tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942645001631848412024-02-06T18:06:47.018-08:00Climate Collapse Dialoguemedusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-66685560636049659052020-01-12T16:19:00.000-08:002020-01-13T08:27:21.807-08:00FencelineFenceline is a 3 minute video with sound by EL Putnam The piece explores the separation between nature and greed from the largest fossil fuel industry in North America. Filmed in Weymouth, MA on the North Parcel, the residents have protested the building of a toxic fracked gas compressor station in a densely populated area. Unprecedented.<br><br>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/346462266">Margaret Bellafiore - Breathe In Breathe Out</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/mobiusart">MobiusArtistsGroup</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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I made this video in response to my concern over the injustice of our state (MA Department of Environmental Protection) and federal (EPA) agencies' failure to enforce the Clean Air Act . Our health is at risk due to these "captured" agencies granting permits to pollute to fossil fuel industry.medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-81242073998221499322018-10-06T09:07:00.002-07:002018-10-22T09:57:39.109-07:00"Global" on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston , MAOctober 6, 2018<br />
I am posting here some documentation of the piece, "Global," I did on the Rose Kennedy Greenway as part of Mobius/Belfast exchange. I drew animals on the path that are very vulnerable to the effects of increased temperature due to climate disruption.<br />
The irony is that I did a similar piece in 2007 at Mobius. The Union of Concerned Scientists sent two of their staff to the reception. They handed out their study: <b>Confronting Climate Change in the US Northeast. </b>Since 2007, the temperature of the planet has increased! So, nobody listened?<br />
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I confront again with images of penguins, salmon, butterflies, moose, caribou, and the symbol of Boston itself, the Atlantic cod. Not overfishing, no, but increased temperature of the Gulf of Maine is killing off the young cod. IT IS TOO HOT for the larval fish to find food that has not been COOKED and killed by heat. The Atlantic cod is on the way out. Yep.<br />
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How will we explain to children of the next generation the fish weathervane on the top of the golden dome State House in Boston? GONE FOR GOOD.<br />
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photo credit: R. Cooke<br />
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medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-33376122772141274152018-08-11T09:41:00.001-07:002018-08-11T09:41:29.515-07:00Believe-it-when-you-see-it videoThe Weather Channel recently posted this video from last March 2, 2018 "bombogenesis" storm featuring what happened in Scituate, MA a town near me:<br />
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The consequences of climate disruption have arrived. The effects of global warming is on my doorstep. I have been sitting on a bench at Webb Park in north Weymouth drawing the sea and sky every summer for over 30 years. This summer the bench is gone and with it the land it sat on. This point of land was eroded very quickly during the March 2 storm by wind and wave action from Hingham Bay. Erosion was always present before but NOW it is different. The rate of erosion has accelerated. It is hard for me to accept.<br />
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<br />medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-51404019758510632682018-03-20T07:01:00.002-07:002018-03-20T07:01:09.927-07:00EXTREME Weather in New England! Today the meteorologists are predicting another nor'easter coming on Wednesday around lunch time. Snow levels may be as much as 12 inches. But it is the sound of the howling wind that disturbs me most. This new storm comes after 2 other nor'easters and two BOMBCYCLONES of January 4, 2018 and March 2, 2018. These storms with unfamiliar terminology are different than the previously thought of was the very worst : a "nor'easter." The bombogenesis is actually a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure, at least 24 millibars in a 24 hour period. I have friends who lost power for 4.5 days. No electricity. No heat. No cooking. No internet. I have neighbors who had 2.5 feet of water in their basements. Some lost their cars. My street flooded when huge crashing waves coming over the sea wall during the high tide cycles. The water came up as close as 3 houses away from me. This did not happen even during the Blizzard of '78."<br />
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The next town over, had 10 feet of water from storm surges with over 100 evacuations. No one had ever seen water that high before.<br />
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<a href="http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20180303/flooding-uproots-hundreds-in-quincy">http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20180303/flooding-uproots-hundreds-in-quincy</a><br />
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My Question: will the climate deniers connect the dots that this is connected to Climate Disruption?medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-51161208291499394682017-12-19T09:01:00.001-08:002017-12-19T09:01:15.216-08:00EPA rolls back regulations on toxic effluentsThe EPA will now allow toxic effluents into our waters. These can affect the IQ s of children! Do we want the next generation to be dummer?<div>
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medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-82144603543968865562017-04-25T07:03:00.002-07:002017-04-25T07:03:55.152-07:00Panel Discussion on Climate now on YoutubeI am glad to be part of this panel on Climate Change and the importance of local involvement:<br />
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For inspiration, watch Miramar White-Hammond at 39:39'medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-64934581529308288072017-04-04T06:27:00.000-07:002017-04-25T06:58:07.962-07:00Keep It In The GroundLast night I participated in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Forum on Gas Pipelines</span><b style="text-decoration: underline;"> </b>sponsored by Mothers Out Front <b>(http://www.mothersoutfront.org) </b>at Winthrop Cable Access Television<br />
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Two of the four presenters have been arrested several times protesting the building of pipelines (Nancy Wilson and Rev. Mariama White-Hammond for lying down in the trenches at the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline). Is this the only action left for those of us protesting the expansion of fracked methane?<br />
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In Weymouth, on January 25, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted a certificate for the construction of a toxic, volatile, fracked methane gas compressor station to be built in the Fore River Basin despite the protests from the people who live there and all their legislators. Except for one: Governor Charlie Baker.<br />
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The Fore River Basin, the site of the proposed compressor station, is already an INCINERATION ZONE with seven polluting industries located dangerously close by. Explosions do happen. Especially by the Spectra/Enbridge Corporation.<br />
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The health consequences of polluting the air for the 950 families in a half mile radius was not taken into account by FERC or even our Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection when granting the permits. The Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (<b>www.nocompressor.com</b>) have hired a lawyer and filed for a rehearing.<br />
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At this point, since the FERC Commission has only 2 members instead of the required 5. This lack of a legal quorum prevents them from taking action in granting us a rehearing. Instead, an illegal "tolling order" was their response. This is essentially a hold on the process for now...<br />
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Is civil disobedience the only path left?<br />
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altered photo by Margaret Bellafiore<br />
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A perfect image to symbolize the stay of one year that Coastal Zone Management has ordered to Spectra Energy on their proposed gas compressor in the Fore River Basin!!!!<br />
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Every Wednesday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM, I have been holding signs with other protesters at the Fore River Bridge in Weymouth that read <b>SPECTRA NO</b>, <i><b>THEIR PROFITS, OUR CANCERS</b></i>, <b>FRACK FERC</b> and the like. I noticed the sign that informs drivers of bridge openings and photographed it and altered the photo. It is the perfect image to symbolize the stay of one year that has been ordered by Coastal Zone Management to Spectra Energy!medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-26842117080575201172016-06-24T18:12:00.004-07:002016-06-24T18:12:44.649-07:00A Message from the Natural WorldThis video was done at Zeleny Les Artist Residency in the Catskills, a beautiful place to contemplate the fragility of our environment. A retreat from the on going protest of gas infrastructure expansion in the town where I live, regionally and globally.<br />
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https://vimeo.com/170783180medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-45853488072575072302016-06-24T18:12:00.002-07:002016-06-24T18:12:16.375-07:00 Watch new video:<br />
A MESSAGE FROM THE NATURAL WORLD:<br />
https://vimeo.com/170783180medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-19840043471071916662015-12-16T12:04:00.003-08:002015-12-16T12:04:49.228-08:00Performance at Mobius: TESTING THE EPA ( part of DON'T LOOK AWAY! exhibit )TESTING THE EPA STUDY<br />
Performance by Bellafiore, Eccles and Lau<br />
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https://vimeo.com/149147117medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-85424509211436366252015-12-14T15:56:00.002-08:002015-12-14T15:56:26.176-08:00Karen Higgins (Co-President of National Nurses Unitied) speech at Climate Rally in Boston December 12, 2015<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;">We are here today to take a stand against
inaction. Today is about justice; social
justice, justice on the job, and just climate action to protect all of our
futures. Too many times, we’ve let
inaction win out. We have allowed the
slow and steady degradation of unions as a result of inaction. And despite the recent talks in Paris, our
unwillingness to take meaningful action on climate change means that everyone
on Earth continues to suffer its dire consequences. . But today we take a
stand. Today we say no to apathy. We say no to inaction. How do we do this? We
do it by calling for leadership. We need leaders to step up at the federal,
state, and local level. We need leadership
to come from right here Massachusetts has shown leadership on issues like gay
rights, health care and worker rights We need this kind of leadership again,
now more than ever. There will be no climate justice, social justice or job
justice without it. Without strong leadership we cannot ensure the health and
well-being of our children and grandchildren.
Climate change, unchecked, will devastate our future. Its impact is
far-reaching, its health implications are enormous.
As nurses we see this every day. We
see the rates of childhood asthma and
other respiratory illnesses are on the rise We know that air and water
contamination has caused higher instances of cancer. We have seen thousands of
people lose their lives to harsher and harsher natural disasters. All of us being here today demonstrates that
we are committed to taking the necessary action to make the changes we need. We
are committed to a $15 an hour minimum wage, to passing a national, singlepayer
healthcare law, and to creating a truly clean energy economy that is good for
job creation and our planet. Now is the time for us to lead. We must make these changes for ourselves and
for future generations. Our actions can influence millions. Together we can leave
our world in better shape than how we found it. That would be justice. <br /> </span></blockquote>
medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-41907259085585236962015-08-29T14:05:00.000-07:002015-08-29T14:05:03.895-07:00Jay Critchley as Provocateur<div style="background-color: white; color: rgba(17, 17, 17, 0.6); font-family: proxima-nova; line-height: 21px;">
<strong style="color: #242628;">An Evening with artist Jay Critchley<br />Doors open at 6 PM with Artist talk at 7 PM followed by discussion.</strong></div>
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Jay is a Provincetown-based conceptual and multi-media artist and activist whose work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany and Columbia. He founded the controversial patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation and was recently featured on LOGO TV and BBC/UK. His recent NYC show was reviewed in the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice. His first museum survey was held at the Provincetown Art Association/Museum, and will travel to Florida Atlantic University in 2016. The 2015 Provincetown International Film Festival featured his videos, including the HBO award-winning “Toilet Treatments”. </div>
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He has taught at the Museum School at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and has had artist residencies at: Harvard University; AS220, Rhode Island; Harvestworks, NYC; Williams College, MA; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Milepost 5, Portland, OR, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Andalucia, Spain, and CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France. </div>
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He founded the Provincetown Community Compact, which runs artist residencies, and the Swim for Life AIDS/women’s health benefit, which has raised $4M and is scheduled for September 12, 2015. </div>
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<strong style="color: #242628;"><a href="http://www.jaycritchley.com/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.jaycritchley.com</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="color: #242628;">Don't look away! exhibit</strong></div>
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<br />medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-31459102907424087862015-08-12T04:22:00.001-07:002015-08-12T04:22:05.924-07:00TEN FOOT SEA LEVEL RISE??!!!<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805</a>medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-31306195294308305912015-08-06T10:24:00.002-07:002015-08-06T10:24:41.348-07:00EXTINCTION IS A REALITY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Neanderthal woman reconstructed by National Geographic scientists using DNA info from bones.medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-1587195703951443052015-08-05T10:08:00.001-07:002015-08-05T10:08:16.357-07:00PRESS RELEASE FOR UPCOMING ART EXHIBITION<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An exhibition of art will be presented at Mobius, 55
Norfolk Street, Central Square, Cambridge entitled <span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> <b>DON’T LOOK AWAY! </b>(www.mobius.org).The exhibit will run from September 12 through September
20 with gallery hours from 12-5 PM on weekends and by appointment. There will
be an opening reception on September 12 from 6-9 PM.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A special
event on Saturday, September 19 will be held from 6- 9PM with renowned public
artist and provocateur Jay Critchley. He will present and discuss environmental
art from his recent retrospective at the Provincetown Museum of Art. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
<b>DON’T LOOK AWAY!</b> exhibit is the outgrowth of a process between artists and
environmentalists examining their own system of thought. Over several months,
they have practiced an experimental form of dialogue that attempted to address
questions arising from the overwhelm of climate disruption. Artists Margaret
Bellafiore, Lydia Eccles, Milan Kohout, Claire Lau and Judy Werlin, with
support from writers Steve Wineman and John Pitkin, have responded with developing
a variety of work including writing, sculpture, painting, video and
performance. They have struggled with issues of hope and despair, social
activism, fracking, and the larger underlying dynamics of what makes a healthy
society. Much of the work will be interactive as the artists are interested in having
viewers participate by adding to the work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
closing reception will be held on Sunday, September 20 from 12-5 PM. A public
dialogue will be held. Activists who are protesting the expansion of the
Spectra gas pipeline in Weymouth, West Roxbury and Dedham will participate in
this collective reflection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
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record of their struggle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-6300670177249446872015-08-05T05:24:00.002-07:002015-08-05T05:24:42.656-07:00HEALTH RISK from gas compressor by Dr. Curt Nordgaard<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
North Weymouth compressor station: An unacceptable health risk<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prepared by Curtis Nordgaard, MD Msc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Resident Pediatrician, Boston Children's Hospital /
Boston Medical Center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
health conditions are associated with compressor station emissions?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Particulate
matter</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> 1,2: Asthma, heart attacks, diabetes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Benzene</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
3 : Leukemia, bone marrow suppression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-<u>Formaldehyde</u>
4,5: Asthma, several types of cancer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-<u>Nitrogen
oxide</u> 6 Produces hazardous ground level ozone, an asthma trigger associated
with respiratory tract irritation and infection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do
compressor stations emit dangerous levels of these pollutants?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Benzene
levels have been measured near compressor stations that far exceed
cancer-causing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thresholds.
Formaldehyde levels can exceed cancer-causing thresholds up to at least a half
mile away from compressor stations8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do
residents living near compressor stations notice compressor emissions?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Residents
living near compressor stations report severe headaches, sinus problems, and
throat <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">irritation
more often than residents living further away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Would
additional emissions make a difference?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Six industries in the Fore River Basin accounted
for 84 periods of federal pollution standard violations in the past 3 years, in
addition to their baseline operating pollution. -Significant background
emissions increase the likelihood that additional emissions will reach toxic or
carcinogenic levels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why
haven't we heard more about compressors and health risks before?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Many
compressor stations are built in rural areas near much smaller populations,
where fewer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">people
are exposed to the pollutants and the health risks are therefore lower.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
additional health risks will we accept in our communities so that Spectra can
build a <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">compressor
station?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
child with leukemia?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
parent or sibling with a heart attack?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
neighbor in the Emergency Department with an asthma attack?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
we value the health of our communities, our families, and our children, then we
must<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">acknowledge
that increased risks of asthma, heart attacks, and cancer are unacceptable.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 http://epa.gov/ncer/science/pm/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 Solimini et al. BMC Public Health 2015 15:70.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search2/f?./temp/~pm6jsl:1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (2010).
Barnett Shale Formation Air Monitoring Projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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medusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07457762004660677189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794264500163184841.post-3661693125717299992015-08-01T05:04:00.001-07:002015-08-01T05:04:30.354-07:00GLOBAL TRAUMA<div class="MsoNormal">
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the planet earth? You know, the place where we all live.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What if you have been reading Bill
McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert and Barbara Kingsolver? Oil and Honey, The Sixth
Extinction and Migrant Behavior, in that order. Not very hopeful stuff.
Apocalyptic, actually. A dark future where water is either scarce or poisoned
or both. Where air is foul and hard to breathe. Where bees collapse and crops
fail. Where wars start because some people have what they need and others
don’t. It becomes a sort of trauma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2007, Bill Mc Kibben and his
Middlebury College students started www.350.org as a way to do something about
this. They picked 350 as that was the number of carbon dioxide molecules in parts
per million that scientists all over the world had agreed was the safe upper
limit in the thin “skin” around the earth, our atmosphere. Any more would heat
up the planet to a level that could drastically change life as we know it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003300; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only six years later, scientists measured the CO2 in the
atmosphere to be 400 parts per million, probably for the first time in more
than 3 million years of Earth history. And the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere
is continuing to rise at about 2 ppm every year. Those college kids could never
have forseen that.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, wait a minute. We had a really
cold winter last year. This heating up can’t be happening, right? We breathe
out carbon dioxide. It can’t be that bad for the environment, right? And trees
use it. It can’t really heat up the whole planet, can it? My older brother told
me recently the earth has not increased in temperature. Huh? The data on this
is complex. I am not about to get into an argument with him-especially if I am
a guest in his house and he is feeding me dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the oceans are warmer whether he
agrees with me or not. When storms move over warmer water, they become more
powerful. I get that. Like Hurricane Sandy. When it moved over the Atlantic in
October 2012, the ocean was two degrees warmer than normal. But this is just
“cyclical,” right? Tell that to my niece’s friends who have still not recovered
physically or psychically from the fourteen foot storm surge that suddenly came
up flooding their Staten Island home and submerging their car? They couldn’t
even drive away from it. They had to run from their house, in the dark with
water up to their chests to higher ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the seas continue to rise. Where
does all the melting ice from the glaciers go? I have seen that. What will
happen to island communities? Or cities on the shore? Like most of our cities
world wide!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There have been warmings before.
Take the Permian Era where the earth was six degrees warmer than present. You
know what happened? A die off. Ninety percent of the earth’s living things
died. Gone. Gone Gone. It takes time to recover from a die off. A long time. It
only took millions of years for the ten percent that was left to become what we
have now. Well, that’s ancient history. That happened three hundred million
years ago. Not to worry, right?. That sort of thing isn’t happening now, or is
it? Fifty percent of the coral polyps in The Great Barrier Reef have gone
extinct in the last thirty years. That fast? Huh? Gone. Gone. Gone.<br />
Carbon dioxide drives global warming. Scientists have agreed to another safe
limit: the temperature of the earth cannot increase by more than two degrees
Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). What do we do? Do we stop breathing out? Or
do we look at how much is being released by the fossil fuel companies?
Fossil-fuel companies currently have about 2,795 gigatons of carbon already
contained in their coal and oil and gas reserves, and they do plan to use it.
That much release of carbon dioxide is five times higher than the set limit of
565 gigatons. Scientists have agreed to that number of carbon and no higher,
would keep Earth from heating up to the treacherous increase of 2 degrees
Celsius.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003300; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OK, as soon as we start talking in “gigatons,” we loose everyone
because no one can wrap their minds around one billion tons. Eyes glaze over.
People turn away. As a result, it is a lot easier to deny the whole thing and
while we are at it, we will deny the fact that we had anything to do with it. I
get that, too. Maybe that’s what’s driving my brother’s thinking (or lack of).
Maybe that’s why there are so many climate deniers.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If present emission rates stay at
their present level, (31 gigatons globally in 2011 and rising), the outside
limit of 565 gigatons will be reached by 2028.Hmmm…How old will I be then? Or
more importantly, how old will my grandchildren be? Now, this is traumatic. But
don’t the oil tycoons like the Koch Brothers have grandchildren too? It is
sheer madness that they keep sucking oil out of the earth for profit or is it
just greed? How much is a healthy planet worth? Not all billionaires share
their lunacy. The Rockefeller family just announced they are divesting from oil
and tar sands mining. Anyone can see it is a bad investment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will be stuck in trauma unless I
start doing something about it. Take action. Even Mary Pipher (The Green Boat)
doesn’t hold out for any solution any time soon. And she writes that it might
really be too late to do anything about reversing the damage done by all of us
on this place where we all live. Nevertheless, she is quite pragmatic in her
own decision to stay positive and take action. I have begun to see this as the
way out of this global trauma. I am taking actions and joining with others (</span><a href="http://350ma.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">350 mass.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and </span><a href="http://healwritenow.com/global-trauma-margaret-bellafiore-guest-post/www.sustainablesouthshore.org"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.sustainablesouthshore.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) who feel as I do. Last week I marched in NYC with 400,000
others in an amazing cry out for action, the People’s Climate March. Can you
imagine what this sounded like? Four hundred thousand voices shouting “Hey,
Hey! Ho, Ho! Fossil Fuel Has Got To Go!” over and over and over as we marched
down the Avenue of the Americas (how fitting a street name!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bellafiore</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a Mobius Artist Group member
(www.mobius.org). She became interested in the subject of trauma when she
interviewed returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to college life for
her sound installation at Mobius, Combat to Campus, the Voices of Veterans. In
2012 she wrote about this experience for the American Association of University
Professors. (http://www.aaup.org/article/combat-campus#.U9_isvldWSp) Bellafiore
recently worked on writing projects with student veterans at Bridgewater State
University where she teaches art. She also wondered if there was a connection
between the denial people have to interpersonal violence and the way society
responds to climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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