OMNI: CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #89, AUGUST 22, 2022

 

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #89, AUGUST 22, 2022

IPCC, Growth capitalism unsustainable.
Johnstone, Rhetoric of imperial narrative.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, climate disinformation.
John Bellamy Foster, Mass mobilization needed. 

 

“Leaked report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable.”  Originally published: CTXT (Contexto y Acción)  on August 22, 2021. 

Another leak of the UN 2022 report warns that the only known way to avert climate breakdown is to avoid any model which is based on perpetual growth.

 

“Imperial narrative control has five distinct elements.”

Caitlin A. Johnstone.  Mronline.org (7-3-22).

All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on.   See my annotated bibliographies, James R. Bennett, Control of Information in the U.S. and Control of the Media.

 

“How climate disinfo “super-spreaders” undermine climate action.”   Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (6-20-22).
A report released on Thursday revealed that climate policy is being dragged into culture wars, with misinformation and junk science being spread across the internet by a relatively small group of individuals. Read more.

 

John Bellamy Foster.  “Socialism and Ecological Survival: An Introduction.”

Monthly Review (July 5, 2022). 

Time is running out for humanity to avoid a catastrophic planetary tipping point. Widespread mass mobilizations of populations worldwide must fight to bring about revolutionary societal changes and dismantle neoliberal monopoly capitalism, with its reliance on extractive exploitation of our planet’s resources and communities. | more…