Climate Memo Mondays, #62, February 14, 2022

 

62.  Climate Memo Mondays, February 14, 2022
Greta Thunberg from Age 15 to 18, World Tour for the Planet.
Australia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country.
Capitalism and Growth: DEgrowth Necessary.

 

CLIMATE AND POLITICS, POLITICS OF CLIMATE

GRETA THUNBERG.  “A Year to Change the World, Episode 3.”  PBS, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, 7p.m.  (Episode 1 appeared Feb. 3, 7 p.m.; Episode 2 Feb. 10, 7 p.m.)  All on PBS4 World Ch. 700.

CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE
Australia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country.

‘Look up’, Australia: How capitalism and climate change are turning our food bowl to dust.  Editor.  Mronline.org (2-8-22).

Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin—a contested history, published in September 2021, is a warning. State officials, politicians and agribusinesses risk turning Australia’s premier food bowl—the Murray-Darling Basin, which covers 14 percent of the Australian mainland—into desert.   

GROWTH
“The end of growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis.”

Editor.  Mronline.org (2-8-22).

Many ecologists, activists and academics argue that an obsession with economic growth is the cause of our current ecological crisis and a commitment to “degrowing” the economy is the solution.       Connection: Overpopulation.