OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #111, January 23, 2023

 

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #111, January 23, 2023

Acting Against Climate Change
Solnit and Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the
  Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  
Public Citizen: Controlling Anti-Social, Sociopathic Policies of Big Banks
Working for Responsible Companies
Climate and Capitalism Magazine: Ecosocialism or Barbarism

 Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, eds.   Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.  Haymarket  (April 4, 2023).   Publisher’s description. 

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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (“the voice of the resistance”—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.

Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, anxious, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy.   These dispatches from the climate movement around the world feature the voices of organizers like Guam-based lawyer and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists like Dr. Jacquelyn Gill and Dr. Edward Carr; poets like Marshall Islands activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijner; and longtime organizers like The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown. Guided by Rebecca Solnit’s typical clear-eyed wisdom and enriched by illustrations, Not Too Late leads readers from discouragement to possibilities, from climate despair to climate hope.

Good news re: reining in the Big Banks Jan 17, 2023

Louise, we know the Big Banks like to talk about how they’re taking climate change seriously. But we also know they’re investing billions of dollars in companies that produce fossil fuels and contribute to the escalating climate crisis — they’ve invested at least $4,500,000,000 since 2015! So we’re thrilled to announce that a banking regulator — the Federal Reserve ("the Fed") — just proposed guidelines on how Big Banks should respond to the climate crisis. The guidelines tell the Big Banks to: 1.   Stop banks from greenwashing by making sure their internal strategies are actually consistent with their public-facing climate commitments;  2.   Avoid risk management strategies that disproportionately harm communities of color and low-income communities — people that are hurt worst and first by the escalating climate crisis; 3.  Prepare for the impacts of climate change at every level of business; 4.   Plan for what climate change could look like in the long term, and adjust projections as new data comes in; and 5.   Develop a clear understanding of how climate change could harm the financial system. So please, if you want to stop the Big Banks from harming the rest of us just to make a quick buck, speak up in support of strong climate guidelines for banks. Deanna (she/her), Public Citizen

Working For Socially Constructive Companies
"Many job seekers are now looking to work in companies aligned with climate goals. A 2021 Yale School of Management survey of 2,000 students across 29 business schools globally found that 51% would accept lower salaries to work for an environmentally responsible company.”       Oscar Boyd and Akshat Rathi, "Meet the Climate Quitters," Bloomberg

 

Ian Angus, ed.  Climate and Capitalism: Ecosocialism or Barbarism, Selected Readings
90% of world’s people to face combined extreme heat and drought, January 9, 2023
Practical nuclear fusion is still just hype, January 2, 2023
Ecosocialist Bookshelf: The Best of 2022, December 31, 2022
Degrowth and the end of capitalism, December 17, 2022
A great loss for ecosocialism:  John Molyneux, 1948-2022, December 12, 2022  https://climateandcapitalism.com/2022/12/12/a-great-loss-for-ecosocialism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-great-loss-for-ecosocialism