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CLIMATE WARS: A FICTIONAL APPROACH TO CLIMATE COMMUNICATION By Graham Clumpner A Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Environmental Studies The Evergreen State College August, 2017 1 Copyright 2017 by Graham Clumpner. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, contact [email protected]. 2 Abstract Climate Wars: A fictional approach to climate communication By Graham Clumpner Climate wars is a book that attempts to bridge the gap between those who speak the language of science, and those who don’t. It is a linear collection of different stories to illuminate the existing and future climate crisis. It is cited based on the most relevant research from an inter-disciplinary field study to include: Climatology, Sociology, Social Ecology. This book is intended to be accessible by readers from all backgrounds and serve as a launchpoint into climate science. It also serves as a primer for those with science backgrounds into how social movements struggle to change the world. These two communities need to talk to each other more if we seek an ecologically-just world. 3 Acknowledgements Thank you to all the MES staff who supported me and took a risk on this project. To my parents who always trusted I knew what I was doing, even if they never fully grasped the implications. To Donald Trump, for making the building of a climate resistance movement that much easier. To the climate movement for inspiration. To the Mosquito Fleet, for resistance 4 Table of Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Asia .......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Middle east ......................................................................................................................................... 10 European union ............................................................................................................................... 11 Central/South America ................................................................................................................. 11 Africa .................................................................................................................................................... 12 The Poles ............................................................................................................................................ 12 North America .................................................................................................................................. 13 Leyla 2030 .............................................................................................................................................. 13 Greg 2018 ................................................................................................................................................ 22 Fox News January 2019 ..................................................................................................................... 31 PFJ 2019 May 1st ................................................................................................................................... 37 Dr. Carter James 2018 ........................................................................................................................ 38 Dahlia (Lummi tribe Northwest Washington) 2019 .............................................................. 44 Introduction to Syria .......................................................................................................................... 61 Ar Raqqa, Syria ...................................................................................................................................... 63 Amy ........................................................................................................................................................... 84 FIFA 2022 ................................................................................................................................................ 88 Pakistan December, 2022 ................................................................................................................. 93 Khost, Afghanistan ............................................................................................................................. 112 Kazakhstan ........................................................................................................................................... 114 Maggie NFL Child 2023 .................................................................................................................... 117 Olivera 2023 ........................................................................................................................................ 126 Port Townsend .................................................................................................................................... 130 Aida (Hacker) Utah-Vancouver 2023 ......................................................................................... 139 Michael Haystock 2023.................................................................................................................... 154 Weekly Standard 2024 .................................................................................................................... 162 Salia Mason Interview 2024 .......................................................................................................... 167 Ben and the tar sands, 2024 .......................................................................................................... 176 Math Teacher Evergreen State College ...................................................................................... 201 Koch Brothers...................................................................................................................................... 208 Chicago 2024 ....................................................................................................................................... 218 Monsanto Niria ................................................................................................................................... 228 5 Lorena Fusilado .................................................................................................................................. 243 Unknown Veterans Journal Recovered at protests during 2025 .................................... 250 Z (Danae) 2024 ................................................................................................................................... 262 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................ 268 Citations Climate Wars .................................................................................................................... 270 6 Introduction Everything changed after Trump. It was such an impossibility. Until it was inevitable. Many don’t remember it now, but the idea that a showman, a carnival barker, could become the most powerful man in the world, without some military coup or corrupt back-door deal, seemed less likely than hell freezing over. But the American people were sick and tired of being talked down too. They hated the elite. They could see that things were not alright, that America was changing rapidly and no politician was willing to tell them the truth. Then along came a member of the elite who didn’t hide the hideousness of power. He embraced it. Used it like a lightsaber to strike down his foes. And fall they did. Dynasties that had survived so much turmoil were finally undone. And everything changed. Asia The North Koreans finally get the ability to hit back. Sometime around the end of Obama and the beginning of Trump, the regime perfected the Nodong 5 inter- continental ballistic missile. It had a range of 15,000 miles and could reach the West Coast between Los Angeles up to Vancouver BC. China was forced into a political situation upended by decades of support for the reclusive dictatorship of Kim Jong Un. While liberals in the Democratic party decried the US military pullback from the Korean peninsula during the early years of the Trump administration, North Korea never seemed to care which political party was in charge of “Imperialist America”. The showdown with Japan has left lasting effects to this day. The world is lucky that we didn’t come to a nuclear war. As it was hundreds of thousands died and the 7 regime is still alive and well, albeit having lost much more territory to the Chinese. Many of the northern prison camps, when Chinese troops “liberated” them, removed significant physical labor sources the government had used for years. Long ago North Korea had made a decision to maintain political control within the workers party by force of arms. They saw conflict on the horizon, just as the world was exiting the cold war. They knew resource scarcity and had developed