Climate Memo Mondays

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 […]

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, […]