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Baltimore Serenade: Ecosystem Guardians Embracing Impactful & Peaceful Climate Solutions

Climate Reparations

"Out of an orange-colored, purple-striped
A pretty, green, polka-dot sky
Flash, a-bam, alakazam, and ~ goodbye"

"The Appearance of the Sky" - Center for Science Education NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research | UCAR

"Fact or Fiction?: Smog Creates Beautiful Sunsets: It Depends on What Color You Like." - Scientific American (2007)

"How Light Works" - How Stuff ? Works

BALTIMORE IS NOW (2023) TIED AT #7TH WORST URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN THE UNITED STATES in 2 of 3 categories:
City-Wide Urban Heat Rankings City Average UHI Index AND Population-Weighted Average UHI Index Values

Reparations to be made because of excess pollution being carried and affecting other nations.

"Tonight I feel so weak
But all in love is fair
I turn the other cheek
And I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air ....

Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see I'm burning alive? ....

Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see it's out of control?"


"The United States needs a reparative stance for climate change policy - one that not only addresses the uneven vulnerability to climate impacts that exist along lines of race, but that also reduces the discrepancies in racial wealth, health, and prosperity gaps; ensures equity in the opportunities that stem from climate adaptation; and protects investments in emissions reduction from becoming another vehicle for disenfranchisement. This starts with recognizing the role that exploitation has played and continues to play in climate change and its environmental impacts."

[How "American Exceptionalism" is RUINING U.S.A.]

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Under Construction

CONSEQUENCES

Four Key Climate Change Indicators: Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, Sea Level, Ocean Heat, and Ocean Acidification - World Metrological Organization

ECONOMIC


"Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused 11 778 reported disasters between 1970 and 2021, with just over 2 million deaths and US$ 4.3 trillion in economic losses."

PROPERTY INSURANCE


"Citing rising costs from raging wildfires and skyrocketing repairs, two insurance companies say they are no longer offering home or business property insurance for new customers in California. The move could strain government-run insurance."

Florida Insurance Companies in Receivership - Division of Rehabilitation and Liquidation, Florida Department of Financial Services

More coming soon!

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BECKONING FOR CLIMATE REPARATIONS

"To frame reparations, we group the top twenty-one fossil fuel companies into the categories “high requirement” (HR), “low requirement” (LR), and “exempted’ (Ex). This grouping and the consequent reparations owed are based on companies’ violation of the no-harm principle, which entails disgorgements proportional to their historical emissions understood as the measure of their contribution for climate harm and by the application of the moral principle of need, which requires that people with greater need should receive more benefits. .... The largest twenty-one companies analyzed would disburse $5,444 billion over the period 2025–2050."

"Greenpeace Calls for Climate Reparations as Typhoon Mawar Moves Towards the Philippines" - Greenpeace (2023)

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ECUADOR

"Yasuni National Park is inhabited by the Tagaeri and Taromenani, who live in self-isolation. In 1989, it was designated a world biosphere reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, also known as UNESCO. Encompassing a surface area of over 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres), it boasts 610 species of birds, 139 species of amphibians, and 121 species of reptiles. At least three species are endemic. With over 90% of the ballots counted by early Monday, around six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected the oil exploration in Block 43, situated within Yasuni."

"Mapping of No-Drill Areas in Ecuador's Amazon Can Be Scaled for Entire Rainforest: Study" - Mongabay (February 2023)

"Ecuador Referendum: Voters Reject Oil-Drilling Project in the Amazon" - Al Jazeera (August 2023)

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