OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #222, March 17, 2025.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #222, March 17, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett

A Nation Divided? Over the Science?

Lertzman.  “The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate.”

Mazza.  “Building Solidarity Around Survival: A Seattle Example.”

New Articles and Reviews of Books in Climate and Capitalism.

“The US Has Never Been More Divided On Climate”

By Dr. Renée Lertzman, DeSmog. Popular Resistance.org (3-10-25).  In the autumn of 2014, I was sitting in a tiny shed at a writing residency in Point Reyes, Northern California. I was there to write my book about the psychology of facing planetary crises. One particularly warm afternoon, I was looking out at Tomales Bay, teeming with bird life, when my phone rang with an unknown Washington DC number. Grateful for any distraction, I took the call. The fast-talking man on the other end of the line introduced himself as a senior advisor to the Republican Party. Let’s call him “Bob” (not his real name). -more-
 

“Building Solidarity Around Survival: A Seattle Example”

By Patrick Mazza, Resilience. Popular Resistance.org (3-10-25).  We are in for a long hard time in the U.S. and the world as a whole.  The buildup of problems either unaddressed or insufficiently addressed has mounted to an overwhelming extent. The ascendancy of Trump and Musk has intensified the situation, but the trends were going the wrong way for a long time before. It is enough to make people throw up their hands in despair, wondering what they can do.   Or there’s Seattle.   -more-

 

NEW ARTICLES and Reviews of Books IN CLIMATE & CAPITALISM (3-12-25).

Ethanol is just comically inefficient solar energy.     Source  To save the environment, we must end the profit system What's stopping a transition to renewable energy? Earth's water cycle is off balance for the first time in human history Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2025.   From the Bookshelf: Martin Crook.  CAPITALISM, COLONISATION AND THE ECOCIDE-GENOCIDE NEXUS.  University of London Press.. Focusing on the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia, Crook examines the drivers of ecologically induced genocide—environmental destruction resulting in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group’s cultural or physical existence. Putting forward a political economy of genocide, he enriches our understanding of genocide colonisation, and the capitalist mode of production that underpins developmentalism.