OMNI CLIMATE MEMO
MONDAYS, #160, JANUARY 8, 2024. Compiled by Dick
Bennett.
My apologies for missing 2 Memos because of an
operation, but I am much recovered; thanks for your continued work FOR peace
and democracy and AGAINST climate change, all connected.
Union of Concerned Scientists
Code Pink
Public Citizen
Choose your organizations to support and go with them heart and purse. Here are some good choices.
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Union of Concerned Scientists. “Match for Science: Help us prepare for the
hottest years ahead.” 12-28-23. |
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Dear Dick, You may have seen my message yesterday
announcing that we are closing in on raising $2 million more for our Match
for Science campaign–our largest membership drive in UCS history. Meanwhile,
climate disasters are already part of a growing worldwide humanitarian
crisis. People—especially low-income and racially marginalized communities
who unfairly bear the brunt of the worst climate impacts—are facing new
challenges adapting to the dangerously hot weather, droughts, wildfires, and
floods. And that's where you come in. [2023 was the
hottest year in human history. UCS works
headlong to stop the rising global temperature. Just google Union of Concerned Scientists.] CONVERGENCE OF WAR AND WARMING Dec 4, 2023 · This year, we are at an incredibly important juncture
with the world facing twin threats of
nuclear war and climate catastrophe. Check
out CODEPINK's 2022-2023 Impact Report and join |
The Economic Root of War and Warming: Corporatism
Public
Citizen | 1600 20th Street NW | Washington DC 20009
[Publisher’s
description] Long-time corporate accountability
crusaders Robert Weissman, Public Citizen president, and Joan Claybrook, Public
Citizen president emeritus, investigate how giant corporations corrupt the
policy-making process to block reforms favored by overwhelming majorities of
the American people, and to enrich themselves through far-reaching corporate
welfare schemes.
The Corporate Sabotage of America’s Future And What We Can
Do About It pulls back the curtain on the hidden tactics that big
corporations employ to have their way in Washington, D.C. and state capitols
and city halls across the nation. Americans intuitively know the system is rigged,
but it’s worse than they realize, Weissman and Claybrook reveal. The Supreme
Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision supercharged corporate power and
empowered a very tiny class of individuals and corporations to dominate our
elections and helped usher in a New Gilded Age.
By way of example, just 25 people are responsible for
roughly half of all Super PAC
contributions. But
the problem goes far beyond campaign contributions, Weissman and Claybrook
reveal. They detail the power and influence of corporate lobbyists,
corporate-funded think tanks and front groups and massive PR campaigns, and the
massive political power that corporations derive from their economic power and
influence over culture. . . . [Three chapters
describe the criminality of BIG OIL: 7, “Fueling Disaster”’; 8, “Big Oil’s
Pollitical Influence Machine”; 9, “Plunder and Pillage: Big Oil’s Corporate
Welfare.” The book explains the US
capitalist economic system underlying US wars and warming. --D]
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