Climate Memo Mondays

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-148-october-9.html A Retrospective Assessment of The Limits of Growth. Population Connection: Stablilizing Population Growth.Adam McKay v. Fossil Fuel-funded Misinformation. RESISTING THE SOURCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE A Retrospective Assessment of The Limits of Growth. Monthly Review Vol. 74, No. 5 (October 2022) “Notes from the Editors, October 2022” by The Editors. https://monthlyreview.org/2022/10/01/mr-074-05-2022-09_0/ This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential, and also controversial, environmental studies ever written: The Club of Rome’s report, The Limits to Growth (New York: Universe, 1972) by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. No other environmental work of the 1970s offered […]

Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-147-october-2.html Al Gore. The Climate Reality Project.Thomas Kostigen.  Extreme Weather Survival Guide.  May 14, 2023“Mothers on Six Continents Demand Action to Protect Children From Climate Crisis.”“If we don’t act now, it will be too late,” one mom warned. “I could not live with myself, as a mother, as a doctor, and as a human being, if we didn’t do all we can to try and bring about the much-needed systemic change.”  I continue to sift through boxes of books after a water pipe froze and broke last Dec.   Which of the books or folders are still worth reading? The Climate […]

 OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #146, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Geoff and Leslie Oelsner.  Attunements for the Earth. Ed Rampell. Film Necessity, or a Choice of Evils.Urban Ramblings.  Reject the Military Carbon Bootprint. RESISTANCE TO THE WARMMAKERS Geoff and Leslie Oelsner.  Attunements for the Earth. Dear OMNI Friends, Our planetary climate crisis calls for all possible creative responses. It calls us to turn and tap into the catalyzing intelligence of Nature. Leslie’s and my new book is titled Attunements for the Earth. It includes Leslie’s photographs and my writings. It’s part of our turning, part of our […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-145-september.html Jake Johnson.  US “The ‘Planet-Wrecker in Chief’.”Cristen Hemingway Jaynes.  Six Of Nine Planetary Boundaries Have Now Been Exceeded. Fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. Jake Johnson.  “The ‘Planet-Wrecker in Chief’.”  Consortium News (9-13-23).  Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects through 2050, according to Oil Change International.  Read here… https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/13/the-planet-wrecker-in-chief/   Common Dreams The United States was called “planet-wrecker-in-chief” by a report released Tuesday that points out the nation’s plans for a massive expansion of oil and gas production over the next two and a half decades even as it […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com)  Veterans for Peace Jake Bittle. The Great Displacement.  Bittle has been writing and fact-checking for Popular Science since 2018. Kirkpatrick Sale.   “The Dangerous Contrivance of ‘Climate Change.’”  Sale has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.  David Suzuki..   “There’s Still Time to Avoid Climate Catastrophe.”     Suzuki is a science broadcaster, and environmental activist with a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago. GROWING RECOGNICATION OF DANGEROUS CONVERGENCE OF THE TWO EXISTENTIAL THREATS TO CIVILIZATION AND PLANET:  NUCLEAR WAR AND GLOBAL WARMING VETERANS FOR PEACE 2023 Convention opened with a panel on the Climate Crisis and Militarism Jake Bittle. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #143, SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Art Hobson.  “Ending the nuclear weapons threat: USA and others must support U.N. treaty.”The Shalom Center.  “Maui Wildfires: Elite Origins, Grassroots Response.”Jim Hightower.   “People and the Planet Win Big Victory Over Big Oil!”  GLOBAL WARMING AND NUCLEAR WEAPONSArt Hobson.  “Ending the nuclear weapons threat: USA and others must support U.N. treaty.  NWADG 22 August 2023.” . . . The bad news is that, along with global warming, The Bomb is an existential threat to civilization.  The good news is that the chances of real action on […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-142-august-28.html Earth Overshoot DayJeff Goodell.  The Heat Will Kill You FirstTED HAMILTON.   Beyond Fossil Law:  CLIMATE, COURTS, AND THE FIGHT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. Earth Overshoot Day We busted Earth’s budget!     By the Numbers 2022 .  an VIEW 2022 HIGHLIGHTS Calculate your personal Overshoot Day Our mobile-friendly calculator is now available in eight languages. You can use it to measure your Ecological Footprint and determine your personal Earth Overshoot Day. The tool helps users learn about solutions so we can all tread more lightly on the Earth. CALCULATE NOW Earth Overshoot Day is an estimate, not an exact date.  . […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #141, AUGUST 21, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Greta Thunberg.  The Climate Book.  Penguin, 2023.Hanson and Brown.  Government of and for Its Citizens. Matthew Gindin.  “What is metabolic rift?” Greta Thunberg.  The Climate Book.  Penguin, 2023.  I received this book a few days ago and quickly began to admire its “creation” (as the title-author page unusually declares: “Created by Greta Thunberg.”)  For her presence is essential throughout.   She opens her book with four jolting graphics showing the relationship between CO2 and global warming.   The Table of Contents numbers each of the essays and divides them […]