Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-182-june-10.html
RESISTANCE: why our climate is in crisis and what we can do.
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, The Big Myth. Fossil Fuel Profits,
Political Ideology, Accountability of Institutions, Lobbyists, and
Corporations Supporting Capitalism.
Carly, et al. “The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires.”
Zach, Greenpeace. Electing Climate Champions.
Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence, Nonviolent Direct Action v.
Destruction of Forests.
United Nations.
Diane Bernard. “The Climate Crisis Is Directly Related To Inequality. “ DeSmog. PopularResistance.org (6-1-24).
“Climate Change Is Not Just About Fossil Fuel Profits, But Also the Political Ideology Supporting Capitalism.”
In an interview with Rachel Donald of the podcast Planet: Critical, science historian Naomi Oreskes spoke about her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, cowritten with Erik M. Conway. She explores why our climate is in crisis, detailing how institutions, lobbyists, and corporations continue to undermine democracy; and why a renewable world threatens the powers that be. Ultimately, Oreskes points out that the climate crisis is not a scientific problem, but a political, economic, and social issue.
Oreskes is a professor at Harvard University who co-authored the bestselling book Merchants of Doubt, and has written nearly 200 scholarly papers and popular articles. Her opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Times of London, and many others.
The Planet: Critical podcast uncovers the big picture of the climate crisis by mapping the energy, economic, and political crises surrounding it. The following is a partial transcript of Donald and Oreskes’ conversation, lightly edited for clarity. The whole interview can be heard by visiting Planet: Critical.
RACHEL DONALD: My first question for you is, why is the world in crisis? . . . .
MORE HARMS OF FOSSIL FUELS: Forest Firest
Carly Phillips, Alicia Race, Shana Udvardy, J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida. “The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires.” Quantifying the Contribution of Major Carbon Producers to Increasing Wildfire Risk. May 16, 2023.
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/fossil-fuels-behind-forest-fires
Coal, oil, and gas companies are now directly linked to worsening forest fires across the western United States.
A peer-reviewed study from the Union of Concerned Scientists found that 19.8 million acres of burned forest land—37 percent of the total area scorched by forest fires in the western United States and southwestern Canada since 1986—can be attributed to heat-trapping emissions traced to the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers.
Emissions from these companies and their products also contributed to nearly half of the increase in drought- and fire-danger conditions across the region since 1901.
The study—and other attribution studies like it—offers policymakers, elected officials, and legal experts a scientific basis for holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the impacts of their products and their decades-long deception efforts. Continued: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/fossil-fuels-behind-forest-fires
Zach, Greenpeace USA Votes <info@greenpeaceusavotes.org>
| Dick, Greenpeace USA Votes — a political action committee focused on electing climate champions — has officially launched! Join us in the arena, won’t you? After more than 50 years of exposing and fighting the environmental destruction that will be our people and planet’s undoing (if we sit back and do nothing), the Greenpeace movement is rising up in a new way: to fight for a people-powered American democracy that elects climate champions who will pass necessary and transformative policies! I know, that’s a mouthful. In a nutshell? We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity right now to elect leaders who will speedily work toward a cleaner, greener, healthier future. [What does Zach mean by “transformative policies”? Oreskes and Conway explain the SYSTEM. –D] |
Nonviolent direct action PROVIDES ANOTHER TRANSFORMATIVE RESISTANCE METHOD
“Climate Movement Elders Revive Monkey Wrench Tactics”
By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. PopularResistance.org (45-6-24). Earlier this year, seven activists entered the site of a proposed timber sale in Washington State, intent on halting — or at least delaying — the destruction of trees with immense carbon storage potential. Over the course of several hours, they hiked off-trail through the dense understory, removing signs and flagging tape marking the boundaries of the controversial Carrot timber sale. The creative nonviolent direct action seemed to pay off, as a couple days later Washington’s Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, announced it was cancelling the Carrot sale for the time being. -more-
The UN Has Several Agencies Working Wholly or Partly Against the Causes and Consequences of the Climate Catastrophe, and they need encouragement
UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE ACTIVITIES