OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS,
#146, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Geoff and Leslie Oelsner. Attunements for the Earth.
Ed Rampell. Film Necessity, or a Choice of
Evils.
Urban Ramblings. Reject the Military
Carbon Bootprint.
RESISTANCE TO THE
WARMMAKERS
Geoff and Leslie Oelsner. Attunements for the Earth.
Dear OMNI Friends,
Our planetary climate
crisis calls for all possible creative responses. It calls us to turn and tap
into the catalyzing intelligence of Nature. Leslie’s and my new book is
titled Attunements for the Earth.
It includes Leslie’s photographs and my writings. It’s part of our turning,
part of our response, and I would greatly appreciate any support you can offer
for sharing it with as many people as possible.
Attunements for the Earth is now available on Amazon as an ebook, and in soft and hard
bound book form.
Thank you! Geoff Oelsner
poeticmedicine.org https://www.poeticmedicine.org/post/attune…
Attunements for the Earth - Poetry
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ED RAMPELL. “A Choice of
Evils.” Counterpunch JULY 2, 2023. Necessity is a Legal and Protest Motion
Picture Primer for Climate Activists and Their New Courtroom Strategy Co-directors
Jan Haaken and Samantha Praus’
documentary Necessity chronicles the frontline struggles by Indigenous and
other climate activists, including Stop Line 3 Resistance, Extinction
Rebellion, the Sunrise Movement, Fire Drill Fridays, etc., against pipelines
and fracking. In almost two hours, this sprawling two-part nonfiction film
also zooms in on an evolving, new, novel
legal defense that courtroom gladiators are developing to defend
eco-warriors in the judicial arena in order to defeat the fossil fuel
industry in the courts, and from which this production derives its title. |
Read
the entire article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/02/a-choice-of-evils/
GLOBAL MILITARISM
Militarizing
the World
“Let’s get out from under the carbon military boot print.”
Editor. Mronline.org
(7-4=23).
Originally published: Urban
Ramblings on June 21, 2023 Empire, Environment, Imperialism,
WarAmericas, Europe,
Russia,
Ukraine,
United StatesNewswire
In March last year,
U.S. author Meehan Crist wrote the following in the London Review of Books,
One of the worst
outcomes of the war in Ukraine would
be an increasingly militarised response
to climate breakdown, in which Western armies, their budgets ballooning in
the name of “national security” seek to control not only the outcome of
conflicts but the flow of energy, water, food, key minerals and other natural
resources. One does not have to work particularly hard to imagine how barbarous
that future would be.
Crist’s point is
simply to describe the world we already have, but a bit more so; and her
prediction is exactly what is happening.
·
The U.S. has raised military
spending to $858 billion this
year; up from $778 billion in 2020.
·
France has announced
an increase from a projected E295 billion to E413 billion in the next seven years (an average of
E59 billion a year).
·
German spending is
rising sharply, from E53 billion in 2021 to E100 billion in 2022 and is set to go further.
·
Japan aims to double its
military spending by 2028 and is also debating whether to start deploying
nuclear weapons.
·
In the UK, the
government’s aim to increase military spending from 2.1% of GDP to 2.5% by 2030
comes on the back of what is already among the highest per capita military
spends in the world.
·
NATO, the core alliance of the Global North, already accounted for 55.8%
of global military spending in 2021 before any of these increases.
·
Other direct U.S.
allies—with a mutual defence pact—accounted for another 6.3%.
·
So, the direct U.S.- centred military alliances
account for three fifths of global military spending and yet they are now
raising it further at unprecedented rates. These are the world’s dominant
imperial powers, acting in concert to sustain a “rules based international
order” in which the rules are written in, and to suit, the Global North in
general and Washington in particular.
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