Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-232-may-26.html   Chris Hedges.  Climate Crisis.Gene Ray.  Commoning. The Chris Hedges Report: Facing The Climate Crisis And Human Mortality By Chris Hedges, Scheer Post.  Popular Resistance.org (5-23-25).   In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecological collapse, war, endless resource accu mulation fueled by capitalism — is the issue of our time. The warning signs are there but as author Eiren Caffall tells host Chris Hedges, people are not able to handle the facts regarding the “fragility of our […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-231-may-19.html Inside Climate News (ICN)ICN AND SIERRA CLUB v. FOSSIL FUELS COMPANIES Diana B. Henriques.   …The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism.  [A compendium applicable to the resistance of ff plutocrats today.  –D] Inside Climate News (ICN) Looking for More Climate News?   Visit our website for the latest. Sign up for more newsletters, including our twice-weekly Today’s Climate and Thursday’s Inside Clean Energy. FOSSIL FUELS INDUSTRY v. Democracy and PlanetICN AND SIERRA CLUB v. FFICN:   Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Martha Pskowski as they discuss what the oil […]

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 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-229-may-5-2025.html   Composting.Preparing for Extreme Weather.Water Protection v. Mining. UN Climate Conference. Interested in Compost?  What to do with your kitchen waste?  How to have nutritious soil?  Worms?   Contact Ozark Compost and Swap. ozarkcompost.com   “Extreme weather season is almost here. Make sureyou’re ready.”  Yale Climate Connection (4-30-25). Temperatures are heating up, and hurricane season is around the corner. As the Trump administration cuts staff and budgets at departments like NOAA and FEMA, Americans risk being less able to prepare and respond to weather disasters than they were this time last year. That makes it more important […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-227-april.html Warheads to WindmillsGreen Eco-Socialist Network  –> See more ways you can take action to pressure the industries driving these damages to the planet here.     Read in browser » A new Climate organization:  Green Eco-Socialist Network  https://eco-socialism.org/We are an informal, ad hoc network of Green Party members who self-identify as revolutionaries. We want to build the Green Party into a functional, revolutionary eco-socialist political party that is serious about taking and exercising state power, and using it to help facilitate the end of capitalism and creation of an eco-socialist society.  By “eco-socialism,” we refer to a […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-226-april-14.html   Save PBS.AUTOs v. CLIMATE: 3 Articles.John J. Mearsheimer.  Why Leaders Lie. Demand Progress:  Save PBSA top Trump ally in Congress just introduced legislation to strip all federal funding from PBS and public radio, following a slanderous congressional hearing attacking public broadcasting as “anti-American.”1,2   Trump himself piled on by attacking PBS as “horrible and completely biased” and demanded that Republicans “rid our Country of this giant SCAM.”3   It’s all part of a coordinated attack on PBS and public radio.    Demand Progress has mobilized tens of thousands of people to contact Congress and defend PBS, and with […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-224-march-31.html  Timothy Noah.  Fighting Back. Yale Climate Maps. Portside Online News Magazine.Barry Sanders’ New Book on Moby Dick as Environmental Manifesto. Timothy Noah.   Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance.  The New Republic (March 27, 2025).   Civil society can’t be saved in the courts alone. It’s up to us as a people to stand up and push back. Yale Climate Communication MAPS Dear Friends, Today, we are excited to release the latest Yale Climate Opinion Maps (YCOM), now current through our latest survey from December 2024. This tool identifies the diversity of public opinion across the country, including belief that […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-223-march-24.html Yale Climate Connections February 28 – March 6, 2025. As the politics of climate change shift, how can ordinary people respond?  Goodbye, Paris Agreement; hello, National Energy Dominance Council, the body tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s fossil-fuel-forward agenda.   [Here’s another organization fighting back.  –D]Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2015, aiming to convince more people who care about climate change to engage with the electoral process. Keep reading. More articles published this weekNOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts‘We know what it’s like’: How Appalachian towns are learning to help each other after […]