Yearly Archives: 2024

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #168, MARCH 13, 2024

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2024 Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-168-march-13.html Peacemaking, PeacemakersJust Foreign PolicyVeterans for PeaceInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Just Foreign PolicyJames R. The American people want to see an immediate ceasefire in occupied Palestine, and our pressure for peace is working. Just days ago, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a statement calling for an immediate six-week ceasefire—the first time the administration has used this language. But the Biden administration needs to put its money where its mouth is – if the U.S. does nothing to hold Israel and Netanyahu accountable, then nothing will change. With Netanyahu threatening to invade Rafah and […]

The Climate Moment

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Stories from this unique moment on Earth ….  What’s happening with the climate?! Diane Shisk, Reevaluation Counseling leader, wrote: “The next few years are a critical time for action on the climate emergency. We all want to stay informed, stay hopeful, and stay active. To help with that, we’ve developed a resource: What’s Happening with the Climate? “ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Puj4YXeBtpfS6DZuUFYXG5zL2oVP3iZECTfeXE7XwW4/edit#heading=h.9dz7msxy1o5e Check it out! It has updates on “The Good News” and “The Bad News,” with a short summary and a link to more information if you want to go deep. Great conversation starters, stories, and examples of actions people are taking in other places.”

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #169, MARCH 11, 2024

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 Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-convergence-of-catastrophes-wars.html CALLS FOR AWARE AND RESPONSIVE CITIZENS Climate Awareness: Ireland and USA.Neta C. Crawford.  The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War. CLIMATE AWARENESS: IRELAND AND USAYale Program on Climate Change Communication (3-7-24).The Irish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication to help them conduct a nationally representative survey on public climate change awareness.  A few highlights with comparisons with USA: · 95% of the Irish people think climate change is happening. By contrast, our latest national survey in the U.S. found that 72% of Americans think global warming is happening. (Note: The term “climate change” was used […]

CONVERGENCE OF CATASTROPHES WARS AND WARMING, ANTHOLOGY #1

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-convergence-of-catastrophes-wars.html Compiled by Dick Bennett, for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology March 8, 2024 HTTPS://OMNICENTER.ORG/DONATE What’s at Stake:   These essays reveal how rapidly and significantly awareness has grown world-wide of the full scope of increasing, intensifying, interrelated problems.   But not so much in the US.   ― Thomas Hardy RESISTING DOOM of CONVERGING CATASTROPHES CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS NOWAnd our stance should be??   4-15-23      Dante in “The Inferno” places fence-sitters (one translation) just outside Hell, stung eternally by swarming wasps.   Another translation renders the word opportunists.      If nuclear weapons and global warming each alone threatens our […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #167, March 6, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-167-march-6.html   Compiled by Dick Bennett Peacemakers’ Responsibility: If We Fail to Prevent a War, then We Must Stop the War. War in Ukraine: MAKING SENSE OF A SENSELESS CONFLICT byMEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES.    An important antidote to war propaganda” — Mairead McGuire, activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize .     50% off “Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence”  read by Eunice Wong. Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation against the Gaza genocide was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. CHRIS HEDGES Report.    .MAR 2, 2024. In Case You Missed These Episodes:  Catching Up […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #168, MARCH 4, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-168-march-4.html Robert Hunziker.  “Fastest Warming on Earth.”Bendell and Read.  Deep Adaptation. ROBERT HUNZIKER .  “Fastest Warming on Earth.”  Counterpunch FEBRUARY 23, 2024.FacebookTwitterRedditEmail . . .As the massive glaciers recede, space opens at the edge of permafrost, releasing ancient methane. . . .Methane detected in the High Arctic puts a big hole in the Global Methane Pledge of more than 100 countries that agreed to cut emissions 30% by 2030. It’s an add-on that nobody knows how to deal with.  The High Arctic location is Svalbard, Norway (pop. 2,642) which is the fastest warming region of the planet only […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #167, FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-167-february.html Dana R. Fisher Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action (on climate inaction).  Julie Hollar.  Grossly Inadequate Reporting by the Mainstream Media of the Climate Emergency. “Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks To Climate Action” By Michaela Herrmann, DeSmog.  PopularResistance.org (2-15-24).   Professor Dana R. Fisher’s new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action―but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector […]