Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-167-february.html Dana R. Fisher Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action (on climate inaction).  Julie Hollar.  Grossly Inadequate Reporting by the Mainstream Media of the Climate Emergency. “Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks To Climate Action” By Michaela Herrmann, DeSmog.  PopularResistance.org (2-15-24).   Professor Dana R. Fisher’s new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action―but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-166-february.html This week on Yale Climate Connections January 29 – February 2, 2024 Organizers aim to improve the South’s climate resilienceSocial justice advocate Lea Campbell… pivoted to environmental issues in 2016 as a series of major storms and other crises rocked the state.  Now, her work to build mutual aid and other community networks is one example of the ways Southerners are working to improve the region’s resilience in the face of disaster. Keep reading.   [Q: is the South facing disaster or catastrophe or chaos by cc??  Is there an emergency? –D] More stories featured this weekShould climate change […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-165-february.html Compiled by Dick Bennett Hi, Dick. It’s Jane Fonda reaching out with an exciting invitation for you!Mark your calendars for Tuesday, February 13th, because we’re turning Galentine’s Day into a Grace and Frankie live reunion celebrating laughter, and friendship benefiting the Jane Fonda Climate PAC’s work to elect climate champions at every level of government.  Get Tickets Being a part of that show with my dear friend Lily Tomlin was one of the great joys in my career, and I hope you can join us for a trip down memory lane. But, oh, it’s so much more than that! Every ticket purchased […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-164-february.html John J. Berger.  Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.  2023.      From my New Deal perspective (I was born in 1932), one of Berger’s most important chapters is #14, pp. 283ff., “New Laws and Politics,” where he discusses “current barriers to the kind of fair and comprehensive policies that would speed us toward a safe, stable earth and a more just society.”  They especially include the flood of secret money into “super PACs” used to influence elections and legislation permitted by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, and […]

Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-163-january.html UCS.  Fossil-Fueled Forest FiresBooks, Organizations, Individuals v. the Climate Emergency. Stop Fossil-Fueled Forest Fires – secure.ucsusa.org A groundbreaking new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that fossil fuel producers, such as Chevron and ExxonMobil, are responsible for 37 percent of the total area burned by forest fires since the mid-1980s in the western United States and southwestern Canada. Two of the many new books on Climate: Michael Gunter, Jr.  Climate Travels:  How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action.  Columbia UP, 2023.  Rob Verchick.  The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience.  Columbia UP, 2023. And […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-162-january.html Dick Bennett, Compiler. “Climate Change in Nebraska.” John Berger.  Solving the Climate Crisis. “Climate Change in Nebraska.”  College of Journalism and Mass Communications (ad in IRE Journal, 3rd Quarter 2022).  Digital depth report on the impacts of and potential solutions for climate change in Nebraska, won Hearst Journalism Awards and Society for Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards. John J. Berger.  Look Inside Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.  Seven Stories P, October, 2023.  509pp.       A glance at the Index reveals surprising gaps, for examples: Bill McKibben, Paul Hawken not here.  No mention […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-161-january.html Jeremy Brecher.  Ending Fossil Fuels.ADG.  Russophobia, Germany, and Coal.Brooke Staggs.  Evangelicals v. Climate Change.Tupy and Pooley. Negative Review of New Book on Population Growth., Superabundance, Ending Fossil Fuels Industry.Jeremy Brecher.  Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual. “…lays out key elements of a far-reaching global-scaled, pragmatic, people-powered strategy to topple the power of the fossil fuel industry and the institutions behind it.”  David Solnit. Politics of National Rivalry: Russophobia, War, Fossil Fuels.Loveday Morris and Vanessa Guinan-Bank.  “Germany Seeing Return to Coal.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8-7-22).    [ It’s politics.]:  “It’s part of a pan-European dash to ditch Russian natural gas and escape President […]

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-160-january-8.html Compiled by Dick Bennett. My apologies for missing 2 Memos because of an operation, but I am much recovered; thanks for your continued work FOR peace and democracy and AGAINST climate change, all connected. Union of Concerned ScientistsCode PinkPublic Citizen Choose your organizations to support and go with them heart and purse.   Here are some good choices (of course I assume you are already a member of OMNI!). Union of Concerned Scientists.   “Match for Science: Help us prepare for the hottest years ahead.”   12-28-23.  Dear Dick,  You may have seen my message yesterday announcing that we are closing in […]