Monthly Archives: August 2023

This is what a Metacrisis looks like

August 24, 2023 in Current Events

Vermont in July and Hawaii in August. It’s clear to all but the most resistant that when it comes to climate, we’re not in Kansas anymore. Climate change is real, and resistance to the idea is futile. Even though Northwest Arkansas hasn’t felt the worst effects we see it all around us. Tornadoes have hit in every part of our state, rain by the barrel comes regularly, we’ve had 2 killer arctic vortexes in the past 3 years and right now we’re sweltering in a heat dome. But the disturbing insistence by some of our “leaders” that it’s not real […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #140, AUGUST 23, 2023

August 22, 2023 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-140-august-23.html Against Nuclear Holocaust Back from the BrinkAbolishing Nuclear Weapons Back from the Brink | Bringing Communities Together to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (preventnuclearwar.org) Back from the Brink is a US-based grassroots coalition of individuals, organizations and elected officials working together toward a world free of nuclear weapons and advocating for common sense nuclear weapons policies to secure a safer, more just future. We call on the United States to lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by: Actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals Renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first Ending […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #141, AUGUST 21, 2023

August 22, 2023 in Climate Memo Mondays

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #141, AUGUST 21, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Greta Thunberg. The Climate Book. Penguin, 2023.Hanson and Brown. Government of and for Its Citizens. Matthew Gindin. “What is metabolic rift?” Greta Thunberg. The Climate Book. Penguin, 2023. I received this book a few days ago and quickly began to admire its “creation” (as the title-author page unusually declares: “Created by Greta Thunberg.”) For her presence is essential throughout. She opens her book with four jolting graphics showing the relationship between CO2 and global warming. The Table of Contents numbers each of the essays and divides them […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #140, AUGUST 14, 2023

August 13, 2023 in Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-140-august-14.html NOTES FROM THE EDITORS. mONTHLY REVIEW. June 2022 (Volume 74, Number 2) by The Editors (Jun 01, 2022) Topics: Capitalism Climate Change Ecology Political Economy Places: Global [I discovered I had never forwarded this crucial explanation of the IPCC process of two reports for each of the six IPCC assessments—the scientific report produced by hundreds of scientists based upon thousands of published studies, and the redacted government/corporate final report. If you had wondered why the final assessments had seemed to have understated their findings, you were reading the Ffnal, doctored document of each of the six assessments. –Dick] Time is running out for the world to […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #138, AUGUST 9, 2023

August 9, 2023 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #138, AUGUST 9, 2023. jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com); https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-138-august-9.html USA, WARMAKER As you might know, I am reshelving my books after having to box them up following a frozen pipe this winter and restoration. It’s given me an opportunity to read again books that help explain why I am opposed to US foreign policy of wars and empire. For example, The Roots of American Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Power and Purpose by Gabriel Kolko (1969).Here’s from the Introduction, p. xi: “For a growing number of Americans the war in Vietnam has become the […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #139, AUGUST 7, 2023

August 8, 2023 in Climate Memo Mondays

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #139, AUGUST 7, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) KENNY STANCIL. “Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.”José Seoane. “The eco collapse we were warned about has begun.” Ian Angus. “Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene.” KENNY STANCIL. “Worsening Heatwaves Put Entire Global Food System in Jeopardy, Scientists Warn.” Common Dreams (July 21, 2023). “There are growing risks of simultaneous major crop losses in different regions in the world,” said one scientist. “This is not what we’re seeing right now, but in the coming decades that’s one […]