Compiled by Dick Bennett.
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-200-october.html
Codepink on US Climate Hypocrisy v. China.
Adam Hanieh. “…Oil, Corporate Power.”
Climate and Capitalism, October 2040.
Giraffe Hero: Colette Pichon Battle.
US, CHINA, AND CLIMATE
“Tell US Climate Envoy John Podesta: STOP THE CLIMATE HYPOCRISY!” CODEPINK. 9-26-24
Dear Dick,
Earlier this month, US climate envoy John Podesta met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss financing for global climate initiatives. This is one of many meetings where US officials criticize China’s sustainability strategies, demanding Beijing do more, while simultaneously undermining its efforts.
The US treats China’s growing dominance over the “green economy” as a security threat, and labels China’s efforts to invest in green energy projects in the Global South as “geopolitical expansionism.”
The message is clear: The US wants China to contribute to the climate effort… but only in ways the Biden administration deems acceptable. This contradictory approach will only hinder the global effort to convert to renewable energy and delay climate goals. We need urgent action to counter climate change, which will only happen if our leaders work together, not against one another.
Tell US Climate Envoy Podesta No More Green Tech Tariffs!
Read Imperial Hypocrisy of US-China Climate Talks to learn more.
Andy Higginbottom. “On Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism.” Mronline.org (10-5-24). Andy Higginbottom reviews Adam Hanieh’s crucial new book, Crude Capitalism. Ecology, History, ImperialismCommentaryFeatured
Adam Hanieh, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso, 2024), 336 pages.
Adam Hanieh’s new book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso, 2024) could not be timelier. As all eyes turn to Baku for COP29, the capitalist world heads to yet another performance of misdirection. In contrast to that monumental deception, we need to see things as they really stand and take action accordingly. So, let’s take a deep dive and get the record straight, the basic problem remains that capitalism is destroying planet Earth at an accelerating pace. Crude Capitalism—hereafter CC—goes a long way to explaining why the capitalist powers remain so fully committed to oil, come what may.
CC is deeply impressive for the range it covers and the quality of the analysis. Hanieh’s explanation of how the global oil industry became central to global capitalism is comprehensive and compelling. The arguments presented cover the role of oil in the capitalist system over the long twentieth century, explaining the many connections with the ascendancy of the US as the dominant imperialist power. . . . MORE
NEW ARTICLES IN CLIMATE & CAPITALISM
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2024 New books on oil, empire, the science of death, fungal health threats, degrowth, and socialist strategy. Source
· Other recent articles … The environmental cost of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
· Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of control
· Methane emissions rising faster than ever
· Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024
Giraffe Heroes Project, Ann Medlock
Colette Pichon Battle left a career as a corporate attorney after Hurricane Katrina devastated her childhood home ground in rural Louisiana. Her new work is helping people without wealth deal with the threat of the climate crisis. Her nonprofit Taproot Earth trains endangered communities and lobbies for the policies and funding that are needed for survival. Learn more here. [Tell me if you know of someone in AR who provides a similar service, and I will pass on the info.]
END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #200, OCTOBER 14, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.