OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #152, NOVEMBER 6, 2023

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #152, NOVEMBER 6, 2023  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-152-november.html

Jake Johnson.  “New Study Identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’.”
Owen McCormack.  “Where now for the Climate Movement?”
Dick Bennett.  “Warming and Detective Dramas.”

 

Jake Johnson.  “New Study Identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’.”  cjr.org   https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now

Originally published: Common Dreams  on September 12, 2023  (more by Common Dreams)  (Posted Sep 18, 2023)  Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects set to begin through 2050, according to Oil Change International.

Campaign against New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure: Ecosocialism v. Corporations, Market, Profit. 
Owen McCormack.  “Where Now for the Climate Movement?”
Originally published: Rupture  on September 11, 2023 (more by Rupture)  (Posted Sep 16, 2023)

It is just four years on from the global mass mobilisations of young people inspired by Swedish climate activist and Friday for Futures (FFF) founder Greta Thunberg.  . . . .
 This year, by contrast, the global protests targeted the financing of fossil fuel projects globally. The FFF International site declared “The capitalist system continuously puts profit over people. Corporations’ greed for more profit is driving the destruction of ecosystems and the climate… The global North’s fossil finance is the cause of the climate crisis, neo-colonial exploitation wars and human rights violations. Fossil fuel corporations like Shell, Total, Repsol, Perenco or Chevron can only realise these projects because of money that is provided to them by banks, insurers and investors”.⁵

Thunberg, when publicising her ‘Climate book’ last year was as explicit in naming capitalism as the cause: “The only known civilization in the universe” cannot be left to the stewardship of “capitalist consumerism and market economics”.    MORE   https://mronline.org/2023/09/16/where-now-for-the-climate-movement/

 

Warming and Detective Dramas
PBS presented a documentary on a Native Alaskan coastal town facing the chaos of the rising ocean.  The only adaptation open to them is to move.  The doc. studied how the individuals there are facing such drastic dislocation and disorder. 

      PBS’s many detective fictions apply reason to solve a crime--, generally speaking, to restore order:  Sherlock Holmes, Prof. T., Ms. Scarlet.
Convergence of catastrophes makes the climate emergency more complicated and difficult to delay and diminish.  But the detectives express our confidence in reason.   Do the detectives think as ecosocialists or as market neoliberals?  What would the Green New Dealers think of the detectives?   Are the detectives and the UN’s IPCC scientists comparable? How are you applying your reason to the emergency?   --D