Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-209-december.html
PLANET OVER PROFIT
POP is a youth-led climate justice group building people power and using direct action to take on the fossil fuel industry and put Planet Over Profit.
Fossil fuel companies – and the banks and asset managers that finance them – are driving us off the cliff of climate collapse. The wealthiest 1%, with their dirty investments and private jets and yachts, rob us of a livable future while ordinary people struggle to make ends meet and survive. If our so-called “leaders” won’t act on climate, it’s on us to hold them accountable and reclaim our tomorrow. We will take direct action against the people who are burning our world until the fire is out. We target fossil fuel companies, their financiers, and their allies in office. We disrupt the lives of the super-rich 1% who are most responsible for this crisis. We organize and mobilize to take money out of fossil fuels and put it into our communities. We believe that only through building mass people power can we halt climate collapse. It’s now or never. Join us. https://www.planetoverprofit.us/
Inside Climate News (ICN) is an excellent source of current climate-related action information. I count 17 separate stories reported in the ICN Weekly of 12-14-24. <newsletters@insideclimatenews.org>
Robert Hunziker. “Climate Change Trial at The Hague.” December 13, 2024. FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
The stakes are extremely high as the impact of fossil fuels on climate change goes to The Hague for hearings December 2-13, 2024 to determine whether nations are obligated to phase out fossil fuels. Will the esteemed court issue an opinion that truly impacts climate change? [ Here are the sources for this extraordinarily comprehensive article. –D]
The court’s opinion is expected in 2025.
(Source: James Hansen, International Court of Justice Proceedings in The Hague, December 9, 2024)
What if it is determined that “international law requires nations to phase out production, distribution and use of fossil fuels”? What happens next?
(Source: Courts May Be More Effective on Climate Action Than UN, Bloomberg Law, Nov. 22, 2024)
Potential benefits of the hearing before The Hague
Perilous Times on Planet Earth: 2024 The State of the Climate Report,
(Source: Paul Krugman, The Stench of Climate Change Denial, The New York Times, May 27, 2024)
What happens at 2°C (above pre-industrial)
(Source: Why Heat Waves of the Future May Be Even Deadlier Than Feared, The New York Times, October 25, 2024)
Antarctic Emergency Session of 450 Polar Scientists – The Link
Antarctica Emergency: Scientists Shocked as Sea Ice Melts / New Scientists Weekly 279.
What 2C of Warming Will Look Like: A Comprehensive Assessment, Earth.org. d/d September 2, 2024.
Robert Hunziker lives in Los Angeles and can be reached at rlhunziker@gmail.com.