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Definition 7/100: The new climate denialism - A new form of climate denialism where the fossil fuel industry and our political leaders assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change but are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy and/or continue to block progress in less visible ways. Definition via @CCPA_bc and Seth Klein’s excellent book ‘A Good War’ which argues our response to climate change needs to match the all-out effort we mounted during World War 2. #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJioCnMDpN/?igshid=xwugfh4ijp6q

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Definition 24/100: A human who willfully acts via creative interventions to cultivate restorative conditions for interspecies life to flourish in regions largely devastated by human activities. 2. In the face of increased mortality during the 6th Mass Extinction (happening now), one who aspires to regenerate endangered ecosystems through interdisciplinary collaborations and uniquely different approaches. 3. Zlot, a number of zoeistas assembled to collaboratively work together. Word via @thebureauoflinguisticalreality #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/COoPTFOMtpK/?igshid=2lqe6apgg4ah

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Definition 22/100: Jestope - A hopeful attitude that things will work out, which does not shy away from looking at difficult or even extremely difficult circumstances or realities. A belief that comedy is a way that we can examine the difficult realities of our world. Jestope is informed by the alternative history of the jester as someone whose real roll it was to speak truth to power under the protective guise of jest or humor. While jestope is a very useful, and often underused, tool or emotion, when taken too far it reaches into the utopian or dystopian side of its meaning. Definition via @thebureauoflinguisticalreality #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/COT__nUsC3k/?igshid=1sbigbzvw907g

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Definition #12/100. Educating girls is one of the most powerful levers available for avoiding emissions by curbing population growth. Women with more years of education have fewer and healthier children. Educated girls realize higher wages and greater upward mobility, contributing to economic growth. Their rates of maternal mortality drop, as do mortality rates of their babies. They are less likely to marry as children or against their will. They have lower incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria. Their agricultural plots are more productive and their families better nourished. Education also shores up resilience and equips girls and women to face the impacts of climate change. They can be more effective stewards of food, soil, trees, and water, even as nature’s cycles change. They have greater capacity to cope with shocks from natural disasters and extreme weather events. Today, there are economic, cultural, and safety-related barriers that impede 62 million girls around the world from realizing their right to education. Family Planning - Securing women’s right to voluntary, high-quality family planning around the world would have powerful positive impacts on the health, welfare, and life expectancy of both women and their children. It also can affect greenhouse gas emissions. 225 million women in lower-income countries say they want the ability to choose whether and when to become pregnant but lack the necessary access to contraception. Currently, the world faces a $5.3 billion funding shortfall for providing the access to reproductive healthcare that women say they want to have. Honoring the dignity of women and children through family planning is not about governments forcing the birth rate down (or up, through natalist policies). Nor is it about those in rich countries, where emissions are highest, telling people elsewhere to stop having children. When family planning focuses on healthcare provision and meeting women’s expressed needs, empowerment, equality, and well-being are the result; the benefits to the planet are side effects. Climate solution via @projectdrawdown #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CNa2mEzMjbK/?igshid=zls98qut11r5

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Definition 25/100 - Interbeing: If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in a sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are. “Interbeing” is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the pre-fix “inter” with the verb “to be,” we have a new verb, inter-be. If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow. In fact, nothing can grow. Even we cannot grow without sunshine. And so, we know that the sunshine is also in this sheet of paper. The paper and the sunshine inter-are. And if we continue to look, we can see the logger who cut the tree and brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper. And we see the wheat. We know the logger cannot exist without his daily bread, and therefore the wheat that became his bread is also in this sheet of paper. And the logger’s father and mother are in it too. When we look in this way, we see that without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist. Looking even more deeply, we can see we are in it too. This is not difficult to see, because when we look at a sheet of paper, the sheet of paper is part of our perception. You cannot point out one thing that is not here- time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat. Everything coexists with this sheet of paper. “To be” is to be inter-be. You cannot just be by yourself alone. You have to inter-be with every other thing. Definition via Thich Nhat Hanh, excerpt from Teach Breathe Learn by Meena Srinivasan #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CO4F6FYss56/?igshid=h3xx37gxvogv

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Definition 23/100 - Epoquetude: An antidote to crushing anxieties over the deteriorating state of the world, epoquetude is the reassuring awareness that while humanity may succeed in destroying itself, the Earth will certainly survive us, as it has survived many other cataclysms; and that, in the endless chambers of time, the lives of individual species, vast civilizations, and even entire worlds are merely brief notes in an inconceivable symphony, each sounding its distinct voice and then fading out, so that the music may continue. Definition via @thebureauoflinguisticalreality #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/COl-jnyMjZv/?igshid=1rpma4yv8xiqu

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Definition 21/100: Surbrace - A powerful sense of conviction to do the right thing that arises after one has already let go of the outcome, because they see the situation as larger than themselves— almost as though they are already dead looking back at history. This is not at all to be confused with a feeling of fatalism, or with giving up, but something very far from that. It is a well of inspiration, that one’s every action has consequence and power, and that to be on the right side of history— regardless of the outcome— is greater than the pain of facing the sometimes difficult realities of the challenges we face. Definition via @thebureauoflinguisticalreality #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CORF9ZdMpkE/?igshid=1wbz30w2gu6l2

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Definition 20/100: Peatlands, also known as bogs or mires, are neither solid ground nor water but something in between. Peat is a thick, mucky substance made up of dead and decomposing plant matter. It develops over hundreds, even thousands of years, as wetland vegetation slowly decays beneath a living layer of flora and in the near absence of oxygen. Although these unique ecosystems cover just 3 percent of the earth’s land area, they are second only to oceans in the amount of carbon they store—twice that held by the world’s forests, at an estimated 500 to 600 gigatons. Protecting them through land preservation and fire prevention is a prime opportunity to manage global greenhouse gases. Because peatlands’ typical carbon content is over 50 percent, they become powerful greenhouse chimneys if disrupted. When peat is exposed to the air, the carbon it contains gets oxidized into carbon dioxide. It can take thousands of years to build up peat, but a matter of only a few to release its greenhouse cache once it is degraded. Luckily, 85 percent of the world’s peatlands are intact. Though not as effective as halting degradation before it starts, restoring drained and damaged peatlands is an essential complement to protection. Climate solution via @projectdrawdown #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/COMyblhM2ny/?igshid=1ee6yxt9zkibn

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Definition 18/100: Ghomanidad - A reframing of humanity from being, and viewing itself as, a force that is extractive to one that is regenerative and energizing. This can be thought of as a new concept, or as a return to and older view of ourselves that existed before we intellectually separated humans from other species. A ghoma elevates beyond the contemporary environmental shift that ask us to stop viewing the earth as “a thing to be extracted from” and to view it as “a thing to be protected”—recognizing that both views are innately objectifying. Ghomas and Ghomanidad exists as part of the earth and can contribute positively and integrally to it. #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/COHXmQVMwoX/?igshid=9h3picttphkp

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Definition 18/20 - Gelm: The presence of a premonition, and/or a sense of foreboding, threat and dread from every day, human initiated incidents which ultimately threaten the ecology of the environment, and are caused by environmental hazards, such as: traffic jams, the deformed feet of pigeons, the debris of litter from fast food outlets, the crush of urban life, the invisible smog of pollution, the demise of garden birds, the abundance of cleaning products which end up in waterways, images of drought riven lands, images of flooding… images of huge industrial complexes churning out smoke… A ‘Gelm’ is a powerful and continuous emotional response to the threat of environmental and ecological destruction from human intervention. Definition via @thebureauoflinguisticalreality #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/COE1lo9sdZh/?igshid=121zcjocifqik

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Definition 17/100: Shifting to a diet rich in plants is a demand-side solution to global warming that runs counter to the meat-centric Western diet on the rise globally. That diet comes with a steep climate price tag: one-fifth of global emissions. If cattle were their own nation, they would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Plant-rich diets reduce emissions and also tend to be healthier, leading to lower rates of chronic disease. According to a 2016 study, business-as-usual emissions could be reduced by as much as 70 percent through adopting a vegan diet and 63 percent for a vegetarian diet, which includes cheese, milk, and eggs. $1 trillion in annual health-care costs and lost productivity would be saved. Bringing about dietary change is not simple because eating is profoundly personal and cultural, but promising strategies abound. Plant-based options must be available, visible, and enticing, including high-quality meat substitutes. Also critical: ending price-distorting government subsidies, such as those benefiting the U.S. livestock industry, so that the prices of animal protein more accurately reflect their true cost. As Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has said, making the transition to a plant-based diet may be the most effective way an individual can stop climate change. Climate solution via @projectdrawdown #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CN_BUpUMSwu/?igshid=bexgimw4lft2

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Definition 16/100 - Silvopasture is an ancient practice that integrates trees and pasture into a single system for raising livestock. Research suggests silvopasture far outpaces any grassland technique for counteracting the methane emissions of livestock and sequestering carbon under-hoof. Pastures strewn or crisscrossed with trees sequester five to ten times as much carbon as those of the same size that are treeless, storing it in both biomass and soil. Carbon aside, the advantages of silvopasture are considerable, with financial benefits for farmers and ranchers. Livestock, trees, and any additional forestry products, such as nuts, fruit, and mushrooms, generate income on different time horizons. The health and productivity of both animals and the land improve. Because silvopasture systems are diversely productive and more resilient, farmers are better insulated from risk. Silvopasture often runs counter to farming norms and can be costly and slow to implement. Peer-to-peer education has proven effective for spreading it. As the impacts of global warming progress, appeal will likely grow, because silvopasture can help farmers and their livestock adapt to erratic weather and increased drought. That is the climatic win-win of this solution: Silvopasture averts and sequesters emissions, while protecting against changes that are now inevitable. Climate solution via @projectdrawdown #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CN1tMKNsnz5/?igshid=198yliflrue0p

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Definition 15/100 - Ihalpnapan: An understanding that two seemingly disparate groups are perhaps intimately tied to each other in a way that is mutually binding for both parties’ survival. A state of awareness in a time of great cultural rift that, whether we like it or not, we are wedded to the other side, as they are to us, and the feeling of not not knowing how to move forward with that understanding. Definition via @thebureauoflinguisticalreality #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CNv5D2SMk35/?igshid=w8orpwnr4o3o

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Definition 13/100: Wendigo is a mythological creature or evil spirit which originates from the folklore of First Nations based in and around the East Coast forests of Canada, the Great Plains region of the United States, and the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, grouped in modern ethnology as speakers of Algonquian-family languages. The wendigo is often said to be a malevolent spirit, sometimes depicted as a creature with human-like characteristics, which possesses human beings. As a concept, the wendigo can apply to any person, idea, or movement infected by a corrosive drive toward self-aggrandizing greed and excessive consumption, traits that sow disharmony and destruction if left unchecked. Ojibwe scholar Brady DeSanti asserts that the wendigo "can be understood as a marker indicating . . . a person . . . imbalanced both internally and toward the larger community of human and spiritual beings around them."Out of equilibrium and estranged by their communities, individuals thought to be afflicted by the wendigo spirit unravel and destroy the environmental balance around them. In addition to characterizing individual people who exhibit destructive tendencies, the wendigo can also describe movements and events with similarly negative effects. According to Professor Chris Schedler, the figure of the wendigo represents "consuming forms of exclusion and assimilation" through which groups dominate other groups."This application allows Indigenous Peoples to describe colonialism and its agents as wendigos since the process of colonialism ejected natives from their land and threw the natural world out of balance. Definition via @wikipedia #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CNieRHcMuLO/?igshid=vklinj83o2jm

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Definition 11/100: Pre-traumatic stress disorder - A condition in which a person experiences symptoms of trauma as they learn more about the future as it pertains to climate change and watch the world around them not making necessary precautions. Similar to Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder but preceding the actual trauma. Characterized by disturbance of sleep, constant vivid worry and dulled responses to others and to the outside day to day world and/or seemingly comparative short term responsibilities such as: paying rent on time, attending children’s soccer games or appropriate attention to a retirement portfolio. Usage: Suzy spent all that unusually warm winter awake in the middle of the night, reading the Science Times, it seemed like everything her friends wanted to talk about was small and irrelevant. She could not focus. She skipped work, started using her credit card irreverently, her therapist called it pre-traumatic stress disorder. Origin: Lise Van Susteren, 2013, United States. Definition via @thebureauoflinguisticalreality #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CNZN5Rzs8Fm/?igshid=191knswl3qlod

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Definition 10/100: Refrigerant management - Every refrigerator and air conditioner contains chemical refrigerants that absorb and release heat to enable chilling. Refrigerants, specifically CFCs and HCFCs, were once culprits in depleting the ozone layer. Thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, they have been phased out. HFCs, the primary replacement, spare the ozone layer, but have 1,000 to 9,000 times greater capacity to warm the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. In October 2016, officials from more than 170 countries met in Kigali, Rwanda, to negotiate a deal to address this problem. Through an amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the world will phase out HFCs—starting with high-income countries in 2019, then some low-income countries in 2024 and others in 2028. Substitutes are already on the market, including natural refrigerants such as propane and ammonium. Scientists estimate the Kigali accord will reduce global warming by nearly one degree Fahrenheit. Still, the bank of HFCs will grow substantially before all countries halt their use. Because 90 percent of refrigerant emissions happen at end of life, effective disposal of those currently in circulation is essential. After being carefully removed and stored, refrigerants can be purified for reuse or transformed into other chemicals that do not cause warming. Definition via @projectdrawdown #neologismsproject #climateart #the100dayproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CNUQLBlsqnM/?igshid=1s1ahhs8h6k3q