Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-105-december.html RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CATASTROPHEJeff Masters.  Rev. of Disasterology by Samantha Montano..João Pedro Stedile,   Global Disasters, Causes, and Solutions.Geoff and Leslie Oelsner.  Attunements for the Earth.Duncombe and Lambert. The Art of Activism. RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CATASTROPHE Jeff Masters.   “Disasterology: Disasters from the Front Lines of  the Climate Crisis, by Samantha Montano, a book review.” POSTED IN EYE ON THE STORM, YALE Climate CONNECTIONS (nOV. 27, 2022). The U.S. emergency management and disaster response systems are desperately deficient, and cannot handle the onslaught of climate change-amplified disasters already besieging the nation. That’s the take-home message of Disasterology, the excellent 2021 book by […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-104-december.html Military Spending, Climate Crisis, China and USA Jeremy Kuzmarov.“… Vast Military Spending… Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis.” Michael Klare.  “What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change?”    Jeremy Kuzmarov.“New Report Details How Vast Military Spending By the Richest Countries Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis.”  CovertAction Magazine (Dec 05, 2022). So why do climate justice groups like 350.org support the war in Ukraine? While the world’s climate negotiators gathered for the COP27 summit in Egypt, a new report published by the Transnational Institute, a Dutch think tank, emphasizes how rising global military spending is a great threat to efforts to combat climate change. According to […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-103-november.html Resisting and Adapting to Climate Calamity Tom Athanasiou. Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal.Peter Friederici.  Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope.Robert Gottlieb.  Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet.  Bernie’s Green New Deal I am reviewing writings I had marked to return to.  One is “Bernie’s Secret Weapon: Only a Global Green New Deal Can Succeed” by Tom Athanasiou (The Nation, September 30, 2019).  The article is three years old, but even more relevant today, for crisis has become emergency, and the public remains apathetic. The “10-year, $16.3 trillion price tag” reflects the “hard scientific truth […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-102-november.html INTERPRET THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT What can I do as an individual to slow down the climate calamity?  Union of Concerned Scientists: Science in Action.David Camfield. Future on Fire:  Ecosocialism.United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). “Climate Change: The bad news is, it’s us. The good news is, it’s us.”  Union of Concerned Scientists, 11-15-22.     We Can Build the Climate Future We Need         Dear Dick,Reading the news, it’s all too easy to slip into a sense of doom and despair, but that’s just what fossil fuel companies, their allies in Congress, and others who […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-100-november.html AccountabilityJeff Sparrow. Crimes Against Nature.Jeffrey Sachs.  Inflation Reduction Act: Manchin,  Sinema, and Tea Party     Republicans.   (Contrast Bernie’s and Elizabeth’s proposals.)Sue Ann Martinson.   “Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us.”Climate Accountability Institute Percentage of U.S. voters who view climate change as the most important problem facing the country: 1.   Harper’s Index.  The light of OMNI’s CMM that could dispel our climate ignorance that will destroy us is free.   Feel free to forward it to all your acquaintances and lists. ACCOUNTABILITYJeff Sparrow.   Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating. Scribe, 2021.      Sparrow ends his book with a […]

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/climate-memo-mondays-99.html Population Growth: 8 billion in NovemberThe Limits of GrowthMark Hertsgaard.  Biden’s Climate Bill.Dick.  The Importance of Time. Jack St George. Trillion Trees Over-PopulationPopulation Connection | Join a Discussion with our Communications Team!   1-28-22 Engage 1-28-22       Hi James R., The global population is racing towards 8 billion—a milestone we’re due to reach next month.  Since the UN released its World Population Prospects over the summer, our Communications staff have been hard at work reporting on the latest projections….We invite you to join a discussion with them to learn more about key takeaways from the UN’s latest population projections, which […]

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-97-october-17.html    Bob Stern.  Earth First! Journal.Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, eds. The Green New Deal and the Future of Work.David Gelles.  Patagonia’s Stockholder is the Earth. Bob Stern.  Earth First! Journal, 40th Anniversary Edition.  Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021. https://fe.quixotes.org/archive/410-fall-2021/earth-first-journal/ Wow! I thought, look at all that color! Can it really be the Earth First! Journal? They pulled out all the stops creating this collage of Earth First! art, poetry, history and personal reminiscences of radical eco-warriors over the past 40 years!    (Continued) Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, eds. The Green New Deal and the Future of Work.  Columbia […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-95-october-3.html November 15 Earth’s Population reaches 8 billion.Marcy Franck.  An Optimist’s Embrace of The Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.President of Marshall Islands Calls for Total War on CC MARK YOUR CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 15I have reduced my study of the converging calamities mainly to war and warming, but overpopulation is never far from mind through membership in Population Connection:  “Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by earth’s resources.”  Its Septermber 2022 number includes half a dozen items about the catastrophe of […]