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 Industry
Politics of War, “Cold” and Hot.
Religion: US Evangelicals.
Overpopulation and still growing.
What should each of us do to become an insurgency?
Fossil Fuel Industry
Jeremy 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]: “It’s part of a pan-European dash to ditch Russian natural gas and escape President Vladimir Putin’s energy chokehold.” [And the Ukraine War energy pressure.] “. . .the coal revival may[?] make it harder for the country to meet its climate goals.”
Religious Fundamentalism.
Brooke Staggs. “Many U.S. evangelicals still denying climate change.” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Nov 25, 2023. Many U.S. evangelicals still denying climate change. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Nov 25, 2023). Read more…
Overpopulation
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. Cato Institute, 2022. Rev. Free Inquiry (April-May 2023) by S. Keyron McDermott, “Infinity War: Lies, Damned Lies, and ‘Superabundance.” The rev. concludes: “In stark contrast to this lushly produced and beautifully bound volume. . . are the glaring realities the book doesn’t address. . . .The once respectable Cato Institute seems to have shot itself in the foot with Superabundance. As to that holiest of all abundance essentials, population, the mind boggles. In mid-November 2022, the eight billionth living human was born. By most measures, Planet Earth is well past its carrying capacity.”