Dick’s Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett       https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-253-october.html Climate & Capitalism: Two Books on Plastics 350.org on COP 30 “Communicating Climate Change.”   Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Read and Resist! CLIMATE & CAPITALISM  “Ecosocialist Bookshelf,” October 2025.Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future.   Publisher’s description:Plastics, forever chemicals poisoning of the biosphere.POISONING THE WELL:  How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America.  Island Press.PFAS, the ‘forever chemicals’ found in everyday products, from cooking pans to mascara, can now be found in the bodies of just about everyone. The petrochemical knows the danger this poses for […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-251-october-6.html Trump Denial and Censorship.Class Origins of Greenhouse Gas Emissions.Two Books from the “Ecosocialist Bookshelf.” TRUMP DENIAL, CENSORSHIPMitch w/ Tipping Point   10-2-25 “ Tell Trump: Censoring Words Won’t Fix the Climate Emergency.” Dick,  The Trump Administration just added “climate” and “emissions” to a list of banned words at the Department of Energy. These words join “green” and “decarbonization” to Trump’s growing “list of words to avoid” at the agency, which is charged with leading our country’s energy policy.This is a blatant act of censorship designed to silence science and shield polluters from accountability. But no matter […]

TWO SOURCES OF INFORMATION, CONCERN, and REMEDY FOR THE CLIMATE CALAMITY PBS Documentaries.Books Reviewed in “Ecosocialist Bookshelf.” Climate on PBS One Week in September 2025 (available on Passport)Sacred Planet, Gulnaz Khan documentaries:“Stopping the Desert” and “Saving the World’s Forests.”  Khan travels the world locating examples of people resisting the climate emergency.Frontline, “Hurricane Heleine’s Deadly Warning.”  The film reports several hurricanes, their increasingly disastrous causes and consequences, but also responses:  e.g., need for significant improvement of flood plain mapping and enforcement.Age of Nature, “Understanding.”   Roaming the nation to identify endangered species and their protection; e.g., salmon. “Ecosocialist Bookshelf,” Climate and Capitalism, September […]