OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #126, MAY 8, 2023

 

 OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #126, MAY 8, 2023
Scott Scheffer.   Coverage of extremely destructive weather in the Global South  is slanted, biased, and Eurocentric.
Álvaro J. de Regil.   “The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis.” 
Noam Chomsky. “The End of Organized Humanity.”

Scott Scheffer.    “While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa.”  Editor.  Mronline.org (4-22-23). 

Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha  on April 13, 2023 by (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |  (Posted Apr 21, 2023).  Climate Change, Environment, Imperialism, MediaAfrica, Americas, United StatesNewswireCyclone Freddy, President Joe Biden

The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth. Coverage of extremely destructive weather is so slanted, biased, and Eurocentric that people in the United States and Europe may not even realize how calamitous the situation is for the Global South. . . .
Earth’s longest-lived tropical storm ever
There was no way to downplay what happened to the West Coast. But during March, the deadly tropical Cyclone Freddy slammed Malawi, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, and Mozambique. Most U.S. media did not cover the immense death toll and damage to eastern Africa.  As of March 27, the Institute for African Studies reports, more than 700 people died, and almost an equal number are reported missing. Most of the deaths occurred in Malawi. Nearly 700,000 people in the region have been displaced. Floods have destroyed power structures, washed away infrastructure, and contaminated community wells. Mozambique and Malawi were already dealing with a cholera outbreak, and the case numbers are rising.

Cyclone Freddy was the longest-lasting storm ever and traveled a greater distance than any before. For the full article go to:   https://mronline.org/2023/04/21/while-biden-unleashes-climate-bomb-in-alaska-cyclone-freddy-ravages-eastern-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=while-biden-unleashes-climate-bomb-in-alaska-cyclone-freddy-ravages-eastern-africa&mc_cid=3257cded0d&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e

 

Álvaro J. de Regil.   “The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis.”  Mronline.org (4-9-23).     (Posted Apr 08, 2023).

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In the last two years, the full report on Mitigation of Climate Change prepared by the IPCC scientists, as well as research from other centres, such as the Stockholm Resilience Centre, have consistently confirmed that we are following a trajectory of doom. Unless we veer fast in the opposite direction, the odds that we will be facing planetary catastrophes that will put at great risk the existence of life in our planet on the next twenty years are realistic and likely.¹

Not surprisingly, we continue to see that such existential threat— the direct result of the dominant socioeconomic structures of capitalism—continue to fall on the indifferent ears of those in power, particularly in the Global North, the overwhelming precursor of the planetary rift we face. Instead, these elites persist on a narrative that makes most people think that all we need to do is to decrease our carbon dioxide emissions to address climate change (which is only one of the nine planetary boundaries that we are on the verge of or have already transgressed) without changing the consumeristic lifestyle systems required for capitalism to sustain itself.   MORE
https://mronline.org/2023/04/08/the-unbearable-unawareness-of-our-ecological-existential-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-unbearable-unawareness-of-our-ecological-existential-crisis&mc_cid=933e5d13ce&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e