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31. Climate Memo Mondays, July 12, 2021

July 15, 2021 in Climate Memo Mondays

31. Climate Memo Mondays, July 12, 2021July 11, UN World Population Day https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/climate-memo-mondays-july-12-2021.html The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York. Monthly Rev. P, 2011. $15.26 – $26.00 Winner of the 2010 Gerald L. Young Book Award, bestowed by the Society for Human Ecology Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through […]

30. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 14, 2021

July 15, 2021 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-14-2021.html Tom Engelhardt. A Nation Unmade by War. Haymarket, May 2018. Publisher’s Description From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity. As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa, the United States has won nothing. Its unending wars, in fact, have only contributed to a world […]