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Global Briefs, May 28, 2024
[This new weather disaster reporting organization with suggestions for individual action looks helpful. Let me know what you discover about it. –D]

First landfalling cyclone of the season, record-breaking temps, and more

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PUBLIC MORE UNDERSTANDING OF CC

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Dear Friends, 5-21-24
We are pleased to announce the latest version of the Climate Change in the American Mind (CCAM) interactive data visualization tool – the CCAM Explorer. The tool and accompanying dataset include the most recent year of data (ranging from 2008-2023) and enable users to explore Americans’ opinions about climate change over time and across different groups of people. Here are a few highlights from the updated tool:
Americans increasingly understand that global warming is happening and human-caused. Additionally, public understanding of the scientific consensus has increased more than any other measure: the percentage of Americans saying that most scientists think global warming is happening increased from 33% in 2010 to 56% in 2023 (+23 percentage points). Importantly, however, only one in five Americans understand the strength of the scientific consensus about global warming (i.e., that more than 90% of climate scientists think that human-caused global warming is happening).

[To read more click on link. I found the report engrossing and leading to stronger pro-climate engagement. People’s understanding is increasing. — D]

(You and I can do plenty as individuals, but we also have a problem with our economic system. For that we need large awarreness, knowledge, and organization. Here’s one of the several journals that help us confront capitalism.)

Climate & Capitalism
Climate & Capitalism <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>   5-28-24
“Mythmaking 101: What went wrong with capitalism?”
Did big government, monopoly power, and easy money end competitive capitalism’s golden age?   Source
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“Can Capitalism Solve the Ecological Crisis?” Climate and Capitalism (May 7, 2024).

Two new books argue that green capitalism will save us. Neither is convincing.

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Akshat Rathi. CLIMATE CAPITALISM: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age. Greystone Books.

Hannah Ritchie. NOT THE END OF THE WORLD: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. Penguin Random House.

Graphs for global elites and the billionaire class

reviewed by Andrew Ahern

Two new books argue that capitalism will solve the climate and ecological crisis. While making such an argument with different styles and focuses, Bloomberg journalist Akshat Rathi’s Climate Capitalism: winning the race to zero emissions and solving the crisis of our age and data scientist Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet bring the reader to a similar conclusion: our existing social and economic system (capitalism) will deliver the necessary technological change due to market forces, cheaper machines, and government incentives to bring about an age of abundance, human progress and the world’s “first sustainable generation.”

Both Rathi and Ritchie are techno-optimists and political-pessimists who skirt social and political change for technological substitution. . . .MORE