here is more information that I gathered for Physicians for Social Responsibility;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>I think that it is perhaps hopeful that we `only' need to keep the fossil fuels in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>the ground. After all it is only a small percent of the human population that<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>is making money off selling it and polluting the planet, whereas there are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>a lot more people that will suffer from its use if they are allowed to continue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>====================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>More info on the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/08/climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-ground">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/08/climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-ground</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>Good article in the Guardian breaks down the amount that <b>cannot be used</b> by country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>The US needs not to use 97 percent of our coal, not to use 31 percent of our oil,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>and 52 percent of our gas reserves, according to an article in Nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>"In May, an IEA report concluded that there could be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/18/no-new-investment-in-fossil-fuels-demands-top-energy-economist"><span style='color:#C70000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>no new oil, gas or coal development if the world was to reach net zero by 2050</span></a>. A UN report in December found <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/world-is-doubling-down-on-fossil-fuels-despite-climate-crisis-un-report"><span style='color:#C70000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>fossil fuel production must fall rapidly to keep under 1.5C</span></a> and avoid “severe climate disruption” but that countries were planning increased outputs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;margin:1rem;font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;word-break:break-word;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>The new research, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03821-8"><span style='color:#C70000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>published in the journal Nature</span></a>, used a complex model of global energy use that prioritised use of the fossil fuels that are cheapest to extract, such as Saudi oil, in using up the remaining carbon budget. Costly and highly polluting reserves, such as Canada’s tar sands and Venezuelan oil, are left in the ground in the model."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>----<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>The UN Sustainable Development Goals is a good source of information and study on climate issues, although I didn't see anything in a quick glance on the topic of keeping hydrocarbons in the ground. <a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13">https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13</a></span><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/news/call-inputs-global-sustainable-development-report-2023-34347">https://sdgs.un.org/news/call-inputs-global-sustainable-development-report-2023-34347</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>======<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>I find it interesting in following cultural shifts when discussing climate change-- it seems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>to me that only recently people have been looking directly at the oil companies and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>the necessity to stop putting greenhouse gases into our shared global commons; earlier<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>people were trying to wriggle out of this problem by talking about drawdown and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>direct carbon capture, and planting trees. But by now it is pretty clear that it would<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>make a lot more sense to not put the GHG in the atmosphere, full stop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>Oil Change International is taking on the companies directly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>----<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>Another important new organization is ScientistRebellion, <a href="https://scientistrebellion.com/">https://scientistrebellion.com/</a></span><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;background:#6A73DA'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:white;letter-spacing:.7pt'>We are scientists, calling for a climate revolution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>who recently had demonstrations in many locations around the world, including a small subset in Boston on Earth Day. More info at link.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>==================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>Apropos the fossil fuel companies…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'>See the Yale study linked below on the $5.9 Trillion yearly that is given by the US and several other governments to the fossil fuel companies!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><a href="https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds#:~:text=Fossil%20Fuels%20Received%20%245.9%20Trillion%20In%20Subsidies%20in%202020%2C%20Report%20Finds,-An%20open%2Dpit&text=Coal%2C%20oil%2C%20and%20natural%20gas,8%20percent%20of%20the%20total">https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds#:~:text=Fossil%20Fuels%20Received%20%245.9%20Trillion%20In%20Subsidies%20in%202020%2C%20Report%20Finds,-An%20open%2Dpit&text=Coal%2C%20oil%2C%20and%20natural%20gas,8%20percent%20of%20the%20total</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FCFAF6'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:black'>Coal, oil, and natural gas received $5.9 trillion in subsidies in 2020 — or roughly $11 million every minute — according to a <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Still-Not-Getting-Energy-Prices-Right-A-Global-and-Country-Update-of-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-466004"><span style='color:#EC5240;text-decoration:none'>new analysis</span></a> from the International Monetary Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FCFAF6'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:#FCFAF6'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:black'>Explicit subsidies accounted for only 8 percent of the total. The remaining 92 percent were implicit subsidies, which took the form of tax breaks or, to a much larger degree, health and environmental damages that were not priced into the cost of fossil fuels, according to the analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FCFAF6'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:black'>“Underpricing leads to overconsumption of fossil fuels, which accelerates global warming and exacerbates domestic environmental problems including losses to human life from local air pollution and excessive and road congestion and accidents,” authors wrote. “This has long been recognized, but globally countries are still a long way from getting energy prices right.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FCFAF6'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#FCFAF6'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:black'>The report found that 47 percent of natural gas and 99 percent of coal is priced at less than half its true cost, and that just five countries — </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:red'>China, the United States, Russia, India, and Japan — account for two-thirds of subsidies globally</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:black'>. All five countries belong to the G20, which in 2009 <a href="http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/2009/2009communique0925.html#energy"><span style='color:#EC5240;text-decoration:none'>agreed to phase out</span></a> “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies “over the medium term.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>--------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>Solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=dcr-xry7m2 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Marcellus",sans-serif;color:#121212'>Amy Hendrickson</span><span style='color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>