Used with permission of Multimedia Journalist & Filmmaker Kim Paul Nguyen
The above VICE News video with 750,175 views as of June 8, 2022, reminds me of my May 18, 2021 post “Thoughts and Prayers for Thousands of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Farmers/Ranchers, Facing Water Shut Off for ‘First Year in History’ as ‘Millions of Migrating Birds’ Suffer and ‘70% of [ . . . Downriver Salmon Smolts Are] Already Dead in the Traps Used to Collect Them,‘” my August 25, 2018 post “‘In Germany we should focus everything on the phase out of coal.’ — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)” , my May 6, 2021 post “Climate Emergency and Harlan Howard’s ‘three chords and the truth’” and my August 29, 2018 post, “Schellnhuber: “Rising Seas Could Affect 1.4 Billion People by 2060.”
Spring term 2022, in addition to a Poetry Seminar, I taught five climate-themed sections of Critical Thinking and Intermediate Composition, and one of the students’ favorite videos was David Schechter/Verify Road Trip’s DOCUMENTARY: Climate skeptic examines what scientists know and how they know it in which “the skeptic, 38-year-old Justin Fain, is a ‘politically conservative’ honest and curious Texas roofer with a great sense of humor [ . . . ].” One of the most disturbing videos was Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future complementing students’ fears of having children.
In a related matter, my favorite recent climate article is “We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist. Katharine Hayhoe says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilisation” by Fiona Harvey at The Guardian June 1, 2022. Hayhoe was quoted, “People do not understand the magnitude of what is going on. This will be greater than anything we have ever seen in the past. This will be unprecedented. Every living thing will be affected. [ . . . . ] If we continue with business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions, there is no adaptation that is possible. You just can’t.”
I told my students to look for circles, threads, and connections. Katharine Hayhoe was also featured in Schechter/Verify Road Trip’s above DOCUMENTARY . . . . The video Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future, like Nguyen’s/VICE News video above, was focused mostly on Australia.
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