Climate Memo Mondays

 Climate Memo Mondays #33, July 26, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/climate-memo-mondays-3-july-262021.html WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE REPORTER OF THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE?  Here’s one of mine:  ASHLEY DAWSON 2016 Extinction: A Radical History 2017 Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change.  2021 People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons ASHLEY DAWSON.  EXTINCTION: A RADICAL HISTORY.  2016. Publisher’s description: Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. […]

31.  Climate Memo Mondays, July 12, 2021July 11, UN World Population Day https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/climate-memo-mondays-july-12-2021.html The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York.  Monthly Rev. P, 2011. $15.26 – $26.00 Winner of the 2010 Gerald L. Young Book Award, bestowed by the Society for Human Ecology Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through […]

CLIMATE JUSTICE 350.org Sticker: Cynthia Kaufman, The Sea Is Rising And So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook .orgThis fight for a livable climate is hard, Dick. We are up against some incredibly powerful interests, with a LOT of money at their disposal in order to maintain the status quo. And yet, with this vote, just like so many other times, this amazing movement of ours has shown that no matter how difficult it may seem at times, we are fully committed to our one true goal. We are not going to give up or let anyone shift the narrative, and […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/climate-memo-mondays-29-june-28-2021.html The Great Adaptation:  Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe by Romain Felli.  Translated by David Broder.  Verso, 2021. Publisher’s description: How capitalism wants us to adapt to climate change rather than stop it.The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to deal with the challenge that climate change poses to capitalism by promoting adaptation to its consequences, rather than combating its causes. Since the 1970s, neoliberal economists and ideologues have used climate change as an argument for creating more “flexibility” in society, for promoting more market-based solutions to environmental and social questions. This book unveils the political economy […]