Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-123-april-17.htmlRobert Hunziker.  “Big Heat Hits Antarctica.”Richard Powers.     Bewilderment follows up his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Overstory.Crisis Articles from the Monthly Review.Kelly Mulhollan.  “The Great Unravelling.”The Shalom Report. BIG-TIME HEAT AND 200 FEET OF SEA LEVEL RISE  ROBERT HUNZIKER.  “Big Heat Hits Antarctica.”  Counterpunch (FEBRUARY 17, 2023).  FacebookTwitterRedditEmail   Excerpt. A recent report out of West Antarctica is rattling scientists. It’s all about heat, big-time heat, encroaching upon the world’s biggest chunk of ice that locks down a couple hundred feet of sea level rise. This kind of news is enough to raise the hackles of smart well-informed people, as excessive CO2 […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-121-april-3.html INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Vishwas Satgar.  “End Ecocidal Capitalism or Exterminate Life on Planet Earth.”Brazilian Popular Movements.  “Measures to Defend Life on Planet Earth and Improve Living Conditions.”Jason Hickel. “The Global South has the power to force radical climate action.” Authoritarian Neoliberalism, Global Chaos Vishwas Satgar.  “End Ecocidal Capitalism or Exterminate Life on Planet Earth: A South African Contribution to Ecosocialist Strategy.” Vishwas Satgar.  MR (July 5, 2022).  The South African climate justice movement presents a model for popular revolt against the ecofascist project. | more… Vishwas Satgar       (Jul 01, 2022). Topics: Climate Change  Democracy  Ecology  Marxist   Ecology  Movements      Places: Africa  Global  South Africa Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of international relations, […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-120-march-27.html SOLUTIONS TO THE EMERGENCY.UN’S GUTERRES, IPCC Truths. Climate Action NowADG Reports UN Reality Reports.Expanding Public AwarenessNew Weeklies on Climate from The New Republic and Citizens’ Climate      Lobby CCLBuilding Coalitions ALEC CONNON.  “Peoples’ Earth Week.”International StrategiesChristina Ergas.   “Surviving Collapse Through Social Transformation and Regeneration.” John Bellamy Foster.  “Ecology and the Future of History.”   UNITED NATIONS GUTERRES, CLIMATE ACTION NOW Demanding Swift Action, UN Chief Calls IPCC Report a ‘Survival Guide for Humanity’  Common Dreams (3-20-23). “We must move into warp-speed climate action now. We don’t have a moment to lose,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.  [For the complete message click on […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-119-march-20.html Eliza Relman. “Biden promised ‘no more drilling on federal lands, period.’”[Needed: How to reverse Biden’s decision.  How to make the Democratic Party an advocate for the planet.]SOLUTIONS TO THE EMERGENCYCommon Dreams.  Coalitions vs. Fossil Fuels and Big Money.Mark Dunlea. Putting Out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Change and Advocacy. Eliza Relman. “Biden promised ‘no more drilling on federal lands, period.’ He just broke that pledge to approve a massive oil project in Alaska.”  Yahoo! News  Mon, March 13, 2023 at 3:12 PM CDT. https://news.yahoo.com/biden-promised-no-more-drilling-201230328.html “On Monday, the Biden administration officially approved one of the largest-ever drilling projects on federal land: the $8 […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-118-march-13.html   Bernie Sanders v. US CapitalismXNA: Flying More AccessibleNew Books on Degrowth TEXTS Bernie Sanders: Anti-Union Capitalism Is Wrecking America The Nation  https://www.thenation.com › Article Feb 16, 2023 — Workers deserve a better deal than the unfettered capitalism that is destroying our health, our democracy, and our planet. Bernie Sanders spells out why capitalism is failing us – YouTube YouTube   https://www.youtube.com › watch .   US Senator Bernie Sanders sits down with PoliticsJOE, exposing the relationship between supermassive businesses and the American state. No Flying to Disney World from our XNA International Airport?!Nobody, especially parents, wants to be on the cutting edge of urgently needed change if they might be called a spoilsport […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/02/climate-memo-mondays-113-february-6-2023.html Rewildng Half the EarthGreenpeace PrioritiesPassover DivestmentSocial Media and Encyclopedia Scholarship  Half-Earth Socialism and the Path Beyond Capital Brian M. Napoletano.  Monthly Review  (February 3, 2023) The Half-Earth movement calls for rewildng half the earth as a means of combating the planetary crisis. Brian Napoletano explores the implications of the Half-Earth approach as outlined in Vettese and Pendergrass’s Half-Earth Socialism. | more… GREENPEACE Letting you in on our latest meeting            Ebony Twilley Martin, Greenpeace via uark.onmicrosoft.com 1-24-23 ) James –  I just got out of an important meeting about Greenpeace’s 2023 priorities. 2023 Strategy Planning — 01/20/2023 — Major priorities in the new year:Win international agreements to […]

Acting Against Climate ChangeSolnit and Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the  Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  Public Citizen: Controlling Anti-Social, Sociopathic Policies of Big BanksWorking for Responsible CompaniesClimate and Capitalism Magazine: Ecosocialism or Barbarism  Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  Haymarket  (April 4, 2023).   Publisher’s description.  See all formats and editions   Audiobook  $0.00Free with your Audible trial   Paperback  $16.95   1 New from $16.95   Pre-order Price Guarantee. Details An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (“the voice of the resistance”—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-110-january.html   Andreas Malm.   Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future.   For young people.Laurence Delina. Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime Mobilisation. Andreas Malm.   Adapted by Jimmy Whipps With Llewyn Whipps.  Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future.   Verso, 2023.   Paperback  $17.95$12.5630% off  272 pages / February 7, 2023 / 9781804291252  Available for pre-order.  An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm’s best-selling book.  Young people are inheriting a world of climate […]