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:::::<big><big>'''Time for New Definitions of National & Global Security'''</big></big>


::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection
::::::* https://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/


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<big>'''''Planet Security / 2016 Updates'''''</big>
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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is


[http://strategicdemands.com/another-view-of-thin-blue/ <big>'''''Security Horizon: Strategic Demands'''''</big>]
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen <big>'''''Planet Citizens, Planet Science'''''</big>]
:: <big><big>Environmental Security to Advance National Security</big></big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News <big>'''''Climate News @GreenPolicy'''''</big>]
::'''GreenPolicy360, in association with Strategic Demands...'''


::'''Environmental Security & "New Definitions of Security"'''


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<big>'''''Extending Earth Science'''''</big>
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:[http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/12/nasa-formalizes-efforts-to-protect-earth-from-asteroids/ '''''NASA announces Planetary Defense Coordination Office''''']




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: '''Green Policy/Strategic Demands work focuses on three security currents:'''


* Environmental Security as a field of [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Best_Practices "Green Best Practices"] enabled by the rapidly developing Internet connecting communities, shared science, and new security concepts, objectives and goals
* Environmental Security as an interdisciplinary scientific venture — a challenge for traditional disciplines as global climate change/global warming, biosphere sustainability and related threat environments demand solutions across national borders and scientific fields of study
* Environmental Security with advanced earth exploration — earth systems/resources observation/monitoring — by new and next generation earth-facing satellites. Planet APIs are being developed — the result of new ways of seeing, knowing and acting.
The Internet-enabled world is connecting billions of "digital citizens" who are networked in new ways that challenge old orthodoxies and traditional points of view. A 360° global perspective is presenting new opportunities, and challenges. The trend toward engagement with knowledge delivered via "the Net" is gathering momentum and is accelerating.
GreenPolicy360 & its associate, Strategic Demands, are exploring #keyphrases such as #Earth360 #PlanetCitizen and #PlanetCitizens #EarthPOV and #GoingGreen. We are connecting an "integral ecology" of #environmentalsecurity and #nationalsecurity to advance a new vision that will change how 'national security' has been defined over the centuries.
A multi-lateral, multi-dimensioned world is in the process of coming to be and the concept of defining "new definitions of national security" and "green best practices" shapes our policy concerns.
Recent #EarthMonitoring and [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space #EarthScience from space] must continue to be rapidly deployed to critically assess, evaluate and provide policy recommendations for essential planetary #EnvironmentalSecurity and #NationalSecurity.
Recent scientific studies of varying urgency have demonstrated a wide range of threats to local/regional/national/international environments. ‘Existential’ questions have become a first-order priority of concern rising to action-demanded status among traditional, historic security concerns.
'''Environmental Security ↔ National Security ↔ Global Security'''
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security <big>'''National Security -- Environmental Security'''</big>]
: [http://strategicdemands.com/another-view-of-thin-blue/ <big>'''Security Horizon: Strategic Demands'''</big>]
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen <big>'''Planet Citizens, Planet Science'''</big>]
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News <big>'''Climate News @GreenPolicy'''</big>]
:<big>'''[[Environmental Studies Online]]'''</big>
: <big>'''[[Climate Problems, Climate Solutions]]'''</big>
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:'''''Beginning w/ first-ever images of our home planet in the Apollo era...'''''
:[[File:Apollo.jpg]]
:<small>NASA</small>
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<big><big>Advancing Science, Facts, Technology and Data to Make the Case for Environmental Protection</big></big>
: 1960s/70s, Beginnings of Planet Citizen Eco-Challenge and Evolutionary Change
<big>'''Congressman George Brown: Visionary Leadership'''</big>
:'''Historic Environmental Achievements, a Foundation for Today's National and Global 'Green' Movement'''
:: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg A generation of environmental policies, programs & law]
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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
<big>'''"My friend George E. Brown"'''</big>
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
First-generation [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''#EarthObservations''']


<big>'''''Earth Science'''''</big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_orbiting_fleet_2015.jpg '''''Earth Science research from space:'''''] '''''an essential role in overall security policy'''''
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]  


'''''Earth-facing satellite programs: "mission critical"... protecting national/global security'''''
:<small><small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf</small></small>




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; <big><big>'''''Undercutting Security:'''''</big></big>
:[[File:Earth Observing System - fleet of satellites.png]]
:<big><big>'''''US Congress Moves to Cutback Essential Science'''''</big></big>




[[File:EarthRightNow Earth Science satellite fleet circa 2015 m.jpg]]
<big><big>'''The Earth Observing System (EOS)'''</big></big>


The mission of the Earth Observing System that became a core element of the ongoing NASA earth science programs was first envisioned in the 1970s. The constellation of satellites that now comprise a connected matrix of ongoing earth imaging programs (see the latest here) came about as the U.S.


<big>'''''2015: Politics & Lobbying Act in Public View'''''</big>
Congress realized in the years following NASA's establishment that Planet Earth was central to NASA's work. The initial NASA mission statement spoke of this study of Planet Earth as a key goal of NASA programs. A new science, space and technology Congressional Committee was created to envision and oversee these programs and one of the first realizations about the need for earth science came about through the LANDSAT program [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook '''(see here)''']. A historic moment brought into existence digital mapping, that is, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/LANDSAT_and_Virginia_Tower_Norwood '''multi-spectral imaging of earth'''] from an orbiting satellite in space, envisioned and designed to collect and 'save' data of earth's living systems. This databank was considered to be essential by committee member '''George E. Brown''' who, as a physicist and engineer, began his three-decade + career in Congress. George eventually became known for his "big science" initiatives. What few knew back then at the beginning was how essential this data would become as climate science came into the light (in 1977 and '78 with George's work central to the drafting and passage of the first '''National Climate Act'''.)


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ku6rhdmbF4 '''''U.S. Congress/Science Committee's 'War on Science'''''']
In the 1980s, the Earth Observing System (EOS) work began in earnest.


'''''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics'''''
NASA's Project Science Office years later described its beginning with this statement:


'''''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News'''''
''>Results from early missions shed light on critical components of the Earth system while prompting further, more advanced investigations. The NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) program was conceived in the 1980s and began to take shape in the early 1990s. EOS is comprised of a series of coordinated polar-orbiting satellites designed to monitor and understand key components of the climate system and their interactions through long-term global observations. The EOS missions focus on the following climate science areas: radiation, clouds, water vapor, and precipitation; the oceans; greenhouse gases; land-surface hydrology and ecosystem processes; glaciers, sea ice, and ice sheets; ozone and stratospheric chemistry; and natural and anthropogenic aerosols.''


[http://strategicdemands.com/priorities-skew-away-from-nasa-and-security/ '''''Strategic Demands: Republican Priorities Skew Away from NASA & Security''''']


[http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/01/house-science-committee-guts-nasa-earth-sciences-budget/ '''''House Science Committee Guts Earth Sciences Budget''''']


[http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/01/anti-science-gop-eviscerates-nasa-spending-climate-change-research '''''Anti-Science GOP 'Eviscerates' NASA Spending on Climate Change Research''''']
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''New Definitions of National and Global Security''']


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:[http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''Environmental Security''']


'''''"Republicans in the House and Senate don't want NASA studying Earth..."'''''
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''Climate Change News''']


''http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/04/30/proposed-massive-cuts-to-nasa-earth-science-budget-draw-protest/''  
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now '''Earth Right Now''']


'''''GOP Attacks Earth Science At NASA, Climate Change Research In Peril'''''
:[http://strategicdemands.com/security-design/ '''Security Design''']


''http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/04/30/nasa_budget_gop_committee_wants_to_slash_and_burn_earth_sciences.html''
:[http://strategicdemands.com/stratdem-factoid-re-road-security/ '''Road to Security''']


''Phil Plait: There’s no other way to put this, so I’ll be succinct: A passel of anti-science global warming denying GOP representatives have put together a funding authorization bill for NASA that at best cuts more than $300 million from the agency’s current Earth science budget. At worst? More than $500 million.''


''In an op-ed in The Hill, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, wrote that the GOP members of the committee didn't even give the writeup of the bill to Democrats on the committee until very late last week, indicating the GOP members are not operating in good faith on this issue.''


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''Rep. Eddie Johnson: Despite the fact that in January NASA announced 2014 was likely the warmest year since 1880, it should come as no surprise that the majority wants to cut funding for climate science. Embarrassingly, just last week, every single Republican member of this committee present voted against the notion that climate change might be caused by people.''


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''Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.)''''': '''''[T]he bill puts at risk 10,000 jobs at [https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html Goddard] and would have “huge, deep, lasting” impacts... “I will not stand by quietly and enable that to happen.”''
<big><big>'''[[Planet Citizens]]'''</big></big>


:''Rep Donna F Edwards ‏@repdonnaedwards  Apr 30''
''(2/2) My amendment to restore half a billion dollars in @NASA #EarthScience cuts defeated along party lines.''


:''Rep Donna F Edwards ‏@repdonnaedwards  Apr 30''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_orbiting_fleet_2015.jpg '''Earth Science research from space:'''] '''an essential role in overall security policy'''  
''Disappointed that @HouseScience Committee leadership passed a partisan bill today which guts @NASA #EarthScience programs. (1/2)''


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:'''Earth-facing satellite programs: "mission critical"... protecting national/global security'''


[[File:EarthRightNow Earth Science @work via 2014-2015 NASA launches m.png]]
:: * http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now''


[https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/01/statement-ostp-director-john-p-holdren-house-proposed-funding-cuts-nasas-critical-ea '''Re: funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs''']




On May 1, 2015, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. John P. Holdren issued the following statement on proposed funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs:
:: [[File:PlanetCitizen - Your Moment on Earth.jpg]]


"If enacted, the NASA authorization bill headed to the House floor later this month would do '''serious damage to the Nation’s space program, as well as to Earth-observation and Earth-science programs essential for predicting, preparing for, and minimizing the damage from disasters both natural and human-induced.'''


The bill’s cuts to space-technology development would not only risk continued U.S leadership in the space industry, but would also impede progress on precisely those technologies—on-orbit refueling, advanced space propulsion, radiation protection in deep space, and more—needed to make crewed missions to deep space a reality. In the absence of robust investments to bring these technologies into being, the goal of sending U.S. astronauts to Mars in the 2030s could be in jeopardy.


The House bill would also gut the NASA “mission to planet Earth”—the satellite observations and related research that provide key measurements and insights relevant to forecasting and tracking hurricanes, fighting wildfires, observing the state of the world’s farms and forests, mapping the extent of droughts, measuring the stocks of groundwater, and monitoring the likelihood of landslides. The draconian cuts in the House bill would also delay advances in our ability to research and prepare for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis and blind us to changes in the Earth’s oceans and ice sheets that can be discerned only from space.
Intro/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: For some 40+ years your GreenPolicy360 siterunner has worked in many varied ways to get the word out on the crucial importance of environmental security. From the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary first Earth Day] to [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:1977_from_the_Office_of_Science_and_Technology_Policy.jpg the first warning] from the new committee of science with the push from [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Congressman George E. Brown], through various career incarnations I have attempted to 'work the message', gathering (curating as it's now called) the best science and writing up and sharing key strategies and goals even against the odds. The risks we have identified and shared have now turned into a crisis.  


NASA’s mission to observe, understand, and explore the solar system and the cosmos beyond has long been matched in importance by its mission to use the unrivaled vantage point of Earth orbit for looking downward, to better understand the only home that humanity currently has. It is difficult to understand why, at this time of U.S. leadership in both the outward-facing and inward-facing facets of NASA’s operations in space, the Congress would want to undermine that leadership and sacrifice the panoply of benefits it brings to the Nation."
Perhaps it is human nature to be overwhelmed, or what my teacher Hannah Arendt described in the 'Human Condition' as the realms of labor, work, and action. Many  choose to go along to get along, and not act when the threats grow extreme, even existential. But to those who take the chance to make a difference and stand up and do your best to make changes that change the world for the better, I salute you for your bravery.


Now comes another warning from the international science community. This warning is dire. The latest news looms to such an extent as to be overwhelming, depressing and potentially driving us toward resignation and inaction, but it should not prevent us from action as [https://www.amazon.com/New-Climate-War-Fight-Planet/dp/B08QV8KSGH/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#customerReviews Michael E. Mann's latest book, 'The Fight to Take Back Our Planet'] argues persuasively.''


[[File:House budget see earth science.jpg]]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Michael_E_Mann_--_act_with_hope_not_fear.jpg '''Act with hope and not fear'''.] Earth is in our hands. Take in the news, consider the science, then in your own way, act to make a positive difference.


'''Focus on solutions to identified problems. Don't give up, never give up.'''


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; <big><big>Environmental Security to Advance National Security</big></big>


'''GreenPolicy360, in association with Strategic Demands, continues to visualize Environmental Security as a critical field of global concern, study and development.'''
:<big><big>'''Get with the Action @GreenPolicy360'''</big></big>


Our work focuses on three strategic currents:
::'''[[Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources]]'''


* Environmental Security as a field enabled by the rapidly developing Internet, connecting and bringing together 'netizens', science and political ideas which are newly defining and developing security concepts, objectives and goals
::'''[[Climate Problems, Climate Solutions]]'''


* Environmental Security as an interdisciplinary scientific venture — a challenge for traditional disciplines as global climate change/global warming, biosphere sustainability and related threat environments demand solutions across national borders and scientific fields of study
::'''[[Generation Green]]'''


* Environmental Security as a recent element of earth exploration — earth systems/resources observation/monitoring by newly formed “New Space” companies and next generation earth-facing satellites. Planet APIs are being developed — the results of new ways of seeing will change concepts of citizenship.
::'''[[Going Green]]'''


[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''PlanetCitizen''']
::'''[[GreenLinks]]'''


The Internet-enabled world is connecting billions and these 'netizens' are seeing and experiencing a networked, interactive world in new ways that are redrawing old orthodoxies and traditional points of view. A 360° global perspective is presenting new opportunities and challenges as the trend toward engagement with knowledge delivered via 'the Net' gathers momentum and accelerates.
::'''[[Planet Citizen Action]]'''


It is the considered opinion of GreenPolicy360, as we explore #topics and #keyphrases such as #Earth360 #PlanetCitizen #EarthPOV and link the integral ecology of #environmentalsecurity to #nationalsecurity, that we are advancing a field of study and a field that will change the way 'national security' has defined over centuries.
::'''[[Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth]]'''


A multi-lateral, multi-dimensioned world is in the process of coming to be -- and the concept of defining 'new definitions of national security' and 'green best practices' is at the center of our policy concerns.


We urge — “strategically demand” — #EarthMonitoring and #EarthScience to be ‘rapidly deployed’ to critically assess, evaluate and provide policy recommendations for essential planetary #EnvironmentalSecurity and resulting #NationalSecurity.


Recent scientific studies of varying urgency have demonstrated a wide range of threats to local/regional/national/international environments. ‘Existential’ questions have become a first-order priority of concern rising to action-demanded status among traditional, historic security concerns.
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<big><big>'''''Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted'''''</big></big>


* https://phys.org/news/2021-06-climate-impacts-sooner.html


[[File:New Definitions of National Security.png]]
* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-leaked-un-report-warns-worst-is-yet-to-come-on-climate-change-heres-how-you-can-help


''Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.''


''Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas—these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.''


; <big><big>"A 360° Perspective"</big></big>
''The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.''


; <big><big>"New Definitions of National Security"</big></big>
''But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.''


'''Environmental Security ↔ National Security ↔ Global Security'''  
''"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''New Definitions of National and Global Security''']


[http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''Environmental Security''']
<big><big>'''''Crushing Climate Impacts: Draft UN report'''''</big></big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''Climate Change News''']
''PARIS (AFP) / June 23, 2021 - Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisers obtained by Agence France-Presse.''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now '''Earth Right Now''']
''Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas - these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.''


[http://strategicdemands.com/security-design/ '''Security Design''']
''The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP...''


[http://strategicdemands.com/stratdem-factoid-re-road-security/ '''Road to Security''']


''"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own," the report says.''


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''By far the most comprehensive catalogue ever assembled of how climate change is upending our world, the report reads like a 4,000-page indictment of humanity's stewardship of the planet.''


''But the document, designed to influence critical policy decisions, is not scheduled for release until February 2022 - too late for crunch UN summits this year on climate, biodiversity and food systems...''




[[File:Earth-science.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now]]


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Time for New Definitions of National & Global Security


 

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Environmental Security to Advance National Security
GreenPolicy360, in association with Strategic Demands...
Environmental Security & "New Definitions of Security"


GreenPolicy360.png


Green Policy/Strategic Demands work focuses on three security currents:
  • Environmental Security as a field of "Green Best Practices" enabled by the rapidly developing Internet connecting communities, shared science, and new security concepts, objectives and goals
  • Environmental Security as an interdisciplinary scientific venture — a challenge for traditional disciplines as global climate change/global warming, biosphere sustainability and related threat environments demand solutions across national borders and scientific fields of study
  • Environmental Security with advanced earth exploration — earth systems/resources observation/monitoring — by new and next generation earth-facing satellites. Planet APIs are being developed — the result of new ways of seeing, knowing and acting.


The Internet-enabled world is connecting billions of "digital citizens" who are networked in new ways that challenge old orthodoxies and traditional points of view. A 360° global perspective is presenting new opportunities, and challenges. The trend toward engagement with knowledge delivered via "the Net" is gathering momentum and is accelerating.

GreenPolicy360 & its associate, Strategic Demands, are exploring #keyphrases such as #Earth360 #PlanetCitizen and #PlanetCitizens #EarthPOV and #GoingGreen. We are connecting an "integral ecology" of #environmentalsecurity and #nationalsecurity to advance a new vision that will change how 'national security' has been defined over the centuries.

A multi-lateral, multi-dimensioned world is in the process of coming to be and the concept of defining "new definitions of national security" and "green best practices" shapes our policy concerns.

Recent #EarthMonitoring and #EarthScience from space must continue to be rapidly deployed to critically assess, evaluate and provide policy recommendations for essential planetary #EnvironmentalSecurity and #NationalSecurity.

Recent scientific studies of varying urgency have demonstrated a wide range of threats to local/regional/national/international environments. ‘Existential’ questions have become a first-order priority of concern rising to action-demanded status among traditional, historic security concerns.


Environmental Security ↔ National Security ↔ Global Security

National Security -- Environmental Security


Security Horizon: Strategic Demands
Planet Citizens, Planet Science
Climate News @GreenPolicy


Environmental Studies Online
Climate Problems, Climate Solutions


 

Beginning w/ first-ever images of our home planet in the Apollo era...


Apollo.jpg
NASA

 


Advancing Science, Facts, Technology and Data to Make the Case for Environmental Protection

1960s/70s, Beginnings of Planet Citizen Eco-Challenge and Evolutionary Change


Congressman George Brown: Visionary Leadership

Historic Environmental Achievements, a Foundation for Today's National and Global 'Green' Movement
A generation of environmental policies, programs & law


🌎


GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

"My friend George E. Brown"


First-generation #EarthObservations


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf


EarthScience Missions via the EOS - 2022.png


Earth Observing System - fleet of satellites.png


The Earth Observing System (EOS)

The mission of the Earth Observing System that became a core element of the ongoing NASA earth science programs was first envisioned in the 1970s. The constellation of satellites that now comprise a connected matrix of ongoing earth imaging programs (see the latest here) came about as the U.S.

Congress realized in the years following NASA's establishment that Planet Earth was central to NASA's work. The initial NASA mission statement spoke of this study of Planet Earth as a key goal of NASA programs. A new science, space and technology Congressional Committee was created to envision and oversee these programs and one of the first realizations about the need for earth science came about through the LANDSAT program (see here). A historic moment brought into existence digital mapping, that is, multi-spectral imaging of earth from an orbiting satellite in space, envisioned and designed to collect and 'save' data of earth's living systems. This databank was considered to be essential by committee member George E. Brown who, as a physicist and engineer, began his three-decade + career in Congress. George eventually became known for his "big science" initiatives. What few knew back then at the beginning was how essential this data would become as climate science came into the light (in 1977 and '78 with George's work central to the drafting and passage of the first National Climate Act.)

In the 1980s, the Earth Observing System (EOS) work began in earnest.

NASA's Project Science Office years later described its beginning with this statement:

>Results from early missions shed light on critical components of the Earth system while prompting further, more advanced investigations. The NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) program was conceived in the 1980s and began to take shape in the early 1990s. EOS is comprised of a series of coordinated polar-orbiting satellites designed to monitor and understand key components of the climate system and their interactions through long-term global observations. The EOS missions focus on the following climate science areas: radiation, clouds, water vapor, and precipitation; the oceans; greenhouse gases; land-surface hydrology and ecosystem processes; glaciers, sea ice, and ice sheets; ozone and stratospheric chemistry; and natural and anthropogenic aerosols.


New Definitions of National and Global Security
Environmental Security
Climate Change News
Earth Right Now
Security Design
Road to Security


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Planet Citizens


Earth Science research from space: an essential role in overall security policy

Earth-facing satellite programs: "mission critical"... protecting national/global security
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now


PlanetCitizen - Your Moment on Earth.jpg


Intro/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: For some 40+ years your GreenPolicy360 siterunner has worked in many varied ways to get the word out on the crucial importance of environmental security. From the first Earth Day to the first warning from the new committee of science with the push from Congressman George E. Brown, through various career incarnations I have attempted to 'work the message', gathering (curating as it's now called) the best science and writing up and sharing key strategies and goals even against the odds. The risks we have identified and shared have now turned into a crisis.

Perhaps it is human nature to be overwhelmed, or what my teacher Hannah Arendt described in the 'Human Condition' as the realms of labor, work, and action. Many choose to go along to get along, and not act when the threats grow extreme, even existential. But to those who take the chance to make a difference and stand up and do your best to make changes that change the world for the better, I salute you for your bravery.

Now comes another warning from the international science community. This warning is dire. The latest news looms to such an extent as to be overwhelming, depressing and potentially driving us toward resignation and inaction, but it should not prevent us from action as Michael E. Mann's latest book, 'The Fight to Take Back Our Planet' argues persuasively.

Act with hope and not fear. Earth is in our hands. Take in the news, consider the science, then in your own way, act to make a positive difference.

Focus on solutions to identified problems. Don't give up, never give up.


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Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted

Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.

Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas—these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.

The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.

But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.

"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."


Crushing Climate Impacts: Draft UN report

PARIS (AFP) / June 23, 2021 - Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisers obtained by Agence France-Presse.

Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas - these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.

The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP...


"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own," the report says.

By far the most comprehensive catalogue ever assembled of how climate change is upending our world, the report reads like a 4,000-page indictment of humanity's stewardship of the planet.

But the document, designed to influence critical policy decisions, is not scheduled for release until February 2022 - too late for crunch UN summits this year on climate, biodiversity and food systems...


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