16.
Climate Memo Mondays 3-29-21
The next
Protest to Celebrate the UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (nuclear weapons are
ILLEGAL) and to Stop the University of Arkansas Nuclear Weapons
Program is TOMORROW Tuesday, March 30th,
at 12:30 P.M. We will protest at the entrance to the U of
A, at the intersection of M.L.K. Blvd & Razorback Rd (1417 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Fayetteville). Please JOIN US AND FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. We hope your commitment can be financial; our
banners cost over $100. Send your donation to OMNI’s Nuclear Weapons Committee, Abel Tomlinson, 60 W. Smith St.
72701 The banners cost over $100
each. Contact OMNI’s Director Gladys
Tiffany 935-4422 or President Kelly Mulhollan 582-2291. –Dick Bennett, OMNI Founder.
10
Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined. - CodePink
https://www.codepink.org ›
10_ways_that_the_climate... By Medea Benjamin. The environmental
justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional,
showing how global warming is connected to ... https://www.codepink.org/10_ways_that_the_climate_crisis_and_militarism_are_intertwined
10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism
Are Intertwined ...
https://www.greenpeace.org ›
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by Medea Benjamin. October 15, 2019.
facebook; Twitter; Email. To free up billions of Pentagon ... https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-that-the-climate-crisis-and-militarism-are-intertwined/
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet — and How We Fight
Back by Kate Aronoff.
Following is the review in Publisher’s
Weekly.
Aronoff
(co-editor, We Own the Future), a staff writer at the New
Republic, delivers an urgent and persuasive study of the links between
neoliberal economics and climate change. According to Aronoff, every
presidential administration since Ronald Reagan’s has prioritized market-based
solutions to environmental issues, and has sought the fossil fuel industry’s
input on its own regulation. The result, Aronoff argues, has been little to no
progress on an existential threat to humankind. She critiques the notion that
carbon taxes alone can curb greenhouse gas emissions to the degree necessary,
and details how Waxman-Markey, a 2009 bill that would have established a
cap-and-trade program in the U.S., was undermined by poor messaging from the
Obama administration and handouts to fossil fuel companies and Wall Street.
Aronoff also sketches the history of the New Deal to argue that the Green New Deal can restore the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic and help
Democrats build an electoral coalition to “bat off challenges from the right,”
and examines grassroots campaigns to “reassert democratic control” over
publicly owned energy utilities. Though Aronoff covers familiar ground, she
does so from a fresh angle, and offers brisk yet detailed analysis of why the
U.S. approach to climate change has fallen short. Policy makers and
environmental activists will find much food for thought.
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