Daily Archives: May 6, 2024

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #177, MAY 6, 2024

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-177-may-6-2024.html   Patrick Mazza on Convergences of Ecological Overshoot, Wars, Billionaires.     Friends Committee on National Legislation Knows the Connections and Responds. Convergence of Climate Crisis, Overshoot of Ecological Boundaries, Concentration of Wealth, Expansion of Militarism, Wars.  PATRICK MAZZA.    “A World Going in the Wrong Direction.“ COUNTERPUNCH (MARCH 28, 2024).      The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they are embedded in the systems logic itself. The climate crisis is the signature of this. While definite progress has been made in deploying low-carbon energy technologies, overall carbon […]

UKRAINE WAR #32, May 5, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/omni-ukraine-war-anthology-32-may-5-2024.html What’s at stake:  We are a part of the US Peace Movement.  I described 1,200 organizations in Peace Movement Directory (2001), and the spirit continues inside the US Warfare State, as Code Pink and World Beyond War demonstrate.  Our own OMNI, mainly on the local level likewise comprehensive, ranges from feeding people to opposing war and climate change.  (Btw, Medea Benjamin has visited us twice.)  Join Code Pink, Join World Beyond War.  Join OMNI.  They need your support to be even better.   There’s no time to play or pretend temperature is […]