Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/77.htmlClimate refugees and international laws.Climate change and biodiversity loss are interconnected crises.The 1.5 goal requires abandonment of 40 percent of “developed reserves.” Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.  “Warming to Climate Refugees?”  The Nation (Feb. 17, 2020).   IIoane Teitiota of Kiribati struggled for years to become the first formally recognized climate refugee, but was rejected finally by the UN Human Rights Committee.  However the UNHRC did recognize the reality of refugees fleeing climate-based dangers.  The author urges readers to join an international movement to vote nationalists out of office and into office politicians who will vigorously support refugees, for example with special visas […]

ContentsPublic Relations, Control of Information, and  Fossil Fuels CompaniesRise of Authoritarian Rule: Hett’s Book on Hitler’s Control of InstitutionsMother Jones Covers the Right-Wing War on DemocracyVFP: No War with Russia: Spend Money on Climate Emergency Fossil Fuels, “Public Relations,” Edelman.  Why Fossil Fuels Companies Have Been Able to Continue Extracting Oil, Coal, Gas  From 350.orgFor decades, fossil fuel companies have used public relations (PR) firms to fabricate their image, protect their reputation, greenwash their activities, and spread disinformation to the public.These PR firms operate in the shadows, but they are a key element of Big Oil’s success in deceiving the […]

62.  Climate Memo Mondays, February 14, 2022 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/climate-memo-mondays-62-february-14-2022.htmlGreta Thunberg from Age 15 to 18, World Tour for the Planet.Australia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country.Capitalism and Growth: DEgrowth Necessary. CLIMATE AND POLITICS, POLITICS OF CLIMATE GRETA THUNBERG.  “A Year to Change the World, Episode 3.”  PBS, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, 7p.m.  (Episode 1 appeared Feb. 3, 7 p.m.; Episode 2 Feb. 10, 7 p.m.)  All on PBS4 World Ch. 700. CAPITALISM AND CLIMATEAustralia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country. ‘Look up’, Australia: How capitalism and climate change are turning our food bowl to dust.  Editor.  Mronline.org (2-8-22). Quentin Beresford’s book […]

Climate Memo Mondays, #55, December 27, 2021: Planetary Catastrophe, Resistance in BostonContentsAlfred McCoy, Global Warming, and Twenty-First Century Catastrophe.Militaries are huge contributors to climate collapse.But Boston’s Green New Deal: mitigation, adaptation, resilience. Fifty CCMs Linkhttp://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-memo-mondays-first-50.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/twenty-first-century-catastrophe-or.html Alfred McCoy.  To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.  Haymarket, 2021.  Comment by Dick Bennett, 12-26-21.       This is probably the first geopolitical history of the world oriented beginning and ending by the climate catastrophe, written to answer the question, where is the US now in this history of conquest and ruin?      The history begins with a Chronology of World Orders, […]

50.   Climate Memo Mondays,  50TH CMM, November 22, 2021 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-memo-mondays-50.html CLIMATE:  ADAPTATION and RESILIENCE, a note by Dick Bennett These books offer new constructive ways of living with the reality of diminishing possibility of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth.  They seek ways of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. Contents Jem Bendell and  Rupert Read, Eds.  Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos.  Polity Press, 2021.William deBuys. The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss.  Penguin Random House (7 Stories), 2021.  Johnson and Wilkinson, eds.  All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, […]

ContentsCOP 26 CountdownNoam Chomsky and Stan Cox https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-47-november-1.html COP26, UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE Glasgow, October 31 to November 1 2, 2021OMNI Glasgow Countdown, 10-22/31-21 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-un-climate-change-conference.html ContentsScience for Peace, 10-22; Climate Hawks, 10-25; Atomic Scientists, 10-25; UN Wire, 10-25; ADG, 10-26; World Beyond War, 10-29; Senator Ed Markey, 10-30; Avaaz:  Greta Thunberg, 10-31; UNAC and Global Network: Convergence of Space, Militarization, and the Climate Crisis, 10-31. Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox on the Warming PlanetTomgram: Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox, Before It’s Too Late TomDispatch via gmail.mcsv.net 10-24-21 4:13 PM (53 minutes ago) Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox, Before It’s Too Late October 24, 2021 To […]

44.  OMNI:  Climate Memo Mondays, #44, 44.  OMNI:  Climate Memo Mondays, #44, October 11, 2021   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-44-october-11.html Dick, Heinberg’s Power on Population Growth Peakin, Meaning of “Metabolic Rift” Aarjan, North Must Learn from Global South RICHARD HEINBERG’S NEW BOOK POWER ON OVERPOPULATION/CONSUMPTION      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 […]

ANDREAS MALM Books on Capitalism, Politics, and Climate http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-oct-4-2021.html Fossil Capital.    2016The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World.  2018.Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century.  2020.With the Zerkin Collective.  White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism.  Verso, 2021. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm.  Verso, 2016.Publisher’s description How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end […]