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 NEWS. “The Environment After Trump’s First 100 Days” and other news. “ICN Sunday Morning” <newsletters@insideclimatenews.org>
Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Kiley Bense as they discuss the impact of Trump’s first 100 days on the environment.
Seven ICN reporters came together to produce a comprehensive analysis of the Trump administration’s orders, pronouncements and actions on climate that, environmentalists fear, may set the country back decades. Kiley explains what it was like to knit together multiple dispatches from her colleagues who spoke with 16 different sources – including the White House.