Compiled by Dick Bennett
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-208-december.html
More Books from “Ecosocialist Bookshelf”
Articles from Climate and Capitalism
MORE BOOKS FROM “Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024.” September 2, 2024.
Climate change silently accumulates a thousand tiny conflagrations, increasing health risks for billions of people, reducing productivity and amplifying inequality in a host of ways.
Rob Jackson. INTO THE CLEAR BLUE SKY: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere. Simon & Schuster. Jackson, chair of the Global Carbon Project, argues that we must not only slash emissions, but also repair the damage by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Restoring the atmosphere means reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the air to pre-industrial levels to heal the harm we have done. The question is how, and how long will it take?
Julie Guthman. THE PROBLEM WITH SOLUTIONS: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. University of California P.
A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Guthman digs into the impoverished and ill-informed solutions for food and agriculture currently being promoted by Silicon Valley technocrats.
Joe Roman. EAT, POOP, DIE: How Animals Make Our World. Hachette Book Group.
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then migrating animals are its heart and arteries, a global conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients. Roman shows how animals’ basic biological activities — endless cycles of eating, pooping and dying — make and remake the world. Understanding these processes is a vital part of all serious efforts to repair our damaged planet.
Andrew Greenfield. LIFEHOUSE: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire. Verso.
Drawing lessons Black Panther survival programs, the Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort ,and solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as autonomous Rojava, Greenfield argues that mutual care and local power can help shelter us in a time of global catastrophes.
On Barak. HEAT, A HISTORY; Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet. University of California P.
Despite record-breaking temperatures, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of global heating. Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Barak shows how we have become desensitized, and charts a way out of short-term thinking, towards meaningful action.
Hans A. Baer and Merrill Singer. BUILDING THE CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE: Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution. Routledge.
Baer and Singer open a dialog with contending perspectives in the anthropology of climate change. They aim to lay the foundation for a brave new sustainable world that is socially just, highly democratic, and climatically safe for humans and other species.
Climate & Capitalism 11-28-24
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