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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #245, #246. AUGUST 25, 2025; SEPT. 1, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Inside
Climate News, “A Dangerous Dismantling,” July 27, 2025
ICN,
August 30, 2025.
“Ecosocialist Bookshelf,” Climate & Capitalism. September 2025.
Rachel Myslivy, UUA Create Climate Justice.
Anthony
Karefa Rogers-Wright. “Synergy Of The Sacrificed: Katrina And
The Praxis Of Imperial Domination.”
“A
dangerous dismantling.” ICN Sunday Morning <newsletters@insideclimatenews.org> Jul 27, 2025.
Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and
Washington bureau chief Marianne Lavelle as they discuss the dismantling of
EPA’s scientific research office.
Last week the Trump administration
quietly took a hugely consequential action affecting environmental protections
in America: beginning to shutter the EPA Office of Research and Development. The decision follows a long pressure
campaign from industry lobbyists to limit EPA’s ability to assess the health
risks of chemicals like formaldehyde, ethylene oxide, arsenic and hexavalent
chromium, and mitigate the harms they can cause. Marianne takes us inside the office,
explaining its critical role in protecting the public, the politics at play,
and why shutting the office down is such a devastating loss to the country.
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8-30-25
It was already too late.
As Hurricane Katrina blew ashore along the Gulf Coast with winds over 125 miles
an hour, Truong Van Dai, an oyster shucker, drove off in his station wagon to
help a friend in dire need.
Before he realized what was happening, floodwaters from the hurricane’s storm
surge were slapping against the floor of the car. He couldn’t go any further.
Soon, he’d realized he couldn’t even turn back. The car would be his family’s
first loss to what would become one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. Truong got out of the station wagon and
started doing the only thing he could—wading through the floodwaters back
toward his home. When he arrived, his
family had finished packing their 1988 brown Chevy van. His wife, Ana Chau, and
his children, David, Jim and Michelle—ages 11, 9, and 2—were ready to evacuate.
Truong, now soaking wet from the waist down, knew the other roads out of town
might also be flooded. It was a risk he was willing to take.
Joining half a dozen other Vietnamese families, the Dais attempted to escape
Bayou La Batre. None would make it to safety.
The caravan got as far as the intersection of Hemley Road and South Wintzell
Avenue, just south of the Bayou La Batre drawbridge that led further inland.
There, in the blink of an eye, the floodwaters blocked their way, in front and
behind. The families tried a detour, hoping they could take another route back
home. No such luck.
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“Ecosocialist Bookshelf,”
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf,
September 2025
Seven new books for reds and greens:
slavery, antiscience, extraction, disruption, oil power, language, &
planning. Source
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Worldwide, 2.1 billion people still
lack safe drinking water
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For an 'ecommunist' alternative to
degrowth and luxury communism
Rachel Myslivy, UUA Create Climate Justice <climatejustice@uua.org> . September 2025.
At
General Assembly, the Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt celebrated the work of the UU Climate Justice Working Group, which
was established to identify where our faith calls us to lead beyond narrowly
defined “net zero” goals towards equitable decarbonization, community
resilience, and a just transition from fossil fuels to a clean energy
future. The Working Group celebrates and builds upon the existing UUA
commitments to climate justice in the Draft Commitments, briefly outlined
below.
Culture
The
Draft Commitments recommend that the UUA strategize and support a culture shift
from historical environmentalism to intersectional Climate Justice aligned with
Green Sanctuary 2030’s Four Essentials of
Climate Justice: Congregational Transformation, Community Resilience, Justice,
and Mitigation.
Resources
The
Working Group recommends advancing real zero-aligned investment policies,
resource strategies, and ongoing collaborations through community investments,
transparency in reporting, and supports for UUs and our congregations to align
our finances with our values.
Next
Moves
. . .In
the spirit of the UU Climate Justice Revival, we invite all UUs to reimagine
together how we do this critical work with love at the center. Sign up to
learn more at the September 17 Green Sanctuary Community
Meeting. For more info, go to UUA.org/ClimateJustice or email climatejustice@uua.org. . . .
Synergy Of The Sacrificed: Katrina And The Praxis Of
Imperial Domination By Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black
Agenda Report. Popular Resistance.org (8-30-25). Commemorating Katrina and its aftermath in
2025 comes at a time when a series of anthropogenic calamities from the
genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid in Palestine, to the militarized
federal takeover of Washington, D.C. (with the threat of more cities, such as
Chicago, to follow) as part of a larger fascist consolidation effort are all
exacerbated by an accelerated climate crisis that further elucidates the praxis
of Imperial domination, which continues to oppress colonized and marginalized
peoples across the world. -more-
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