Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-132-june-19.html Jake Bittle.   The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration.  2023. The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future. Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don’t realize is […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #131, JUNE 12, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) ·       Tomgram.  “Jane Braxton Little, Climate Migrants .” ·       JANE BRAXTON LITTLE.     “Looking for Home in an Overheating World.” TOMGRAM   TOMDISPATCH “Jane Braxton Little, Climate Migrants in a Hell on Earth.” POSTED ON JUNE 4, 2023 Uh-oh, my city’s sinking. I’m not kidding! According to a new study, New York City, my hometown, is all too literally going down, thanks to those vertiginous towers, including the Empire State Building, constructed on land some of which was sandy and is now giving way. All those Manhattan skyscrapers and the like […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-130-june-5.html Thom Hartmann.  Nationalize the Fossil Fuels Industry.David Schwartzman.  China’s peace plan, ceasefire in the Ukraine war, negotiations.  Dick.  Rabbis: study leading to action. THOM HARTMANN.   “Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?”  Common Dreams.    May 29, 2023.[Hartmann makes a case for nationalizing the fossil fuels industry.   Here is the conclusion of his article. To read the entire article go to https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/criminal-liability-for-climate-damage   Thanks to Fran for sending Hartmann’s excellent argument.  –Dick] Thomas M. Hanna, Director of Research at The Democracy Collaborative and author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States, […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-128-may-22.html Population Connection Recommended Books. “Climate breakdown, extinction, and ‘the most stupid boast.’”  Media Lens.  Population Connection.  Submit Your Reading Pick for the Next Book Club.   Engage.  May 17, 2023.[All five of these books look highly worthwhile—from Attenborough’s autobiography, to protection of threatened species, to refugees, to a survival guide.   But I cite them especially to draw attention to Population Connection, which defends abortion AND vigorously advocates contraception, both in the context of climate change the variety of which is suggested by these 5 books. This is a comprehensive women’s and men’s organization you should know about.  –D] Last week […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-128-may-22.html Population Connection Recommended Books. “Climate breakdown, extinction, and ‘the most stupid boast.’”  Media Lens.  Population Connection.  Submit Your Reading Pick for the Next Book Club.   Engage.  May 17, 2023.[All five of these books look highly worthwhile—from Attenborough’s autobiography, to protection of threatened species, to refugees, to a survival guide.   But I cite them especially to draw attention to Population Connection, which defends abortion AND vigorously advocates contraception, both in the context of climate change the variety of which is suggested by these 5 books. This is a comprehensive women’s and men’s organization you should know about.  –D] Last week […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-127-may-15.html Pope Francis.  Laudato Si’, Praise Be To You FCNL.  Solving Complex Converging Problems. Art Hobson.  The Car Culture Is One of Those Problems. 17,000 Aukland Youth Strike.  “High Tide. Don’t Hide.” RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CHANGEThe Letter: A Message for our Earth The Letter: A Message for our Earth is a 2022 documentary film presented by YouTube Originals, telling the story of the Laudato Si’ encyclical by Pope Francis. The film was produced by Oscar-winning Off the Fence Productions and directed by Nicolas Brown, in partnership with the Laudato Si’ Movement. Wikipedia.   Initial release: October 4, 2022 Laudato Si’ = Praise Be […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-126-may-8-2023.html Scott Scheffer.   Coverage of extremely destructive weather in the Global South  is slanted, biased, and Eurocentric.Álvaro J. de Regil.   “The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis.”  Scott Scheffer.    “While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa.”  Editor.  Mronline.org (4-22-23).  Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha  on April 13, 2023 by (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |  (Posted Apr 21, 2023).  Climate Change, Environment, Imperialism, MediaAfrica, Americas, United StatesNewswireCyclone Freddy, President Joe Biden The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth. Coverage of extremely destructive weather is so slanted, biased, and Eurocentric that people in the United States and Europe may not […]

 jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-125-may-1-2023.html    Bill McKibben.  Cities and States Can Sue Exxon     and other Malefactors.World Beyond War.  Costs of War: Carbon Footprint    Increasing, Climate Heating.Chris Hedges Interviews Roger Hallam, founder to    Extinction Rebellion (XR). A Victory for Democracy Over Greed and Power (and by a GOP-dominated Supreme Court) Bill McKibben.  “A seismic win went almost unnoticed amidst the Tuckerstorm.”  April 25, 2023.  High court lets cities and states sue Exxon et al. The Supreme Court…declined to grant cert in a case brought by oil companies desperately trying to hold off state court trials for their climate crimes. To make a long story […]