Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-94-september.html Henry Fountain.   “Climate ‘tipping points’ weighed.”W. T. Whitney, Jr..  “Climate change has long prompted migration, now it may drive anti-capitalist consciousness, too.”Editors of the Monthly Review.  What should be the name of the latest epoch and age? Henry Fountain.   “Climate ‘tipping points’ weighed” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Sept. 10, 2022.  Climate ‘tipping points’ weighed.   Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Sep 10, 2022.   Thresh­old for cat­a­clysmic events among find­ings in study.     Read more…      Forwarded by Pat Snyder. Failure to limit global warming to the targets set by international accords will most likely set off several climate “tipping points,” a team of scientists said Thursday, with […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-91-september.htmlGrace Blakeley.  “Turning the Earth into money w/ John Bellamy Foster.” Alberto Garzón Espinosa.  “The Limits to Growth: Ecosocialism or Barbarism.”Drew Costley and Matthew Brown.  “Study says carbon’s costs undercounted” Humans and Nature under Capitalism Grace Blakeley.  “Turning the Earth into money w/ John Bellamy Foster.”  Mronline.org (posted May 12).  Grace talks to John Bellamy Foster, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. They discuss Marx’s theory of nature and the relationship between humanity and nature under capitalism.   (For the interview, click the title.  See Sparrow, Crimes Against Nature.) WHEN DID WE KNOW? (that the […]

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-90-august-29.htmlJohn Bellamy Foster’s summary and review of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report.Joanna Person-Michener.  “ Must act on cli­mate.” John Bellamy Foster.  “Be moderate…we only want THE EARTH!” Mronline.org (7-22-22). . . .In terms of the scientific consensus on climate change, the reports of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are most important. The planetary emergency is not, however, confined to climate change, and also encompasses the entire set of planetary boundaries that are now being crossed [CONVERGENCE], demarcating the earth as a safe home for humanity. Most of my comments here, though, will center on climate change. In […]

IPCC, Growth capitalism unsustainable.Johnstone, Rhetoric of imperial narrative.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, climate disinformation.John Bellamy Foster, Mass mobilization needed. “Leaked report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable.”  Originally published: CTXT (Contexto y Acción)  on August 22, 2021.  Another leak of the UN 2022 report warns that the only known way to avert climate breakdown is to avoid any model which is based on perpetual growth. “Imperial narrative control has five distinct elements.” Caitlin A. Johnstone.  Mronline.org (7-3-22). All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-87-august-8.html Robert Hunziker.  “Greenland Threatens.”Winona LaDuke.  To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Windigoo Slayers.John Bellamy Foster.  “Be moderate…we only want THE EARTH!” Coastal Cities Adaptation“Greenland Threatens”    Editor.  mronline.org (7-22-22).Originally published: Countercurrents  on July 20, 2022 by Robert Hunziker (more by Countercurrents)   (Posted Jul 21, 2022).  Climate Change, Ecology, EnvironmentGlobalNewswireGreenland [Conclusion of the article]: Meanwhile, according to NASA: Greenland and Antarctica are losing three times as much ice each year as they did in the 1990s. Years of warnings about dangers of excessive fossil fuel CO2 emissions have not moved the needle. Fossil fuels today account for 75-80% of the energy mix, same as 50 […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-86-august-1.html BBC.  E. Bruce Harrison and Power of Corporations to Control Information.George Monbiot.  “Days of Rage. “  The Guardian (July 19, 2022).     Necessity of system change. $The Power of Corporate Public Relations$ to Control Information: An Important Example from TNR’s “Apocalypse Soon” Weekly Climate Newsletter (7-27-22) (from BBC): The Scoundrel E. Bruce Harrison.   The Audacious PR Plot That Seeded Doubt About Climate Change The BBC has a piece on E. Bruce Harrison, the man who might be credited with killing climate policy in the 1990s. Harrison ran a messaging campaign for the Global Climate Coalition, or GCC—a lobbying group of […]

UN Global Affairs.  “Guterres, World Must Choose Between Action and Suicide.”Murad Qureshi.    “$2 Trillion for War Versus $100 Billion to Save the Planet.”AFSC.  A Guide to protesting.   UN Global Affairs SmartBrief, July 18, 2022 News covering the UN and the world SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE Guterres: World must choose between action and suicide.    Half of the global population is facing the threat of heatwaves, drought, wildfires or storms and yet the world continues to rely on fossil fuels, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told representatives from 40 countries meeting in Germany for talks on rebuilding trust between developing and developed countries […]

79. Climate Memo Mondays, #79, June 13, 2022https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-79-june-13.htmlOverpopulation and OverconsumptionNew Laws NeededRichard Heinberg,  PowerPopulation Connection Presents, 8 Billion and Counting by Jennifer D. SciubbaTed Hamilton, Beyond Fossil Law: We Need New Laws. Richard Heinberg, Power.  Heinberg has no doubt regarding the significance of population, in two sections: “Overpopulation and Overconsumption” (pp,. 238-242) and “Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady (337-41).         “Population growth makes every environmental crisis harder to address. . . .the more children we have now, the more human suffering is likely. . . .” (240-41).  “At the US average amount of consumption, we would need the equivalent of […]