Climate Memo Mondays, #47, November 1, 2021
Contents
COP 26 Countdown
Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox's New Book
COP26, UN CLIMATE CHANGE
CONFERENCE Glasgow, October 31 to November 1 2, 2021
OMNI Glasgow
Countdown, 10-22/31-21 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-un-climate-change-conference.html
Contents
Science for Peace, 10-22; Climate Hawks, 10-25; Atomic Scientists, 10-25; UN
Wire, 10-25; ADG, 10-26; World Beyond
War, 10-29; Senator Ed Markey, 10-30; Avaaz:
Greta Thunberg, 10-31; UNAC and Global Network: Convergence of Space, Militarization, and the Climate
Crisis, 10-31.
Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox
on the Warming Planet
Tomgram: Noam
Chomsky and Stan Cox, Before It's Too Late
TomDispatch via gmail.mcsv.net 10-24-21
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Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox,
Before It's Too Late
October 24, 2021
To the best of my memory, I first met Noam Chomsky in
1970. No, admittedly not in person, not then. But I "met" him
through his remarkable essay "After Pinkville," his look, in the midst of the
Vietnam War, at a world of My Lai massacres. (The hamlets that included
My Lai had been known to the U.S. military as "Pinkville.")
As he wrote at the time, grimly enough, "The world's most advanced
society has found the answer to people's war: eliminate the
people." I was then a printer at the New England Free Press, a
"movement" print shop, and though his essay appeared
initially in the New York Review of Books, we printed up
our own little edition for the bookshelf of movement literature we were
then widely distributing. I was overwhelmed by the power of the piece
and by the thinking of the man who wrote it.
I would, in fact, eventually meet Noam in person and edit
and publish two of his books (Hegemony or Survival,
America's Quest for Global Dominance and Failed States: The Abuse of
Power and the Assault on Democracy) while launching the American Empire Project
series with Steve Fraser at Metropolitan Books. Then,
unexpectedly finding myself producing what became TomDispatch,
I would end up publishing 20 of Noam's pieces at this website
between 2003 and 2016. You won't be surprised to learn that I felt
honored. In these years, quite honestly, Noam Chomsky has been
something like a force of nature, a single mind that has continually
taken in the world in a way few others could. And so, I find myself
proud indeed to be publishing an interview scientist Stan Cox has just
done with him about the ultimate issue on this planet when it comes to
our lives and those of our children and grandchildren: Can we make it?
Cox himself is the author of a new book, The Path to a Liveable
Future, as well as The Green New Deal and
Beyond, that Chomsky
wrote a forward to (a recommendation in itself). Check both of them out
and, in the meantime, consider the thoughts of the man who has, for
more than half a century, grasped and highlighted our problems in a
unique fashion. You can count on one thing: whatever he does in the
years to come, it won't include, like 90-year-old William
Shatner, heading into space with Jeff Bezos and crew. In a sense,
Chomsky has been in space all along, looking down on this woebegone
planet of ours and absorbing it in a way few others have done. It's a
record for the ages. Tom
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The Path to a
Livable Future: Or Will Rich Corporations Trash the
Planet?
By Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox
This month will mark a critical juncture in the struggle
to avoid climate catastrophe. At the COP26 global climate summit
kicking off next week in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiators will be faced
with the urgent need to get the world economy off the business-as-usual
track that will take the Earth up to and beyond 3 degrees Celsius of excess heating before this
century’s end, according to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Yet so far, the pledges of rich
nations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions have been far too weak to rein
in the temperature rise. Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s climate
plans hang in the balance. If Congress fails to pass the
reconciliation bill, the next opportunity for the United States to take
effective climate action may not arise until it’s too late.
For the past several decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of
the most forceful and persuasive voices confronting injustice,
inequity, and the threat posed by human-caused climate chaos to
civilization and the Earth. I was eager to know Professor Chomsky’s
views on the roots of our current dire predicament and on humanity’s
prospects for emerging from this crisis into a livable future. He very
graciously agreed to speak with me by way of a video chat. The text
here is an abridged version of a conversation we had on October 1,
2021.
Click here to read more of
this dispatch.
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