Climate Memo Mondays

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-119-march-20.html Eliza Relman. “Biden promised ‘no more drilling on federal lands, period.’”[Needed: How to reverse Biden’s decision.  How to make the Democratic Party an advocate for the planet.]SOLUTIONS TO THE EMERGENCYCommon Dreams.  Coalitions vs. Fossil Fuels and Big Money.Mark Dunlea. Putting Out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Change and Advocacy. Eliza Relman. “Biden promised ‘no more drilling on federal lands, period.’ He just broke that pledge to approve a massive oil project in Alaska.”  Yahoo! News  Mon, March 13, 2023 at 3:12 PM CDT. https://news.yahoo.com/biden-promised-no-more-drilling-201230328.html “On Monday, the Biden administration officially approved one of the largest-ever drilling projects on federal land: the $8 […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-118-march-13.html   Bernie Sanders v. US CapitalismXNA: Flying More AccessibleNew Books on Degrowth TEXTS Bernie Sanders: Anti-Union Capitalism Is Wrecking America The Nation  https://www.thenation.com › Article Feb 16, 2023 — Workers deserve a better deal than the unfettered capitalism that is destroying our health, our democracy, and our planet. Bernie Sanders spells out why capitalism is failing us – YouTube YouTube   https://www.youtube.com › watch .   US Senator Bernie Sanders sits down with PoliticsJOE, exposing the relationship between supermassive businesses and the American state. No Flying to Disney World from our XNA International Airport?!Nobody, especially parents, wants to be on the cutting edge of urgently needed change if they might be called a spoilsport […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/02/climate-memo-mondays-113-february-6-2023.html Rewildng Half the EarthGreenpeace PrioritiesPassover DivestmentSocial Media and Encyclopedia Scholarship  Half-Earth Socialism and the Path Beyond Capital Brian M. Napoletano.  Monthly Review  (February 3, 2023) The Half-Earth movement calls for rewildng half the earth as a means of combating the planetary crisis. Brian Napoletano explores the implications of the Half-Earth approach as outlined in Vettese and Pendergrass’s Half-Earth Socialism. | more… GREENPEACE Letting you in on our latest meeting            Ebony Twilley Martin, Greenpeace via uark.onmicrosoft.com 1-24-23 ) James –  I just got out of an important meeting about Greenpeace’s 2023 priorities. 2023 Strategy Planning — 01/20/2023 — Major priorities in the new year:Win international agreements to […]

Acting Against Climate ChangeSolnit and Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the  Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  Public Citizen: Controlling Anti-Social, Sociopathic Policies of Big BanksWorking for Responsible CompaniesClimate and Capitalism Magazine: Ecosocialism or Barbarism  Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  Haymarket  (April 4, 2023).   Publisher’s description.  See all formats and editions   Audiobook  $0.00Free with your Audible trial   Paperback  $16.95   1 New from $16.95   Pre-order Price Guarantee. Details An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (“the voice of the resistance”—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-110-january.html   Andreas Malm.   Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future.   For young people.Laurence Delina. Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime Mobilisation. Andreas Malm.   Adapted by Jimmy Whipps With Llewyn Whipps.  Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future.   Verso, 2023.   Paperback  $17.95$12.5630% off  272 pages / February 7, 2023 / 9781804291252  Available for pre-order.  An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm’s best-selling book.  Young people are inheriting a world of climate […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omniclimate-memo-mondays-109-january-9.html UNFCCC FailureFilm of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’Martin Rees, If Science Is to Save Us UNFCCC 30TH AnniversaryThe Editors .  Monthly Review (January 2023).  (Volume 74, Number 8).   buy this issue.   This month’s “Notes from the Editors” marks the 30-year anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The abject failure of this framework to enact meaningful progress on the planetary crisis continued to be on full display in 2022, including at November’s COP27 in Egypt. | more… THE LETTER: A MESSAGE FOR OUR EARTH Trailer This film explores the story about the Pope’s call to care for our planet. In […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-107-december.html New Books on Climate This week atYale Climate Connections (12-9-22). 12 titles that make the perfect holiday gift for occasional climate readers. 12 titles for climate activists and academics on your holiday gift list. REVIEW MICHAEL SVOBODA .  “12 titles that make the perfect holiday gift for occasional climate readers.”    DECEMBER 9, 2022. How do the titles in the two lists differ from each other? Included in this first list are new examples of long-standing popular genres: nature and natural history, history, current events, financial advice, and fiction. Climate change is not always the central focus, and the writing is […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-106-december.html UP SCIENCE Organizations Studying Climate Change (google search presented these 4 first, many more exist of course; the first two are distinguished UN science institutions,) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… (IPCC)For example, The UN’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – or IPBES (IPCC)- report said Friday that unless humankind improves the sustainable use of nature, the Earth is on its way to losing 12% of its wild tree species, over a thousand wild mammal species and almost 450 species of sharks and rays, among other irreparable harm. . . .  https://apnews.com/article/climate-united-nations-pollution-biodiversity-deforestation-89b98843607312350b54374c6d8764a5 World Meteorological Organization | A […]