CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #142, AUGUST 28, 2023
Earth Overshoot Day
Jeff Goodell. The Heat Will Kill You First
TED
HAMILTON. Beyond
Fossil Law: CLIMATE, COURTS, AND THE FIGHT FOR A SUSTAINABLE
FUTURE.
Earth Overshoot Day
We busted Earth's budget! By the Numbers 2022 .
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Earth Overshoot Day is an estimate, not an exact date. . . . .It’s not possible to determine with 100
percent accuracy the day we bust our ecological budget. But every scientific model used to account
for human demand and nature’s supply shows a consistent trend: We are well over
budget, and that debt is compounding. It is an ecological debt, and the
interest we are paying on that mounting debt—food shortages, soil erosion, and the
build-up of CO₂ in our
atmosphere—comes with devastating human and monetary costs. See Climate Footprint.
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Jeff Goodell.
THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, by |
Publisher’s
Overview
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Most Anticipated Book by The New York
Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club Selection • The
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Jeff Goodell's "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) investigation
exposes "through stellar reporting, artful storytelling and
fascinating scientific explanations" (Naomi Klein) an explosive new
understanding of heat and the impact that rising temperatures will have on our
lives and on our planet. "Entertaining and thoroughly researched,"
(Al Gore), it will completely change the way you see the world, and despite its
urgent themes, is injected with "eternal optimism" (Michael Mann) on
how to combat one of the most important issues of our time.
“When heat comes, it’s invisible. It
doesn’t bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it’s
arrived…. The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you.”
The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in
California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the
ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the
first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis.
And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our
governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is
not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature
will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the
temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually
uninhabitable. It’s up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and
wider our fault lines will open.
The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our
planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks
earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on
everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will
happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or
Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory
event— one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is
changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more
democratic.
To read more
about the book, here’s a review via NPR:
https://www.wypr.org/2023-07-03/the-heat-will-kill-you-first-how-extreme-heat-will-change-the-world
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE for a new law of climate justice
TED
HAMILTON. Beyond Fossil Law: CLIMATE, COURTS, AND THE FIGHT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.
Beyond Fossil Law: Climate,
Courts, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future answers
a pressing question for the future of the planet: why is it legal for companies
to pump dangerous gases into the atmosphere but illegal for regular people to
stop them? Reviewing the current
state of “fossil law”—the rules and regulations that allow the disruption of
the global climate system—the book explains how financial interest, colonial
power, and outmoded legal ideas block efforts to prevent global warming. Moving
from a historical account of the origins of fossil law to ongoing battles to
criminalize climate activism, the book reveals how courts, prosecutors, and
police enforce the dominance of the fossil fuel industry.
But people are fighting
back. Beyond Fossil Law tells the story of the Valve
Turners, a group of climate activists who successfully stopped the flow of
tar-sands oil to the United States in 2016. Their courtroom battles to
justify an act of civil disobedience
were a major step forward in crafting a new, democratic law of climate justice.
Ted Hamilton examines similar efforts to
dismantle fossil law, from the rights of nature movement in Latin America
to groundbreaking lawsuits against governments in the United States and Europe.
He shows how climate legal activism is closely linked to grassroots campaigns
against government and industry abuse, and offers strategies for crafting a new law of climate justice. 240 pages
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