OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #260, December 22, 2025.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #260,  December 22, 2025.    Compiled by Dick Bennett.

 

OMNI’S FINAL CMM.   I hope someone will carry on its realistic analyses and ultimate hope.   OMNI continues its resistance to warming by its weekly general newsletter edited by Gladys Tiffany, its local actions, and its many anthologies already published and in preparation).  –Dick.

 

RESISTANCE
ICN Sunday Morning
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Mark Dunlea.   Putting Out the Planetary Fire.  2023.  Green New Deal.

Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun.  2025.

Recently Published Resistance: Two Magazines and Two Books 

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Capitalism Nature Socialism
Publisher’s description:
Capitalism Nature Socialism ( CNS ) is an international, multi-disciplinary journal of ecosocialism, encompassing anticapitalist perspectives that are both egalitarian and environmental in orientation. . . .   CNS serves as an outlet for those striving to connect/explain ecological and social issues through egalitarian anticapitalist approaches. We welcome submissions on themes like red-green politics, science/technology and relations of domination, technical/practicable solutions enabling ecosocialist alternatives, environmental movements/politics, political ecology, environmental history, environmental justice/conflicts, workplace and prison struggles, land/community/decolonisation struggles, political economy of environment, postcapitalist egalitarian futures. Works can be empirical and/or theoretical in orientation and expressed in a variety of ways, including standard scientific writing, poetry, and reviews of productions in any medium. We are especially interested in the work of younger authors and authors from underrepresented social groups and geographical areas.  
CNS is non-sectarian. We are affiliated with no political party or organised political tendency and are open to diverse views within left ecology/ecological left movements.    All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial and final editor screening and evaluation by two or more anonymous referees.
Capitalism Nature Socialism is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established by James O'Connor and Barbara Laurence in 1988. It is published by Routledge on behalf of the Center for Political Ecology and covers work on political ecology, with an ecosocialist perspective.  Source: Wikipedia   

The Green New Deal

Mark Dunlea.   Putting out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Change and Advocacy.  2023.  Green Education and Legal Fund.

“Mark Dunlea has worked as hard as anyone in America to tamp down the fire of climate change. And because he has decades of knowledge of how to work the system from inside and out, he’s been particularly effective. Now you can take advantage of all that hard-earned wisdom: this is a book for the practical organizer who wants to make a difference in the biggest fight the earth has ever seen.” Bill McKibben, author (The End of Nature), co-founder 350.org and The Third Act

“This book is an excellent primer not only on climate change, its useful solutions, and false solutions we need to avoid, but also on how to implement the good solutions through advocacy. I highly recommend it.” Prof. Mark Jacobson, Stanford University, Author of No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save our Climate and Clean Our Air

“The climate explosion – record wildfires, droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, rising sea levels – has made Earth Day Every Day. People who know this keep telling me they want to do something but don’t know how. Enter Mark Dunlea whose half a lifetime of organizing around saving the Planet from climate disruptions and other perils is poured into this book, PUTTING OUT THE PLANETARY FIRE. Accurate, easy to read with valuable groups, tools and strategies laid out, Dunlea’s book takes away excuses for inaction and motivates for action! If you want to move from knowledge to action, this is your book.” Ralph Nader, author, citizen activist.

“Mark Dunlea couldn’t find a primer on how to fight global warming, so he put one together himself. “Putting Out the Planetary Fire” contains the information everyone needs to understand the crisis that we’re facing and — just as important — to become active.”  Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. 

Putting Out the Planetary Fire not only provides top-notch research, but also places advocacy high up on its agenda and goes through all the tools in the advocacy toolbox–from lobbying to rallying to direct action. I particularly appreciate the inclusion of the effects of militarism on the climate, including the need to slash the military budget, stop wars for fossil fuels, and invest the savings in a rapid transition  to a clean energy future. It is time to act like it is a climate emergency, because it is! Another World is Possible if we put the common good ahead of the wealth and greed of the 1%.  Medea Benjamin. Co-founder, Code Pink

 

 

McKibben’s Solar Hope
Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Change for Civilization.   Norton, 2025.  China, Pakistan, and other countries are significantly turning to solar and wind power.  “Those kind of shifts. . .could take a real bite out of the grim predictions of climate scientists: the sun burns so we don’t need to.  We are in a desperate race; those scientists have told us that to stay on anything like a survivable path we must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half before the decade is out.  That target is on the bleeding edge of the technically possible, and this book is an effort to shove us toward that deadline” (4).  “And that prefigures a different world with a more localized and more humane geopolitics. . , which could allow the redress of some of earth’s great inequities. . . .the sun and the wind each day produce thousands of times as much energy as we could ever use—could even reconfigure our ideas of competition [capitalism] and conquest [wars].  Unlike oil and gas, sun and wind can’t be hoarded.  If fascism scares you the way it does me, figuring out how to break the centralized power of the fossil fuel industry is a key form of resistance” (5).    But McKibben’s optimism has been qualified by reviewers; e.g. David Wallace-Wells, "Bill McKibben's Far-Too-Sunny Outlook for Solar Power," The New Republic (Sept 17, 2025).  The struggle is ours.   –D

 

 

END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #260,  December 22, 2025.    Compiled by Dick Bennett.