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1. Explanations, SLAI, Blame, Narratives, Resistance, Moral Panic, Magical Thinking, Coronavirus, Naming, Medical Scams, 2. Environmental Change, Religion, Amish, Finding Common Ground, 3. Prepping for the General Public, Bunkers, Survivalists, Social Collapse, Morality, Medical Surge, <Cont >1, Megafire, Australia, Leadership, Denial, Animals, Recovery. He07 Googles
-1. Humans apparently have the need to have a explanation for events that do not have an easily discernable cause such as bioevents and changing environments that threaten life. These explanations: Sharpen their previous explanations, worldviews, social relations and biases; Level what is contrary evidence to what is sharpened, maintaining the status quo; Assimilate into a cohesive whole in relation to its own logic and coping mechanisms; and finally Inventions that harmonize – oft times using the waves, icons and recycles of previous narratives shared among the established social networks that maintain the status quo.
-A. On occasion inventions are based on new observations and insights. Normally though it takes time against resistence to incorporate these discoveries and applications to the overall paradigms of the accepted or official narratives. Opposing narratives however do not disappear. They tend to go dormant until conditions are conducive the resurrect its favored explanations.
-B. Speaking of invention. #Book Review: Probing the Corporate Manipulation of Science. The Triumph of Doubt =2= =3=, shows how paid experts are used to downplay risks and sow uncertainty [Cartoon]. These skills are also distributed among medical scams, conspiracy theorists, satirists, astroturf movements and nations, with intended and unintended consequences. | The Only Thing That Sells Better than Sex Is Fear 2017 =2= =3=. Journalism Is an 'Attack Surface' for Those Who Spread Misinformation. MORE: Where Science Enters the Courtroom, the Daubert Name Looms Large.
-‡1. Authorities Warn Public about Scams Involving Coronavirus. Fake Coronavirus Cures, Part 3: Vitamin C Isn’t a Shield. Watch out for These Coronavirus Scams, SEC and FTC Warn =2=. Scam Alert Issued for Face Masks Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak. Beware of Coronavirus Scams and Claims about ‘Confirmed’ Cases and Cures. Coronavirus Scams: Phishing, Fake Alerts and Cyberthreats. Authorities Warn of Text Scams Being Reported in Bossiers24 . | But sometimes what sounds like a scam may not be, Could Tobacco Cure Coronavirus. Don’t Laugh.
-‡2. If we see a Covid-19 pandemic A Guide to Evaluating Vaccine Information for Legislators. Fake Vaccinations and a Suicide Note by Dr. Van Koinis which will undoubtedly accelerate conspiracy theories 201222-CV15, A New Kind of Fraud: Pediatrician Claims He Lied About Vaccinating Patients in Suicide Note 201205-CV11. Product Tampering to Spread Propaganda About Vaccines. On Facebook, Antivaxxers Pushed a Mom Not to Give Her Son Tamiflu. He Later Died, Facebook Vows to Combat Vaccine Misinformation after 4 Year Old's Death from Flu. Antivax Debate Techniques, MORE: in December 2020 Facebook was still trying to contain misinformation =2= =3=. 61 Percent of Millennials Familiar with Anti Vaccination Movement Agree with Some Beliefs: Survey. How Trust in Experts and Media Use Affect Acceptance of Common Anti Vaccination Claims. Surveys of nearly 2,500 Americans, conducted during a measles outbreak 201219-CV21, suggest that users of traditional media are less likely to be misinformed about vaccines than social media users. Results also suggest that an individual’s level of trust in medical experts affects the likelihood that a person’s beliefs about vaccination will change. Is It Rational to Be Anti Vaccine. The Social Responsibility of Public Health: Italy’s Lesson on Vaccine Hesitancy. A Major Funder of the Anti Vaccine Movement Has Made Millions Selling Natural Health Products MD Mercola. Whose Rights Are Taken Away by Vaccine Mandates. Measles Deaths Surge Worldwide Thanks to Poverty and Anti Vaccine Propaganda 201219-CV21, . Are Immunization Schedules Evidence Based. MORE: How Trust in Experts and Media Use Affect Acceptance of Common Anti Vaccination Claims =2=.
-C. In circumstances created by conflicting and competing narratives, blame becomes an easy explanation to rationalize, especially when (social) reality does not follow expectations =2= The Federalist. When the preferred (natural) order is disrupted by the opposition, which further supports that the opposition needs to be suppressed, if not annihilated.
-D. Persistence of the concept of global warming against resistance, does however eventually result in both acceptance (albeit assimilated to a different narrative or meeting more resistance) and recalcitrant against evidence (but possibly behaving in desirable ways to maintain control of power): GOP Climate Plan Faces Pushback – from Republicans, Kevin McCarthy Faces Uneasy Right Flank over Climate Push, A Right Turn on Climate Change, New Conservative Climate Plans Are Neither Conservative Nor Climate Plans, they are mainly designed to protect fossil fuels,
-1. MORE: Right Wing Backlash Greets Modest GOP Foray Into Climate Change$. Florida Republicans Have Added the Words 'Climate Change' to Their Vocabularies — and to Legislation$, After a ‘Lost Decade,’ Republican Led Florida Passed a Climate Change Bill. In Florida, Officials Ban Term 'Climate Change' 2015, Watch this Florida Official Awkwardly Avoid Saying “Climate Change” 2015. The Trump Administration Is Helping 9 States Prepare for Climate Change. Climate Change: Trump and Republicans Pivot from Denial to Optimism. | Coronavirus Outbreak Causing Disaster Prep Stores to Run out of Supplies. Pressured by Younger Voters and an Election, Republicans Reluctantly Embrace Climate Change.
-E. The curator of PDWN does not advocate the term Climate Change as it downplays the threat to being only one aspect of area threatened. PDWN prefers a term that more accurately reflects the anthropogenic and gubergenic harm to global health =2= =3=$ =4= and environment that risks the whole biosphere, possibly to the point of mass extinction -3↓. And for those who believe that evangelicals are all deniers, Solar Light of the World: Evangelicals Launch Global Clean Energy Campaign -2↓.
-F. An aspect of these conflicts is reflected in the process of naming a biocalamity, 200202-1. Coronavirus Disease Naming Announcement Creates Confusion. How the New Coronavirus Will Finally Get a Proper Name. In Coronavirus Outbreak, Fretting Over a Name that Might Go Viral. Chinese Health Officials Label New Coronavirus NCP. World Health Organization Names the New Coronavirus: Covid-19. What's in a Name. Why WHO's Formal Name for the New Coronavirus Disease Matters. Disease Caused by the Novel Coronavirus Officially Has a Name: Covid-19. The Life and Death Consequences of Naming the Coronavirus.
-2. The Amish and the Anthropocene: Religion, Science and Climate Change =2=. To the Amish Noah's flood was an Anthropocene event, caused by humanity's sin. While studying how farmers feed their livestock, is was noted that some Amish farmers were buying a device called the Talya Water System, which claimed to return water to the state it was in before the flood. The device's inventor advertised that the treated water would have healing qualities and would benefit the land and animals. Though the technology is not provable (or disprovable), it’s important to take this idea seriously: The notion that Noah's flood, in Christian understandings of the world, did affect the environment, and the Amish were adopting a technology that made sense within the Ordnung [the set of rules that guide the Amish] – The Social Order and its Natural Foundations Die Gesellschafts Ordnung Und Ihre Naturlichen Grundlagen. Farmers' purchase of the water technology shows a willingness to take responsibility to repair the change, and to use technology to do so. Taking another person's point of view of livelihood and understanding of the world seriously can help open up these stories about the climate crisis. Understanding Christians’ Climate Views Can Lead to Better Conversations about the Environment -1C↑. Climate Coverage that Engages Audiences Without Overwhelming Them.
-3. Preparing for the End of the World, on a Budget. Previous PDWN stubs on this topic focused on doomsday survivalist fringe groups, or the super rich luxury bunkers, yachts, islands, escape to Mars$. This focuses on the larger group who believe their may be social collapse caused by environmental change, pandemics, polemic (war). Whatever the socioeconomic status, the collapse of society narrative is the deep concern that motivates related behavior, and expectations about what will happen are likely to lead to perception of interpretation that social collapse is happening. Societal collapse includes a wide ranges of meanings, to include moral collapse – possibly proceeded by self inflicted environmental, health and moral injury. 200515-CV32. | Adapting to Climate Change: We're Doing it Wrong, when it comes to adapting to the effects of climate change, scientists and policymakers are thinking too small -1C↑.
-A. One of the reasons that medical surges overwhelm capacity is the idea of staying within a budget. It is considered wasteful to have excess stock, and empty beds. Furthermore one is never positive what is needed, Coronavirus: Wuhan Doctors Battle Outbreak in Nappies as Masks Rub Their Faces Raw. One way to deal with stocks that are close to expiring is to send them to where needed (preferably long before needed) and replace in kind. Just in time supply is not a good way to do disaster planning.
-B. MORE: Feds Send Supplies from Stockpiles but Some Items Are Old or Expired, Officials Say. Coronavirus: Strategic National Stockpile Was Ready, but Not for This. Taking Stock of the National Stockpile: Modernizing for a Dynamic Response. US Throws out Millions of Doses of Covid Vaccine as World Goes Wanting. Questions: How would the US have gotten excess vaccines to other locations. How would these the distributed and to who. Would antivax and other disinformation claim these are expired, flawed, dangerous vaccines. How would scare mongering be countered with breakthrough and death related to the vaccine. With strong anti immigration and America First sentiments would there have been complaints about vaccine being sent overseas, depriving real American’s of vaccines. 201027-CV28.
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-191201-6>1. The end of the Australian megafire may finally be on the way, but the aftermath harm has just started with added smoke to global health and air, changing world views, and species depopulations. Deadly Fires in Australia Have Made Climate Change Converts, as in California$. Australia Fires a "Wake Up Call to the World", Says U.N. Scientist. Australian Bushfires Extinguished, but Climate Rows Rage On. New South Wales Fires Contained for First Time since Australia's Fire Season Began. Rain Could Extinguish Australia's Wildfires by the End of the Week. No Food, No Fuel, No Phones: Bushfires Showed We're Only Ever One Step from System Collapse. Heaviest Rain in Decades Brings Australia Drought, Fire Relief$. Australia's East Gets Drenched by Rain, and Flood Warnings Replace Fire Alerts. Australian Police Warn Public to Stop Taking Pictures of Wildfires. Australia's Rainy Respite from Bushfires Seen Ending. Three U.S. Firefighters Die in Water Bomber Crash in Australia. Parts of Australian Capital Evacuated Due to Bushfires.
-A. MORE: Rain Has Eased the Dry, but More Is Needed to Break the Drought. Australian Officials Touting Bushfire As Huge Success. Bushfires Burned a Fifth of Australia's Forest. Climate Change Wars Reignite in Canberra, Climate Change Splits the Public into Six Groups. Understanding Them Is Key to Future Action. Sell or Stay. Australia's Fire Zone Experiment. Australia Fires Were Far Worse than Any Prediction.
-B. Australian Wildfires Prompt $11,000 Fine for Tossing Lit Cigarette out of Car. Change: Disasters like the Australia Fires Happen When Businesses Ignore the Climate (Opinion). Australia’s “Firenadoes” Summon Images of Hiroshima, Atomic Bombs. Australia’s Weird Weather Is Getting Even Weirder. Australia Is on Fire You have to hand it to the Chinese, they really know how to stage a global climate change hoax. I wonder how they convinced Australia to set fire to the entire continent like that. Climate Protests Around the World amid Australian Wildfires. ¶ Looking Behind the Curtain of Disinformation Campaigns.
-C. [Infographic]. Ignored and Trivialized: Experts Warned Australian Government Before Catastrophic Blazes. Coalition's Axing of Funding to Climate Change Adaptation Body Condemned. Australians Are Ready to Break Out of the Cycle of Climate Change Denial*, catastrophic fires make it hard for media to stick to old narratives. The Australian Wildfires Are about Arsonists – Not Climate Change, Townhall. Climate Change ‘Sceptics’ Abuse Freedom of Expression. Setting the Record Straight on Climate Change and Arson in Australia’s Bushfires. Misinformation Circulates about How Firefighters Respond to Ribbons Hung Outside Homes. Australian Climate Change Sceptics Mislead the Public about Bushfires. As Australia Burned, Climate Change Denialism* Got a Boost on Facebook.
-*D Quote: A script of climate change denial that seemed a subtext of a story about something much deeper and more visceral. To dismiss the science was to stick with a tribe, to stake out a claim about meaning and relevance in a changing world. It is an attempt to retrieve something irretrievably lost. It is a fight against one’s own functional extinction. – United in Change.
-E. Dinosaur Trees: Firefighters Save Endangered Wollemi Pines from NSW Bushfires. Australia's Bushfires Could Drive More than 700 Animal Species to Extinction. Operation Rock* Wallaby Rains Food down on Wildlife Hurt by Australian Bushfires *may refer to a type of wallaby =2= or slang for arriving late, Australia Drops 4,000 Pounds of Food to Save Starving Wildlife. A 6 Year Old Is Making Clay Koalas to Raise Money for the Australian Fires. He's Raised over $100,000 =2=. More than 100 Threatened Species Hit by Australian Bushfires, Pushing Many Towards Extinction. Debunking the Viral Tales of Wombat Heroes. Australia Fires: The Farmers Burying Their Own Cattle.
-F. Honest Government Ad, after the Fires Video. Rebuilding from the Ashes of Disaster: What Australia Can Learn from India. What It’s like to Live Through the Australian Bushfires. An Ancient Aquatic System Older than the Pyramids Has Been Revealed by the Australian Bushfires. Australia Fires: Storms Wreak Damage but Bushfires Far from Over. Bushfires: Can Ecosystems Recover from Such Dramatic Losses of Biodiversity, Opinion: How Mass Animal Die Offs Reshape Ecosystems. Before We Rush to Rebuild after Fires, We Need to Think about Where and How. Recovery: Australia's Fire Hit Victoria Set for Major Storms. Jeff Bezos Donates $690,000 Directly Into Australian Fire. Australian States Start Clean Up from Fires with Claims Rising. Australian Prime Minister Commits Billions to Fire Recovery. MORE: In Australia, Spat over Firefighter’s Political Rant Caps a Summer of Anger.
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