Avoiding planetary demise and climate genocide. Consultation questions APPENDIX 3 Draft Climate Action Survey for Public Consultation

[Soo Chapman]

 Dear Mike and All,

  I was unable to post the email below last night as some bossy algorithm told me I'd sent enough emails for one day!

 Perhaps Elon is right to raise concerns about Artificial Intelligence taking over.

 However maybe I was supposed to send you this message from a colleague as well as wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.🎄

  I note that it was Labour  Ed Miliband's ground-breaking and international first Climate Change Act of 2008 that called attention to the overwhelming troubles we really should attend to.   Despite the beefy 2006  Stern Review  CLIMATE AS A MARKET FAILURE  !!     I remember in one of our many Friends of the Earth meetings beforehand  Hilary Benn being called a murderer for ignoring the plight of the 150 million Bangladeshis set to  lose their lives and homes because of the widely ignored catastrophe of climate change heading straight towards Earth.  

    I copy in the hero who said that and hope he can take one Christmassy day off from his relentless campaigning for media and politicians to  actually Tell the Truth so that all citizens can help avoid mass extinction. 

  I hope Boris -of the trashed woodlands and continuing huge fossil support with our money- will now concentrate on avoiding Plexit (our planetary demise).🌏 Perhaps the 3 spirits have visited our politicians and banks, our pension funds and our stranded asset industries overnight.  

  Many thanks to all heroes copied in.   Despite the White Christmas sprinkles of today I remember with astonishing nostalgia and grief  when we had chilblains on our chilblains. And proper frosts.  And homes for wildlife. And oceans with an abundance of thriving marine life and corals 🐳       🕸

 Toasting Father Christmas currently seen rowing in the Atlantic  (ie moving in his Just Giving for Alzheimer's boat, not falling out with Rudolph) , thanks Frank Rothwell.  Your next challenge will be to help us here on the Good Ship Lollipop to alert the Carpathia and salvage something! 

  So as we also think of those poor old  hauliers stuck in queues on motorways- having to rely on international friends for curries and other support- and all those unlucky enough to have no  lovely dinner with family  today I post this colleague note which should be factored into the 5.1.21   Full Council meeting:

  OBSERVATION FROM COLLEAGUE:

One other point about freeports - their purpose is to exempt companies within from taxes and regulations.  So in spite of having spent time in the spring clapping the NHS this is a scheme to enable some companies to avoid contributing to the NHS!

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Many thanks Mike,

   Copying in those on the original list as you request.

  I am deeply disappointed with this administration who consistently fail to tell the truth to the public about the complete mess we are all in.   This has been going on for many years.  Mrs Thatcher's warning speech of 11.8.89 has certainly not been heeded. And we continue to fail our children. 

   Humanity is facing global annihilation unless it can within the next seven years start to significantly reduce atmospheric carbon. 414 parts per million means the Earth is heading for disaster as international scientists continue to say. BCP council should be widely sharing this information but it is not coming out in your bulletins. Why?  Who has made the decision to not broadcast the truth? 

  I don't know why this information is not being shared with our schoolchildren too who will inherit this cruel legacy.  What a terrible insult to those whose sacrifices meant the survival of this most fortunate generation. 

 International legislation on ecocide is needed. 

 https://www.stopecocide.earth/.../nuremberg-to-the-hague,

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 The BCP Council Climate Action Annual Report notes a drop of carbon emissions due to covid this year but fails to comment that overall global emissions continue their deadly upward trajectory.

 We must not fool ourselves into over-optimism as has happened so often before.  The scientists are warning that carbon needs to be cut drastically and that we are carboned out in seven years.

  It is deeply disturbing that this is not being spelt out in this report. 

 Nor should the report talk of two degrees.   One point five degrees should be the maximum permitted as clearly even at just over one degree rise in temperature we are already in big trouble.  And there's existing  carbon in the system yet to play out.

  The dates mentioned are late. 2030 is bad enough.  By  2050 Christchurch and Poole will be underwater. 

  Please tell us where we may now find the Report as it seems to have become strangely invisible. The public deserve to hear what the scientists are saying.  

  Moreover the 16.12.20 Cabinet meeting seems to have been curiously renumbered. Why? 

 And why was a recent Transport meeting cancelled please? 

 Where is Item 13 please?

   We also need transcripts for meetings please.  The public should not have to sit through many hours of debate to hear their councillors'  answers.

  The BCP  website needs to be updated and made user-friendly.  Democratic services need full-time staff.    Staff should also earn extra  for unsociable hours.  

 I note that George Farquhar was the one councillor who, pre-covid, consistently supported the YouthStrike4Climate demonstrators.  Many other councillors also joined them to hear their passionate speeches for a safe world. Unfortunately I did not see either you nor any member of your party attend even once.

  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 Thanks,

  Susan 

  

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From: Councillor Mike Greene <mike....@bcpcouncil.gov.uk>
Sent: 22 December 2020 10:13
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Subject: Re: CONSULTATION :Where is the one that works for the public please? APPENDIX 3 Draft Climate Action Survey for Public Consultation

 

Dear Soo

Thank you for copying me in on this.

I too am extremely disappointed that the survey has not been published yet.   As your email says, I had announced that it should be made public on 17th December. I sought and gained consent from Cabinet for this on December 16th and the reason it was not published is both simple and a cause for regret.

Cabinet decisions are officially subject to a "Call-In" period of 5 working days after they are published, during which they can effectively be challenged by councillors.  This survey and paper had been created collaboratively and very carefully examined on a cross-party basis at the Overview and Scrutiny Board. The survey itself had been long delayed and it appeared that there was unanimous support amongst Members to publish it as soon as possible to kick-start the process. So it was unlikely such a "Call-In" would occur or succeed, but some extra certainty was needed.

I therefore wrote to all Members to check they had no intention of calling in this particular decision and so delaying publication. At the same time, in a completely open, transparent and collaborative way, I wrote to each of the Council Group leaders to ask them to confirm that their Groups had no such intention.  I received positive responses from the Leaders of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Christchurch Independents, Bournemouth Independents and Green, and PPP/ALL Groups.   However, the Leader of the 3-strong Labour Party Group would not give this same commitment, knowing full well that in declining to join his colleagues his action would force a delay to publication.

The blame can therefore be placed fairly and squarely on the Labour Group who would not participate in the collaborative, cross-party approach adopted by all others.

The decision was published on 17th December which means that technically the Call-In period would expire at 23.59 on 28th December and the Survey could be published on 29th December; however, given the potential for technical glitches etc, it would not be sensible to launch an online survey on a new platform while staff levels are low due to the Holidays. It will therefore be launched on 4th January.

The delay in launching the Public Engagement Survey has a knock-on effect on the All-Member workshop planned to discuss the consultation results which had been planned for late February, and ultimately the adoption of this essential Action Plan.  I am hopeful that despite this setback, the Leader and Group in question will choose to adopt a more reasonable approach in the future; to act in the sensible way shown by all the other Group Leaders; and allow us to work collaboratively as we progress to a Carbon-neutral BCP Area.

I have been copied into a reply to your email, from someone not on your "cc list" and so assume that you have copied it wider.  I would be grateful if you could on-send this reply to anyone else to whom you copied your own, so that they too can understand who to blame for this delay.

Best

Mike

Cllr Mike Greene

Cabinet Member for Transport and Sustainability, BCP Council

Bournemouth Central Ward (Conservative)

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Subject: CONSULTATION :Where is the one that works for the public please? APPENDIX 3 Draft Climate Action Survey for Public Consultation

 

  Dear Democratic Services,

   I hope I get top prize for being first respondent!  

   Given the importance of the document I copy in my MP and request please that he himself complete the survey. 

   After several days of looking for it many thanks for your kind lengthy help today trying to help me  locate the Climate Action Annual Report 2019/20 consultation document which Mike Greene you announced would be available 17th Dec.

 I have at last tracked down Appendix 3 Draft Climate Action Survey for Public Consultation which was buried amongst the documents for the cabinet meeting.

 IT REALLY SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD!

 It is also not user-friendly as it does not actually allow itself to be clicked upon. 

  This essential report is a wake-up call and should be transmitted speedily to the public.  Boris Johnson warns that climate is a bigger problem than covid even though apparently Prof Sir David King's March warning that billions will die from climate has been suppressed.   What's the problem with our leadership? 

 I would also put in a plea for the overworked office staff who have always been very helpful but who I know are very stressed, often working long hours,  but are always extremely professional.  The Echo reports staff cuts Tues 15th Dec.   Yet the six new lead members seem to want £5,000 more each annually! 

It's very good that BCP wants to clean up the town but it seems wrong to only budget £10,000 for tree planting but £12,500 for a town team to "improve visitor experience" or paying out £24,000 to cover empty shop windows (Echo 8.12.20) when it should clearly also be clearing up its carbon emissions.  But there was strangely NO MENTION of that in the report.

  I would like to point out that complicity with climate genocide is now being taken very seriously and that as I said in my public question 16.12.20.    BCP's climate response is desperately unambitious even though Mike Greene you refute this. Very  strange in view of the imminence of the Blue Ocean event (Arctic tipping point). Very serious problems ahead.  

  Very speedy reduction of greenhouse gases should be a top priority in all council decisions. I also draw to your attention that a government report continues to lie about its carbon reductions as it fails to include shipping, aviation and outsourcing. Very creative accounting still shockingly at work!     Not the way to look out for the citizens in its care. 

  Moreover our filthy air is still killing 40,000 a year despite the (unnecessary) death of poor little Ella Kissi-Debrah being brought to public attention. 

 Here are my answers to the Draft Climate Action Survey   which I will do again and complete when the proper means appears!

  Question 1:  I strongly agree that our climate is changing

                  2: I strongly agree that the Earth is warming due to human activity

                  3. I strongly agree that I have a good knowledge of the causes and effects of climate change

                  4. I strongly agree that many plants and animals are facing extinction due to climate change

                  5. I strongly agree that if everyone does their bit we can reduce the effects of climate change

                  6. I strongly agree that I want to change my lifestyle to help save the planet.  ( And already have)

                    I am worried about.... (Please select one option per row)

                    7. The impact of climate change on me personally - tend to agree (but only because because we campaigners are at risk of mental ill-health when not listened to for very many years)

                    8.  The impact of climate change on future generations- strongly agree  (This disturbs my sleep)

                    9.  The impact of climate change on less affluent people - strongly agree  (300,000 die annually, most are infants)

                   10. The effects of climate change on human health - strongly agree    (effects are set to escalate)

                   11. Heatwaves and wildfires-  strongly agree                                            (   ditto)

                   12. The effects of extreme weather events in the future  (eg storms and floods)  - strongly agree  -  all going to get v much worse!        13. Rising sea levels and coastal erosion       - strongly agree          (yes, escalating too)

                   14. Reduced food or water availability             - strongly agree          (very strongly agree and really frightened)

                   15.  Loss of wildlife sue to climate change      - strongly agree         (ditto    utterly terrifying and already happening, how late are we!!!!!!)

                    16.   Us not combating climate change quickly enough - extremely strongly agree  (and we are stil  chatting away, ignoring glacier melt and Arctic demise, Amazon rainforest dangerously changing as are the oceans and we are STILL NOT TALKING ABOUT IT.

   Just as we didn't talk about the ozone report of 1974 nor the fact that global whaling was disrupting the production of oxygen in the oceans.

     Because we are good at being over-optimistic and not very good at listening to scientists. Because council leaders are still not alerting the public to the horrors of the Arctic tipping point (NOAAA analysis) in about 15 years.  Thereby neglecting the well-being of our children who must, post-2050, pay to extract from the air with no proven technology the CO2 we are permitting each other to still add to our collective atmosphere.  This was the unkind (not to say profoundly selfish and negligent)  decision of the adults at the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 - Paris 2015. 

  We really should wake up to the awful prospect of the slowing Gulf Stream and the implications of this. BU lecture some years ago. Now BU are being made complicit in the trashing of our precious remaining greenery. 

   I will do the rest of the survey when it is readily accessible.

   Many thanks,

      Susan Chapman  BH5 2BS   01202 251357 

         

                                       

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[Soo Chapman]

The world will face irreversible heating unless firms shift their priorities soon, the outgoing head of the Bank of England has told the BBC.

Mark Carney said the financial sector had begun to curb investment in fossil fuels – but far too slowly.

He said leading pension fund analysis "is that if you add up the policies of all of companies out there, they are consistent with warming of 3.7-3.8C".

Mr Carney made the comments in a pre-recorded BBC Radio 4 Today interview.

The interview, by presenter Mishal Husain, is one of several items on the programme which are focusing on climate change, on the day the show is guest edited by environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Mr Carney added that the rise of almost 4C was "far above the 1.5 degrees that the people say they want and governments are demanding”.

Scientists say the risks associated with an increase of 4C include a nine metre rise in sea levels - affecting up to 760 million people – searing heatwaves and droughts, and serious food supply problems.

Mr Carney, who will next year start his new role as United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance, continued: “The concern is whether we will spend another decade doing worthy things but not enough... and we will blow through the 1.5C mark very quickly. As a consequence, the climate will stabilise at the much higher level.”

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• UK banks to face climate stress tests
• $5bn fund unveiled for climate-friendly shipping

Speaking to the Today programme, he re-iterated his warning that unless firms woke up to what he called the climate crisis, many of their assets would become worthless.

“If we were to burn all those oil and gas [reserves], there’s no way we would meet carbon budget,” he said. “Up to 80% of coal assets will be stranded, [and] up to half of developed oil reserves.

“A question for every company, every financial institution, every asset manager, pension fund or insurer: what’s your plan?

“Four to five years ago, only leading institutions had begun to think about these issues and could report on them.

“Now $120tn worth of balance sheets of banks and asset managers are wanting this disclosure [of investments in fossil fuels]. But it’s not moving fast enough.”

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Climate campaigners Extinction Rebellion question whether the capitalist system can halt climate change.

Mr Carney said capitalism had a vital role in raising funding for clean technologies. But he added that it had to be tempered by government-imposed incentives, rules and prohibitions of the most damaging activities.

Climate change was what he called a “tragedy of the horizon”, because the decision-making time horizon of investment managers is between two and 10 years.

“In those horizons there will be more extreme weather events, but by the time that the extreme events become so prevalent and so obvious it’s too late to do anything about it," he said.

“We look to political leaders to start addressing future problems today.”

He told those questioning the consensus on climate change: “We can’t afford on this one to have selective information, spin, misdirection… It needs to be absolutely clear because we are all in on it.

“To deliver, there needs to be shared understanding about what’s necessary. [But] it is reasonable for there to be debates at the margin about where does the role of the state stop - and what’s the role of markets.”

Mr Carney applauded the UK government for hosting next year’s vital global climate conference in Glasgow. He said success was “vital”.

Stress tests for businesses

Under Mr Carney’s leadership the Bank of England recently launched a “stress test” to determine which firms and sectors would be worst-hit by climate change.

The question is how fast financial institutions can change course.

Recently, investment bank Goldman Sachs ruled out future finance for oil drilling or exploration in the Arctic.

The bank said it would not invest in new thermal coal mines (for power stations) anywhere in the world.

It also announced plans to help its clients manage climate impacts by selling weather-related catastrophe bonds.

Insurance giant AXA said it would stop insuring any new coal construction projects, and totally phase out existing insurance and investments in coal in the EU, by 2030.

Nest, the workplace pension scheme set up by the government, is testing whether it can invest its Climate Aware Fund in firms compatible with a 1.5C warming.

Environmentalists applaud the moves but say they don’t go remotely far enough. Scientists say nations must cut emissions five-fold to avoid a temperature rise over 1.5C.

'Dire consequences'

Meanwhile, the heads of two key environmental bodies have warned that 2020 is the "last chance" to bring the world together to tackle climate change to protect communities and nature.

Climate change and damage to nature are already having "dire consequences", the leaders of government agencies Natural England and the Environment Agency said.

In an article on the Green Alliance website, Natural England chairman Tony Juniper and the Environment Agency's Emma Howard Boyd pointed to the recent flooding which saw hundreds evacuated at Fishlake, Doncaster, with some people still out of their homes.

And a report in October on the state of nature in the UK found two-fifths (41%) of the country's wildlife species had declined over the past 50 years and 13% of the species tracked were threatened with extinction in England.

"It's clear that 2020 is our last chance to bring the world together to take decisive action on climate change in order to protect our communities and reverse the alarming loss of wildlife we have witnessed in recent years," Mr Juniper and Ms Howard Boyd wrote.

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   On episode 4 of the Reith lectures on Radio 4 today we heard: 

  Mark Carney and others note global extinction rates are up 100%   Animals have been lost. Carbon needs to be removed from the atmosphere.  at scale.  Professor Sir David King's optimism is fading away as the ice melts.  A sixth mass extinction event is taking place and  

   I note-  our government is STILL NOT INCENTIVISING THE PUBLIC

 The melting of the poles has passed a tipping point.    Mark Carney highlights our sandcastle civilisation. 11,000 years of the holocene now leads to the anthropocene driven by us. 

 The Industrial Revolution has ended in a one degree warmer temperature already. There are many impacts on ecosystems.  The seas have become 30% more acidic and are rising.   Ice is being lost at increasing rates .  We are destroying habitat.  Losses have been downplayed. Complacency has meant lack of action. 

  Catastrophic impacts will fall on future generations.  We need to value the future. Need to shift market values.  

  We can green up, electrify everything.  Scaling up is needed.  But commercial tech is not yet there.  Hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels, speed and scale are all critical.  Bill Gates is trying.  50 shades of green are needed.  Reforestation (yet we note the Amazon is being carved up).

 Greta's was the wake-up call:   You've stolen my dreams, my childhood... ecosystems are collapsing......fairy tales of eternal economic growth.......  Fridays4Future. won't settle for 2.8 degrees warming.  No more fairytales! 

  Sustainable investing is needed.  People should check things out themselves.  Make your money matter.  Shareholder input- how can banks change?  Intergenerational injustice noted.

  Carney thinks the market's not the whole answer- growth needs to be green.  Climate risk management are needed- existential risk need to return to commercial opportunity.

  The past is NO PREDICTOR of the future.   Every sector of the economy will be affected.   The tragedy of the commons needs to be addressed.  Some banks are helping.   Talks of responsibility and accountability.  Market values are being shifted. Investors can reinforce the momentum- change the climate.    A whole economy transition is needed - 50 shades of green (at 22 min.)

   Nature- based solutions. needed. (And by the way three trillion trees need to be restored)

  Extinction Rebellion's Gail Bradbrook talks of systemic faults and vested interests. She asks for a global citizens' assembly. Carney does not support the idea. Green hydrogen, huge investments and innovations are needed.    28 mins

 People do want to help but they also want cheap clothes, to fly and to drive around.   Carney points out social movements have changed things.  

Neil Ferguson also asked questions.   Greta had called for immediate cessation of emissions.  Covid  caused that for a while but emissions now still continue to mount.

 48% emissions are coming from China but it's also the biggest producer of zero emission cars. 

 There's reference to 2006 the Stern Review;- climate as a market failure.

 But world emissions are still rising-(despite covid)  we're far too slow. A  representative from Nigeria asks about poorer countries and international finance  

 Professor Sir David King- is extremely worried.  His optimism is rapidly melting away as we seem to have passed a tipping point. 

Tech can help. There's talk of direct air carbon capture and geo-engineering.  

 

 Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Calcutta,  Mumbai; all will be in trouble.

 The financial sector needs to be aligned.  Everyone's savings. 

Least developed countries:  G 20 nations must help.  International finance -responsibility

 Yet separately we read that hypocritical  old HSBC think it's a good idea to lend to Adani's dirty old coal project (State Bank of India is to lend $650 million) and  63,000 climate activists have emailed Siemens to say that it shouldn't be supporting coal.

LATER NEWS TODAY:    More bad news is that as the oceans warm the phytoplankton that provides up to 85% planetary oxygen is in trouble.  

  Time we all got a move on and treated the emergencies ahead as priorities! 

SC

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Subject: Avoiding planetary demise and climate genocide. Consultation questions APPENDIX 3 Draft Climate Action Survey for Public Consultation

 

[Soo Chapman]

 Dear BCP,

   Please update your website and all means of public communication.

 The survey itself may be absent but why is the BCP CLIMATE ACTION ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 not being published and explained for the general public?    Nor can I find anything on climate breakdown,  decarbonisation at speed and scale or the Death of Mother Nature. 

  Several fellow campaigners have responded to this alert . One campaigner has sent me reams of aspirations and warnings from 11.12. 1987.  All sorts of UN proposals and initiatives.   Many fine words.  The world has evidently chosen to ignore them. Even now Defra is responding to covid but not to the death of a perfectly nice planet. 

  I've just had another angry communication from the kids of the youth climate movement WHO ARE STILL BEING IGNORED:  "politicians are still not listening to us"  despite the honied words that they are an inspiration. They point out they don't have a future in which they will be able to act. 

  The words climate genocide were used at the recent climate conference.  I wonder what words our young people would use. 

   Sadly the politicians who are not listening includes BCP council and parliamentary representatives.

  The language of survival is still not in place in your meetings either BCP. You are not taking seriously your own report. Decarbonisation at speed and scale is needed but I can't see these words in your meeting rubric. 

   I HOPE ALL councillors have now read this BCP COUNCIL CLIMATE ACTION ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 which warns that ice melt is happening 70 years earlier than expected.  And that tipping points are being reached. 

 It is deeply shocking and extremely frightening.  

 The public must be alerted without further delay.  The truth has been hidden for far too long. 

  We may already have triggered a death sequence from which recovery may not be possible.  No-one really knows.  As Caroline Lucas has said we seem to be documenting our own demise. 

 As the professor points out below we must now remove vast quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere. 

Vast amounts of our own money is still being poured into destroying us. We need leaders who will say this. 

We must stop using fossil fuels (that includes in pension funds etc)  and must speedily restore Nature so some carbon can be reabsorbed.  Three trillion trees have been removed already.   Half the normal quota of this planet's trees.  Clearly we need to replant in tune with expert advice as to where and what species is most helpful as some aspirational schemes have badly failed.

 BCP may talk about covid in their news outlets and updates but where please are the public warnings about the loss of planetary oxygen,  our soils, our future? VERY VERY  ABSENT INDEED.  WHY?

 This planet seems to be on course to overheat to the point of a sixth mass extinction.  How do you, as a responsible administration, plan to protect this conurbation?

 Following the publication of this report the 4th Jan O & S discussions should all be prioritising conversations about

  a. how we avoid triggering annihilation

  b. important next steps to protect the public

  c. how the public will be helped to understand, process and respond to the crises.

  As should the Full Council meeting on 5th Jan.

  We will be listening,

   Susan Chapman 

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Subject: DANGEROUS TIMES: Mark Carney's 4th Reith lecture further below. Prof Sir David King says we need to remove carbon at scale. 9 m sea level rise!!

 

[Soo Chapman]

Thankyou for this response Mike,

  Sharing it with those previously copied in,

   Soo

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Subject: Re: DANGEROUS TIMES: Mark Carney's 4th Reith lecture further below. Prof Sir David King says we need to remove carbon at scale. 9 m sea level rise!!

 

Dear Soo

As per the Public Engagement Survey, all Cabinet decisions need to wait until after the Call-In period expires before they can be implemented.

I shall check with Democratic Services when they return whether the Report itself can be published then (i.e. later this week) or whether it needs to wait until after Full Council (hopefully) endorses it on 5th January.

Best

Mike

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