Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-climate-memo-mondays-232-may-26.html
Chris Hedges. Climate Crisis.
Gene Ray. Commoning.
The Chris Hedges Report: Facing The Climate Crisis And Human Mortality By Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Popular Resistance.org (5-23-25). In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecological collapse, war, endless resource accu mulation fueled by capitalism — is the issue of our time. The warning signs are there but as author Eiren Caffall tells host Chris Hedges, people are not able to handle the facts regarding the “fragility of our ecosystem, and [they] just don’t really have a great way of managing the emotional impact of that.” Caffall joins Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her novel, All the Water in the World. -more-
Instead of creating a third Weekly to solely confront President Trump’s totalitarian depredations against the climate and Constitution, I will add “democracy” items to WWW and CMM weeklies. –D
Gene Ray. AFTER THE HOLOCENE: Planetary Politics for Commoners. Autonomedia, 2025.
Publisher’s description: Capitalism has ended the Holocene. The epoch of planetary heating and climate chaos has begun. Business-as-usual is leading to hothouse earth and mass extinction, but how to pull the emergency brake on the extraction and techno-acceleration regime? Alternatives exist, but the capitalist classes are blocking them. This book argues that one such alternative, commoning, offers first steps on a pathway to metabolic sanity and collective self-rescue. As the mutualist and more-than-human association of direct producers, commons ecologies will be a necessary and buildable factor in the
strategic struggle to disarm, power down and abolish capitalism.
Autonomedia is an autonomous zone for arts radicals in both old and new media. We publish books on radical media, politics, and culture that seek to transcend party lines, bottom lines and straight lines. https://autonomedia.org/product/after-the-holocene-planetary-politics-for-commoners-by-gene-ray/
Commons reading:
Ian Angus. The War Against the Commons. Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism. MRP, 2023. Future Natures: On Seeing Commons Through Popular Genres By David Bollier. Explaining The Commons Economy By Dave Darby.