Paul Beckwith Sept 2017- Best of ECH

Paul's a LEGEND!!!

1 minure bullet chess - kinda like being so isightful on a certain subject you can do it with your eyes closed

2 brilliant Lights and beacons of reality ✨️ based on the data & global mayhem 😢😮😮😢

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here ya go,...
two 21stCentury HEROS and LEADERS

As well meaning Paul Beckwith is, now having heard him for over 4 years, there is no scope or useful takeaway from what all he says.
He at best can tell us what is wrong with the weather or climate, which we know well, yet like any compartmentalized expert, he can never go beyond, never
question the very settler colonial society which he lives inside, never question capitalism, never question where all his exuberance comes from. This sort of reform is bogus.
The type of doomer environmentalism is fast reaching its dead end. Beware. There are newer or. say better avenues.

Professor Beckwith is the source for trying to understand the timeline of this change. Likely exponentially faster than almost all realize. My take is worry about the term decades, I fear most for my children.

The narrator's "bubbly" demeanor on such a somber reality is very off-putting. I have to wonder if she is intellectually aware of reality, or if she is just using this venue and topic as an "afternoon tea" amidst her own privileged reality?

Hi Paul, Hi Sandy

2017, it seems so long ago. Now the roaring twenties. What will the thirties look like?

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Brazil has worst drought in 70 years Coari, Brazil - 14 September 2024


1. Aerial of dry banks of the Solimoes River with stranded boats and floating houses ++MUTE++

2. Various of people walking, some carrying goods, in the dry banks of the Solimoes River ++PART COVERING SHOT THREE++

3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rita Gomes, 69-year-old local resident:

“It's very difficult (walking to the river to pick up the products). It is dangerous to fall in the mud, sometimes there are rays stuck in the river, so we go slowly and have to pass.”

4. Boat stranded in the river bank

5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Isabel Lima, small farmer:

“This drought is really harming us. We can't get here (in the boat) at dawn (when they used to set up the tents). We can't see anything in front of us with all the smoke. Look at it! We can't see anything. It's dangerous to crash the canoe, sink, die. It is difficult.”

6. Boats and ferries in the River ++PART COVERING SHOT 5++

7. Various of ferry terminal

STORYLINE:

Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with 59% of the country under stress — an area roughly half the size of the U.S.



Major Amazon basin rivers are registering historic lows, and have stranded dozens of communities, such as the city of Coari, in the state of Amazonas.



Coari residents are struggling to get food, water and medicine, as the main access to the city is by water.



Rita Gomes has lived in a floating house on the banks of the Solimoes River for 24 years. She now needs to walk across the dry river to pick up the products that arrive for the community by boat.



“It is dangerous to fall in the mud, sometimes there are rays stuck in the river, so we go slowly and have to pass.” said Gomes.



Drought is not the only problem.



From the beginning of the year until Sept. 8, Brazil registered almost 160,000 fires, the worst year since 2010.



Most fires are manmade as part of the deforestation process or for clearing pastures and agricultural land.



So far this year, an area the size of Italy has burnt in Brazil, and the smoke has increasingly made it difficult to travel in the rivers.

Lake Kariba's drying waters: People in Zimbabwe affected by severe drought. Droughts caused by climate change have resulted in a significant drop in water levels on Lake Kariba to the point where there is not longer enough water for hydropower generation.

We love you Sandy and Paul! Keep going, we need you ❤️❤️❤️

7 years ago. Neat. Yall were ahead of the curve.