OMNI
EARTH
DAY 2017
Report
by Dick Bennett, for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology, April 22, 2017
“If you have no power in Milan, even the dogs won’t bark at
you.” Leonardo da Vinci when in the 15th
c. he moved to that city.
Contents EARTH DAY 2017
Earth Day March for Science, Fayetteville, AR, April 22
United Nations International Mother Earth Day
Pachamama
Earth Day 2017 Google Search
Environmental History:
from President Nixon to President Obama, The
Nation, editorial 2012
President Obama,
Climate, Environment, Google Search, April 22, 2017
President Trump, Climate,
Environment: Google Search, April 22, 2017
Trump and
Climate Catastrophe by John Bellamy Foster (2017)
SCIENCE
MARCH, APRIL 22, 2017, FAYETTEVILLE, AR
Despite
rain, the march was well-attended, and the sheltered rally near the Greek
Amphitheatre enjoyed two excellent speakers, UAFS Chancellor Steinmetz and
Mayor Jordan, who received a standing ovation at the end. Both urged the audience to help build a national movement to push
government and corporate leaders to aid the environment and climate. My addition:
Let’s steadfastly question anti-intellectualism, misology, and all those
who hate knowledge, and reasoning, and organize
to oppose all who employ power to overpower science. --D
www.un.org/en/events/motherearthday/
International Mother Earth Day is celebrated to remind each of us that
the Earth and its ecosystems provide us with life and sustenance. It also
recognizes a ...
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Acton Institute · 19 hours ago
https://www.pachamama.org/about
About. Pachamama Alliance is a global community that offers people the
chance to learn, connect, engage, travel and cherish life for the purpose of
creating a ... (google for more
connections)
EARTH DAY 2017, APRIL 22, Google Search,
February 21, 2017
www.earthday.org/
Help Earth Day Network
– that works with over 22000 partners in 192 countries - broaden and mobilize
the environmental movement. ... Earth Day April
22, 2017
www.earthday.org/register/
The theme for Earth Day
2017 is Environmental and Climate Literacy. As you
finalize your plans for this year, please register below. Any Earth Day
questions ... SCIENCE LITERACY IS THE
SPECIAL GOAL OF OMNI350 CLIMATE BOOK FORUM.
www.earthday.org/earthday/earth-day-theme/ The theme for Earth Day
2017 is Environmental and Climate Literacy. Before we can solve
the dire environmental threats of the 21st century, we must build a ...
Earth Day picked as date for science march on Washington -
CNN.com
www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/politics/science-march-earth-day-trnd/
Feb 1, 2017 - Earth Day picked
as date for science march on Washington ... the Women's March on Washington on
January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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SOME ENVIRONMENTAL
HISTORY: FROM PRESIDENT NIXON TO PRESIDENT
OBAMA
The Nation editorial 2012
SAVE
EARTH DAY
THE
NATION (May 7, 2012).
Celebrated every April 22 for the past
forty-two years, Earth Day is showing its (middle) age. Instead of rallying
public pressure for far-reaching reforms, Earth Day is becoming, at least in
the United States
Frustrated by such cynicism, some
environmentalists have called for abolishing Earth Day. But that would be
throwing the baby out with the polluted bathwater. Instead, why not recall the
real history of Earth Day and revive its original—and much more
demanding—vision?
Organized in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson
and activist Denis Hayes, the first
Earth Day so frightened president Richard
Nixon that he decided he had to become an environmental president if he
wanted to win a second term. And unlike later presidents who invoked that
title, Nixon lived up to it. He created the Environmental Protection Agency,
which today’s Republicans love to demagogue. His aides pioneered such
transformative measures as environmental impact reports and regular pollution
monitoring. And he signed landmark environmental laws—the National
Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the
Endangered Species Act and more—that on paper are still among the strongest in
the world (indeed, that have been the model for the rest of the world’s
environmental laws).
Nixon did all this not because he was a
closet tree-hugger—the poor man wore wingtips to walk on the beach—but because
he was a calculating politician. As Russell Train, the first chair of the White
House Council on Environmental Quality, and other aides later revealed in their
memoirs, Nixon was keenly aware that 20 million Americans—roughly 10 percent of
the population in 1970—took some kind of civic action that first Earth Day,
whether it was planting trees, cleaning creeks, teaching kids or joining
demonstrations. Coming in the wake of consciousness-raising by such writers as
Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner and activism by Ralph Nader and antiwar and
civil rights movements, this outpouring of citizen engagement led Nixon to
conclude that the environment was emerging as a major public issue—one that
Democrats could use against him in the 1972 election. So Nixon pre-empted that
possibility by taking environmental action himself.
In short, America’s first and biggest environmental victories were won after mass
grassroots activism persuaded an otherwise indifferent president that he
had to deliver or risk losing his job. Alas, this history seems to have been
forgotten by many of today’s green activists, to say nothing of ordinary
citizens. How else to explain why, under President
Obama, large environmental groups spent an estimated $100 million to $300
million on a doomed inside-the-Beltway effort to pass carbon cap-and-trade
legislation? Doomed, because cap-and-trade had zero grassroots support. “We
can’t go out in the streets about cap-and-trade,” one campus activist
complained. “Most people can’t even understand it.” And without grassroots pressure, the structural
bias of official Washington, where big money dominates much more than in
Nixon’s era, is all but impossible to counter.
Of course, the power of big money in Washington
But Barack
Obama’s “All of the Above” energy policy—including a reconsideration of the
Keystone pipeline—illustrates that America’s environmentalists still have not
mustered enough grassroots pressure to persuade this president to show the kind
of leadership needed to preserve a livable climate. All of the Above, let’s
remember, is a slogan Republicans coined to make their slash-and-burn
philosophy more palatable to moderate voters. It sounds more reasonable than
“Drill, baby, drill!” but amounts to much the same thing. To give President
Obama his due, his promotion of wind and solar energy and his ordering of
higher vehicle fuel efficiency are laudable steps. But when he brags, as he did
at a recent campaign event while posing in front of vast stacks of oil pipes,
that his administration has “added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle
the Earth” while also increasing oil drilling to record levels, Obama forfeits
whatever credibility he once had as a politician who cares about the looming
catastrophe of climate change. All of the above also violates Obama’s promise,
at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, to reduce
US
Overturning Obama’s calculation is not
possible for Earth Day 2012, but there is still time before November to give
Obama, his Republican opponent and all Congressional candidates their own Nixon
moment. As on that first Earth Day, we need millions of Americans to stand up
and take action, risks and political scalps. As climate crusader Mohamed
Nasheed, the deposed Maldives
PRESIDENT OBAMA,
CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, Google Search 4-22-17
www.mnn.com › Earth
Matters › Wilderness & Resources
Oct 10, 2016 - As President Barack Obama nears the end of his second term, let's take a look at his
final record on the environment,
climate change and
green ...
legal-planet.org/2016/11/02/obamas-remarkable-environmental-achievements/
Nov 2, 2016 - When he leaves office in January, President Obama will have compiled a remarkable record
of environmental achievements. The record spans
everything from climate change to endangered species and ocean
protection. ... EPA issued the “tailpipe” rule, cutting CO2 emissions from
new ...
www.environmentamerica.org/.../celebrating-president-obama’s-environmental-legac...
Jan 10, 2017 - President Obama's Climate Action Plan, including the Clean Power
Plan, set the first ever national limits on carbon pollution from power plants.
e360.yale.edu/features/obama_environmental_legacy_donald_trump_undo
Nov 14, 2016 - President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to
scrap U.S. involvement in the Paris climateaccords,
undo President Obama's signature piece of ...
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-record/climate
President Obama believes that no challenge poses a
greater threat to our children, our planet, and future generations than climate change — and that no other ...
https://www.edf.org/.../ready-defend-obamas-environmental-legacy-top-10-accomplis...
Jan 12, 2017 - Having a leader committed to clean energy, climate progress, and ... President Obama'sdiplomatic leadership, and work with China, led to a ...
nationswell.com/15-experts-obamas-environmental-legacy/
Sep 18, 2015 - “While President Obama has taken significant steps to address climate change — establishing the first-ever carbon emissions
limits for power ...
https://www.theguardian.com
› Environment › Climate change
Nov 2, 2016 - Ms. McCollum has a long history of focusing on the environment in general ... President Obama has acted boldly to address the threat of climate ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../obama.../environmental-climate-change-policies.ht...
Aug 16, 2016 - The president realized in his second term
“that to win on climate you can't ... On the night in early June
2008 when Barack Obama had finally ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../obamas-environmental-legacy-a-reflection_us_58820e1f...
Jan 22, 2017 - Climate change became a priority for the president in his last two
years and we can safely say that President Obama will leave a strong ...
PRESIDENT TRUMP, CLIMATE,
ENVIRONMENT: GOOGLE SEARCH, February 21, 2017 and April 22, 2017.
Climate Change: Donald Trump Environment Policies Unpopular ...
Climate Change: Donald Trump Environment Policies Unpopular ...
time.com/4665481/donald-trump-environment-dergulation/
Feb 9, 2017
- The majority of Americans oppose President Donald Trump's plan
to eliminateenvironmental regulations that
combat climate change.
www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53195/trump-climate-policies/
5 days ago
- The Trump administration could be
catastrophic for combatting climate change.
www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/.../donald-trump-climate-white-house-webs...
Jan 20, 2017
- The page contains only the briefest of mentions of the environment:
... President Trumpwill refocus the EPA on its
essential mission of ...
Trump to roll
back Obama's climate, water rules through executive action Washington
Post · 14 hours ago
The
Republic · 1 hour ago
www.independent.co.uk
› News › World › Americas
Jan 20, 2017
- No part of the Mr Trump's environmental document
makes any mention of climatechange or global warming –
something that President Trump ...
https://phys.org
› Earth › Environment
Jan 20, 2017
- US President Donald Trump signaled
a sharp break on energy and the environment policy
Friday, announcing plans to undo climate policies ...
thehill.com/policy/...environment/318824-trump-brings-big-change-to-climate-polici...
Feb 10, 2017
- President Trump and the GOP-controlled
Congress are working to undo ... “The key will be getting an energy and environment team
in place, ...
https://www.theguardian.com
› Environment › Climate change
Jan 19, 2017
- With climate change doubters
moving into the White House, the ... We're just a few hours from Donald Trump being
inaugurated as the president of the ..... climate change
is already exacerbating environmental and
political ...
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38746608
Jan 25, 2017
- Are the Trump team's actions on climate and
energy the opening shots in a war ... This was President Obama's
broad-based strategy to cut carbon emissions. ... The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), should focus on its ...
www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/1/23/.../trump-epa-regulations
Jan 23, 2017
- Now that he's president, Trump is
preparing sweeping changes to rules ... to take climate change
into account during their formal environmental ...
thehill.com/blogs/blog.../330044-lawmakers-talk-climate-for-earth-day-climate-march1 hour ago - Lawmakers talk climate for
Earth Day, Science March. By Brooke Seipel ... Science Committee
(@SciCmteDems) April 22, 2017. Supporting ...
thehill.com/...environment/330037-live-coverage-march-for-science-seeks-to-send-m...
4 hours ago - BlackPhysicists (@BlackPhysicists) April 22, 2017 ... policy, a protest designed to send a
message to lawmakers — and President Trump.
time.com/4656630/scientists-march-on-washington-date/
Scientists and critics of President Donald Trump's approach
to science will ... science march washington climate change trump ... Updated: Feb
01, 2017 12:47 PM ET ... A Facebook page for theApril 22 march has more than 300,000 followers. ... things,
the Trump administration has prohibited scientists
at the Environmental ...
www.sierraclub.org/
The People's Climate Movement ... Trump Orders Clean
Power Plan Dismantled in Setback for “Vitally ... Create a fundraising page and
join us in YOUR corner on April 22—and
when you ... Sierra Club Outings -- New Trips for 2017! ... We are the nation's largest and most influential
grassroots environmentalorganization.
news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/
4 days ago - The Trump administration
has promised vast changes to U.S. science ... that aimed to curbclimate change and limit environmental pollution, ... April 3, 2017 - The White House announces thatPresident Trump .... Momentum quickly builds, resulting
in plans for the March for Science, scheduled for April 22.
Missing: google search
now.tufts.edu/articles/climate-change-under-trump
It was the 150th lecture of the Environmental Studies Lunch and Learn program.
... Search GoogleAppliance. search ... March 10, 2017 ... President Trump could undo, with the stroke of a
pen, climate ... UCS is co-sponsoring the March for
Science on April 22 in Washington, D.C., and the
People's ClimateMarch on April 29.
https://www.usnews.com/.../2017.../environmental-groups-vowing-to-fight-trump-cli...
Mar 29, 2017 - Environmental Groups Vowing to Fight Trump Climate Actions ... to mobilize a public
backlash to plans by President Donald Trump to roll back U.S. ... LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel ... FILE - In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 file photo, demonstrators gather in .... Sharon Jayson |April 17, 2017.
www.harvard.edu/events
9 hours ago - Saturday, April 22, 2017, 9:00am - 5:00pm. Peabody ... Climate Week | "The War on Science: Reports from the
Battlefield". Monday, April 24 ...
www.concordmonitor.com/Congress-must-step-in-on-climate-rules-9286792
That's because on March 28, President Donald Trump signed an
executive order to start the. ... Home · E-Edition · Search; News ... Saturday, April 22, 2017 ... preserve a clean environment and limit the risks posed by climate change. .... This Genius Google Chrome Add-On Is Saving Amazon Shoppers a Ton of
CashHoney.
https://www.nytimes.com/section/climate
Climate and Environment.
... April 13, 2017 By HENRY FOUNTAIN. Photo CreditClockwise from ...
Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites.
Trump and
Climate Catastrophe
by John
Bellamy Foster. Monthly Review (February 2017).
John
Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR
and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with
Paul Burkett, of Marx and the Earth
(Haymarket, 2017).
“This
very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing,
record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice.” —Donald Trump, January 2, 2014 (1)
The alarm
bells are ringing. The climate-change denialism of the Trump administration,
coupled with its goal of maximizing fossil-fuel extraction and consumption at
all costs, constitutes, in the words of Noam Chomsky, “almost a death knell for
the human species.” As noted climatologist Michael E. Mann has declared, “I
fear that this may be game over for the climate.”2
The
effects of the failure to mitigate global warming will not of course come all
at once, and will not affect all regions and populations equally. But just a
few years of inaction in the immediate future could lock in dangerous climate
change that would be irreversible for the next ten thousand years.3 It is
feared that once the climatic point of no return—usually seen as a 2°C increase
in global average temperatures—is reached, positive-feedback mechanisms will set
in, accelerating warming trends and leading, in the words of James Hansen,
former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the foremost
U.S. climate scientist, to “a dynamic situation that is out of [human]
control,” propelling the world toward the 4°C (or even higher) future that is
thought by scientists to portend the end of civilization, in the sense of
organized human society.4
Although
the United States currently contributes only about 15 percent of global
carbon-dioxide emissions, a failure on its part to act to reduce emissions
would push the world more decisively toward the 2°C tipping point.5 Moreover,
in the apparently likely event that the principal per-capita global emitter and
the hegemonic global power chooses to bow out, any worldwide effort to reduce
carbon emissions will be severely jeopardized. For this reason, climate
scientists are increasingly turning from the United States to China as the main
hope for leadership in combatting climate change.6
At this
critical moment in history, three questions need to be answered: What does the
latest scientific evidence tell us about the approach of climate catastrophe?
How is today’s monopoly-finance capitalism—with Donald Trump as its authentic
representative—contributing to this impending planetary catastrophe? And what
possibilities remain for humanity to avert an Earth-system calamity? MORE (including Notes)
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