<div dir="ltr"><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div>Clara Vondrich info:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://climateinitiativesplatform.org/index.php/Divest-Invest_Global_Movement">https://climateinitiativesplatform.org/index.php/Divest-Invest_Global_Movement</a><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(55,58,60);font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Clara Vondrich, Global Director, Divest-Invest </span><font color="#373a3c" face="PT Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Philanthropy</span></font><br></div><div><a href="https://www.divestinvest.org/">https://www.divestinvest.org/</a><span style="color:rgb(55,58,60);font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/08/11/climate-action-quantum-social-change/">https://www.desmog.com/2022/08/11/climate-action-quantum-social-change/</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Proposing "quantum social change" to address anthropogenic global warming?  At least the author is skeptical enough to write the following:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px">"To be sure, some might say that resorting to concepts from quantum physics is at best pseudoscience, at worst a form of magical thinking — albeit an understandable temptation in such desperate times." </span><br></div><div><br></div><div>An excerpt from article that might apply to the Moscow City Council, though they are hardly the "elite:"</div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div>"The biggest threat to climate action today is not the </span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px">industry-funded deniers</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> and skeptics left over from the 1990s. It’s the elite business and political leaders who advance incremental solutions to the most radical issue of our time. They say</span><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/essay/why-are-fossil-fuels-so-hard-to-quit/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> we can’t move too quickly</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> lest we disrupt the economic order and throw society into a tailspin. Only a gradual phaseout of fossil fuels is realistic. And anyone</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/12/why-obamas-top-scientist-just-called-keeping-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground-unrealistic/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> who says otherwise</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> is idealistic or naive."</span><br></div>