76. Climate Memo Mondays, #76, May 23, 2022
Juan Bordera. The Oligarchy and its elites diluted the
“world’s most
important climate report.” The third part of the IPCC’s 2021-2022
Sixth Assessment Report—addressing Mitigation.
Ronald
C. Kramer and Rob White. Carbon Criminals,
Climate Crimes.
Criminals who caused and worsened climate
calamity.
Jeff Sparrow, Crimes against Nature:
Capitalism and Global Heating
Ophelia Benson, “Cruising Over the Edge.”
Humans won’t change their
lifestyles in order to save
themselves and their civilization.
The
IPCC scientists in Working Group III in charge of proposing a concrete
mitigation plan, that is, to reduce emissions and seek viable solutions
(technological, economic, and social) to the biggest crisis ever faced by
humankind. The science has never been clearer: we must drastically reduce
emissions to have a chance of maintaining the climate stability that allows us
to live on this planet.
The Summary for Policymakers for the April
2022 Working Group III Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)—the third part of the IPCC’s 2021-2022 Sixth Assessment
Report—addressing Mitigation, is according to UN
Secretary General António Guterres, “a litany of broken climate promises…
Simply put, they [the vested interests] are lying,” denying the science,
present in the report as a whole but excluded or downplayed in the Summary
for Policymakers.
“Climate activists,” Guterres explains, are sometimes portrayed as
dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are
increasing fossil fuel production” (malaysia.un.org). These statements–which could belong to any social movement
spokesperson–are just some of the strongest statements that the present UN
Secretary-General has made in the wake of the official release of the Work Group
3 report, the world’s most crucial climate report hitherto and likely into the
future.
The IPCC scientist in
Working Group III in charge of proposing a concrete mitigation plan, that is,
to reduce emissions and seek viable solutions (technological, economic, and
social) to the biggest crisis ever faced by humankind. The science has never
been clearer: we must drastically reduce emissions to have a chance of
maintaining the climate stability that allows us to live on this planet. But
the Summary for Policymakers and Managers (the SPM), which
will be the only thing the vast majority of policymakers and business leaders
will read of the report’s 2,900+ pages, does not measure up to the science
behind it, nor to the challenge of climate change, the ecological crisis, and
the energy transition.
Also
by Bordera.
“Leaked report of
the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable” by Juan Bordera, Fernando
Valladares, Antonio Turiel, Ferran Puig Vilar, Fernando Prieto, Tim Hewlett August 23, 2021
Carbon Criminals,
Climate Crimes (Critical Issues in
Crime and Society) by Ronald C. Kramer and Rob White. Rutgers
UP, 2020.
Carbon
Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes
the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective.
It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic
environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The
book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel industry, the
U.S. government, and the international political community did, or failed to
do, in relation to global warming. Carbon Criminals, Climate
Crimes integrates research and theory from a wide variety of
disciplines, to analyze four specific
state-corporate climate crimes: continued extraction of fossil fuels and
rising carbon emissions; political omission (failure) related to the mitigation
of these emissions; socially organized climate change denial; and climate
crimes of empire, which include militaristic forms of adaptation to climate
disruption. The final chapter reviews policies that could mitigate greenhouse
gas emissions, adapt to a warming world, and achieve climate justice.
Jeff
Sparrow, Crimes Against Nature:
Capitalism and Global Heating
“As
we have seen,” Sparrow concludes, “many of the businesses most responsible for
global warming proved decades ago… that carbon dioxide could affect the climate in catastrophic ways—and
yet they continued normal operations regardless. That’s murder—social murder.”
And he looks back to the nineteenth-century
British poet Percy Shelley’s “The Mask of Anarchy,” “one of the greatest poems
of resistance, at a time when industrial capitalism was still new.” Shelley names the men responsible for the
brutal Peterloo Massacre, in which British cavalry upholding the system charged into a peaceful crowd of around
60,000 people demanding reform. Writes
Shelley:
I met Murder on the way--
He had a mask like Castlereagh—
Writes Sparrow, surveying his book: our
capitalists today kill “on a scale beyond anything Castlereagh could have
imagined.”
Ophelia Benson. “Cruising over the
Edge.” Free Inquiry (April-May 2022). We are doomed to climate chaos, dissolution of our
civilization, and countless extinctions in the Anthropocene era because homo
sapiens will cling to their pleasures and do too little too late to stop
CO2. https://learningfromdogs.com/tag/ophelia-benson/
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