OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #155, NOVEMBER 27, 2023


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 changeArkansas 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.”