Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (4)
1. Attack of the Bark Beetles, 2. Wrong Return to Nature Lessons Learned, 2.1. Boom Followed by Bust, 2.2. National Parks and Parades Budgets, 3. Drip with Sweet Bourbon, 4. A Modest Proposal for Burials, 5. Inappropriate Coping Humor, 6. Delayed Medical Degree, 7. Terroir Anthropology, <ADDED >1. Chernobyl Redux, >2. French Fries and Tropical Hail, >3. Oregon Co(a)st (ly) Inundation, >4.Temporary and Permanent Lapse of Conscience, >5. War Against Climate Change, >6. Flood or Fry, >7. ¿Post Apocalyptic Art?, >8. Coming Up and Round Again, >9. Forecast of Haiti 2010 Earthquake Consequences, >10. HIV Elimination, >11. Venezuela Polemic, >12. Climate Denial and Anti Contraception, >13. Pork Barrel Fever, >14. I’ve Got Ocean Views to Sell , >15. Rogue Congo. 190707-Vaccine. 190707-Polemic.
Other Topics: BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, ASF, Post THEPA, Emerson, Exxon Valdez, Cultural Specific Syndrome, Moving into Castles, Oil Environmental Damage, Defunding the National Park Service, Customs and Border Patrol, Heat Wave, Round Up, Monsanto, CRISPR, Moral Injury, Real Estate, Gender Equality, Courts and Science, GMO
-1. Scientists Alarmed by Bark Beetle Boom. "Bark beetles lay waste to forests", "Climate change sends beetles into overdrive", "Bark beetles: can the spruce be saved?": These newspaper headlines of the past weeks covered the explosive growth of bark beetle populations and its devastating impact on timberlands. The problem is not limited to Germany. A comparable situation is encountered in many forests across Central Europe and North America. The consequences of this major infestation are massive: In 2018, the beetles were responsible for ruining around 40 million cubic metres of wood just in Central Europe. Don't Blame Beetles for Killing Forests, Blame Climate Change. It is true that bark beetles are killing trees, but because heat and lack of water are killing off the fungus they usually eat. This normally keeps the trees healthier because the fungus is kept down. Now the beetles are having to eat the tree, killing it. Paradoxically the population boom of beetles may be a way to increase the odds of surviving the new conditions, a feast and famine cycle, with forced migration in the hopes of eventually finding a reliable food source again. California Forest Die off Caused by Depletion of Deep Soil Water Study Warns of Threats from Future Concurrent Drought and Heat Events.
-2. #Book, “We Went to the Woods” Warns: You Can Know History and Still Repeat It, [Cover -2-]. They erect their dream castles (homestead) in the sky. While some of the characters are driven by politics, others are after Emersonian self reliance -2-, or useful recycling practices. They argue about the perils of being well off, hippy dippy white kids. Ultimately it’s the anti pesticide, anti fracking environmental advocacy that dooms the Homestead. | This is an appropriate stub to mention that a final draft of Post Trumpism’s Health and Environment Policies and Actions (THEPA), has been posted, along with an update on the html" Parademic wparademic website. -190210-1.1↓.
-2.1. As Oil Drilling Nears in Arctic Refuge, 2 Alaska Villages See Different Futures. The Trump administration will soon let oil companies bid on land to drill in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Some Alaska Natives fear harm to migrating caribou, others see opportunity. This is not an either/or, it will be both a boom and then the degradation will set in: The Day the Water Died, Twenty Years Later, Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Linger, Health Effects after* Exxon Valdez Went Unstudied, Long Term Community Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Patterns of Social Disruption and Psychological Stress Seventeen Years after the Disaster, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Its Impact on Community and Ecology, After 25 Years, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Hasn't Ended, 25 Years after Spill, Alaska Town Struggles Back from 'Dead Zone', Fetched Up: Unlearned Lessons from the Exxon Valdez, From Board Games to Cookbooks, How the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Infiltrated Pop Culture, Exxon Valdez 2014: Does Media Coverage of Humanmade Disasters Contribute to Consumer Complacency, What Did We Learn from the Exxon Valdez, Exxon Valdez: 29 Years Later. | The Permian Basin Is Booming With Oil. But at What Cost to West Texans, The Oil Ghost Towns of Texas, [Photo]. Hard Times in ‘Boomtown, USA’: The Rise and Fall of Oil in Williston, North Dakota. Aberdeen, the Oil City Where Boom and Bust Happen at the Same Time.
-2.2. There may be a touch of irony that Storms Threaten to Complicate Trump July 4 Event. Park Service to Divert $2.5 Million for Trump's July 4 Event that were intended for upkeep and maintenance of the nation's national park system; Shutdown Revenue Loss Could Dig National Parks into an 'Even Bigger Financial Hole, Trump's Proposed Budget Would Devastate National Parks. Trump Expresses Regret for Not Visiting Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day. The universe is not teleological, raining on or not raining on Trump’s parade has causes unrelated to that event, no more than Trump, California Governor Spar over Immigrant Health Care is related to Biggest Earthquake in 20 Years Rocks Southern California, Strong Aftershocks Expected. Does This Photo Show the Crowd at Trump’s 4th of July Event, ? *Why do computer grammar literalists think that “about” should not be capitalized.
-3. This is a type of run off that may or may not be an environmental problem. Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse, Bourbon Flows into River, officials worried that runoff whiskey seeping into nearby waterways would kill fish. Boiling River of Wine Flows Through Burned down California Winery.
-4. Call for Green Burial Corridors Alongside Roads, Railways and Country Footpaths. A leading public health expert is calling for a strategic initiative to develop green burial corridors alongside major transport routes because British graveyards and cemeteries are rapidly running out of room. With 500,000 deaths annually in England and Wales, it is likely that there will be no burial space left within five years. Doubtful this will happen, but if it did, I could see people willing to pay premiums for more scenic or historically significant locations. [Photo -2- -3-].
-5. Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes, Ocasio-Cortez Condemns 'Violent Culture' of CBP Following Report of Secret Facebook Group [Meme -2-], CBP Launches Investigation into Private Facebook Group Mocking Lawmakers as They Blast Immigrant Treatment Listicle, Secret Facebook Group Blasted by Top Border Officials: 'There Is Absolutely No Excuse for this Kind of Inappropriate Behavior Listicle. Though appalling and indicative of policy and action related to mass migrations caused by environmental change and disease outbreaks (and war) the parademic interest this time is in the in group graveyard humor and moral panic. It is baffling that people still treat social media as private, restricted to a single group. Taken out of the ingroup context, Pandemic Humor 2.12, 2.13, 3.1, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.6.1, 4.6, 4.6*1, 5, 5.2, 6.4, 8.3, 8.4, 9.3, 9.5A B C, 9.8, 11, the humor is entirely inappropriate, in context it is understood to be inappropriate but expressed in an appropriate milieu. This is seen in parademics among medical personnel, responders, government officials. Given the current political milieu this will unlikely to be resolved until there is a change in the circumstances – Acting DHS Secretary Doesn't Accept Report on Conditions at Border Patrol Stations -2-, Confusion at the Border – though individuals will probably be punished, while others will learn to be more circumspect and more careful to self isolate. In any case what we have here are conflicting narratives, ones from one cultural milieu crossing over into another. This may explain the failure of another project on the relation of grief and humor, Pandemic Humor, Ebola, that was inconclusive because the humor of a different country was not understood, but more importantly that humor was going through a change. The humor in this case is not only coping and gallows humor but what could be called moral injury* humor, which is possibly a cultural bound disease for expression of guilt, and as the group’s polarization shifts to greater extremism. This is also Sharpening 190616-Polemic-5.2 of a group’s narratives and normalization of deviance -2- , and a possible addition to the 6 Causes of Burnout, and How to Avoid Them. Mexicans in US Routinely Confront Legal Abuse, Racial Profiling, Ice Targeting and Other Civil Rights Violations. Last Laughs: Gallows Humor and Medical Education. -190630-Vaccine-1.3A↓.
-*Quote: To violate your conscience is to commit moral suicide. – Rev. Herman Keizer Jr., Colonel and Chaplain, U.S. Army, Ret, #Book Soul Repair [Cover].
-6. First Female Medical Students Get Degrees at Last. The "Edinburgh Seven" were the first women admitted to study medicine in Britain when they enrolled in 1869. The University of Edinburgh allowed women to graduate in 1894 and the first doctors graduated in 1896. Scotland to Prioritise Scottish Medical Students which may be a way to limit women and immigrants.
-7. Climate Change Begets Changing "Terroir", and Winegrowers Respond Unlike anthropocene, which results from scientific studies and references to the effects of industrial pollution, monoculture farming and other human assaults on the earth, the concept of “terroir” provides weak scientific underpinning to bolster the claim that a particular environment is crucial to a particular style of wine. In an earlier post The Provocations of Terroir within a wider discussion that explores the expression of environmental factors that, in his opinion, don’t fully explain why a particular wine smells, tastes and feels the way it does. | Weather is to climate what a vineyard is to its overall wine region – a micro expression of the macro – Climate Change Is Threatening the Microscopic Creatures Our Lives Depend On. Within micro locations of macro viticultural regions some grape varieties do well, others do not. The rapid macro climate change we are experiencing is a vivid representation of this Anthropocene period. The change is creating all kinds of unusual weather, like heat spells in Northern Europe that have been becoming more prevalent, and hotter, for almost two decades, along with volatile weather patterns that drop hail and temperatures at truly inopportune moments, and more frequently. Parademic uses this term, but with a meaning not directly related to the taste of wine, 190519-3 Quotes, <ADDED 180204-171015-3>13. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene - a Personal View of What Is to Be Studied. Imagining the Anthropocene: The Weird Ecology of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy.
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-190630-2.2‡>1. Putin, after Three Days, Says Fire Hit Russian Submarine Was Nuclear Powered. I Was a Child of Chernobyl. Review: Is HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ a Call to Action on Climate Change.
-190630-4.3>2. A Heat Wave Tests Europe’s Defenses. Expect More, Climate Change: Heatwave Made 'At Least' Five Times More Likely by Warming. Rapid Results in on Climate Change and the European Heat Wave. That however is not the one to be worried about. European heat waves have been building for years now. The real problem are sudden extreme weather events that don’t have precursors. Freak Summer Hailstorm Hits Mexico's Guadalajara, Climate Change News: Mexico's Second Largest City Buried under Five Feet of Ice after Bizarre Summer Hailstorm.
-190630-7>3. Brown Not Backing down on Climate Change Legislation, Oregon Governor Ready to Take Lead on Divisive Climate Plan. Oregon Legislature Turns its Back on Tsunamis, while Japan is moving entire towns out of the tsunami zone in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku disaster, Oregon is doing the opposite, trading public safety for developer profits, -180715-4↓. [Map].
-190630-Vaccine-1.3A>4. Courts Order Delay of Trump Administration's Health Care 'Conscience Rights' Rule. Conscience Objection Rule for Medical Care Delayed after Legal Challenge. Patients Will Die: One County's Challenge to Trump's Conscience Rights Rule, Planned Parenthood, Family Planning Nonprofits File Suit Against Trump Administration's 'Conscience' Protections Listicle. <ADDED 190602-190505-VCP-2USA-B>4. -5↑.
-190623-Polemic-1A>5. Climate Scientist Calls for 'World War Type Mobilization' to Combat Climate Change. [Cartoon].
-190609-7>6. <ADDED 190630>3. At Least 23 People Are Dead and 1,000 Evacuated as Mumbai Gets Hit by its Heaviest Rain in More than a Decade, Heavy Rain Brings out the Yin and Yang of the Fabled Mumbai Monsoon. This monsoon will miss Channai [Map]. Dam Bursts in India after Rains, Killing 11. Are Parts of India Becoming Too Hot for Humans. | Why Iraq’s Great Rivers Are Dying, and it couldn’t happen at a worse time.
-190602-3.2>7. <ADDED 190630>4. Climate Change and the Power of Art: High School Students Get Ideas for How to Make a Difference. Film Critics Pick Best Climate Change Movies. A Gallery of Post Apocalyptic Artwork 2013, Post Apocalyptic Art. | If it is true about forced migration from environmental and social events then Migrant Children's Drawings Depict Horrific Conditions in Cages illustrates the urge for artistic expression as an aspect part of parademic. #Document Post Disaster Group Art Therapy Treatment for Children. Art and Disaster.
-190505-3>8. <ADDED 190602>3. Judge to Reassess $80 Million Award in Monsanto Cancer Case, Sydney's City Council Reviews Use of Bayer's Roundup Weed Killer amid Cancer Fears. Being Certain about Uncertainty, non scientists – legislators, judges and juries – are often called upon to reach scientific conclusions, and frankly those who have scientific training are not necessarily objective in their conclusions, 190707-Vaccine-4 Israel. The U.S. Is Making an Effort to End the Longest Oil Spill in History. And this Company Is Fighting Against it in Court$. Court Quotes 'The Lorax' in Ruling Blocking Permit for Pipeline to Cross National Forests: We trust the United States Forest Service to ‘speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues’ [Meme, Meme]. <ADDED 180826-180819-4 -‡>1.
-190331-3>9. <ADDED 190602>7. The Coordination and Uncoordination of International Medical Aid in Haiti 2010. Two months after the catastrophic earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas, hundreds of thousands of Haitians continue to lack basic resources such as shelter, food, water, and sanitation. Public health experts warn of outbreaks of cholera, typhus and other infectious diseases, while the ordinary pathologies that Haitians have confronted for years: malnutrition, diarrheal diseases, and maternal mortality continue to ravage the population. With time, the consequences of the earthquake will likely fade into the preexisting deprivations and challenges faced by Haiti’s poor majority: routine resource scarcity, and an uphill battle to meet basic needs and stay alive. 190616-6L.
-190210-1.1>10. <ADDED 190519>4. Closer to a Cure: For First Time, Researchers Eliminate HIV In Some Mice Using CRISPR, Virus Suppression Drug. This may upset some folks who are anti GMO/CRISPR, but what PDWN is going to watch is if the THEPA -2↑ will increase funds to this promising line of research. Anti GMO is probably not going to like this development, DNA is DNA: The Anti GMO Movement Ignores Basic Genetics.
-181209-4>11. <ADDED 190630>5. Venezuela, 190707-Polemic-3.1.
-181223-1>12. <ADDED 190421>3. 190505-7‡. Climate Change Marchers Agree W/call for Women Not to Have Kids. The idea was posed by conservative nonprofit thinktank PragerU, which brought up the absurd proposal to see if today’s global warming alarmists would jump on board an initiative to keep women from having children to reduce the world’s population and curb pollution. Despite much research indicating that the climate warms and cools due to the Sun’s cycles – and not primarily from manmade pollutants – today’s environmentalists are more than willing to have a child free society to try and have the Earth drop a couple degrees, believing it will laughably save polar bears from drowning and keep beachfront property and low lying islands from disappearing due to rising sea levels caused by melting icecaps … which are actually growing.
-181118-VCP-China>13. <ADDED 190630>6. Swine Fever Toll in China May Be Twice as High as Reported, Industry Insiders Say as many as half of China’s breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or been slaughtered because of the spreading disease, and that could mean a future depopulation of pigs if there are too few sows to breed more pigs. China Unveils Measures to Strengthen African Swine Fever Control. China Says African Swine Fever Cases Slowing; Pig Output Returning. China Has Shown Shortcomings in Bid to Contain African Swine Fever: Cabinet. Chinese Official: Pig Fever Outbreak ‘Complicated and Grim’. So far have not seen an open source conspiracy theory that the US is responsible for the ASF in China to win trade war, but then an official and/or public statement could easily escalate to conventional armed warfare, 190623-Polemic-5.1A. China Confirms New African Swine Fever Outbreak in Guangxi. | Green Groups Sue EPA for Exempting Farms from Reporting Pollution Tied to Animal Waste is about green house gases, but this would also create gaps for monitoring against zoodemics; USDA Continues to Prevent African Swine Fever from Entering the U.S. Locked out of China, U.S. Pork Producers Sniff out New Buyers. Australia Border Checks Detect African Swine Fever. Vietnam Develops Anti African Swine Fever Vaccine, 190707-Vaccine-PDWN. Luxembourg 2 Day Mass Cull to Prevent Swine Fever Spread with the aim to create an area where there are no wild boar to avoid future contagion from boar in Belgium, <ADDED 190120>3. Bulgaria Confirms Two Cases of African Swine Fever, Swine Fever in Domestic Pigs Is Happening Again in Bulgaria, <ADDED 190217>4. Philippines Bans Pig Imports from Laos Due to Swine Fever.
-180715-4>14. <ADDED 190324>4. Climate Change: Real Estate Worth Billions Could Become Obsolete – Unless Owners Act Now. Climate Change Can Pose Big Risks to Real Estate Investments. 190505-7. I Don't Feel Safe: Puerto Rico Preps for next Storm Without Enough Government Help, FEMA Obligates $100 Million to Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is a bit late as hurricane season starts in June, and there have been one season since Maria, 190707-Polemic-2. Moody's Analytics Predicts Climate Change Costs up to $69 Trillion by 2100 -2-, Climate Change Should Be Part of Regular Savings and Investment Decisions, <ADDED 190512-190505-7>. How Climate Change Impacts the Economy. Canada's Infrastructure, Coastal Communities Most at Risk from Climate Change. Climate Change Could Trigger Global Financial Crisis. Infographic: Economic Impact of Climate Change by 2048. -190630-7↑.
-180513-1.1>15. <ADDED 190630>8. As Ebola Outbreak Rages, the World Just Watches. Some Call It Malignant Neglect$. More than a Million People to Be Vaccinated in Phase 2 of a Huge Cholera Vaccination Campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This Is My People Who Are Dying - Covering Congo's Ebola Outbreak. Ebola Case Reported Not Far from South Sudan Border. Context Matters in Fighting Ebola: Lessons from West Africa for the DRC. Uganda border, 190707-polemic-3.2. Panic and Revolt in Ariwara over a Confirmed Ebola Case: She did not want to live at the treatment center and had finally escaped. Aware of what she is doing, and that men are looking for her, she rented a motorcycle from Bunia to Ariwara. She stayed in hiding. Those who received her found that she was sick, without knowing exactly what she was suffering from. Things went so fast that she died in the hospital only two days after arriving in Ariwara. The response team who were looking for her just arrived. The coincidence of their arrival with the confirmation of the case of Ebola in the person who had died at the hospital was misinterpreted. The response team had immediately taken appropriate prevention provisions. It was impossible to understand the urgency of the irruption of this team in a positive way. Health Ministry Stops Surveillance of All Ebola Contacts declaring Kasese district Ebola free after the elapse of 21 days of surveilling all contacts in their homes.
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