https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-climate-memo-mondays-160-january-8.html Compiled by Dick Bennett.
My apologies for missing 2 Memos because of an operation, but I am much recovered; thanks for your continued work FOR peace and democracy and AGAINST climate change, all connected.
Union of Concerned Scientists
Code Pink
Public Citizen
Choose your organizations to support and go with them heart and purse. Here are some good choices (of course I assume you are already a member of OMNI!).
| Union of Concerned Scientists. “Match for Science: Help us prepare for the hottest years ahead.” 12-28-23. |
| Dear Dick, You may have seen my message yesterday announcing that we are closing in on raising $2 million more for our Match for Science campaign–our largest membership drive in UCS history. Meanwhile, climate disasters are already part of a growing worldwide humanitarian crisis. People—especially low-income and racially marginalized communities who unfairly bear the brunt of the worst climate impacts—are facing new challenges adapting to the dangerously hot weather, droughts, wildfires, and floods. And that’s where you come in. [2023 was the hottest year in human history. UCS works headlong to stop the rising global temperature. Just google Union of Concerned Scientists.]CONVERGENCE OF WAR AND WARMING www.codepink.org › codepinkimpact2023 CODEPINK Impact Report 2022-2023 – CODEPINK – Women for PeaceDec 4, 2023 · This year, we are at an incredibly important juncture with the world facing twin threats of nuclear war and climate catastrophe. Check out CODEPINK’s 2022-2023 Impact Report and join |
The Economic Root of War and Warming: Corporatism
Public Citizen | 1600 20th Street NW | Washington DC 20009
[Publisher’s description]
Long-time corporate accountability crusaders Robert Weissman, Public Citizen president, and Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen president emeritus, investigate how giant corporations corrupt the policy-making process to block reforms favored by overwhelming majorities of the American people, and to enrich themselves through far-reaching corporate welfare schemes.
The Corporate Sabotage of America’s Future And What We Can Do About It pulls back the curtain on the hidden tactics that big corporations employ to have their way in Washington, D.C. and state capitols and city halls across the nation. Americans intuitively know the system is rigged, but it’s worse than they realize, Weissman and Claybrook reveal. The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision supercharged corporate power and empowered a very tiny class of individuals and corporations to dominate our elections and helped usher in a New Gilded Age.
By way of example, just 25 people are responsible for roughly half of all Super PAC
contributions. But the problem goes far beyond campaign contributions, Weissman and Claybrook reveal. They detail the power and influence of corporate lobbyists, corporate-funded think tanks and front groups and massive PR campaigns, and the massive political power that corporations derive from their economic power and influence over culture. . . . [Three chapters describe the criminality of BIG OIL: 7, “Fueling Disaster”’; 8, “Big Oil’s Pollitical Influence Machine”; 9, “Plunder and Pillage: Big Oil’s Corporate Welfare.” The book explains the US capitalist economic system underlying US wars and warming. –D]