OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #108, January 2, 2022

 

 CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #108, January 2, 2022

RESISTANCE
What’s at stake: We have two choices regarding the convergence of conventional wars, nuclear war, climate change, and pandemics: to abandon resistance and allow the worst to happen; or to make use of the opportunities that exist to preserve some of our civilization’s achievements.  I checked the last ten CMM, and at least 1 entry in each asserted one or more examples of resistance, and in some CMM all did.   We know what to do to reduce and even stop climate change (and wars and pandemics). 

 

ECOSOCIALISM
David Camfield.   Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.   Foreword by Dharna Noor.   PM Press, 2022.  128.
Future on Fire argues that a just transition from fossil fuels and other drivers of climate change will not be delivered by businesspeople or politicians who support the status quo. Electing green left leaders will not be enough to overcome opposition from capitalists and state bureaucrats. Only the power of disruptive mass social movements has the potential to pressure governments to change, so supporters of climate justice should commit to building them. Confronting the question “What if warming above 2° becomes unavoidable?” and refusing to despair, David Camfield argues that even a ravaged planet is worth fighting for—and that ultimately the only solution to the ecological crisis created by capitalism is a transition to ecosocialism. 
Praise “At last, a book that can be shared with anyone awakening to the urgency of climate justice. In clear and accessible prose, Future on Fire shows us why we are in an ecological crisis—and what it will take to move beyond it. With meticulous care, David Camfield lays out sharp and compelling arguments for building mass movements that set their sights on ecosocialism. Spread the word!”

Bridgetown Agenda
Tina Gerhardt.  “The Climate Bill.”  The Nation (12.12-19,  2022).   The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has a plan to dismantle the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement establishing the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  It would “suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries,” and “make $100 billion immediately available to those nations.”   Mottley’s proposed Bridgetown Agenda has “widespread support among countries in both the Global South and G7.”  Copy this info. to AR’s Senators.  Agitate.  Be trouble.