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OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #116, FEBRUARY 27, 2023

 

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #116, FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Svoboda.  Books for taking action on climate change.  Yale Climate
    Connection.
Dominic Rushe.  Doubts “Green Investing.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist.
Eve Ottenberg.  Carbon.  Satirical New Play.
 

 

 

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MICHAEL SVOBODA.  Want to take action on climate change? These books can help.”  Yale Climate Connections.  JANUARY 27, 2023

Twelve titles offer practical advice for people who want to help protect the climate.

At the beginning of a new year, commentators of all sorts invite us to look back at the year just finished and forward to the year ahead. This year, on the matter of climate change, the annual exercise has special importance.

2022 was filled with the sort of natural disasters we have come to expect but whose severity still surprises us: the devastating floods in Nigeria and Pakistan, vicious tropical cyclones like Hurricane Ian, and scorching heat waves in the United StatesEuropeIndia, and China.  But 2022 was also noteworthy for long-hoped-for successes — like the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, known as the IRA, in the United States and the new if still tentative commitment by the international community to address the losses and damages climate change is already inflicting on developing countries. 2022 set the stage for significant action on climate change.

A set stage, however, still requires actors. The opportunities created by these developments, the Inflation Reduction Act in particular, will not seize themselves. U.S. residents concerned about climate change must persuade their churches, school boards, workplaces, city councils, and state legislatures to access and use the funds provided by the IRA* to reduce their carbon footprints.  To help our readers meet these challenges, Yale Climate Connections has assembled a special collection of books and reports on climate action. Each offers practical advice for individuals who want to persuade their communities to act on climate change. Some of these titles have appeared in previous bookshelves; others are newly discovered or recently published. The collection includes titles aimed at different age groups: adults, college students, young adults, and children. Many also offer inspiring personal stories of climate activism.

So if you want to up your game on climate change this year, resolve to read one of these books.  As always, the descriptions of the titles are adapted from copy provided by the publishers or organizations that released them.  *Note: The White House has created its own guidebook for the Inflation Reduction Act, a detailed but accessible explanation of what’s in the bill and of the procedures for accessing the funds it allocates. The guidebook can be downloaded, free of charge, here.

See the 12 books:  https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/want-to-take-action-on-climate-change-these-books-can-help/?utm_source=Weekly+News+from+Yale+Climate+Connections&utm_campaign=33b32c0419-

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Dominic Rushe.  Green investing ‘definitely not going to work’—former BlackRock exec .“ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (April 8, 2021).

A former player in one of the biggest efforts to turn Wall Street ‘green’ now believes the climate crisis cannot be solved by free markets. “It’s not because they are evil, it’s because the system is built to extract profits,” he said. Read more.

 

Eve Ottenberg.  Carbon.
This comic novel is about a twenty-something making his way in the idiot world of climate change denial, satirizes the buffoonery, lies, and greed impeding solutions to the consequences of global warming.  https://www.eveottenberg.com/carbon_134713.htm

 

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