Climate Memo Mondays

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/climate-memo-mondays-99.html Population Growth: 8 billion in NovemberThe Limits of GrowthMark Hertsgaard.  Biden’s Climate Bill.Dick.  The Importance of Time. Jack St George. Trillion Trees Over-PopulationPopulation Connection | Join a Discussion with our Communications Team!   1-28-22 Engage 1-28-22       Hi James R., The global population is racing towards 8 billion—a milestone we’re due to reach next month.  Since the UN released its World Population Prospects over the summer, our Communications staff have been hard at work reporting on the latest projections….We invite you to join a discussion with them to learn more about key takeaways from the UN’s latest population projections, which […]

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-97-october-17.html    Bob Stern.  Earth First! Journal.Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, eds. The Green New Deal and the Future of Work.David Gelles.  Patagonia’s Stockholder is the Earth. Bob Stern.  Earth First! Journal, 40th Anniversary Edition.  Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021. https://fe.quixotes.org/archive/410-fall-2021/earth-first-journal/ Wow! I thought, look at all that color! Can it really be the Earth First! Journal? They pulled out all the stops creating this collage of Earth First! art, poetry, history and personal reminiscences of radical eco-warriors over the past 40 years!    (Continued) Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, eds. The Green New Deal and the Future of Work.  Columbia […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-95-october-3.html November 15 Earth’s Population reaches 8 billion.Marcy Franck.  An Optimist’s Embrace of The Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.President of Marshall Islands Calls for Total War on CC MARK YOUR CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 15I have reduced my study of the converging calamities mainly to war and warming, but overpopulation is never far from mind through membership in Population Connection:  “Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by earth’s resources.”  Its Septermber 2022 number includes half a dozen items about the catastrophe of […]

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 […]