OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #162, JANUARY 22, 2024.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #162, JANUARY 22, 2024.  Dick Bennett, Compiler.
“Climate Change in Nebraska.” 
John Berger.  Solving the Climate Crisis.

“Climate Change in Nebraska.”  College of Journalism and Mass Communications (ad in IRE Journal, 3^rd Quarter 2022).  Digital depth report on the impacts of and potential solutions for climate change in Nebraska, won Hearst Journalism Awards and Society for Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards.

John J. Berger.  Look Inside

Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.  Seven Stories P, October, 2023.  509pp. 
      A glance at the Index reveals surprising gaps, for examples: Bill McKibben, Paul Hawken not here.  No mention of capitalism or Naomi Klein.  Only 2pp. cited on US militarism.  Only 9 books appear in “Recommended Reading,” where for the IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 degree C only the edited Summary is referenced.

      But the research is otherwise massive:  Berger has written 10 books on CC.   This book contains 509 pp., 17 Reports, many of which include more than one subject, plus a Foreward by Russ Feingold, and an Introduction, Conclusion, and Coda by the author.  Berger’s two epigraphs encompass the two poles of reality and hope:  Martin Luther King, Jr., “In this unfolding…of life and history there is such a thing as being too late”; Nelson Mandela, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Contents
Part I:  Mega-threats and Breakthrough Solutions
1. Daunting Challenges, Rays of Hope
2.  Show Me the Money: Paying for the Clean-Energy Transformation
3.  More Smart Ways to Finance the Transformation
Part II: Clean Technology, Inexhaustible Resources
4. “The World’s Biggest Energy Source”
5. 100 Percent Clean Energy for All
6. Beyond Fumes: 100 Percent Clean Transportation
7. Soaring the Skies, Sailing the Waves—Cleanly
8. Putting Captured CO2 to Work
9. A Plant-Based Economy
10. Green Cement and Steel
11. Visionary Mayors, Green Cities
Part III.  Beyond the City: Natural Climate Solutions
12. Reinventing Agriculture
13. Forest Savers and Fixers
Part IV.  Political and Legal Reform and Other Challenges
14. New Laws and Policies
15. Climate Diplomacy: Getting to Yes
16. Geoengineering: Friend or Foe?
17.  A Just, Clean Energy Transition for All 
Conclusion: What We Can Do to Restabilize the Climate
Coda: Recommended Climate Policies and Strategies—The To-Do List
--Dick