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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 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-249-september.html THE ONGOING, VARIEGATED RESISTANCE TO OVERSHOOT, WARS, HEAT, TYRANNY. VFP: Wake up to Climate Crisis (and No MAS)Tour Sept. 26-Earth Overshoot Day. [See #248:SEPTEMBER 21:  SUN DAY AND INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE .  Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun.]NCTE’S George Orwell Award For Truth Against Doublethink, Doublespeak, Doubletalk.ACLU’S Legal Actions.(All of them depend upon our support.) The Wake Up to Climate Crisis and NO MAS (NO Military Air Shows) Tour begins Sept. 26 in San Diego, CA. After actions and events around the “Top Gun” air show at the Miramar USMC airbase, the group of veterans and […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-248-september.html David Orr on Climate and Democracy. Sun Day September 21. Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun. EcoWatch. “Recording of David Orr on the Interrelated Threats of Climate & Democracy” From  Move to Amend.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?    (Illuminations without which we’ll be blindsided by the enemies of C&D.  –D)   SUN DAY September 21With one month to go, there are now over 150 Sun Day events planned where we can come together to celebrate the power of clean energy.  (Btw, 9-21 is also the International Day of Peace.  A doubly auspicious day!) Events are planned in in 32 states […]