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OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #204, NOVEMBER 11, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-204-november.html ANDREAS MALM, CONVERGENCE: DON’T FORGET PANDEMICS A decade ago, I named my blog War and Warming, but I have added more crises:   and pandemics, population growth, fascism.   Andreas Malm in Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (2020) reminds us that pandemics arise from the increasing human activities throughout the planet.   Best known, of course, is the rising temperature from humans burning fossil fuels.    Less known is the increasing spillover of climate-related pathogens from human growth and development (not Chinese labs).   Excellent book.    -D Dick’s Summary of Naomi Klein’s Foreword to Aronoff […]

ARMISTICE DAY NOVEMBER 11, 2024

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-armistice-day-november-11-2024.html “In the US, Make it Armistice Day Again.”   Consortium News (11-11-24).  Declare an armistice in Gaza and Lebanon and make Veteran’s Day Armistice Day once more in the U.S., says Gerry Condon. Read here… A horrific war has been waged for over a year in the third-largest country in Africa: Sudan. Tens of thousands of people have already been killed. Many women are committing suicide to avoid rape. Sudan does not manufacture any of the weapons doing most of the killing. The bulk of the weapons are coming from the […]