OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #125, MAY 1, 2023

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #125, MAY 1, 2023

Bill McKibben.  Cities and States Can Sue Exxon
     and other Malefactors.
World Beyond War.  Costs of War: Carbon Footprint
    Increasing, Climate Heating.
Chris Hedges Interviews Roger Hallam, founder to
    Extinction Rebellion (XR).

A Victory for Democracy Over Greed and Power (and by a GOP-dominated Supreme Court)

Bill McKibben.  “A seismic win went almost unnoticed amidst the Tuckerstorm.”  April 25, 2023. 

High court lets cities and states sue Exxon et al.

The Supreme Court…declined to grant cert in a case brought by oil companies desperately trying to hold off state court trials for their climate crimes.

To make a long story short: Eight years ago, journalists—led by Inside Climate News and the LA Times—began publishing stories proving that the big oil companies knew all there was to know about the dangers of global warming back in the 1980s. Among other consequences, this helped convince the legal departments of a number of cities and states to launch lawsuits against the oil giants, on the grounds that they’d done great and knowing damage to the taxpayers of these jurisdictions, who were having to clean up after the endless storms, fires, and floods. . . .And so the cases—in Baltimore, in Colorado, in a dozen other jurisdictions around the country—may now proceed.   MORE https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-seismic-win-went-almost-unnoticed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=438146&post_id=117113782&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

“Is Climate The Worst Casualty of War?” from World Beyond War

News To Help End War 
“The cost of America’s post-9/11 wars is approaching $6 trillion,” writes Bannerman, “and the price tag will continue to climb right along with sea levels, temperatures, atmospheric CO2, and methane, a particularly potent greenhouse gas.” (Photo: Debra Sweet/flickr/cc)

By Stacy Bannerman, July 31, 2018

From Common Dreams 
… the environmental devastation caused by bombs, burn pits, and depleted uranium cannot be contained to a combat zone. We haven’t counted the massive carbon footprint of America’s endless wars because military emissions abroad have a blanket exemption from both national reporting requirements and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. There will be no exemptions in the coming climate collapse. We’ve all got skin in the war game now.  MORE
https://worldbeyondwar.org/is-climate-the-worst-casualty-of-war/

   
CHRIS HEDGES: THE SYSTEM IS NOT MOVING FAST ENOUGH
The Real News Network.   April 23, 2023.  Resistance Report.

Roger Hallam, The Co-Founder Of Extinction Rebellion Argues The Climate Crisis Calls For Revolution.

Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body of UN scientists, delivered a “final warning” to drastically cut global emissions in order to prevent the heating of the planet past 1.5 degrees Celsius. As the exponentially accelerating effects of the climate crisis have become more apparent in recent years, so too has activism to demand urgent action from governments. In the UK, a movement known as Extinction Rebellion (XR) first emerged in 2018, and then proliferated around the globe. XR has helped popularize the spread of civil disobedience tactics in the contemporary environmental movement. But what is the movement’s theory of change? How does XR seek to proceed from direct action tactics to systems change on a timescale that matches the rapidly degrading state of our the earth’s ecological systems? Roger Hallam, co-founder of XR and leader of the activist organization Just Stop Oil, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a conversation on tactics and strategy to save the planet, which ultimately requires transforming the system. . . .[For the entire interview go to https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-the-system-is-not-moving-fast-enough/  (or subscribe to Hedges’ Reports).