OMNI: Climate Memo Mondays, #79, June 13, 2022

 

79. OMNI: Climate Memo Mondays, #79, June 13, 2022
Overpopulation and Overconsumption
New Laws Needed
Richard Heinberg,  Power
Population Connection Presents, 8 Billion and Counting by Jennifer D. Sciubba
Ted Hamilton, Beyond Fossil Law: We Need New Laws.

Richard Heinberg, Power.  Heinberg has no doubt regarding the significance of population, in two sections: “Overpopulation and Overconsumption” (pp,. 238-242) and “Population: Lowering It and Keeping It Steady (337-41).   
      “Population growth makes every environmental crisis harder to address. . . .the more children we have now, the more human suffering is likely. . . .” (240-41).  “At the US average amount of consumption, we would need the equivalent of at least four Earths to sustain us” (241).  If we do not…rein in our power of population growth, we will face a series of snowballing crises that will disempower us….(242).       Our present efforts to stop and reverse population growth are “too slow to get us to, say, three billion by the end of the century” (citing Christopher Tucker’s A Planet of 3 Billion). . . .

Population Connection. Join us for our June book club meeting!

Hi James R., Join us for our upcoming book club meeting on Wednesday, June 15^th at 3pm  where we’ll be discussing 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World by Jennifer D. Sciubba.
Released in March of this year, 8 Billion and Counting is an essential and timely reading for those eager to develop a deeper understanding of fertility, mortality, and migration patterns to point towards the investments we need to make today for a better future tomorrow.

You can register for the next meeting here!

At engage@popconnect.org. We hope to see you at the next meeting!
Best Regards,  Natalie and Stephanie
Membership Relations Team

TED HAMILTON.  Beyond Fossil Law: CLIMATE, COURTS, AND THE FIGHT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.   OR Books, 2022.

“WE NEED NEW LAWS TO HELP CUT CARBON EMISSIONS AND PROTECT THE PLANET.”
“This is not just a page-turner legal thriller, it's a sweeping account of how the legal system enables the ongoing destruction of the planet. It provides a detailed, actionable understanding of why we find ourselves so deep in the hole, and how we might dig ourselves out.”  —Bill McKibben