84. CLIMATE
MEMO MONDAYS, #84, JULY 18, 2022. It’s stupid
to try to keep cool by burning carbon.
Chris Hedges and John Feffer’s dystopian novels.
Garzón Espinosa. Limits of and solutions
to Growth.
Dick. Biden’s $1 billion pledge to
increase air traffic capacity.
Sullivan. From a War to a Peace Economy.
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with
John Feffer JUL 8, 2022 |
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Chris
Hedges speaks with the author John Feffer about his novels set in a future
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The Limits to Growth: Ecosocialism or Barbarism
Alberto Garzón Espinosa (July 5, 2022). Mronline.org
(7-2-22).
A major deficiency of the
growth-obsessed model driving global neoliberal economic policy is its lack of
understanding on the Earth System on which it—and indeed, all life on Earth—
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BUSINESS AS USUAL: GROWTH OF WAR/WARMING ECONOMY
7-6-22 The Biden Admin./FAA pledged $1
billion to increase air traffic capacity. Nobody wants to be on
the cutting edge of urgently needed change if you are called a spoilsport on
Page One and children cry when flights to Disney World end. To the contrary. We cheer Congress for giving the Federal
Amusement Agency $1billion dollars to make
flying more accessible. Yes, even
though flying is a significant source of CO2 surpassing cars, and the Biden
Admin. declared the reduction of CO2 one of its goals, it is giving air travel
$1 billion a year extra for five years. Paying no attention to the chaos ahead
wrought by airplane fossil fuels emissions, disregarding George Monbiot’s
cogent case against flying except for necessity and “love flights”( to visit our loved ones), and
despite the number of desperate people facing food insecurity around the world
having climbed by 150 million since the pandemic began, hitting 828 million,
the FAA under the Airport Terminal Program is contributing $13 million to XNA’s
infrastructural improvements costing
a total of $40 million. For what? To fund conveniences: a skybridge between the parking deck and the
terminal, new elevators and escalators, new baggage carousels, and a lobby
facelift. XNA urgently needs these
improvements? No, but they “will help
meet future demand for travel” (As will
the planned new approach highway to the airport.) An XNA spokesperson thanked the Biden Admin.
for recognizing the importance of these improvements.
But hush, beware spoilsport sarcasm
cruel to children! 7-8-22
(On disastrous growth, read "The Triumph of Death" by Chris Hedges, June 20, 2022).
“Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy.” By Mary Beth Sullivan, for mic50.org [Posted on 22 October 2011 by David Swanson. Also pub. with minor variations in The Humanist Jan-Feb
2012. --Dick] “It behooves the peace movement to create a vision that the populace can get
excited about – a vision that will capture people’s imagination. A vision
that sees skills and talents of our engineers and scientists creating the renewable energy infrastructure that is
critical to surviving the 21st Century; a vision that engages peace
activists, environmentalists, labor, students, artists, food security folks in
creating plans for how we will heat homes, feed people, transport people in the
year 2040. This is the true security need for the U.S., and the
world.”
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