Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-157-december.html Wen Stephenson.  “’”While this everywhere crying.”  The Nation (12.11-18.2023).As a former literature instructor and faculty member in a College of Arts and Sciences, I think of all A&S colleges as potential centers for resistance to nuclear wars and warming.   Except for the Green New Deal movement, we have been so preoccupied with the deniers and greedy and indifferent or oblivious , the willfully ignorant and cynical, we haven’t begun to pay the urgent, absorbing attention to the quality of the transition needed against the chaos ahead with business as usual, its beginnings already forced upon us.    Our colleges of […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-156-december.html Doing What’s Within Our Power Where We Are to REDUCE REDUCING POPULATION GROWTH, Making Our Families SMALL,Milton Saier, Jr.  “Save the Earth; [If You Already Have a Child] Don’t Give Birth.”  Free Inquiry (April/May 2023).  The article concludes:  “The human population now exceeds eight billion and is expected to reach ten billion in thirty years.”  [This statement is supported by a citation from the UN, footnote #11. ] “This fact alone guarantees suffering and premature death over much of the globe, not just for a few but for billions of people. . . .It seems that only with a […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-155-november_30.html Continued: What’s stopping USA from reversing rising temperature, or at least from slowing it down? People who whitewash and delay consensus and public education of the UN IPCC Reports by recommending additional study of the Assessments.     Example: Steven Koonin.  Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.  BenBella, 2021.  IPCC Assessments report the conclusions of thousands of scientists in peer reviewed publications; these conclusions are then reviewed by governments and corporations, which can alter the Assessment reports in “Summaries.”   Koonin admits that “the IPCC’s ‘Summaries for Policymakers’ are heavily influenced, […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-155-november.html What’s stopping USA from reversing rising temperature, or at least from slowing it down?  (A frequent subject in CMM.) Fossil Fuel IndustryPolitics of War, “Cold” and Hot.Religion: US Evangelicals.Overpopulation and still growing. What should each of us do to become an insurgency? Fossil Fuel IndustryJeremy 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.Loveday Morris and Vanessa Guinan-Bank.  “Germany Seeing Return to Coal.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8-7-22).    [ It’s politics]:  […]

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-154-november.htmlMark Lynas, Climate Scholar David Bromwich.  “The Only Issue.” Basav Sen.  Anyone especiallly responsible? Mark Lynas, Climate Scholar High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis. 2004. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet.   2007.The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans.  2011.Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power. 2 014. The Carbon Calculator.  2016.Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency.  2020. Lynas is one of our most distinguished scholars of climate change.  His first book on the subject was published two decades ago, when a one-degree world lay in the future.  The first edition […]

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 […]