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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 […]