tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82514970973670261732024-03-17T20:03:11.772-07:00Futures ForumJeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.comBlogger7016125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-22183896549495662132019-10-23T13:27:00.002-07:002019-10-23T13:27:56.168-07:00The Futures Forum blog is alive and well - as the Vision Group's news pages<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Exactly six months ago, the Futures Forum of the Vision Group stopped producing blog pieces:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/all-good-things-must-come-to-end-thank.html#comments"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: All good things must come to an end: thank you and goodbye from the Futures Forum blog</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, however, the Vision Group's own news pages have been covering pretty much the same key aspects of life in the Sid Valley and issues around the Transition Town movement:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And of course, the FF site continues to provide an archive - storing information from April 2013 to May 2019 - which can be accessed through the search panel and the labels</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> on the right >>></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We have a substantially new Town Council in place - which met last night and voted for continuity but with renewed vigour:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/ian-barlow-and-paul-wright-elected-as-chair-and-vice-chair-of-sidmouth-town-council-1-6061468"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sidmouth Town Council appoints chair and vice-chair | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/sidmouth-annual-town-meeting-monday.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Sidmouth Annual Town Meeting > Monday 20th May > challenges and opportunities</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The District Council is now dominated by Independents:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/district-council-elections-independents.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: District Council elections: "Independents deliver blow to the Conservatives'" > further reports</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And will be meeting tomorrow:</span><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/as-independents-seek-to-create-working.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: As Independents seek to create a working coalition, the District Council meets for the first time since local elections > Wednesday 22nd May</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The EU parliamentary elections will be happening on Thursday - and will be having a profound effect on life in the West Country:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/european-elections-why-should-you-vote-1-6063674"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">European Elections 2019: Why should you vote? | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/brexit-and-eu-elections-latest-south.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the EU elections: the latest South West poll results</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/brexit-and-eu-elections-democratic.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the EU elections: Democratic Audit looks at what will happen in the South West</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Back here in Sidmouth, not only do we have well-established festivals looking forward to the summer: </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/when-is-sidmouth-s-summer-play-festival-in-2019-1-6061174"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Paul Taylor-Mills returns to Sidmouth with Summer Play Festival 2019 | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But we have thriving relatively new ones:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/sea-fest-event-brings-in-crowds-to-sidmouth-1-6060578"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sidmouth Sea Fest delivers diversity and creativity | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/sidmouth-sea-fest-staging-fish-out-of.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Sidmouth Sea Fest > staging 'Fish out of Water', a new play on the life of Stephen Reynolds</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As far as this blog is concerned, it started six years ago with Port Royal:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2013/04/port-royal-future-lets-get-community-on.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Port Royal future: ‘Let’s get the community on board’</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />And we seem to have sorted at least the Drill Hall for the moment:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/03/plans-for-port-royal-selling-drill-hall.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: selling the Drill Hall, rather than producing a masterplan > East Devon's MP calls for a "masterplan for the Port Royal and Ham car park in Sidmouth"</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A less successful end-game has been the struggle over Knowle, which began here:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2013/06/save-our-sidmouth.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Save Our Sidmouth</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And has ended here:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/knowle-relocation-project-parkland_22.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project: parkland transfer to Town Council > latest</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/knowle-relocation-project-overspend-on.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project: an overspend on loans</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/03/knowle-relocation-project-or-how-new-hq.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project: or, how a new HQ costing £8.7m is valued at £3.5m</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It seems the right moment, then, to allow fresh blood onto the Sidmouth scene and to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">make this the last - but the blog itself will remain online as a resource.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, here's a list of other news sources to dip into:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.sidmouth.gov.uk/78-news-from-sidmouth-town-council">News from Sidmouth Town Council</a><br /><a href="https://www.sidvalleyhelp.co.uk/news">Latest News from Sid Valley Help</a><br /><br />And of course:<br /><a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news">Sidmouth Herald</a><br /><a href="https://www.devonlive.com/all-about/sidmouth">Devon Live: Sidmouth</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://eastdevonwatch.org/">East Devon Watch</a><br /><br />And there is a lively local social media page:<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1454300221320890/">Sidmouth Community public group | Facebook</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Finally, there are of course the Vision Group's very own daily news pages: </span><br />
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Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-51301145658213658052019-05-20T08:07:00.000-07:002019-05-20T08:07:04.699-07:00Brexit: and the EU elections: the latest South West poll results<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's difficult to make election predictions:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/brexit-and-eu-elections-democratic.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the EU elections: Democratic Audit looks at what will happen in the South West</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The pro-EU website Best for Britain is predicting 36 seats for the hard Brexit parties; and 34 seats for the soft/no Brexit other parties:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here are the predictions for the South West:</span><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/03/guided-democracy-and-century-of-spin.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: "Guided democracy" and the century of spin</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-to-rescue-our-time-from-digital.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: How to rescue our time from the digital giants</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A problem being that a lot of this is not exactly transparent:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/brexit-and-fake-news-from-whatsapp.html">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the EU elections: countering fake news from WhatsApp</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And earlier this year, the government tried to push for a little more transparency: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The UK government has called on the competition watchdog to launch an inquiry into the UK's digital ad market, specifically to probe the dominance of the Facebook-Google duopoly. UK chancellor Philip Hammond has requested that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launch a review after <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tech-giants-do-not-face-enough-competition-reducing-consumer-choice-and-innovation">an independent report</a> he commissioned detailed how the UK's competition framework isn't fit for the economic challenges posed by digital markets, at home and internationally. Led by Jason Furman, Barack Obama’s chief economic adviser, an independent panel of experts found that the digital advertising market "is dominated by two players and suffers from a lack of transparency".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">MIC WRIGHT: Efforts to introduce transparency in online political advertising are falling short</span></b><br /><br />PUBLISHED: 10:00 10 May 2019 | UPDATED: 13:55 10 May 2019<br /><br /><a href="mailto:theneweuropean@archant.co.uk">Mic Wright</a><br /><br />MIC WRIGHT says that political campaigners are undermining the democratic process with manipulative, duplicitous online advertising and more needs to be done to introduce transparency.<br /><br />There was great fanfare in October 2018, when Facebook introduced new rules for political advertising running on its platform in the UK. Requiring advertisers to prove their identity and location before their messages were shown and displaying the group behind each ad to users, along with the introduction of a searchable Ad Library, was repeatedly hailed as "transparent" in media reports.<br /><br />But taking a look at any one of the current Facebook ads focused on Brexit reveals how the social media giant didn't so much install a window into the world of online political advertising as opt for some frosted glass.<br /><br />Messages promoted by groups with names like Better Brexit, Now Brexit and the Brexit Defence Force are linked to pages with no indication of the individuals managing them nor of their ultimate funding sources. Facebook also remains reticent to show the targeting criteria used by the advertisers. So, while it's possible to view them in the Ad Library there is no way of knowing who is seeing these messages in their Facebook newsfeeds.<br /><br />The Guardian reported in April that the Mainstream Network - an operation designed to look like a grassroots campaign made up of pro-Brexit Facebook pages backing a no-deal exit - is in fact overseen by Lynton Crosby's political lobbying firm CTF Partners, with a budget of more than £1 million.<br /><br />The UK information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-Committee on Disinformation that the activity is being probed as part of her office's wider investigation into the use of political data online.<br /><br />Denham told MPs that she was shocked to see that the government's recent White Paper on online harms did not significantly address the issue of political advertising: "I was surprised and disappointed that there wasn't more focus on what I think is a huge societal harm, which is around electoral interference and the need for more transparency in political advertising."<br /><br />The information commissioner was asked by MPs whether Facebook's changes to its rules around political advertising go far enough. She told them: "You can't leave it to an individual company. There needs to be more robust transparency tools and there needs to be regulation that requires companies to have systems in place to give real transparency."<br /><br />Her view is echoed by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) and the independent fact-checking charity FullFact, which have both called for an industry-owned register of political advertising in the UK, with details not only of content, but of who is being targeted and how much is being spent to reach them.<br /><br />While Facebook's Ad Library and other measures are clearly inadequate, Twitter and Google have yet to provide public archives of UK political advertising run on their platforms.<br /><br />Current rules on electoral advertising were drafted to cover posters, billboards and leaflets, not micro-targeted social media posts and customised email campaigns. The Electoral Reform Society's director of research and policy, Jess Garland, put it succinctly: "The UK's analogue-age election rules are a meddlers' charter that leave our elections vulnerable."<br /><br />While the claims made in commercials for washing powder or cosmetics can be rigorously challenged by the Advertising Standard Agency (ASA), since 1997, it hasn't regulated any form of political messaging. Lies that would be unacceptable in the process of trying to sell pet food go unchallenged when it is voters being served up rhetoric to swallow. It was easier to get away with falsely claiming that Turkey was joining the EU than it is to lie about the nutritional content of a turkey drumstick.<br /><br />The official Vote Leave campaign spent more than £2.7 million on targeted Facebook ads during the EU referendum. Data subsequently released by the social network to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-Committee as part of its inquiry into fake news, revealed that Vote Leave had run ads with 1,433 different messages.<br /><br />They ranged from bizarre claims that the EU was out to kill the British cuppa to emotional appeals featuring polar bears and bullfighting. The adverts were seen more than 169 million times in total.<br /><br />As well as relatively straightforward adverts, Vote Leave ran a competition offering a £50 million pound prize to anyone who could predict the outcome of every match played in the 2016 European championships. It was a data harvesting exercise.<br /><br />But while regulators are trying to get to grips with the online political advertising equivalent of muskets, campaigners already have machine guns and tanks at their disposal.<br /><br />In 2016, the Trump campaign tested an average of 50,000 ad variations a day to micro-target voters, peaking at 150,000 ads on some days. It did that, in part, by using machine learning to quickly get rid of under-performing messages and formats and bring the most effective lines to the top. Voter profiles are ever more detailed and machine learning is increasingly making connections between data sets that human campaign strategists would never be able to make on their own.<br /><br />We are not far from a time when it will be possible to quickly and effectively target single voters with messaging geared to their particular hopes and fears.<br /><br />A recent Channel 4 investigation accused the Arron Banks-funded Leave.EU campaign of faking footage of migrants entering the UK and attacking women, but future political advertising could make even that look mild. Deepfake videos - clips using machine learning to turn real people into convincing puppets for words or actions they might otherwise never say - are becoming increasingly advanced. It is only a matter of time before deepfakes are effectively used for political disinformation and the waters are further muddied.<br /><br />Last September, three members of Congress - Democrats Adam Schiff and Stephanie Murphy, along with Republican Carlos Curbelo - wrote to the US director of national security, Dan Coats, to warn that "as deepfake technology becomes more advanced and more accessible, it could pose a threat to public discourse and national security".<br /><br />The issue is not just that campaigns could use deepfake techniques to spread rumour and gossip, but that an increased climate of distrust could make it easier to discredit real videos with plausible deniability.<br /><br />Donald Trump initially apologised for his comments on the infamous Access Hollywoodtapes, but he later suggested that the audio was fake. In a climate where deepfake attacks on politicians become common that kind of obfuscation will become easier for figures who are so willing to brazenly lie about their words and actions.<br /><br />Currently, the UK is in a situation where the Electoral Commission complains of campaigns submitting invoices for Facebook advertising that "[make] it difficult or impossible to know what the money was spent on and where". While the regulations don't even require that minimal meaningful level of disclosure, and technology companies are not forced to deliver true transparency, the integrity of UK elections will be in doubt.<br /><br />Ensuring that all online political advertising in the UK has to abide by the same imprint laws as offline advertising is key - they must state who paid for them and published them. But it has to go further than that. We need a publicly viewable algorithmic ingredient list tied to every targeted online political ad - who is seeing this message and what criteria were used to decide that they would? Revealing the recipe shouldn't be left to the whim of individual companies, but a legal requirement.<br /><br />Political campaigns used to have to shout their messages but Vote Leave's targeted Facebook ads during the EU referendum were whispers. The manipulation would have been far less effective if it had been done in the full light of public scrutiny, where the conflicting tones and disparate imagery would have been apparent. It's easy to sell a lie if only people who don't know any better can hear you telling it.<br /><br />This is a Wizard of Oz problem: It's currently too hard to know who is behind the curtain, pulling the strings. If voters are able to see how they are defined by campaigns that target them, they may be a lot less willing to take the messages presented to them at face value. Offline political adverts are restricted by their context, jumbled on the doormat with bills and junk mail, or pasted on a billboard.<br /><br />Online, the political messaging can hide itself as a plea to defend the polar bears or ban bullfighting, while its creators have another agenda entirely. We need regulations and regulators with the power to pull back the curtain and reveal the levers, who's pulling them and who is ultimately paying for it all.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/mic-wright-says-more-transparency-needed-online-political-advertising-1-6041075"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Brexit: Efforts to introduce transparency in social media advertising are failing | Latest Brexit news and top stories - The New European</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/breaking-news-sidmouth-shake-up.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: BREAKING NEWS: Sidmouth shake-up</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tomorrow, Monday 20th May, they will be joining colleagues for the Annual Town Meeting - at which chair and committees will be voted in:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Town Council is responsible for quite a lot:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Including a substantial budget of over £0.5m:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/town-council-precept-2019-20-1-5864331"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sidmouth Town Council agrees 4 per cent precept increase, a part of council tax, that will help pay for projects including swimming platform | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/sidmouth-town-council-community-grants-2019-1-6004600"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Grants galore for good causes thanks to Sidmouth Town Council | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It supports important services:<br /><a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/hop-on-sidmouth-hopper-bus-reveals-new-routes-and-extra-days-for-2019-1-5925177">Hop on! Sidmouth Hopper Bus reveals new routes and extra days for 2019 | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It has a key role in determining planning decisions, for example:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/town-council-support-demolition-of-sidmouth-s-st-john-ambulance-hall-for-smart-apartments-1-5723418"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Town council support demolition of Sidmouth's St John Ambulance Hall for smart apartments | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And is part of the Beach Management Plan's steering group:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/plan-protect-sidmouths-crumbling-cliffs-2804257"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The plan to protect Sidmouth’s crumbling cliffs is set to be finalised - Devon Live</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It has taken the initiative over key issues:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/vision-to-make-sidmouth-first-mental-health-friendly-town-1-5943985"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Vision to make Sidmouth first mental health friendly town | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And it's taking on more responsibilities:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/transfer-of-knowle-parkland-to-sidmouth-town-council-moved-up-1-5992919"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Knowle parkland in Sidmouth could transfer to council by autumn | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are new challenges and opportunities - as highlighted on the VGS news pages:</span><br />
<a href="https://visionforsidmouth.org/money-available-for-historic-high-streets/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Money available for Historic High Streets - Vision Group for Sidmouth</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And there will indeed be money issues:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.localgov.co.uk/Council-governance-systems-inadequate-for-austerity-era/47415"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LocalGov.co.uk - Your authority on UK local government - Council governance systems ‘inadequate’ for austerity era</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2019/05/more-freedom-urged-over-councils-finances">More freedom urged over councils’ finances | Public Finance</a> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.publicfinance.co.uk/opinion/2019/05/financial-control-needs-be-devolved-westminster"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Financial control needs to be devolved from Westminster | Public Finance</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2016/10/independent-workers-and-gig-economy.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: 'Independent workers' and the 'gig economy'</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-sharing-economy-this-on-demand-or.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The sharing economy >>> “This on-demand, or so-called gig, economy is creating exciting economies and unleashing innovation. But it is also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-gig-economy-is-exciting-and-has.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The gig economy is 'exciting' and has 'huge potential'... or maybe not...</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47974704"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Cannes Film Festival: Ken Loach up for Palme d'Or prize - BBC News</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And he isn't pulling any punches:</span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/17/ken-loach-blair-miliband-sorry-we-missed-you-cannes-gig-economy"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ken Loach: blame 'fake left' politicians like Miliband and Blair for gig economy | Film | The Guardian</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1ba039f0-7893-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Cannes: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You — a piercing drama about a zero-hours-contract driver | Financial Times</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/sorry-we-missed-you-ken-loach-gig-economy-drama-kris-hitchen-debbie-honeywood-newcastle"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sorry We Missed You review: Ken Loach delivers a stirring drama on the gig economy | Sight & Sound | BFI</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />18 MAY 2019 - 08:29 AGENCY STAFF<br /><br />Cannes — Veteran British director Ken Loach was tipped for a third Cannes win on Friday for a powerful film which puts Amazon and other tech giants in the dock over their alleged exploitation of workers.<br /><br />Critics hailed Sorry We Missed You, his heart-breaking story of an overworked delivery driver as a “wrenching tale of the way we live now and how the gig economy screws over the people it promises to save”.<br /><br />The film — shot in the north-eastern English city of Newcastle, like his last Palme d’Or winning film I, Daniel Blake — takes “a white van man” and turns him into a martyr of out-of-control capitalism.<br /><br />Hollywood bible Variety, not normally a fan of left-wing activist directors, said “the times have caught up with Loach and they have pushed him to the top of his game. He’s 82 years old, and he is now making films that connect, with a nearly karmic sense of timing, to the social drama of our moment.”<br /><br />The Guardian gave it five stars and declared that “this brilliant film will focus minds ... in modern Britain, the land of zero-hours vassalage and service-economy serfdom.”<br /><br />Loach, whose arm was in a sling after putting out his shoulder, said he and scriptwriter Paul Laverty had found Amazon drivers working with broken limbs. He said the system of zero-hour contracts and false “self-employed owner-driver franchisees” used by tech giants ranging from Uber to Deliveroo, creates massive misery by “putting all the risk on the workers ... who are made to exploit themselves”.<br /><br />Sorry We Missed You shows how the relentless demands of the gig economy wreck a family of grafters. For their part, the tech companies say they offer the best working conditions possible for their workforce and provide much-needed jobs in often rundown and neglected areas.<br /><br /><b>Destroying families </b><br /><br />“We are supposed to work to provide for our families but for millions of us, work deprives us from spending time with our loved ones,” said Laverty, Loach’s regular creative partner.<br /><br />The writer said he interviewed an Amazon driver on the day its owner Jeff Bezos became the richest man in the world. “His skin was grey, his eyes were red. He was absolutely exhausted,” Laverty said. “When I showed the driver the news, his jaw dropped. He realised he was one of hundreds of thousands of drivers across the world, a little drip going into the Amazon river.”<br /><br />In the film, a delivery driver and his wife who cares for elderly and disabled people in their homes, work long, grueling days to hit inhumane targets.<br /><br />Loach said the system is now stacked massively against working people, “who can be turned on and off like tap”, and warned that this is fueling dangerous populist anger.<br /><br />He said the extreme right “rise when the soil is manured with this precarious work — that’s where people’s anger is coming from. People speak of the extreme right and left. I don’t see the extreme left. Where is it? I see the extreme right who thrive on anger and discontent. They say the person to blame is the poorest person next to you, or someone who looks different, or comes from another country. The extreme right thrives on fear. The left thrives on confidence. If you are confident you say, ‘Yes, we can change things.’ The right thrives on anxiety and insecurity.”<br /><br /><b>‘This system kills’</b><br /><br />Debbie Honeywood, a teacher who plays the role of the van driver’s wife and one of several amateurs Loach cast, said three out of four children living in poverty in the UK have working parents.<br /><br />“We know there is something badly wrong and intolerable about life now,” Loach said. “We know that healthcare and the way our old people are looked after is not right, and why, when we buy online, does everything come in a van? We cannot sustain that.”<br /><br />The filmmaker said the family in his film, like most who work in the gig economy, are caught in a trap.<br /><br />“There is no escape, the system has trapped them. We met people who work with broken limbs who drive with a broken leg and arm. There was one appalling case of a man who died because he couldn’t stop work for his hospital appointments because of the debt. This system kills.”<br /><br />But Loach was sanguine on whether his film will change anything. His last film <i>I, Daniel Blake</i> on the injustice and cruelty of the British social welfare system, won the top prize at Cannes and was debated in parliament.<br /><br />“But the government hasn’t given an inch. It is still as cruel. They still use hunger as a weapon. Charity food banks have increased in the last year alone by 18%. That will not change because they have to show that not being able to support yourself is a crime.”<br /><br />AFP</span><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/03/repair-cafe-acquiring-and-enhancing.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Repair Café > "acquiring and enhancing technical and entrepreneurial skills while raising awareness on issues of sustainability and the circular economy"</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/12/reverse-logistics-in-governments.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: 'Reverse Logistics' in the government's resources and waste strategy</span></a></div>
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Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-2643134599922868672019-05-19T02:00:00.000-07:002019-05-19T02:00:06.210-07:00Sidmouth Repair Café > Saturday 25th May > part of an international movement<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The next Repair Café at the Manstone Youth Club will be next Saturday:</span><br />
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<a href="https://en-gb.facebook.com/sidmouthrepaircafe/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sidmouth Repair Cafe - Home | Facebook</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Repair Café movement is truly international:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Herald's monthly magazine carries a piece on the Café - and this is the latest:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Sidmouth's Repair Café - part of an international movement</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">PUBLISHED:</strong> 07:00 12 May 2019 | <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">UPDATED:</strong> 09:14 13 May 2019</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">A youngster tries her hand at one of the many Repair Cafes in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Repair Cafés are opening up all over the world, in schools, churches and youth centres.</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">At one Belgian college, 'dysfunctional devices' belonging to members of the community are brought in and repaired by students. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">As the head said: "It helps them enhance their skills, while raising their awareness on issues of sustainability."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Martine Postma, director of Repair Café International also says it's about education: "Our volunteers are happy to show their neighbours the basics of repairing, but the real change will come when repair skills are put on the curriculum once more."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">At Sidmouth's Repair Café, it's also not just about fixing stuff. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">It's also about showing people why things have broken down. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">And if spare parts are needed, then advice is always given - and so even those whose gadget isn't immediately fixed leave happy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The next Repair Café is on Saturday, May 25, 10am to 1pm, at the Youth Centre in Manstone Lane.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">To read more features from East Devon Resident, click <a href="https://www.midweekherald.co.uk/topic/Tag/East%20Devon%20Resident" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">.</span>Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-16292031123035089362019-05-19T01:30:00.000-07:002019-05-19T01:30:03.031-07:00The right to repair > spreading repair knowledge online<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Apple is very much in the spotlight - whether over its use of 'conflict minerals':</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/recovering-conflict-minerals.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Recovering conflict minerals</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Or over its use of branding:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In particular, people are getting very frustrated about not being able to repair their products...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And this frustration is turning into</span><span style="font-size: large;"> right to repair advocacy:</span></span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2016/08/right-to-repair.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Right to repair</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/11/right-to-repair-campaign-hits-europe.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Right to Repair campaign hits Europe</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/01/right-to-repair-campaign-to-reduce.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Right to Repair campaign to reduce the electronic and electrical rubbish mountain</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are alliances happening:</span><br />
<a href="https://openrepair.org/members/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Members - Open Repair Alliance</span></a><br />
<a href="http://freeknowledge.eu/blogs/right-to-repair"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Right to Repair | Free Knowledge Institute</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And on-line projects are making it easier:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">- as reported in the Guardian this week: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b>When Jessa Jones’s twin daughters flushed her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/iphone">iPhone</a> 4S down the toilet, she decided that she was going to fix it herself. She took the toilet apart in her backyard, retrieved the device, and then searched online for how to make it turn on again. On DIY fix-it forums, she was informed that the first step was to replace the battery. She did this with relative ease, but the phone wouldn’t charge, which suggested that the water had also seeped into the phone’s motherboard.<br /><br />For most, this would mean giving up and going to the Apple store. But Jones was determined. She had no experience working with electronics but by trawling through online tutorials, she taught herself how to use a soldering iron and replace microscopic components inside the phone. She eventually succeeded and got the device working again.<br /><br />Jones found the repair work satisfying, and repairing electronics became a new hobby. She started buying dead devices on Craigslist and refurbishing them to sell. Then she listed herself on eBay as a mail-in motherboard repairperson – within months, repair shops across the country were sending her micro-soldering jobs that were too complex for them.<br /><br />Jones soon had more business than she could handle. After recruiting other stay-at-home moms in her neighborhood and teaching them electronics repair, she launched a small business from her dining room called MommyFixits. “Suddenly our play dates became moms sitting around the dining table fixing mailed-in iPhones,” she told me.<br /><br />As Jones’s expertise grew, she discovered that technology manufacturers used underhanded techniques to discourage independent repair. Phone and tablet parts were <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/03/sixth-generation-ipad-teardown/">glued</a> together, causing components to break when pried apart. Schematics and manuals were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/copyright-law-repair-manuals-circular-economy">copyrighted</a> and kept under trade secret. Apple even used their own proprietary “pentalobe” screws, which cannot be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentalobe_security_screw">removed</a> with common screwdrivers.<br /><br />Despite these barriers to repair, Jones knew that fixing things independently, instead of taking them back to the manufacturer, was almost always possible and often cheaper. To spread her knowledge, she started a YouTube channel called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjp41qeXe1o_lp1US9TpWA">iPad Rehab</a>, which offered step-by-step repair tutorials for other DIY enthusiasts.<br /><br />One of Jones’s more popular videos was of her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcfqBExWW4">fixing</a> “touch disease” on an iPhone 6, a common problem where the touch pad stops working. Jones told me that this issue was endemic in iPhone 6s due to a design error in the phone that allowed it to bend, meaning that a small component on the logic board would dislodge. When Apple customers took their faulty phones back to the Apple store, they were given a replacement at a reduced price. The problem, according to Jones, was that the new phone had precisely the same defect as the old one, and the “touch disease” would return, sometimes in a matter of days.<br /><br />In her 30-minute video, Jones demonstrated how she could fix the cause of the problem by adding a tiny metal wire under one part of the logic board, which prevented the component from dislodging. “When people watched that video, they could see a real person opening up a phone, explaining how it works, and then fixing the problem. It was so different from the experience of the Apple shop, where a Genius disappears and comes back with a white box,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“My <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/youtube">YouTube</a> channel just raised awareness that real repair is possible.”<br /><br />Jones, whose channel now has more than 115,000 followers, is part of a network of YouTube tinkerers who are spreading their repair knowledge online to place power back in the hands of consumers.<br /><br />Kyle Wiens, co-founder of the online repair community iFixit, uses YouTube to broadcast “teardowns”, where he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWrlLu5Q4Dk">dismantles</a> a device piece by piece to show users how everything inside works and its potential reparability. Louis Rossmann, a technician with a small repair shop in New York, has a channel with more than 800,000 followers, where he regularly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup">posts</a> videos of him repairing Apple computers. There are also hundreds of thousands of amateur videos, where people from around the world teach others how to repair <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhZhkQwCTA">washing machines</a>, light fixtures, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfV0_wbjG8KJADuZT2ct4SA">cars</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eME_7ABrBlk">pool filters</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bcdbzi1iV8">rice cookers</a>, and so on.<br /><br />According to Nathan Proctor, director of the Campaign for the Right to Repair at the US Public Interest Research Group, this YouTube community is an integral part of a broader political movement that is attempting to wrest consumer agency from an increasingly consolidated electronics marketplace.<br /><br />Proctor says that while in the past there was a legal balance between protecting manufacturers’ intellectual property and empowering consumers to tinker with, modify, and repair their own products, the rise of software in electronics has shifted power to manufacturers. Not only are the products more complex and harder to fix, the line between self-repair and hacking has become nebulous, meaning that manufacturers have been able to use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act">digital copyright</a> law to gain a legal monopoly over repair. This, in turn, has created a broader cultural anxiety around self-repair, a sense that when our devices malfunction, the problem can only be dealt with by so-called experts at a specific company.<br /><br />According to Proctor, YouTube channels such as Jones’s are useful in disrupting this dynamic. “I frequently will talk to people who had something break on their phone and were told that they had to replace it with the manufacturer,” he said. “But then they go on YouTube and watch a video and realize that fixing it isn’t impossible, that you could learn how to or find someone who can.”<br /><br />As a result of this, those at the forefront of the online repair community are sometimes met with hostility from manufacturers. Apple has <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3yadk/apple-sued-an-independent-iphone-repair-shop-owner-and-lost">brought</a> suits against unauthorized repair shops and have had their intellectual property lawyers directly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVL65qwBGnw">contacted</a> some YouTube tinkerers.<br /><br />This type of behavior has radicalized a number of YouTube repairers, including Jones and Rossmann, whose videos now often venture into right to repair advocacy. This places them in a growing coalition of consumer freedom advocates, farmers, hackers, and environmentalists who are pushing for legislation that will allow consumers to fix what they own and empower third-party independent repair shops. In the US, so far 20 states have <a href="https://ifixit.org/blog/14429/california-right-to-repair-in-2019/">expressed</a> interest in this type of legislative reform, and Senator Elizabeth Warren in March <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3mb5k/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-a-national-right-to-repair-law">called</a> for a national right to repair bill, which, while specifically made for farmers wanting to repair their own tractors, would have broad repercussions for all technology manufacturers.<br /><br />While such legislation would be a victory for consumer rights, more fundamentally, Jones sees the right to repair as an integral step in making people less alienated from the production process. “What we’re giving up when we lose the right to repair is this sense of investigation and wonder and tinkering,” she says. “We’re made to see our devices as if they are these sacrosanct objects but really, they’re just a battery and a screen, something that a stay-at-home mom can learn how to fix in her dining room.”</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/08/sidestepping-apple-the-third-party-tinkerers-fighting-for-your-right-to-repair"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sidestepping Apple: the third-party tinkerers fighting for your right to repair | Life and style | The Guardian</span></a><br />
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Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-47063958045517290482019-05-19T01:00:00.000-07:002019-05-19T01:00:02.368-07:00Brexit: and the EU elections: Democratic Audit looks at what will happen in the South West<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Prime Minister launched the Tory campaign in Bristol yesterday, as reported by the Telegraph:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/05/17/glum-faces-speech-empty-room-hurried-exit-theresa-mays-campaign/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Glum faces, a speech to an empty room and a hurried exit as Theresa May's campaign turns into a wake - Telegraph</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Other parties were in the area a little earlier:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/brexit-and-eu-elections-starting-in.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the EU elections: starting in the South West</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Herald gives a run-down of the candidates running in the South West:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/election/euro-election-south-west-candidates-1-6056398"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">European elections 2019: Who are the South West candidates? | Election | Sidmouth Herald</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It seems that a lot of the deciding between many of these candidates will be done tactically:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/brexit-and-eu-elections-tactical-voting.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the EU elections: tactical voting</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here's a very helpful overview from the Democratic Audit from earlier today: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><em>In recent years the South West of England has become a Conservative stronghold, as the opposition from the Liberal Democrats in rural areas dwindled, restoring an older pattern of Labour challenging from the few big cities like Bristol, Plymouth and Exeter. However, in European Parliament elections, UKIP came first in 2014, winning two of the region’s six seats, and helping shape a strong Leave vote in the 2016 Brexit referendum – an inheritance that now falls to the Brexit Party. With regional Conservative support now at unprecedentedly low levels, the three strong pro-Remain parties are vying to get two seats between them. With voters able to cast only a single vote for a party list, the </em><strong>Democratic Audit team</strong><em> reviews likely outcomes and the main potentially electable candidates.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The South West region spans across Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, plus the overseas territory of Gibraltar. With several high-profile celebrity candidacies competing, the region has attracted greater than usual media attention. The Conservatives’ past lock on electoral success here was squeezed in previous European Parliament elections, culminating in 2014, when UKIP won 32% to the Tories’ 29%, though both parties picked up two seats.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The new Brexit Party has inherited almost all the past UKIP voters and seems to have cannibalised much of the Conservative vote share too. Figure 1 shows that in a<a href="https://www.comresglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Final-Centrum-Campaign-Electoral-Calc-Tables.pdf" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">ComRes</a> poll conducted in early May Farage’s party has 34% support in this region and so will easily gain two seats. Ann Widdecombe, a former Conservative minister (and <em>Strictly Come Dancing</em> contestant) heads their list and is guaranteed to win a seat. They should also gain another one, and a third seat is not beyond the bounds of possibility.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Labour are currently polling second with 18%, up quite a bit on their 14% in 2014. Their incumbent MEP Clare Moody heads their list and is sure to be re-elected, but Lord Andrew Adonis (an arch-Remainer and supporter of a second referendum) still looks unlikely to win a second seat. Labour’s efforts to seek votes from both Leave and Remain supporters reflects the tensions in its position on Brexit, so pro-Remainers may choose to support one of the next three parties taking an unambiguous Remain line.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The Greens won the region’s final seat with 11% support in 2014. On the regional ComRes poll they are currently on 9%. But they face competition from the resurgent Liberal Democrats on 13% and Change UK/The Independent Group on 11%. This result would give the Liberal Democrats one seat, and the new Change UK party would also gain a seat, while the Greens might miss out. The Greens have the advantage of an incumbent and relatively well known MEP in Molly Scott Cato. But Change UK’s lead candidate here is Rachel Johnson (a well-known journalist and also Boris Johnson’s sister). Which of them prevails may hang on a combination of personal profile and their party’s national fortunes – which vary considerably from poll to poll. To complicate the picture, in the ComRes regression analysis of their poll (details in the footnote to Figure 1) the Liberal Democrats were rated well ahead on 17%, and Change UK and the Greens both counted out at 6%. Given the small samples in regional polls, the exact standing of these smaller parties is especially hard to judge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Meanwhile on the right, the Conservatives languish on just 11% in Figure 1, and on this basis would retain only one of their seats. However, again the ComRes re-analysis using demographics and regression techniques boosts their vote share to 16%, although this is still not enough for a second seat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Finally UKIP itself has just 3% of voters backing it and no chance of a seat. Their second-placed candidate is the social media provocateur Carl Benjamin, who has been banned from most social media for making unpleasant rape jokes targeting female MPs, attracting considerable press and<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/carl-benjamin-milkshake-thrown-totnes-ukip-european-elections-a8912926.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> public condemnation</a>. He has no chance of being elected, but may have helped hasten his party’s total demise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">All the parties have six parties standing in the region, though any one listed in the bottom half of their candidate list cannot possibly win a seat under proportional representation. Voters select just one party to vote for on the <a href="http://www.democraticaudit.com/2019/04/15/the-uks-2019-european-parliament-elections-are-happening-after-all-heres-how-they-will-work/" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">ballot paper</a>, not individual candidates. In making up their minds which party list to support, voters need only pay attention to the candidates in the shaded boxes below.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #073763;">Figure 1: Main party candidates in the South West (with ComRes poll data, 1–7 May 2019) and possible winners</span></strong></div>
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<em><span style="color: #073763;">Note: ComRes also produced revised poll numbers using a technique called MRP, which adjusts the results based on past results and local demographics, and puts the Brexit Party on 30%, Labour on 19%, Lib Dems on 17% Conservatives on 16%, Greens on 9% and Change UK on 6%).</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><i>To find details of all the local candidates, and to locate your polling station, visit our Democratic Dashboard site and enter your postcode. The site also has full details of other recent elections in your local area.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Below we list a summary of any candidate in Figure 1 with some chance of being elected, and point you to their social media sites, which can show something of what each candidate is like as a person. At the bottom of this article we also show the full 2014 results for the South West.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>THE BREXIT PARTY </strong>has fielded a list headed by some high-profile candidates, strengthening their assured chance of winning two seats, and perhaps even three on a good surge day.</span></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Ann Widdecombe</strong> was Conservative MP for a constituency in Maidstone from 1987 to 2010, and served in several ministerial roles in John Major’s government, including as Minister for Prisons. (For a summary of her Commons’ voting record, look<a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10634/ann_widdecombe/maidstone_and_the_weald/votes" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> here</a>). She is known for holding strongly socially conservative views. Since leaving politics she has appeared on numerous television shows, and in pantomime.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>James Glancy</strong> (Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/jaglancy" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> @jaglancy</a>) is a former Royal Marine and Special Boat Service officer who served in Afghanistan. He is also an environmental campaigner and presenter of Discovery’s ‘Shark Week’ programme.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Christina Jordan</strong> is a former nurse, airline attendant, and charity worker. You can read an interview with her<a href="https://www.yourvalleynews.co.uk/frontpage-news/brexit-party-mep-candidate-says-this-whole-thing-about-brexit-is-opening-the-country/?fbclid=IwAR1MJ3up5bZc4KF9I1ELon0JfAIiJu3UAaoZ-ROZUn7SxoNF24QmBVz-2P8" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> here</a>.</span></li>
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<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Clare Moody</strong> (Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/ClareMoodyMEP" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> @ClareMoodyMEP</a>) was elected MEP in 2014 (reversing a complete fail for Labour in 2009). For her voting record in the Brussels parliament see her Votewatch.eu<a href="https://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-clare-moody-2.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> profile</a>. <strong> </strong>She sits on committees covering defence, foreign affairs, industry, and women’s rights. She previously worked as an official for the trade union Unite.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Andrew Adonis</strong> (Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> @Andrew_Adonis</a>) was a political advisor to Tony Blair, and was made a Labour peer in 2005 when he joined the government as a junior minister, first for education and then transport. Since the referendum he has been a vocal pro-European campaigner in the People’s Vote campaign, and is vice-Chair of the European Movement.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>LIBERAL DEMOCRATS – </strong>Until 2014,<strong> </strong>the Lib Dems<strong> </strong>regularly returned MEPs to the European Parliament from the South West. On current polling, they have a good chance of getting one elected again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>CONSERVATIVES – </strong>Their recent regional dominance<strong> </strong>has not been enough to insulate them in this election. Although they will hold one of their existing seats, they are quite likely to lose the other on the ComRes data.</span></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Ashley Fox </strong>(Twitter:<strong> </strong> <a href="http://twitte.com/Ashleyfoxmep" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">@Ashleyfoxmep</a>) was first elected to the European Parliament in 2009, and was leader of the Conservatives’ group there. For his voting record see his Votewatch.eu<a href="https://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-ashley-fox-2.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> profile</a>. Before going to Brussels he was a local councillor in Bristol and a solicitor. </span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>James Mustoe </strong>(Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/JamesMustoe1" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> @JamesMustoe1</a>) is a councillor for Mevagissey in Cornwall, and manages the constituency office for St Austell and Newquay MP Steve Double.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>GREEN PARTY</strong> – The Green Party (just) won the region’s last seat in 2014, and their incumbent has a good chance of retaining it, although everything depends on how the strong pro-Remain vote splits.</span></div>
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<li style="background: url("images/bullet.png") 0px 1px no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Molly Scott Cato</strong> (Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/MollyMEP" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> @MollyMEP</a>) has been a Brussels MEP for the South West since 2014 and spokesperson on Brexit for the Green Party of England and Wales. For her EP profile and voting record see<a href="https://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-molly-scott-cato-2.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> here</a>. She was previously an economist and academic at the University of Roehampton.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>CHANGE UK </strong>– The new party of former Labour and Conservative MPs is pushing hard in this region, and will hope that a high-profile candidate secures them one seat.</span></div>
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<li style="background: url("images/bullet.png") 0px 1px no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>Rachel Johnson </strong>(Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/RachelSJohnson" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><strong> </strong>@RachelSJohnson</a>) is a journalist, and the former editor of <em>The Lady</em> magazine. She was a supporter of the Lib Dems at the 2017 election. She is part of the Johnson political clan: her brothers are the Conservative MPs Boris and Jo Johnson.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>UKIP</strong> – The party looks likely to plummet from first to last place, perhaps aided by the highly controversial Carl Benjamin in second place on their list. Even their lead candidate below has no chance of success.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #073763;">Figure 2: 2014 European Parliament results for the South West and MEPs</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">All EU member states will hold elections to the European Parliament between 23 and 26 May. Since the UK has now extended its membership of the EU beyond this date (and possibly until the end of October), these elections must also happen here on Thursday 23 May. The UK elects 73 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by a proportional representation (PR) system, to represent 9 English regions, Scotland and Wales, and using the STV system in Northern Ireland. The Democratic Audit team explains how this election works, what will be on your ballot paper, and what we know so far about party prospects. In the run-up to the election we will preview the contests in your area in more detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Finally, beware the fake news bots:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And a scurrilous posting from the Avaaz campaign group:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">.</span>Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-43932607693836280922019-05-18T10:46:00.000-07:002019-05-18T13:16:26.124-07:00"So you’ve declared a Climate Emergency, now what?" > Exeter University > Thursday 23rd May<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A 'Climate Emergency' has been declared - by the County Council and by central government:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/02/climate-change-county-council-declares.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Climate change > County Council declares 'climate emergency' but fails to commit to becoming carbon neutral by 2030</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On Tuesday, Extinction Rebellion will be meeting:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/climate-emergency-what-could-government.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Climate Emergency > What could government be doing? > talk and discussion with Exeter Extinction Rebellion > Tuesday 21st May</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And on Thursday, Transition Exeter and the University will also be considering where to go next:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><strong><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Thursday 23 May 2019, 6.00 - 9.00 pm</span></strong><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Both Devon County Council and the UK Parliament have
declared a Climate Emergency. Transition Exeter has partnered with the Exeter
University's Global Systems Institute to run a free public event: Now
what? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The panel will include Youth Striker Sophie Sleeman, climate
scientist Richard Betts, newly elected Exeter Green councillor Diana Moore and
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Book your place now, and bring questions and comments to the meeting on Thursday </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">With more on the Eventbrite site:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Date:</span> Thursday 23 May 2019</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Venue:</span> Alumni Auditorium, The Forum, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4SZ</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">This public event is hosted by the University of Exeter Global Systems Institute in Partnership with <a href="http://www.transitionexeter.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Transition Exeter</a> and <a href="http://www.ecoe.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Exeter Community Energy</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">On 1 May 2019 UK MPs approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">More than 60 towns and cities across the UK have already declared "a climate emergency" including Devon and Cornwall County Councils.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Last month the University of Bristol became the first UK university to <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-47962554" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">make a similar declaration</a>. There is no single definition of what "a climate emergency" means but many local authorities state they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030. This will only be achievable through dramatic cuts in emissions which requires social transformation.</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">What steps are required to achieve rapid and extensive change?</span></span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Deep cuts in emissions will involve far-reaching changes to everyday lives, physical infrastructures, patterns of investment and divestment. How can we ensure such change is rapid and extensive, yet also socially acceptable, fair and leaves no-one behind? Research suggests most people are not willing to voluntarily give up consuming meat and dairy products, driving a car and taking overseas holidays.</span></span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Is this likely to change? If so, how? What is the potential for a Citizens Assembly to enable social transformation?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">This public meeting will explore these issues with a diverse panel and questions from the audience. Join us for some lively discussion and distraction from the European elections!</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Event chair: <a href="http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Patrick_Devine_Wright" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Patrick Devine-Wright</a>, Professor in Human Geography</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="https://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/?web_id=Richard_Betts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Richard Betts</a>, Chair in Climate Impacts</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/moseley/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Alice Moseley</a>, Lecturer in Politics</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Glenn Woodcock, <a href="https://www.exetercityfutures.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Exeter City Futures</a></span></li>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The Global Systems Institute is applying Earth system science to generating networked solutions. Our aim is to work with others to secure a flourishing future for humanity as an integral part of a life-sustaining Earth system. We are uniting a trans-disciplinary group of researchers, educators and partners to look beyond single ‘environmental’ issues to a truly systemic view of coupled global changes in the human social and economic sphere and the biosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Main venue: </span>Alumni Auditorium, The Forum, <a href="http://www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions/streathammap/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Streatham Campus</a>, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4SZ. Building number 3 on the <a href="http://www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions/streathammap/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Streatham Campus</a> map.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">For Streatham maps and directions, please visit <a href="http://www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions/streatham/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">this page</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Video link: </span>Exchange Lecture Theatre, The Exchange, Penryn Campus, TR10 9FE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And on Thursday evening, Julia Slingo, a patron of the Arboretum, will be giving an illustrated talk to the general public:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dame Julia Slingo served as Chief Scientist of the U.K. Met Office from 2009 to 2016 when she retired. Throughout her research career she has developed and used complex weather and climate models to understand the climate system and to predict its evolution. Her special interests are in tropical weather and climate variability, understanding their influence on the global climate system and their role in monthly to decadal climate prediction. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h81-KVt4Jk"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Climate Science and its Fundamental Role in 21st Century Challenges - YouTube</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It was ten years ago in the run-up to Copenhagen that she released a statement, together with </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the UK's leading scientific organisations involving most of the UK scientists working on climate change:</span><br />
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Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-14297514912680109862019-05-18T01:30:00.000-07:002019-05-18T01:30:08.362-07:00Café Scientifique @ Sidmouth Tree Week >>> a talk on "Trees for Multiple Purposes" > Tuesday 21st May<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's Tree Week next week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Much of the time will be spent walking through some arboreal delights - and much of the time will be spent talking climate change:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/04/trees-and-climate-change/?utm_campaign=2371033_A02_12604_May_E-news_20190516&utm_medium=email&utm_source=woodlandtrust&dm_i=2D76,1ETI1,6IIGTC,4OFXV,1">What are the effects of global warming in the UK? - Woodland Trust</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Trees for Multiple Benefits with Bob Chard, Member of the Royal Forestry Society</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">So now it is accepted as true. Climate change is for real and a very urgent emergency problem. The Government is going into panic mode about what to do. We have to give them some credit for their vision. UK is the first nation in the world to adopt necessary climate action targets which are both adequate and credible. Also in some respects including forestry policy the UK Government is quite well prepared for fast acceleration in new directions. We will commit to a very large increase in tree planting targets to double the woodland area. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">However achieving tree planting number targets is the easy part; what is of more concern to me is the more difficult part. Will we plant the right trees and will they be planted in the right places? Will public money be spent wisely and will it be managed in the best possible way? To be sure many people in all walks of life will want to be part of the action but in the past we have made mistakes with forestry policy and we need to learn from that and not simply throw money at achieving targets. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I would like to share my knowledge and experience with you and suggest some trees which we can all plant and nurture, as well as my own project which is designed to grow unusual trees as substitutes for current unsustainable imports of tropical hardwood timbers; much of which is being illegally felled, is uncertified and imported from the other side of the planet with a large carbon footprint, at ever increasing cost. We have to do better.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.sidmouthsciencefestival.org/events/cafe-scientifique-sidmouth-tree-week"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cafe Scientifique: Sidmouth Tree Week: Trees for Multiple Benefits | Sidmouth Science Festival</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">.</span>Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-57478118424857420682019-05-18T01:00:00.001-07:002019-05-18T01:00:08.316-07:00Climate alarmists<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are climate change deniers:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2014/07/climate-change-sceptics-are-losing.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Climate change sceptics 'are losing their grip'</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And there are climate change alarmists:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.heartland.org/Center-Climate-Environment/Climate-Alarmists/index.html">Climate Alarmists | Heartland Institute</a> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/fake-climate-science-and-scientists"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">News - Fake Climate Science and Scientists | Heartland Institute</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/climate-alarmists-admit-they-want-dismantle-our-free-enterprise-system"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Climate Alarmists Admit They Want to Dismantle Our Free-Enterprise System | The Heritage Foundation</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Sceptical Science website is debating these issues:</span><br />
<a href="https://skepticalscience.com/alarmists-not-in-deniers-league.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are genuine climate alarmists, but they're not in the same league as deniers</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here's the original piece from last July's Guardian:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Those who debunk climate change misinformation often face a dilemma. We’re flooded with such a constant deluge of climate myths, where should we focus our efforts? Climate misinformation is propagated via congressional climate hearings, conservative media outlets, denial blogs, and even from some genuine climate alarmists. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Specifically, there has recently been <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2018/07/02/climate-misinformers/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">a debate</a> as to whether <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2018/07/02/climate-misinformers/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Skeptical Science</a>– a website with a database of climate myths and scientific debunkings, to which I’m a primary contributor – would be more useful and effective if it called out misinformation from ‘alarmists,’ and if it eliminated or revised its <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://skepticalscience.com/misinformers.php" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Climate Misinformers page</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I describe the SkS lists as political because their 'misinformer' lists don't include those on the 'climate action' side who actively deny science & espouse conspiracy ideation eg. <a class="link customisable" data-expanded-url="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenvaud/writev/1088/pcb13.pdf" data-scribe="element:url" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/OTkhEiKmzv" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenvaud/writev/1088/pcb13.pdf"><span class="u-hiddenVisually" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important; height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; width: 1px !important;">https://</span>publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cm<span class="u-hiddenVisually" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important; height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; width: 1px !important;">select/cmenvaud/writev/1088/pcb13.pdf </span>…</a> or who unjustifiably talk-up doomsday stories <a class="link customisable" data-expanded-url="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/" data-scribe="element:url" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/faGCDQCevx" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/"><span class="u-hiddenVisually" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important; height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; width: 1px !important;">https://</span>climatefeedback.org/evaluation/sci<span class="u-hiddenVisually" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important; height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; width: 1px !important;">entists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/ </span>…</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">There is some validity to these critiques, and in response, Skeptical Science is renaming the page ‘<a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://skepticalscience.com/misinformers.php" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Climate misinformation by source</a>.’ But the site is run entirely by a team of international volunteers, and as such, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://twitter.com/past_is_future/status/1013487227425492993" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">opportunity costs</a>must be considered. Time devoted to refuting alarmists is time not devoted to debunking the constant deluge of climate denial.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Climate deniers are obviously incredibly influential. Despite their lack of supporting evidence or facts, not only do 28% of Americans continue to <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Climate-Change-American-Mind-March-2018-1.pdf" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">believe</a> that global warming is natural and 14% that it’s not even happening, but deniers also dictate Republican Party policy. Republican policymakers constantly <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/may/21/yes-evs-are-green-and-global-warming-is-raising-sea-levels?CMP=share_btn_tw" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">invite deniers to testify in congressional hearings</a>, including many of those featured on the Skeptical Science misinformers page.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">There is no symmetry on the other side of the aisle. In those same congressional hearings, Democratic Party policymakers invite mainstream climate scientists to testify. Their party policy is based on <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/13/its-settled-90100-of-climate-experts-agree-on-human-caused-global-warming" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">the consensus of 97% of the climate science community</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Ultimately, the issue boils down to a warped ‘<a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Overton Window</a>’ – the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. In the real world, we have climate deniers on one extreme, alarmists on the other, and mainstream climate science in the middle. But the public discourse is warped – we instead have a heavy focus on climate denial among conservative media outlets and policymakers, a heavy focus on mainstream climate science among reputable media outlets and liberal policymakers, and the alarmists are largely ignored. Michael Tobis nicely <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2010/01/ok-getting-serious-again.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">diagrammed this in the climate Overton Window</a>:</span></div>
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<figcaption class="caption caption--img caption caption--img" itemprop="description" style="font-family: "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; max-width: 32.5rem; min-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.375rem; padding-top: 0.5rem;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span class="inline-triangle inline-icon " style="fill: rgb(199, 0, 0);"><svg class="inline-triangle__svg inline-icon__svg" height="10" viewbox="0 0 11 10" width="11"><path d="M5.5 0L11 10H0z" fill-rule="evenodd"></path></svg> </span>The climate Overton Window. In the public discourse, there’s a heavy focus on climate denial and mainstream climate science, while the more alarmist outcomes are largely ignored. Illustration: Michael Tobis and Stephen Ban.</span></figcaption></figure><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; line-height: 1.4375rem; margin: 1.6875rem 0px 0.0625rem;">
<strong><span style="color: #073763;">But there are some alarmists</span></strong></h2>
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<span style="color: #073763;">That being said, there are a few reasonably well-known individuals who could be accurately described as climate alarmists. The most prominent is Guy McPherson, who decided in 2002 that climate change would likely <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guymcpherson.com/2009/10/apocalypse-or-extinction/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">drive humans to extinction by 2030</a>. Sixteen years later, we’re now more than halfway to 2030 and the global human population has grown from 6.3 bn to 7.6 bn. It’s quite safe to say we won’t go extinct in the next few decades.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">McPherson’s case basically boils down to arguing that feedbacks like large methane releases will soon kick in, causing a rapid spike in global warming that will lead to global extinctions. One of his primary pieces of supporting evidence is that <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo469/node/219" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Earth System Sensitivity</a> – which describes how sensitive the climate is to the increased greenhouse effect over millennia – is higher than the shorter-term climate sensitivity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">That was essentially the gist of <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/06/global-temperature-rises-could-be-double-those-predicted-by-climate-modelling?CMP=share_btn_tw" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">a recent study profiled here in the Guardian</a>. Over millennia, global temperatures and sea level rise will continue to rise beyond what climate models predict will happen over the next couple of centuries. But these are<em> slow</em> feedbacks, and as such won’t kick in within the next few decades. <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://fractalplanet.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/how-guy-mcpherson-gets-it-wrong/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Scott Johnson did a very deep dive</a> into McPherson’s flawed arguments, for those who want to learn about them in greater detail.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">As another example, Peter Wadhams predicted in 2012 that the Arctic would be ice-free in the summer by 2016. In fact, the summer of 2012 saw a dramatic decline in year-to-year Arctic sea ice extent (down to <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/sotc/sea_ice.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">3.6 million square km</a>), which Wadhams believed would become the norm. That hasn’t yet been the case – there were 4.7 million square km of Arctic sea ice in the summer of 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">It’s worth noting that Wadhams gets most of the climate science right. There is absolutely a long-term decline in Arctic sea ice, which is in the midst of what many have described as a ‘<a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://twitter.com/ahaveland/status/838233099238584320" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">death spiral</a>.’ And Arctic sea ice is <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-getting-thinner-faster-18726" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">thinning rapidly</a>. The Arctic will eventually be ice-free in the summer, but not within the next few years. <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmenvaud/uc1739-iv/uc173901.htm" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">According to Met Office Chief Scientist Julia Slingo</a>, 2025–2030 would be the earliest date for an ice-free Arctic summer, and 2040–2060 is more likely. Wadhams also believes that there may soon be a large methane release from the Arctic, but <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/toward-improved-discussions-methane.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">a review of the relevant research suggests this isn’t a near-term concern</a>:</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #073763;">There is no evidence that methane will run out of control and initiate any sudden, catastrophic effects. There’s certainly no runaway greenhouse. Instead, chronic methane releases will supplement the primary role of CO2.</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Wadhams has received some mainstream media attention, including <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=0aU6W4TWB4O0sQXX_aToDw&q=guardian+peter+wadhams&oq=guardian+peter+wadhams&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30k1.268.2571.0.2685.23.15.0.0.0.0.227.1731.1j10j1.12.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..11.12.1720.0..0j35i39k1j0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i131k1j0i131i20i264k1j0i20i264k1.0.5VpU9949TAI" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">in the Guardian</a>, but his more alarmist warnings are largely ignored. There certainly isn’t a powerful political party basing its climate policies on his inaccurate predictions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">And that’s really the key point. While there are people on ‘both sides’ who spread misinformation, there are <em>far more</em> on the denier than the alarmist side, who are generally far wronger, and the deniers also have a far greater influence over policymakers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">There’s certainly nothing wrong with debunking overly alarmist claims – in fact, it’s a worthwhile endeavor, and <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/national-geographic-video-starving-polar-bear-should-have-clarified-uncertain-link-climate-change-sarah-gibbens/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">some groups like Climate Feedback do just that</a>. But debunking uninfluential alarmism comes at a cost. It diverts resources away from addressing the never-ending flood of misinformation coming from climate deniers who currently control the climate policy platform of the party in charge of one of the most powerful countries on Earth.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jul/09/there-are-genuine-climate-alarmists-but-theyre-not-in-the-same-league-as-deniers"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are genuine climate alarmists, but they're not in the same league as deniers | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | The Guardian</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://democracy.eastdevon.gov.uk//ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=151&MId=242&Ver=4"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Agenda for Annual Council on Wednesday, 22nd May, 2019, 6.00 pm - East Devon</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It follows on from dramatic results in the local elections:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/breaking-news-bad-day-for-tories-as.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: BREAKING NEWS: "Bad day" for the Tories as Independents in East Devon gain an overall majority of two</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/district-council-elections-independents.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: District Council elections: "Independents deliver blow to the Conservatives'" > further reports</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And since then, there have been attempts to create a working coalition:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It will not be easy - as the Financial Times reports: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br />Local election victors seek to push through change without party discipline or structure</b></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><a href="https://www.ft.com/stream/5172c74c-545e-36fb-a213-e675f7801a82">Chris Tighe</a> and <a href="https://www.ft.com/stream/baa52321-e5d2-3cae-b1a8-414d8ad98917">Andy Bounds</a> MAY 14, 2019</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/82cde8cc-6dba-11e9-a9a5-351eeaef6d84">Independents</a> now control six councils across England, from Middlesbrough to Nottinghamshire, Essex, Surrey and East Devon, and hold the balance of power in several more.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Often Independents coalesce around a common grievance. This month the East Devon Alliance, set up to oppose plans to build thousands of new homes in the area, ended Conservative rule in its region after 45 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It seems that there will not be a coalition involving East Devon Liberal Democrats, however: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>East Devon's Lib Dems say 'Independents should run the council' as they confirm they won't join a coalition</b></span><br /><br /><b>The Liberal Democrat Group, currently led by Cllr Steve Gazzard, have said that they respect the verdict of the voters and will not sign up to a formal alliance or agreement with any other groupings or parties.</b><br /><br /><a href="https://www.devonlive.com/authors/daniel-clark/">Daniel Clark</a> Local Democracy Reporter<br />12:53, 13 MAY 2019</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Liberal Democrats in East Devon will not be going into coalition with any other political group in the district, they have confirmed.<br /><br />Following May’s elections, the Independents ended up as the largest party on the council, ending 45 years of Conservative rule since the council was formed. Twenty Independent councillors were elected, while the East Devon Alliance won a further 11 seats. The Conservatives suffered 15 losses to end on 19, while the Liberal Democrats hold eight seats and the Green Party two.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Between the East Devon Alliance and the Independents, they hold 31 seats, which would be enough to control the council and have a majority, but discussions are still ongoing as to if a coalition between them can be formed an how many Independents would sit with the Independent Group. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">But the Liberal Democrat Group, currently led by Cllr Steve Gazzard, have said that they respect the verdict of the voters and will not sign up to a formal alliance or agreement with any other groupings or parties.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A statement by the Group said: “The Lib Dem group respects the verdict of the voters in the recent elections that the Independents should be in control of East Devon District Council, after 45 years of Tory rule</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>READ MORE<br /><a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/new-progressive-group-formed-challenge-2855975">New Progressive Group formed to 'challenge Exeter's one party state'</a> </i><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cllr Ben Ingham, the leader of the Independent Group, and who retained his Woodbury and Lympstone seat, said that he was delighted with the results that showed it was very clear the voters do not want the Conservatives to run the council. He said that discussions had begun as to how many of the 20 Independent councillors elected would be sitting in the Independent Group, and he remained hopeful that they all would.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><br />READ MORE<br /><a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/conservatives-pounded-devon-polls-lose-2831848">Conservatives pounded at Devon polls as they lose control of six of eight councils</a> </i><br /><br />Of the 20 Independents elected to East Devon District Council, ten were newly elected councillors. The other ten include Cllr Ian Thomas, who is still the current leader of the council, but who quit the Conservative Party prior to the election, and Cllr Geoff Pook, who was a cabinet member.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Cllr Ingham said: “We are still talking and trying to work it out and to make everything fit, but at the end of the day, including the East Devon Alliance, there are 31 Independents. We are still in the discussions stage as to how many of the independents will sit in the group, but I remain optimistic they will come as one, and that is my target anyway. Over the next week we will continue have the discussions and trying and pull everything together, although it is not easy as we are all Independents and there is no party whip. I do hope that we can all work together and as many as possible will sit with the group.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cllr Paul Arnott, chairman of the EDA, and who won a seat in Coly Valley, had added: “We would like to thank the voters of East Devon for electing all 11 of our candidates. We will seek to forge alliances with other councillors willing to work with us to continue to our fight for reform of local governance.”<br /><br />The new leader of the council will be elected at the annual meeting on Wednesday, May 22.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/east-devons-lib-dems-say-2861914"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">East Devon's Lib Dems say 'Independents should run the council' as they confirm they won't join a coalition - Devon Live</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/17629629.more-independent-and-eda-councillors-take-east-devon-district-council-seats/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">More Independent and EDA councillors take East Devon District Council seats | Bridport and Lyme Regis News</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://eastdevonwatch.org/2019/05/17/eddc-independents-eda-independents-independents-and-pseudo-independents/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">EDDC: Independents, EDA Independents, “Independents” and pseudo-independents! | East Devon Watch</span></a></div>
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Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-2960166671890597372019-05-17T01:00:00.000-07:002019-05-17T01:00:02.750-07:00Working for Amazon in Devon, or anywhere else<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Is Amazon coming to Devon?</span><br />
<a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/secret-devon-amazon-warehouse-dont-882315"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The secret Devon Amazon warehouse they don't want you to know exists - Devon Live</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/amazon-tight-lipped-over-new-2252469"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Amazon tight-lipped over new Exeter distribution centre - Devon Live</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Would it be a good thing? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Not if you're a high street retailer:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/05/save-our-high-streets-give-up-amazon.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Save our high streets > give up Amazon – and embrace shopping on the high street again</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/01/there-are-no-magic-wands-to-save-high.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: "There are no magic wands to save the high street in its current form, but allowing Amazon to continue making billions to enrich its founder and its shareholders at the expense of our public purse should not be an option."</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Although it's perhaps too easy to bash the big boys - rather than being more entrepreneurial:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-amazon-tax-wont-save-high-street.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The 'Amazon tax' won't save the High Street > 'The nature of the offer on the high street is going to change over time. There's going to be less retail, more leisure, bars, community facilities.'</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The question perhaps is whether these big boys themselves are actually that 'entrepreneurial'...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">These are massive corporations with massive bureaucracies:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-peoples-republic-of-walmart.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The People's Republic of Walmart: "The dichotomy between corporate capitalism and socialism-as-planning is false"</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And are actually pretty authoritarian:</span><br />
<a href="http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2016/06/silicon-valley-values-radio-4s-analysis.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Silicon Valley Values @ Radio 4's Analysis</span></a><br />
<a href="http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-promises-of-information-technology.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The promises of information technology >>> or, spinning fables of info-liberation</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-promises-of-technological.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The promises of technological innovation >>> "The rise of the techno-libertarians: the five most socially-destructive aspects of Silicon Valley"</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If we consider Amazon as just a big warehouse or distribution centre, then we could probably compare it to others in the field - whether Lidl's or Ikea:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2015/08/an-inter-modal-freight-depot-by-any.html">Futures Forum: An 'inter-modal freight depot' by any other name </a><a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2015/08/an-inter-modal-freight-depot-by-any.html">>>> also known as: a giant Lidl's warehouse on the M5</a></span><br />
<a href="http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-promises-from-skypark-business-park.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The promises from the Skypark 'business park' >>> "A multinational comes along and plonks itself just out of town. Hooray, they tell us... Jobs for all!"</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Which isn't actually very good for the local economy:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-modern-distribution-centre-imagine.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The modern distribution centre: "Imagine the space that is used to store and display a product in a traditional shop, and then imagine great dollops of it sucked from almost every high street and supermarket in the land to a centralised facility."</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Or for job security for that matter:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/automation-and-future-of-work-how.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Automation and the future of work > How secure are East Devon's new warehousing jobs?</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://theweek.com/authors/matthew-walther">Matthew Walther</a><br />May 1, 2019<br /><br />Remember the bad old days when if you wanted to buy a book or a box of crackers you had to go to B. Dalton or the supermarket? Then came Amazon. If your order total reached a certain minimum or you paid for an annual subscription, certain items could arrive at your house in only two days. Now in many major metropolitan areas the shipping time has been reduced to mere hours.<br /><br />What made this logistical miracle possible? According to a recent <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18516004/amazon-warehouse-fulfillment-centers-productivity-firing-terminations">report</a> in The Verge, the same sort of thing that is usually responsible for these supposed triumphs of the spirit of entrepreneurial know-how: a great deal of human suffering, in this case under conditions that most of us would more readily associate with workers in the factories of the Third World than with employees of one of the world's wealthiest corporations in some of America's largest cities.<br /><br />It has been apparent <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/773093/tyranny-optimization">for years</a> now that Amazon does not value the privacy or the dignity of its warehouse employees. The system it uses to "optimize" the performance of those responsible for bringing items from shelves to doorsteps is tyrannical. It is also, quite literally, dehumanizing. Employees are reportedly directly supervised not by other men and women but by automated computer systems. These programs allegedly track everything from how fast warehouse employees carry out various work-related tasks, such as packing items and sorting them for shipment, to how long it takes them to use the bathroom. The acronym for the latter — there is always an acronym with these people — is TOT, or "time off task."<br /><br />But the situation appears to be much worse than all this. In addition to relentlessly policing their individual behavior at work, Amazon warehouse employees are reportedly collectively subject to an oppressive system of automated performance review. Whenever 75 percent of employees are meeting certain pre-assigned goals, the numbers reportedly can be increased. The majority of employees are then reportedly required to meet these new higher targets — the rest are placed in "training" programs or fired. Documents obtained by The Verge suggest that some warehouse locations lose as much as 10 percent of their staff annually because they failed to meet these arbitrary standards.<br /><br />The bogus gospel of so-called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management">scientific management</a>" has been with us for a century now. But unlike in the past there is seemingly no threshold employees of Amazon can possibly meet at which their performance will be deemed good enough. If efficiency goes up by x percent in a calendar year, the old standard plus x becomes the minimum that is acceptable. Employees could then be fired for working just as hard as they did a year ago when their quotas were lower. This is Sisyphean cruelty.<br /><br />It is not just inhumane to treat people this way — it is anti-human, a blanket denial of the innate metaphysical dignity of rational creatures made in God's image. It is also a reminder of the fact that, so far from having made significant economic progress in this country in the last half century, we have regressed to the point that employees of our largest corporations are being denied rights that the labor movement fought for 80 years ago. How much worse will things be a decade from now? </span></div>
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<a href="https://theweek.com/articles/838461/amazon-sweatshop"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Amazon the sweatshop - The Week</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And this is a response: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">If Amazon Is a "Sweatshop," Why Do so Many People Want to Work There?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Image Credit: Flickr-Scott Lewis | CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)</i><br /><br /><a href="https://fee.org/people/john-tamny/">John Tamny</a><br /><br />“Firing people was easily the worst part of the job.” Those are the words of a great friend of mine who for decades ran a very successful financial corporation. The sleepless nights that preceded gently telling people they weren’t measuring up were agony for him.<br /><br />The popular notion of indifferent-to-employee CEOs is so very divorced from reality. I’ve never met one who enjoyed being the bearer of bad news to workers who, in many instances, had dependents.<br /><br />My friend ultimately devised a fix so that he could avoid what was so disagreeable. He designed a production-based compensation structure so that the employees could succeed or fail on their own. So quantitative was it that some of the highest paid employees worked the fewest hours, and vice versa. No sucking up to the boss, no necessary “face time” in the office, just production tied to compensation. And if they didn’t produce they would know this without being told. It would show up in pay. Basically, they would “fire themselves.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br />A "Sweatshop" That Fosters "Suffering"?</b><br /><br />Hall of Fame football coach Bill Parcells once said, “You are what your record says you are,” and this CEO essentially applied Parcells’s maxim to the workplace. He was able to sleep easier as employees self-selected out of his company as opposed to him having to tell them to leave. His employees were happy and so was he.<br /><br />All this came to mind while reading Matthew Walther’s recent <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/838461/amazon-sweatshop">piece</a> from The Week in which he accused Amazon of being a “sweatshop.” Walther laments the “human suffering” that allegedly takes place at Amazon since its warehouse workers are “collectively subject to an oppressive system of automated performance review.” It’s no insult of Walther to suggest he’s likely never run a business, and that he’s unfamiliar with the acute agony associated with letting people go.<br /><br />Had he run one, and were he familiar with how awful it is to tell individuals it’s not working out, he would understand that quantitative parameters very much redound to the employee as much or more than they do the CEO. For one, they make it possible for marginal candidates to get hired in the first place. Forget connections or anything else that leads to employment; quantitative measuring exists as a path for individuals to prove their worth.<br /><br />Indeed, how often have readers said something along the lines of “If I could just get my foot in the door I would show them”? Amazon has, if Walther’s analysis is to be believed, designed a system that creates a pathway into one of the world’s most valuable companies. And a path to increased pay, if its more open door leads to the arrival of productive employees.</span></div>
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Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-16064153200005676322019-05-16T15:55:00.000-07:002019-05-16T15:55:08.605-07:00Who are the 'worst offenders' when it comes to the packaging pollution emergency on our beaches?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last month's action by Surfers Against Sewage was very successful:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-big-spring-beach-clean-record.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The Big Spring Beach Clean > a record-smashing 45,771 people showed up</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And the biggest catches were from some of the biggest manufacturers: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">45,000 of you turned out for the biggest Spring Beach
Clean ever -- but you didn’t just tidy up our beauty spots. You carefully
categorised and counted up exactly what you found. And now we’ve analysed all
the data. 2019’s worst companies for packaging pollution on our beaches are:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Cadbury’s owner Mondelez. McDonald’s…. and Nestlé.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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considering action. Can you help us sound the alarm and demand these
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It’s been an exciting
rollercoaster lately in the Surfers Against Sewage office. Thank you so much
for watching and sharing ‘The Creature’ our film designed to inspire more
people to join the #GenerationSea movement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It worked! More than a quarter of a million people have
watched ‘The Creature’, it has been shared with more than 5 million people on
social media and the number of signatures on our petition to the government
has nearly doubled! Behind every name is an individual with skills and ideas
to build this movement and help turn the tide for ocean life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Now it’s time we took this fight to the corporations.
They’re making huge profits from cheap throwaway packaging while turtles,
seals, whales and birds pay the price. Share to sound the alarm:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Right now, the government is considering new
legislation that would force companies to take responsibility for the damage
they do with throwaway packaging.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">We’ve sent them a detailed report with the evidence
from the Big Beach Clean -- now we need you to help spread the word that
these companies need to clean up their act.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">With signatures, shares, beach cleans, talking to
friends and family, and now taking the fight to corporations, every day we
build a stronger movement to protect the ocean. #GenerationSea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Ben Hewitt, Director of Campaigns and Projects,
Surfers Against Sewage<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;">PS: Here’s
what SAS supporter Dani wrote on Facebook after watching ‘The
Creature’...thank you Dani. We couldn’t agree more.<br />
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"Very powerful </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;">🙏😢</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -3pt;"> We know from beach cleans what a massive
difference individuals and communities can make in the fight against plastic
pollution, we just need to continue to make people aware of the power they
have."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Registered Charity in England & Wales No. 1145877<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.sas.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Surfers Against Sewage | Environmental charity tackling plastic pollution</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here's the video:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ml8nrBJmY">Killed by plastic pollution: unknown animal washes up on Cornwall beach. #TheCreature - YouTube</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And here's more:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2017/04/whats-your-plastic-footprint-one-use.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: What's your plastic footprint? ... “A one-use bottle is simply not a viable option for our business”</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/02/plastic-pollution-polluter-pays.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Plastic pollution: the polluter pays</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2017/05/there-will-soon-be-more-plastic-than.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: There will soon be more plastic than fish in the sea</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/sidmouth-plastic-warriors-surfers.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Sidmouth Plastic Warriors > Surfers Against Sewage's Spring Clean - Summit To Sea campaign: Saturday 6th April</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Which was part of a national effort:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-big-spring-beach-clean-record.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: The Big Spring Beach Clean > a record-smashing 45,771 people showed up</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Plastic Warriors will be at the Sea Fest this Saturday: </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/181478989253793/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Sidmouth Plastic Warriors Public Group | Facebook</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">With a further message from the chair of the Warriors: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Beach clean and an update...</span></b><br /><br />Dear fellow Plastic Warriors<br /><br />This Saturday is the annual Sea Fest extravaganza on the Ham (and later on throughout town) and we will be right in the middle of it with a beach clean at 10am until 12. Please come along and join in, or if you can’t please share the attached flyer far and wide. As usual equipment is provided but do bring your own if you have it.<br /><br />We have been given a load of litter pickers from EDDC for our Adopt A Spot scheme ( <a href="http://sidmouthplasticwarriors.org/adopt-a-spot/">http://sidmouthplasticwarriors.org/adopt-a-spot/</a> ). If you are already an 'adopter', please let me know if you want one of the pickers, and if you want to sign up to be one then email me on <a href="mailto:info@sidmouthplasticwarriors.org">info@sidmouthplasticwarriors.org</a> and let me know where you are adopting, and again if you want a litter picker. I am compiling a list and then will get them all out to those who need them asap.<br /><br />Lastly, what a busy few weeks it has been! Thank you to anyone who voted for me in the elections that resulted in me now being an East Devon District Councillor and Sidmouth Town Councillor! I felt the time was right for change and was proved right. We had our first informal town council meeting last night, to meet each other and get up to speed with how everything works, and it really feels like we can make some positive changes around the town – with a green agenda at the heart of it (if I have anything to do with it!) However, this has raised a bit of an issue… I want to grab this opportunity with both hands to make sure the environmental issues we all care about are really heard, in order to reflect in policy how we all feel. I hope that I can make a huge difference but I have to pour all my energy into it for a bit while I deal with the enormously steep learning curve I face.<br /><br />This means I will be very busy. And I don't want to step down in any way from the warriors but I NEED HELP. This doesn't come easy to me as I am a natural control freak but was wondering how to delegate some areas. I know that a lot of you, if not all, are busy too of course but I think it may be time to get a proper committee system going, with groups for beach cleans, fund raising, plastic free status maybe, with someone in charge of each one and getting various people on each sub committee... and so I am hoping that some people will come forward who can give us some time and experience to take the Warriors to the next level. We could do with a meeting to take this further so please email <a href="mailto:info@sidmouth-plasticwarriors.org">info@sidmouth-plasticwarriors.org</a> if you are able to potentially join in. It seems like a good time to do this anyway, as the ‘Plastic Free Sidmouth’ bit seems to have stalled (mainly due to me just not having time!) so we can push that forward and start to make inroads again. Don't worry if you think you're going to get loads put on you that you don’t have time for - I've managed fine up to now just doing these things myself but if we can push for more, grow, make it more a team effort, I think we will see a huge benefit.<br /><br />Oh and I still want to be on the beach clean committee! :-) <br /><br />Thanks all and see you Saturday at 10ish I hope<br /><br />Denise<br /> <br /> -- <br />Denise Bickley (Now Cllr Bickley!)<br />Sidmouth Plastic Warriors<br />Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/181478989253793/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/181478989253793/</a><br />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/SidPlasticWar">https://twitter.com/SidPlasticWar</a><br /> Website: <a href="http://sidmouthplasticwarriors.org/">http://sidmouthplasticwarriors.org/</a></span><br />
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Jeremy Woodwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400294463272546581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251497097367026173.post-10923634972422124592019-05-16T14:38:00.001-07:002019-05-16T14:38:40.179-07:00Biosolar panels<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">An interesting technology has been developed:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX8Zx_1WA9w"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">First bio-solar panel to run on bacteria creates clean and sustainable energy - YouTube</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This has been developed even further: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">These “biosolar panels” suck CO2 from the air to grow edible algae</span></b></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">05.01.19</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>– all while providing an excellent source of protein.</b><br /><img src="" /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/user/adele-peters">BY ADELE PETERS</a><br /><br />At Imperial College London’s new campus in West London, some rooftops will soon hold bright green “biosolar” panels covered with algae. The plants suck carbon dioxide out of the air and produce fresh oxygen at a rate 100 times faster than trees covering the same amount of land–and then the microscopic organisms can be harvested to be used in food.<br /><br />“We call it a ‘BioSolar Leaf,'” says Julian Melchiorri, CEO of Arborea, the company that designed the new technology. “It uses solar energy, but instead of converting solar energy into electricity [like a solar panel], we convert solar energy into food.”<br /><br />Melchiorri, who graduated from a joint masters program at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art in 2014, is primarily focused on using the technology at a larger scale to produce ingredients. It’s a way to produce more protein in a given area than any other type of food production; the algae are also a source of antioxidants and other nutrients. In pasta, for example, the algae can be used to add protein. The algae can also create natural food coloring. “Let’s say you have blue M&Ms,” he says. “The blue [algae], instead of being synthetic and having all of the issues related to colorants, actually has more antioxidants than you can find in an apple.”<br /><br />Microalgae are already used in food, but the new panels use a proprietary production process that makes growing them less expensive, more scalable, and results in a higher quality product, Melchiorri says. “We reinvented how we can grow cells by radically changing culturing techniques,” he says. The company, which recently launched a Series A round of financing, plans to soon open a demo plant in San Diego. But Imperial College London saw an opportunity to pilot a rooftop system that would take advantage of the algae’s ability to clean the air.<br /><br />“Our new campus is a brownfield site, and that means that it’s going to be difficult to grow trees to green it,” says Neil Alford, associate provost at Imperial College London. “But what we can do is use this technology to supplant the trees. We’ll have the ability to create oxygen within London, which isn’t a bad idea, but we can do something which per area will produce maybe 100 times more oxygen than trees will.” Algae naturally absorb CO2 and release oxygen faster than other photosynthetic organisms, and the panel growing system makes it possible to perform this process anywhere. “You can put them on the sides of buildings or the roofs of buildings, and that is something that is interesting for us.”<br /><br />A city could potentially have a network of sites with the biosolar panels, beginning on buildings with sprawling roofs, such as supermarkets or warehouses, or next to industrial plants emitting carbon dioxide. The pilot plant at Imperial College London, which is now under construction, will test how well the system works to clean the air. Arborea will also continue to move forward with the panels at larger production plants. Because the panels can be used on infertile land, the process can avoid some of the sustainability challenges inherent in other food production–like the deforestation often caused when land is cleared to raise cattle or grow soy. The climate pollution avoided by producing protein with algae is even more significant than the algae’s ability to suck CO2 from the air, Melchiorri says. “[Our] primary function is to produce the most sustainable protein.”<br /><br /><i>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br /><br />Adele Peters is a staff writer at Fast Company who focuses on solutions to some of the world's largest problems, from climate change to homelessness. Previously, she worked with GOOD, BioLite, and the Sustainable Products and Solutions program at UC Berkeley.</i><br /><br /> <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/user/adele-peters"><i>More</i></a></span><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/05/brexit-and-uk-damaging-its.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the UK damaging its international reputation if it fails to deliver a "green" Brexit and maintain the EU’s strong environmental protections</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Others would say that these 'protections' simply amount to 'protectionism':</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And whilst the EU itself is looking for a better sort of protection:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">... others would say we need to get rid of most if not all of these:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Especially silly rules and regulations such as demanding airlines pay compensation for delayed flights...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Of course, some would have cause to get out of the EU and 'free up' their financial investments a bit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here's a piece reprinted from the US think tank, the Foundation for Economic Education:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Idaho just initiated a regulatory reset, where the government eliminates all regulations and then brings back the ones it decides it wants.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">My friend and former student Paul Gerner suggested to me a few years ago that the federal government have a “regulatory reset.” The idea is that the government eliminates all regulations and then brings back the ones it decides it wants. Presumably, we would end up with substantially fewer regulations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I loved the idea but it boggled my mind. How would that work? What would happen to certain industries and lots of people who depend on some degree of certainty in making their plans? And, of course, aside from the issue of how it would work, neither Paul nor I thought the federal government would ever do it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I still think that. But James Broughel, a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center, points out that that’s exactly what Idaho’s state government has just done. He <a href="https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/idaho-repeals-its-regulatory-code" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">writes</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Something rather remarkable just happened in Idaho. The state legislature opted to—in essence—repeal the entire state regulatory code. The cause may have been dysfunction across legislative chambers, but the result is serendipitous. A new governor is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to repeal an outdated and burdensome regulatory code and replace it with a more streamlined and sensible set of rules. Other states should be paying close attention.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Instead, the legislature wrapped up an acrimonious session in April without passing a rule-reauthorization bill. As a result, come July 1, some 8,200 pages of regulations containing 736 chapters of state rules <a href="https://apnews.com/3c58858586d9454bbe53a575f2bb82c0" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">will expire</a>. Any rules the governor opts to keep will have to be implemented as emergency regulations, and the legislature will consider them anew when it returns next January.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Get out the popcorn. This will be interesting.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.econlib.org/regulatory-reset-in-idaho/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #073763;">This article is republished with permission from the Library of Economics and Liberty.</span></em></a></div>
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<a href="https://fee.org/articles/idaho-repealed-its-entire-regulatory-code-now-what/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">One State Just Repealed Its Entire Regulatory Code. Now What? - Foundation for Economic Education</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.econlib.org/regulatory-reset-in-idaho/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Regulatory Reset In Idaho - Econlib</span></a><br />
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wildlife, the updated Management Plan for the North Devon Coast Areas
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“After three years, I was really amazed that
any of the bags could still hold a load of shopping. For a biodegradable
bag to be able to do that was the most surprising. When you see something
labelled in that way, I think you automatically assume it will degrade
more quickly than conventional bags. But, after three years at least, our
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">UN agency meets to tackle Pollution and Emissions by Ships</span></strong><span style="color: #757575; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">this week is the 74th meeting of
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</span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Mariana Trench:
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Maritime UK Launch Inaugural National Awards Programme </span></strong><span style="color: #757575; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">t<span style="font-stretch: 100%;">he Maritime UK Awards will be
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</span><strong><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Scientists Test Radical Ways to Fix
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the Use of Robots and Artificial Intelligence to Understand the Deep
Sea <a href="https://devonmaritimeforum.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8308776b2fb8a6b1e735fb4a&id=7f4be2e018&e=ef001ba567" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">more</span></a> </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%;">(Plymouth
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New Study Reveals that Marine Diatoms have Evolved Novel Signalling
Mechanisms for Environmental Sensing <a href="https://devonmaritimeforum.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8308776b2fb8a6b1e735fb4a&id=8cc4615b59&e=ef001ba567" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">more</span></a><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><strong><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%;">(Marine
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Initiative' </span></a></strong>page to find out more about
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anna Soubry called out Nigel Farage on Question Time last night for claiming that a “WTO” no-deal Brexit is the only way to get out of the EU. Farage has been dismissive of “soft Brexit” plans, which could involve a customs union or staying in the EU single market, calling them a “betrayal” of the referendum vote.<br /><br />But that wasn’t what he used to say. Although Farage criticises plans for a Norway-style Brexit, he used to explicitly praise Norway’s relationship with the EU as a good model for the UK...</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.indy100.com/article/nigel-farage-brexit-no-deal-norway-eu-eea-question-time-8907576"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Brexit: Nigel Farage claims no deal is the only way out of the EU on Question Time | indy100</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps one reason is that it's not actually a good option anyway, as discussed these last couple of weeks:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A Norway model of Brexit would fail Leavers and Remainers alike</span></b><br /><br />PUBLISHED: 07:00 04 May 2019<br /><br />Lara Spirit<br /><br />As Britain drifts towards a possible 'Norway Brexit' LARA SPIRIT travels to the Scandinavian country to discover why this would be the worst destination of all.<br /><br />As Liam Fox put it in a letter to Tory MPs earlier this month, if the UK was to end up in a customs union, “we would ourselves be traded”. He added, quoting a saying used in Brussels, “if you are not at the table, you are on the menu”.<br /><br />Very well put, Dr Fox. Yet this is where the UK is apparently headed. Britain – even the international trade secretary, it seems – is finally facing the reality of Brexit. It can choose the concept of 'control' above all else – and accept the economic harm which would follow departure from the world's largest free trade bloc. Or it can leave the EU while staying closely aligned to it – avoiding the worst of the damage to the economy, but without a seat at the table, with no ability to shape and influence policy, and at the mercy of others.<br /><br />The second option appears to be the direction in which the government is moving, with some version of what has been dubbed 'common market 2.0' or Norway Plus. This would leave the UK in a similar, but not identical, position to Norway – the 'plus' indicates that the UK would also need to add a comprehensive customs arrangement to maintain common external tariffs and prevent a hard border in Ireland.<br /><br />A version of this arrangement – without the plus – seems to be OK for Norway, so would it work for Britain? After all, the two countries have, in some respects, shared a similar path, even if they have taken different routes.<br /><br />Both were founder members of the European Free Trade Association in the 1960s, before being rebuffed in their efforts to join the European Community by France.<br /><br />Both then held referendums about becoming full members in the 1970s. But while the British opted to do so, the Norwegians declined, in a plebiscite in 1972 (by 53.5% to 46.5%). Norway did so again in 1994 (this time by 52.2% to 47.8%), although the same year it did join, along with Britain and the rest of the EU, the European Economic Area. This has formed the basis of Norway's relationship with the EU ever since. Through membership of the EEA, Norway has access to the EU's single market, but the arrangement also requires Oslo to incorporate around 5,000 of the 23,000 laws currently enforced by Brussels.<br /><br />There have been occasional murmurings of opposition to this status – largely from the Norwegian left – but, on the whole, the country seems relatively satisfied with the arrangement.<br /><br />Ellen Bramness Arvidsson, director of Finans Norge – which represents financial services companies – said: “The Norwegian financial sector is extremely positive towards the EEA agreement because it does give us total market access. When we adhere to these rules we are a part of the internal market like members are.”<br /><br />Jonas Gahr Støre, the leader of the Norwegian Labour party and a former minister for foreign affairs, described it as “a very Norwegian deal”.<br /><br />“It has been a national compromise short of membership, which gives us access to the internal market and all the four freedoms – people, goods, services and capital. The exception is agriculture and fish, which remain outside. But we have access to the market and a level playing field.”<br /><br />Though it was overtaken by Nordic neighbour Finland in the rankings this year, Norway has consistently bagged top spot on the World Happiness Index. The country draws admiration for its strong social democratic tradition and it has some of the world's highest living standards, helped by its North Sea oil and gas resources. Norway, then, seems pretty content with its lot, including its status as an adjunct of the EU. Could a restless, divided Britain benefit from such a pragmatic solution, then?<br /><br />Kjetil Wiedswang, a commentator at Norwegian business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, suggests not. He has been observing Britain's relationship with the EU for 30 years and says there have been repeated instances of many in Britain being tempted by the so-called 'Nordic model'. The problem, he believes, is that it is not really available for the UK.<br /><br />“(When it has been suggested before) People have lined up and said, 'well OK, if you're a small, peaceful, basically conservative, protestant, oil-rich country then you should do it like us',” he said.<br /><br />But Britain does not share many characteristics with Norway. It doesn't have a trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund and has more than 13 times the population. What works for Norway is not the same as what works for Britain.<br /><br />A Norway deal would also not solve the issues that many thought Brexit would address. For those who believed a Leave vote in 2016 would mean no more freedom of movement, an end to being subject to laws laid down in Brussels and total freedom to strike trade deals with the rest of the world, following the Norwegian route is going to leave them sorely disappointed.<br /><br />Norway accepts all four freedoms in return for access to the single market. In order to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, common market 2.0 would require a customs union too – precluding any ability to strike our own free trade deals.<br /><br />And while Brexiteers will be frustrated, a Norway solution is no more enticing for us Remainers. While it might protect freedom of movement – something which deserves to be embraced, not eliminated – the arrangement would simply mean we keep some of the benefits we enjoyed as full EU members, but without a say in any of the decision-making processes.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/no-control-no-voice-norway-brexit-not-for-britain-1-6028969"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A Norway model of Brexit would fail Leavers and Remainers alike | Latest Brexit news and top stories - The New European</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As discussed here before:</span><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2018/12/brexit-and-norway-saying-no-to-uks.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and Norway saying no to the UK's Norway-plus plan</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2017/07/brexit-and-norway-model.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the Norway model</span></a><br />
<a href="http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2017/06/brexit-and-fax-democracy-option.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Brexit: and the 'fax democracy' option</span></a><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-green-action-plan-for-devon.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: A Green Action Plan for Devon</span></a><br />
<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/02/climate-change-county-council-declares.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Climate change > County Council declares 'climate emergency' but fails to commit to becoming carbon neutral by 2030</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Monday, May 13th, 2019 3:57pm<br /><br />By Daniel Clark<br /><br />A drive to cut carbon emissions and tackle climate change is being backed by a cash pledge from Devon County Council.<br /><br />Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting will see councillors asked to set aside £250,000 towards an initiative to persuade organisations, communities and individuals to do more to reduce global warming. The cash comes from an emergency fund the council holds that was not required to be spent due to the mild and storm-free winter, so the £250,000 has been used to create a Climate Change Emergency Reserve. The funds have been reallocated from the 2018/19 budget, for which a £63,000 underspend was recorded, with the cabinet to be asked to approve the allocation of the funds to get the climate change initiative moving.<br /><br />Leader of the council, Cllr John Hart, has also called for a Devon Carbon Plan to be produced that would set out how everyone – from the largest organisation through our towns and villages right through individuals – is going to reduce emissions. He wants to bring together public bodies across the county with business representatives and the utility companies to support urgent action on the climate emergency.<br /><br />They are all being asked to acknowledge the climate emergency and establish what measures need to be taken to decarbonise Devon, what they can do themselves and what would need the Government to intervene.<br /><br />Cllr Hart said: “We clearly can’t do this alone but I want Devon to take a lead in bringing organisations, communities and individuals together to take action. This is an issue that affects us all and requires action from all of us from large-scale corporate concerns to the individual resident. That’s why I’ve asked the Chief Executive, Phil Norrey, to lead on this to demonstrate how seriously we are taking it.<br /><br />“Since I became leader of Devon County Council in 2009, we’ve managed to set a balanced budget every year with some small surpluses. We’ve done that again for 2018/19 and I will be asking the council to approve £250,000 to cover the costs of getting this initiative moving.<br /><br />“I would like to see a Devon Carbon Plan produced that would set out how we are all going to reduce emissions – from the largest organisation through our towns and villages right through to as many committed individuals as possible. We are all in this together and we have to tackle it together.”<br /><br />Earlier this year the county council declared a ‘climate emergency’ and committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050, with the authority having already cut its carbon emissions by 36 per cent since 2012, but Cllr Hart said that the county has to do more. A Citizens’ Assembly would also be set up, representing the views and opinions of people across Devon, to review what is proposed.<br /><br />Recently, East Devon District Council agreed to work with the county council to tackle climate change in areas where meaningful change could be made, but agreed to consider setting a more ambitious date than 2050 for becoming carbon neutral.<br /><br />Teignbridge District Council last month declared a climate emergency with an aim to be carbon neutral by 2025.</span><br />
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<a href="https://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.com/2019/05/calling-on-government-to-produce-rural.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Futures Forum: Calling on the government to produce a Rural Strategy</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lord Foster: Rural economies are being severely undermined by the apathy of governments</span></b><br /><br />Lord Foster<br />The House Magazine <br />Posted On: 7th May 2019<br /><br /><b>Rural policy lacks direction and rural priorities are too often side-lined. Ministers must pursue a comprehensive national-level strategy to ensure communities are not left behind, writes Lord Foster</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>'There is a serious risk that without action, the countryside will fall behind and its economies will be stifled'</b></i><br />Many rural areas in England are great places to live and work and make a huge contribution to national wellbeing. Underpinning this is an often-vibrant rural economy, with agriculture still at its heart but now hosting an increasingly diverse range of businesses and industries. Around 17 per cent of the population live in rural areas which contribute 20 per cent of England’s total economic activity and provide the locations for 25 per cent of all registered businesses. So, helping the rural economy thrive is crucial.<br /><br />It is often imagined that the rural economy is dominated by agriculture. But while farming provides the backbone, the rural economy is as diverse as its urban counterpart – and becoming ever more so, as traditional industries diversify, patterns of employment change and modern sectors grow. Manufacturing accounts for the same proportion of the economy in rural as in urban areas and there is also major rural employment in the service sector.<br /><br />But the potential of rural economies is being severely undermined by the inattention and apathy of successive governments and a funding regime which disadvantages rural areas. There is a serious risk that without action the countryside will fall behind, and its economies will be stifled, with knock on effects for rural dwellers and the country as a whole. Doing nothing is not an option.<br /><br />Over the last year I have chaired the House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy, <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/rural-economy/publications/">which has undertaken a wide-ranging inquiry into this vast subject</a>.<br /><br />We took evidence from a huge number of rural groups across the country – and visited rural areas ourselves to understand better how their economies function and what action is needed to help ensure their growth and sustainability. Our final report has now been published.<br /><br />A key message we heard was that Government rural policy lacks direction and that rural priorities are too often side-lined nationally. So, our report calls for a comprehensive national-level rural strategy, to be delivered locally with the full involvement of local communities, councils and businesses, and with a particular focus on the character of each rural place. Community action is particularly important for the success of rural economies and so we recommend measures to help support community ownership of shops and other critical rural amenities, as well as for community-run services and enterprises.<br /><br />This rural strategy should aim to deliver better outcomes across the spectrum of issues faced by rural economies. We heard in particular that action is needed to improve digital connectivity. The opportunities afforded by 5G rollout and full fibre broadband must not be passed up, and the broadband Universal Service Obligation should be reviewed to ensure rural areas are not left behind. Rural affordable housing is also a key challenge and we heard there was a need for planning reforms to ensure the right homes are provided in the right places with proper sensitivity to their local context, and that sufficient business workspaces are made available.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/economy/house/house-magazine/103664/lord-foster-rural-economies-are-being-severely"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lord Foster: Rural economies are being severely undermined by the apathy of governments | PoliticsHome.com</span></a><br />
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