Climate Memo Mondays

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 […]

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 […]