OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #155, NOVEMBER 27, 2023

 

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #155, NOVEMBER 27, 2023

What’s stopping USA from reversing rising temperature, or at least from slowing it down?  (A frequent subject in CMM.)

Fossil Fuel Industry
Politics of War, “Cold” and Hot.
Religion: US Evangelicals.
Overpopulation and still growing.

What should each of us do to become an insurgency?

 

Fossil Fuel Industry
Jeremy Brecher.  Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual. 
“…lays out key elements of a far-reaching global-scaled, pragmatic, people-powered strategy to topple the power of the fossil fuel industry and the institutions behind it.”  David Solnit.

Politics of National Rivalry, Russophobia, War.
Loveday Morris and Vanessa Guinan-Bank.  “Germany Seeing Return to Coal.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8-7-22).    [ It’s politics]:  “It’s part of a pan-European dash to ditch Russian natural gas and escape President Vladimir Putin’s energy chokehold.”  [And the Ukraine War energy pressure.]  “. . .the coal revival may[?] make it harder for the country to meet its climate goals.”

 

Religious Fundamentalism.

Brooke Staggs. “Many U.S. evangelicals still denying climate change.” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Nov 25, 2023.   Many U.S. evangelicals still denying climate change.  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Nov 25, 2023).   Read more...

 

Overpopulation
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley.  Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet.  Cato Institute, 2022.  Rev. Free Inquiry (April-May 2023) by S. Keyron McDermott, “Infinity War: Lies, Damned Lies, and ‘Superabundance.”  The rev. concludes:   “In stark contrast to this lushly produced and beautifully bound volume. . . are the glaring realities the book doesn’t address.  . . .The once respectable Cato Institute seems to have shot itself in the foot with Superabundance.   As to that holiest of all abundance essentials, population, the mind boggles.  In mid-November 2022, the eight billionth living human was born.  By most measures, Planet Earth is well past its carrying capacity.”