OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #163, JANUARY 29, 2024.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #163, JANUARY 29, 2024.  Dick Bennett

UCS.  Fossil-Fueled Forest Fires
Books, Organizations, Individuals v. the Climate Emergency.

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A groundbreaking new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that fossil fuel producers, such as Chevron and ExxonMobil, are responsible for 37 percent of the total area burned by forest fires since the mid-1980s in the western United States and southwestern Canada.

 

Two of the many new books on Climate:

Michael Gunter, Jr.  Climate Travels:  How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action.  Columbia UP, 2023.  

Rob Verchick.  The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience.  Columbia UP, 2023.

And new organizations:
Climate Resistance

climatedefiance.org   https://www.climatedefiance.org

Climate Defiance

WebClimate Defiance is a movement of young people who use mass-turnout, peaceful direct action to force their political leaders to act on climate change and other social justice issues. They blockaded the White House Correspondents Dinner and aim to end fossil …

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Billions of people will starve to death in the coming decades, as elites fill our atmospheric “gas chamber” with fossil fuels for power and profit. Our food systems will break down. Billions will be forced out of their homes and countries. This means war, starvation, slaughter, and rape on a global scale. And the collapse is coming here, too.The science is clear: the use of fossil fuels must end, immediately, if we hope to survive. Instead of leading the transition, our government gambles our future on unproven technologies and hopeful thinking… while quietly continuing to fund and faciliate the fossil fuel death project.   This is genocidal. This is criminal. This is insane.  We come together and offer resolute non-violent resistance to the fossil fuel madness of the present moment. We still have two to three years in which we can avert the worst consequences of the climate catastrophe.

What will you do in these two to three years?

And heroes:

Stephen Donziger, “the crusading attorney who’s been fighting a bare-knuckle legal battle against Chevron for more than a decade”  Aaron Gell, “Campaign Season Is Heating Up, So’s the Planet.: (Jan-Feb 2024).