Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-153-november.html From Naomi Klein to Greta Thunberg: Education, Individual Change, Action  May 14, 2023Mothers on Six Continents Demand Action to Protect Children From Climate Crisis“If we don’t act now, it will be too late,” one mom warned. “I could not live with myself, as a mother, as a doctor, and as a human being, if we didn’t do all we can to try and bring about the much-needed systemic change.”  Greta Thunberg.  The Climate Book.  Penguin, 2023.Ms. Thunberg grouped the essays of her anthology into five parts, and each Part into three to five parts, writing an introduction for each […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-152-november.html Jake Johnson.  “New Study Identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’.”Owen McCormack.  “Where now for the Climate Movement?”Dick Bennett.  “Warming and Detective Dramas.” Jake Johnson.  “New Study Identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’.”  cjr.org   https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now Originally published: Common Dreams  on September 12, 2023  (more by Common Dreams)  (Posted Sep 18, 2023)  Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects set to begin through 2050, according to Oil Change International. Campaign against New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure: Ecosocialism v. Corporations, Market, Profit. Owen McCormack.  “Where Now for the Climate Movement?”Originally published: Rupture  on September 11, 2023 (more by Rupture)  (Posted Sep 16, 2023) It is […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #151, OCTOBER 30, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Andrew Glikson  “A Climate of Insanity.”Robin Boardman.  “…Solutions for Collapse.”CJR.  Covering Climate Now. AlanThornett.  The Degrowth Movement Here are selections from two assessments of our emergency. Dr Andrew Glikson “A climate of Insanity.” Originally published: Countercurrents  on September 18, 2023 (more by Countercurrents)  |  (Posted Sep 19, 2023)  Mronline.org (10-22-23). Inherent in the nature of insanity is the fact that those inflicted by it are unaware of their mental state, nor do crowds of people or for that matter political parties, and business elites, leading populations to catastrophe, from the scale of the […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #150, OCTOBER 23, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Tom Engelhardt.  Warming and Wars Converging.Gerardo Ceballos and Paul Ehrlich.  Extinguishing Not Only Species but Genera.Dick Bennett.  What Did We Know and What Did We Do by 2010?Erica Jung and Güney Işıkara .  “Degrowth and Ecosocialist Revolution.”  “Are We the Dinosaurs of the 21st Century?   And How Our Wars Distract Us.”  By Tom Engelhardt,  October 19, 2023.[This is one of the best summaries I have read of our predicament, as warming and wars converge upon us.  Here is Engelhardt’s conclusion.  –D]. . .…. . ..Or rather, […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-149-october.html Militarism, War, and Climate Change; Dick’s Review of The Green Zone.  Canary Worker’s Coop.New “countdown clock” project. WAR AND CLIMATE CHANGE: The Military Bridge from Holocene to Anthropocene [An earlier version was presented by KPSQ in Dick’s series entitled “War v. Environment.”  Its main source was Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism (2009).  Sanders fourteen years ago was extraordinarily prescient.]        The Holocene epoch of stable climate, that allowed our civilization, has ended.   Because of the extraordinary human buildup of population, consumption in affluent countries, capitalism/economic growth, wars, CO2/greenhouse gases, warming/weather instability, deforestation, acidification of […]

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-148-october-9.html A Retrospective Assessment of The Limits of Growth. Population Connection: Stablilizing Population Growth.Adam McKay v. Fossil Fuel-funded Misinformation. RESISTING THE SOURCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE A Retrospective Assessment of The Limits of Growth. Monthly Review Vol. 74, No. 5 (October 2022) “Notes from the Editors, October 2022” by The Editors. https://monthlyreview.org/2022/10/01/mr-074-05-2022-09_0/ This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential, and also controversial, environmental studies ever written: The Club of Rome’s report, The Limits to Growth (New York: Universe, 1972) by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. No other environmental work of the 1970s offered […]

Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-147-october-2.html Al Gore. The Climate Reality Project.Thomas Kostigen.  Extreme Weather Survival Guide.  May 14, 2023“Mothers on Six Continents Demand Action to Protect Children From Climate Crisis.”“If we don’t act now, it will be too late,” one mom warned. “I could not live with myself, as a mother, as a doctor, and as a human being, if we didn’t do all we can to try and bring about the much-needed systemic change.”  I continue to sift through boxes of books after a water pipe froze and broke last Dec.   Which of the books or folders are still worth reading? The Climate […]

 OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #146, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Geoff and Leslie Oelsner.  Attunements for the Earth. Ed Rampell. Film Necessity, or a Choice of Evils.Urban Ramblings.  Reject the Military Carbon Bootprint. RESISTANCE TO THE WARMMAKERS Geoff and Leslie Oelsner.  Attunements for the Earth. Dear OMNI Friends, Our planetary climate crisis calls for all possible creative responses. It calls us to turn and tap into the catalyzing intelligence of Nature. Leslie’s and my new book is titled Attunements for the Earth. It includes Leslie’s photographs and my writings. It’s part of our turning, part of our […]