Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-218-february.html Green New Deal. Kate Aronoff.      Overheated. Greenpeace. Inside Climate News. GREEN NEW DEALKate Aronoff.  Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—and How We Fight Back.  Bold Type Books, 2021.[Aronoff reflects the long tradition of Utopian thought and practice.  For utopianism means the ability to imagine a better world, without which we can’t get started,–such as with the New Deal of the 1930s.  –D]      “Decarbonizing the global economy and adapting to the climate changed century ahead will be the single hardest and most important thing our species has ever done.* It’s impossible without a big, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-217-february.html Trump’s Environmental Record Inside Climate News WeeklyProtecting the CommonsA History of the Struggle A Glimpse of TRUMP’S ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD“During his first term in office, Donald Trump worked to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.  He fast-tracked the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.  He rolled back 85% of protected land in the Bears Ears Monument for drilling; and he destroyed Indigenous sacred sites and burial grounds, including Monument Hill in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct his Mexico border wall. “(NOAAF)  2-10-25 This number of ICNW is packed with information regarding the Trump administration’s onslaught against the climate […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-216-february.html John Clarke.   “A Voice from Canada.” Yale Climate Connections, Climate Crisis and Mental Health(and more) “A VOICE FROM CANADA:  John Clarke, “Truth takes a side.”“The Climate Charade Continues.” Originally published: Counterfire  on January 12, 2024 (more by Counterfire) and Canadian Dimension  on November 7, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension) . Understanding and truth are our best weapons against an exploitative society based on lies.  With fossil-fuel interests now openly and repeatedly in charge of Cop summits, their failure of legitimacy must be confronted, argues John Clarke.“On the Edge of the ‘Climate Abyss’.”   Originally published: Counterfire  on May 15, 2024 (more by Counterfire).  With scientists warning of imminent catastrophe, it is time […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-215-january.html MAQ  Review of On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change by Jade E. Sasser, New York: NYU Press, 2018, 189 pp.       Jade Sasser medanthroquarterly.org A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st centurySince the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”―and that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change is to ensure women’s universal access to contraception. Did the population problem ever disappear? What is bringing it back―and […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-213-january.html RESISTING CLIMATE DOUBLESPEAK The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It by Genevieve Guenther. See all formats and editionsPublisher’s description:  A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change. “If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it.” – Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard. “A revelatory study…It’s a breath of fresh air.” Publishers’ Weekly Starred Review In an illuminating […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-212-january-6.html  A FEW of the ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NEW YEAR FOR THE PLANET Indigenous People: Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund  Scientists and their allies: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) One Org.’s Action on Multiple Fronts:  GreenpeaceClimate Resilient Farming:  AFSCReporting on the Calamity:  Inside Climate NewsAnd Yale Climate Connections (All of the anti-nuclear weapons orgs. too.) Indigenous Voices to Preserve Our Planet “Our ancestors have passed down traditional ways that best protect Mother Earth for generations” by Judith LeBlanc, Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund <info@nativeorganizing.org>   Dec 22, 2024. Native peoples view lands, waters, and all living beings on […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-210-december.html THESE ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE CLIMATE ARE USInside Climate NewsUnitarian Universalists for Social Justice Yale Climate Connections Climate Mobilization Project Some other climate organizations reported on in CMM:  Planet Over Profit, Climate and Capitalism, UN Annual COP, Living on Earth (NPR), OMNI Anthologies (Temperature, Refugees, etc.), Greenpeace. Inside Climate News Weekly, December 21, 2024.  Here’s a selection : A Florida Commission Keeps Approving Utility Plans With Lots of Fossil Fuels. Now Young Adults Are Suing. BY AMY GREEN.The plaintiffs claim the Public Service Commission’s practice of approving utility plans based on fossil fuels violates their constitutional […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-209-december.html PLANET OVER PROFITPOP is a youth-led climate justice group building people power and using direct action to take on the fossil fuel industry and put Planet Over Profit. Fossil fuel companies – and the banks and asset managers that finance them – are driving us off the cliff of climate collapse.    The wealthiest 1%, with their dirty investments and private jets and yachts, rob us of a livable future while ordinary people struggle to make ends meet and survive.   If our so-called “leaders” won’t act on climate, it’s on us to hold them accountable and reclaim […]