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OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #155, NOVEMBER 27, 2023

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-155-november_30.html Continued: What’s stopping USA from reversing rising temperature, or at least from slowing it down? People who whitewash and delay consensus and public education of the UN IPCC Reports by recommending additional study of the Assessments.     Example: Steven Koonin.  Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.  BenBella, 2021.  IPCC Assessments report the conclusions of thousands of scientists in peer reviewed publications; these conclusions are then reviewed by governments and corporations, which can alter the Assessment reports in “Summaries.”   Koonin admits that “the IPCC’s ‘Summaries for Policymakers’ are heavily influenced, […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #155, NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-155-november.html What’s stopping USA from reversing rising temperature, or at least from slowing it down?  (A frequent subject in CMM.) Fossil Fuel IndustryPolitics of War, “Cold” and Hot.Religion: US Evangelicals.Overpopulation and still growing. What should each of us do to become an insurgency? Fossil Fuel IndustryJeremy Brecher.  Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual. “…lays out key elements of a far-reaching global-scaled, pragmatic, people-powered strategy to topple the power of the fossil fuel industry and the institutions behind it.”  David Solnit. Politics of National Rivalry, Russophobia, War.Loveday Morris and Vanessa Guinan-Bank.  “Germany Seeing Return to Coal.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8-7-22).    [ It’s politics]:  […]

REPORTING THE 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference Thu, Nov 30, 2023 – Tue, Dec 12, 2023

 in Dick's Newsletter 2023

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-reporting-2023-united-nations.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology [I sifted this link to eliminate repetitions and what seemed unimportant.   I brought a dozen items up front.  It’s a weak collection.  You will see how little critical commentary is available, and the Conference only days away.  Send me what you find.  The People around the world must be critically informed in order to intervene for Our Good.  You can bet your fast approaching bottom dollar everyone who can make a profit from the Conference or their representative will be there.  -Dick] RELATED REPORTS, CONTEXTS TEMPERATURE RISING […]

OMNI WAR WATCHWEDNESDAYS, #153, NOVEMBER 22, 2023

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #153, NOVEMBER 22, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Gabriel Piterberg.  Best books on Zionism.Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism, recommended by Israeli historian, Gabriel Piterberg, have challenged the Zionist Israeli narrative of modern history.   (google)   https://fivebooks.com/best-books/zionism-anti-zionism/ “Zionism is the national political movement dedicated to the establishment and preservation of a Jewish state in the land of Israel. You’re an Israeli historian but you are not a Zionist. Perhaps you could tell us about your background and how your views on Israel and the conflict with the Palestinians have evolved and developed. […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #154, NOVEMBER 20,2023

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 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-154-november.htmlMark Lynas, Climate Scholar David Bromwich.  “The Only Issue.” Basav Sen.  Anyone especiallly responsible? Mark Lynas, Climate Scholar High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis. 2004. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet.   2007.The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans.  2011.Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power. 2 014. The Carbon Calculator.  2016.Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency.  2020. Lynas is one of our most distinguished scholars of climate change.  His first book on the subject was published two decades ago, when a one-degree world lay in the future.  The first edition […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #152, NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-152-november.html CHRISTIANITY, RACE, NATIONALISM, US EMPIRE, War and PeaceDick.  Books on Christian NationalismPope Francis’s book Against War: Building a Culture of Peacevia World Beyond War White Christian Nationalism and Empire (and v. democracy) More attention is needed to the role of religions in the growth of US militarism and empire.  Mainstream church membership has declined, but the association of religion with right wing ideology has apparently increased.   Here are some books: Bradley Onishi.  Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism.  Related: Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry.  The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to […]

World Beyond War billboard campaign

 in Current Events

3% of military budget feeds the world Ending starvation across the globe entails redirecting a miniscule portion of an inordinate budget currently set aside to perpetuate wars worldwide. It is not a question of where the money can be found, but how it’s being used. Militarism is escalating at truly horrifying rates across the world, and millions upon millions of people are being displaced and left without reliable access to food and water. And to think, such a small amount of this spending could be used to turn the world in a course opposite to what we’re currently witnessing. Whether […]

Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East

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Rev Dr. Liz Theoharis Yes Magazine, Nov 9 2023 …Eight days after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied drumbeat of war, a diverse group of concerned Americans released a warning about the long-term consequences of a military response. Among them were veteran civil rights activists, faith leaders, and public intellectuals, including Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, and Palestinian-American Edward Said. Rare public opponents of the drive to war at the time, they wrote with level-headed clarity:“We foresee that a military response would not end the terror. Rather, it would spark a cycle of escalating violence, the loss […]