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OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #164, FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-164-february.html John J. Berger.  Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.  2023.      From my New Deal perspective (I was born in 1932), one of Berger’s most important chapters is #14, pp. 283ff., “New Laws and Politics,” where he discusses “current barriers to the kind of fair and comprehensive policies that would speed us toward a safe, stable earth and a more just society.”  They especially include the flood of secret money into “super PACs” used to influence elections and legislation permitted by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, and […]