OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #161, JANUARY 15, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #161, JANUARY 15, 2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett. 

Jeremy Brecher.  Ending Fossil Fuels.
ADG.  Russophobia, Germany, and Coal.
Brooke Staggs.  Evangelicals v. Climate Change.
Tupy and Pooley. Negative Review of New Book on Population Growth., Superabundance,

 

Ending Fossil Fuels 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, Fossil Fuels.
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 Fundamentalist CC Denial.

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...   (Warning: I have discovered that in general usage the meaning of the word “evangelical” ranges from adherents to Jesus doctrine of love in the Gospels to extreme fundamentalism.  –Dick)

Overpopulation and Its Consequences Under-recognized in New Book.
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.”