Climate Memo Mondays #17
Greta Thunberg Thursday, April 22, 3 hours on
ARPBS, Ch. 13, beginning at 7p.m. Put on
your calendar.
“The Big Heat: The New Politics of Climate
Change.” The New Republic (April 2021).
Three articles:
Ben Ehrenreich. “Suicide
Prevention: Why we must do everything differently to ensure
the planet’s survival.”
Mariana Mazzucato.
“Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis: A moon shot model for the transformation of
capitalism.”
Kate Aronoff. “Can OPEC
Rescue the Planet? In order to end the fossil fuel era,
the United States should join the organization American presidents love to
hate.”
Ben Ehrenreich/March 18, 2021
We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide
[In my printed copy of April TNR the title is “Suicide Prevention.”: “Suicide Prevention.” The New Republic (April 2021). –D]
https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide
Why
we must do everything differently to
ensure the planet’s survival [my italics –D]
OMNI’S Climate Book Forum’s 15 years of study
of the IPCC reports and commentary have put those of us who have read the books
in the privileged predicament of knowing the truth about the rising temperature
but are unwilling to cover it up as did the fossil fuels CEOs and
shareholders. This article by Ben Ehrenreich urges us to turn from
studying symptoms (we've studied them conscientiously from garbage disposal to
the disappearance of the stars) to concentrate on sources and causes in the
capitalist system of the planetary crisis and approaching chaos. --D
Mariana
Mazzucato. “Saving the Climate in a
Triple Crisis”
The article seems a
summary of her book Mission Economy: A
Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, and
its thesis: “we need new frameworks of economic collaboration that can tackle
the triple crisis before us [health, climate, economics] in a holistic way
that brings public purpose [instead of private profit] to the center of how we
co-create value” (p. 26 my emphasis). That hope links many of the books we
have studied since 2006, a period unfortunately of increasing Republican Party,
hyper-individualistic economics. Later
she praises the EU’s Horizon Europe and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals,
which offer a comprehensive alternative to Republican exaltation of
selfishness. If only. Her essay is a good but well-traveled
advocacy of “mission-based capitalism.” --D
Climate Change Is a
Crisis We Can Only Solve Together
The very idea that we—as atomized
individuals—could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet’s climate
is objectively nuts. Naomi Klein.
This article appeared in the July
6-13, 2015 edition of The Nation.
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