OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #230, MAY 12, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-230-may-12.html Barry Sanders. KillingMoby Dick: From Whale Oil to Fossil Fuel.INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS. “The Environment After Trump’s First 100 Days.” Barry Sanders. The Manifesto of Herman Melville. OR Books, 2025.Moby Dick “demands a response beyond mere resistance. It aims for a change in people’s perception and beliefs, and demands that they stop capitulating to a society that in order to maximize profits and power, must control and destroy. . . .For Melville, that means one thing only: All killing must stop” (p. 42). [Moby Dick is usually listed among the greatest of US novels.] INSIDE CLIMATE […]