OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #129, MAY 29, 2023

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #129, MAY 29, 2023

Stacy Bannerman    “Is Climate The Worst Casualty of War?”   Common
     Dreams, July 31, 2018.  (# 46, 9-15-18). Pub. also in Peace in Our Times (Fall 2018) p. 21.  Other writers on the convergence of war and cc:   Bertell, Chomsky and Polk, Dower, Dyer, Greer, Johnson, Maddow, Parenti, Paskal, Sanders, Smith and Vivekananda, Gar Smith, Wood.  

UN WARS OF WAR, WARMING, PANDEMIC CONVERGENCE
Jessica Corbett.  JESSICA CORBETT   “War and Climate Crisis Threaten Global Progress on Human Health, Warns UN Chief.”  Common Dreams (May 21, 2023). 
"We can return to the path of progress. We can realize our ambitions for health and well-being for all," said António Guterres. "But only if the world works together... despite the tensions straining relations between nations."
. . . .But now, "war and conflict threaten millions. The health of billions is endangered by the climate crisis. And the Covid-19 pandemic has stalled, and even reversed, progress in public health," the U.N. leader said in a video address kicking off the assembly. . . . https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-antonio-guterres-climate-war-health

 

I continue to return to magazines skimmed earlier.  E.g. The Nation, May 18, 2015.
Several articles on domination by money, individual profits, instead of public good—specifying malefactors, naming names, calling readers to act.
   Eric Alterman on “Invisible Plutocracy.”  Our democracy has been “severely corrupted by money,” the Republican Party promotes that condition, reporters offer a “fairy-tale narrative” of US as a “fully functioning democracy,” while little is “decided on its merits.”
   Zephyr Teachout on “Restoring Antitrust” (Sherman Antitrust Act).  Senators Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken (no longer in Senate), and Bernie Sanders “are creating a populist fighting force representing the broad grassroots demand that we break up big companies.”
Money profit through monopoly plus leads directly to the commission of the military-industrial-congressional-presidential-WAR complex (MICPC) and omission of meaningful resistance to global warming and climate change.
And We the People don’t have much time to PUSH necessary structural changes.   Dick 5-24-23