15. Climate Memo Mondays , 3-22-21

 

15.  Climate Memo Mondays , 3-22-21

(UN World Water Day)

The next Protest to Celebrate the UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty and to Stop the University of Arkansas Nuclear Weapons Program is Tuesday, March 30th, at 12:30 P.M.  We will protest at the entrance to the U of A, at the intersection of M.L.K. Blvd & Razorback Rd  (1417 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Fayetteville).  Please JOIN US AND FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. 

Abel Tomlinson
OMNI Peace Action Committee, Chair
Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance, Founder
(479)283-5762

Please send your donation to Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance, 60 W. Smith St.  72701  The banners cost over $100 each. 

Join our next Demonstration at MLKJr. and Razorback Road, March 30 at 12:30.  –Dick

 

WAR AND WARMING
Medea Benjamin, Climate and Militarism
DEGROWTH
Jason Hickel, How Degrowth Will Save the World

10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined ...

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10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined. by Medea Benjamin. October 15, 2019. facebook; Twitter; Email. To free up billions of Pentagon ...

 

 

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Jason Hickel.  Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World.
Penguin, 2021.  https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more  Rev. by Alexander Zaitchik.  “Growing Pains: How an Ever –Expanding Economy Threatens the Planet.”  The New Republic (Jan-Feb. 2021).

Hickel describes degrowth as “the beautiful coincidence” that “what we need to do to survive is the same as what we need to do to have better lives.”  This coincidence “overlaps with policy programs like the Green New Deal in important ways. . . .Both share the immediate goal of a post-carbon economy.  Both involve broad social shifts away from private consumption and toward the production of shared public goods.  Both are internationalist in outlook, and see the world through a lens of climate justice as well as climate equilibrium.  Both require political alliances and social movements that hinge on connecting the dots between radical system change and self-interest—that is, communicating the many benefits of moving beyond the insecurity and terrors of the current system, and building a new society that is sustainable, stable, democratic, and fundamentally better in every way.

. . .Systems scientists and ecological economists have been warning for  decades that degrowth is not a political decision that can be put off indefinitely, but a matter of throughput math and physics.  The choice before us is the form we will allow degrowth to take—humane and controlled collective action and transformation, or chaotic civilizational tailspin, crash, and ruin.” 

--Dick

TAKE ACTION

 

CAN THE PUBLIC SPELL U R R J U  N T S Y,  AND CAN THEY DEFINE IT?  That’s at least some defense for inaction.  But our leaders know how to spell and to define. That’s not to deny that Biden’s Better, but that’s not enough    -D

Letter from Art Hobson to CBF 3-12-21

Another article in Science magazine concludes that CO2 cuts are lagging badly.  Global emissions were up by an average 0.21 billion tons per year during the last half of the past decade as compared with the first half.  Note that emissions are still rising!  Even if emissions were falling, the total CO2 in the atmosphere would still be rising.  The goal is zero emissions.

We haven’t even begun to turn the corner.  

Although the 64 mostly wealthy countries that emit the most CO2 have managed to slightly reduce their collective annual emissions, these reductions must increase 10-fold to even meet the Paris goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees C (the 1.5-degree goal is increasingly impossible).  

Peace – Art