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“Books to help you keep your head after the election
and COP29” Michael SvobodaNovember 21, 2024.
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· Books
to help you keep your head after the election and COP29 Michael SvobodaNovember 21, 2024.
These
reads offer insight into how to prepare for the coming years.
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BY 2.0 DEED)
Michael Svovoda: While people everywhere, not just in the
United States, were still absorbing the impact of the 2024 U.S. presidential
election, their representatives began meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan to discuss
the global climate crisis. In response, this month’s bookshelf is divided into
two separate but related selections that might help readers better understand
both events.
The first six titles
address Trump 2.0, the new administration that will take office on Jan. 20,
2025. Although Trump distanced his campaign from them over the summer, the
conservative thinktank the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 report have
reemerged in the wake of his election. Senior editor-at-large of Breitbart, a
far-right news and commentary website, Joel Pollak writes from a different
vantage point about the agenda for a second Trump turn in the White House.
Readers should remember that the descriptions of titles in YCC’s monthly
bookshelves are adapted from copy provided by their publishers. The bombast is
in their own words.
The first list continues
with a just-published overview of recent American politics, an in-the-trenches
account of “the coordinated conservative assault on women’s freedom,” and a
guide for “living in a divided nation.”
A new history of the oil
industry links the two parts of this month’s bookshelf. Trump’s nomination
of Chris Wright, a fracking climate
denier, to head the Department of Energy reveals, yet again, the fossil fuel
industry’s influence on American politics and global climate
negotiations.
The last six titles begin
with a Chatham House report on Azerbaijan and two “gap reports” from the United
Nations Environment Programme, reports released for COP29, the 29th meeting
of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change.
A fourth report addresses
multinational corporations attempting, in good faith, to do “business within
planetary boundaries.” And a new Oxfam report argues that addressing egregious
global inequalities in wealth could “create a sustainable planet for all.”
The final report, by a
team from CAAD (Climate Action Against Disinformation), shows how fossil fuel
companies, acting in bad faith, maintain their influence through the relentless
production and online dissemination of disinformation about renewables, extreme
weather events, and carbon-capture technologies.
The earth-shaking events
of the last month bring to mind the poem from Rudyard Kipling
that begins: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ….
” These books and reports might just help with that task.
Project
2025: Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steve Groves (Heritage Foundation 2023, 922 pages, free download with
registration)
Project 2025 is a historic
movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the
conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to
the people. Its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,
published in April 2023, is a product of more than 400 scholars and policy
experts from around the country. The book offers a menu of policy suggestions
to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track. The
180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete
transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation
of specific action plans at each agency will the next conservative presidential
Administration be successful.
The Agenda: What Trump Should
Do in His First 100 Days by Joel B. Pollak, with a foreword by Steve Bannon
(Skyhorse Publishing 2024, 160 pages, $24.99).
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In The Agenda: What
Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, Breitbart senior-editor-at-large Joel B.
Pollak presents a roadmap for a post-conviction Trump administration, charged
with a mandate for sweeping reform. Pollak outlines a strategic program of
action to harness Trump’s energy for real change—and a set of executive orders
and actions that can be carried out on Day One. Pollak’s astute insights and
unwavering commitment to transformative change shine brightly in The
Agenda, a passionate call to arms for those who champion bold leadership and
decisive action. Pollak’s steadfast dedication to America’s advancement
resonates profoundly, making this book essential reading for anyone invested in
the nation’s trajectory.
The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty,
Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic by Donald G. Nieman (Anthem Press 2024,
464 pages, $39.95 paperback)
How did the world’s oldest
democracy lose its mojo? How did we get to a point where we face existential
crises like climate change yet leaders can’t agree that there’s a problem let
alone develop solutions? Political leaders bear some of the responsibility—Newt
Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, to name a few. But they are more a
symptom than the cause. The Path to Paralysis examines changes in
political culture during the past 60 years—conflicts over race, religion and
gender; deepening inequality, hardening regional divisions; and dramatic
changes in communications—that made Donald Trump possible, if not inevitable.
These cross-currents came together in the early 21st century to create the
perfect storm. The result is the toxic and deeply polarized politics that
threaten the existence of constitutional government.
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We
Use to Win by Jessica Valenti (Crown Publishing 2024,
256 pages, $25.00)
In her most urgent book
yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light
on the conservative assault on women’s freedom, cutting through the
misinformation and overwhelm to inform, engage, and enrage. From the attacks
Americans know about to the ones anti-abortion lawmakers and groups are trying
to hide, Valenti details the tactics and horrors that she’s been painstakingly
tracking in her acclaimed newsletter, Abortion, Every Day. Valenti
gives voice to women’s frustration and outrage in a moment when they’re fed up
with being talked over and diminished. She provides the language, facts, and
context readers need to feel confident when talking about the attacks on their
bodies and freedom. With the wit, expertise, and blunt moral clarity, Valenti
offers an essential manifesto in an urgent moment.
Facing the Fracture: How to Navigate the Challenges
of Living in a Divided Nation by Tania Israel (Green Books Group 2024, 232 pages, $
paperback)
Unsettled by provocative
news, clashing politicians, and social fragmentation, Americans struggle to
navigate the challenges of living in a divided country. Facing the
Fracture offers a path out of the distress and disempowerment plaguing
everyday people. Grounded in psychological research, this book offers readers
strategies to foster resilience in the face of political polarization. In
this valuable book, Israel moves beyond explaining the problem of polarization
to demonstrate how individuals can cope with the political divide, which seems
to widen with each passing day. Readers will find guidance to reduce toxic
input from media, manage polarizing thoughts and feelings, and engage
effectively with others. And they will learn that they have the power to
improve their well-being, relationships, community, and country.
Azerbaijan’s Climate Leadership Challenge: What’s at
Stake at COP29 and Beyond by
Ruth Townsend et al (Chatham House 2024, 76 pages, free download)
Azerbaijan hosts the UN’s
29th climate Conference of the Parties (COP29), from 11 to 22 November, at a critical
moment for multilateral efforts to address climate change. Climate impacts are
worsening, yet action is inadequate to the scale of the crisis. Most urgently,
vastly more money – in the trillions of dollars – must be mobilized to support
developing countries’ climate responses. Delivering an agreement on increased
climate financing is the key task for COP29 and for Azerbaijan in guiding the
summit’s negotiations. But the country’s fossil fuel-dependent economy and
inexperience in environmental action suggest it will struggle to provide
credible leadership. Nevertheless, there is potential for Azerbaijan to engage
other oil and gas producers constructively around the dilemmas of the energy
transition.
Emissions Gap Report 2024: No More Hot Air … Please! by UNEP Research Team (United Nations
Environment Programme 2024, 100 pages, free download). As climate impacts intensify globally, the Emissions Gap
Report 2024: No more hot air … please! finds that nations must deliver
dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of Nationally
Determined Contributions or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal will be gone
within a few years. A failure to increase ambition in these new NDCs and
start delivering immediately would put the world on course for a temperature
increase of 2.6-3.1°C over the course of this century. This would bring
debilitating impacts to people, planet and economies. The report is the
15th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate
scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide
potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.
The Adaptation Gap Report: Come Hell and High Water by UNEP Research Team (United Nations
Environment Programme 2024, 124 pages, free download).
As climate impacts
intensify and hit the world’s poorest, The Adaptation Gap Report 2024:
Come Hell and High Water finds that nations must dramatically increase
climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on
finance. Given the scale of the challenge, bridging the adaptation finance
gap will also require innovative approaches to mobilize additional financial
resources. Adaptation financing needs to shift from reactive, incremental,
project-based financing to more anticipatory, strategic and transformational
adaptation. In addition to finance, there is a need to strengthen capacity
building and technology transfer to improve the effectiveness of adaptation
actions. The report provides specific recommendations for renewed increased
efforts to reach the 11 targets of the UAE Framework for Global Climate
Resilience.
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power and the
Making of the World Market by
Adam Hanieh (Verso Books 2024, 336 pages, $29.95)
This expansive history
traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to
the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as
‘prize’ or ‘curse’, Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways
that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an
American-centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti-colonial
rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and militarism;
and the emergence of new forms of synthetic consumption. The book provides an
original and fine-grained empirical analysis of corporate ownership and
control, including of refining and petrochemicals. By exposing these structures
of power, Crude Capitalism makes an essential contribution to debates around
oil-dependency and the struggle for climate justice.
“Doing Business Within Planetary Boundaries” by Beatrice Crona et al (Stockholm
Resilience Center 2024, 34 pages, free download) .
This report builds on ten
years of transdisciplinary science, combining sustainable finance with
ecological economics, resilience science, and Earth system science. In an
evolving corporate reporting landscape, it offers guidance to businesses,
investors, and policymakers to significantly improve the reliability of their
assessment of nature-related impacts, risks and opportunities.
The authors stress the
need for a shift in perspective, from company to the planet. To support this
shift, the report introduces “Essential Environmental Impact Variables,” which
capture the most essential environmental impact of companies in a standardized
manner. These disclosures must account for where, what, and how much impact
happens. Armed with this information, companies and their investors can more
accurately assess their impacts and the resulting risks.
“Carbon Inequality Kills: Why Curbing the Excessive
Emissions of an Elite Few Can Create a Sustainable Planet for All” by Mira Alestig et al (Oxfam
2024, 41 pages, free download). The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social
justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of
the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to
protect people and the planet. We share new evidence of how the yachts, jets
and polluting investments of 50 of the world’s richest billionaires are
accelerating the climate crisis. Oxfam’s research shows that the emissions of
the world’s super-rich 1% are causing economic losses of trillions of dollars;
contributing to huge crop losses; and leading to millions of excess deaths. As
global temperatures continue to rise, risking the lives and livelihoods of
people living in poverty and precarity, we must act now to curb the emissions
of the super-rich, and make rich polluters pay.
“Extreme Weather, Extreme Content: How Big Tech
Enables Climate Disinformation in a World on the Brink” by Research Team (Climate Action
Against Disinformation 2024, 63 pages, free download) .
As COP29 gets underway,
the consequences of climate change are ever more extreme. So too with climate
mis- and disinformation, now ubiquitous online. The digital
information landscape is dangerously polluted, obscuring the truth and delaying
the urgent action we need to protect our future. Big Oil and Big Tech are
facilitating an ongoing reframing of extreme weather events, as well as ready
solutions to the crisis, turning them into fodder for opposition to climate
action. The report presents three case studies that provide
snapshots of the online world of English-language climate disinformation:
Opposition to Renewables (by framing them as tools of control), Weaponizing
Wildfires (by decoupling them from environmental drivers), and Fossil Fuel
Advertising on Meta. One final finding: accessing the necessary data is
increasingly difficult.
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regularly hear about climate change in the media, but 77% want to know more.
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Dear Dick, While
I write this, it's 70 degrees in New York and
a bunch of war criminals are getting ready to visit a petrostate to talk
about "climate solutions." The climate crisis is
pressing down on us, yet one of the largest contributors remains hidden from
view, from measurement, and from accountability. The U.S.
military-industrial complex is the #1 institutional driver of this
crisis, but efforts are being made to keep its impact out of sight. As
the UN Climate Convention (COP) begins today, we have a
chance to highlight this overlooked contributor and expose the true costs of
militarism. Those responsible for pushing our planet toward disaster must be
held accountable. We need to demand transparency on the environmental costs
of war. John
Podesta,
who built his career defending warmongers and expanding U.S. militarism, is
leading the United States delegation to COP as the war lobbyist. We cannot
let Podesta strut a veneer of faux environmentalism, while deliberately
ignoring the largest polluter in the world—the U.S. military. If he
ignores the elephant in the room, Podesta will doom us. The
crisis is clear for those living under the boot of the U.S. Empire. The
crisis has been clear for those whose homes have been destroyed by flooding
in Appalachia. For my friends and neighbors in New
York City, where it has been 70-80° in the first few days of November, it
is terrifyingly clear that we are in crisis. The result of the U.S. election
unveiled to some that no politician can protect us in this crisis. Many of
our leaders who are charged with caring about the climate, are actually
driving us further into this crisis full steam ahead—because they're
unwilling to say aloud that their foreign policy and military build up is one
of the largest contributors to climate change that the world has ever seen. In
the past year, the war on Gaza has unleashed complete
devastation on the entire region, as children’s bodies are torn open by
U.S.-made and funded bombs. The first two months of the genocide alone
produced more emissions than 26 countries combined. As the slaughter
continues, U.S. police continue to participate in a deadly tactics exchange
with Israeli soldiers, followed by continued training in potential facilities
like Atlanta’s Cop City, which threatens to destroy the
critical Weelaunee Forest– land stolen from indigenous
protectors, whose sovereign land make up 80% of the world’s biodiversity
globally. Militarism is killing us in every way imaginable, and it is more
clear than ever that we cannot rely on elected officials to make the necessary
changes for our protection. Much less their puppeteers, who show up and
use their fancy talk and sleight of hand to keep what they don't want to
address hidden. Yet we can’t ignore them when they use our tax
dollars to create catastrophe. We need you to tell Podesta: WAR IS
NOT GREEN! The
Biden/Harris administration produced one of the largest military budgets in
history. By doing so, they produced one of the largest contributions to
climate change in history. We have been in a crisis, and it will continue to
escalate. Yet crisis can open doors by clarifying and exposing what we need
to oppose and what we need to strengthen. This is not a silver lining but a
task that becomes thrust on us for the survival of one another, whose mutual
liberation we depend on. And to do so, our goals can’t be hidden. I’m
ready to take on this task of survival to build a world where we all can
thrive, and I’m energized to build it with you all. Take action now by telling Podesta:
to address the climate crisis, you must address the war machine!
· Check out the War Is Not Green page
for webinars and additional information · Learn about the Imperial Hypocrisy
of Podesta’s U.S.-China Climate Talks Until
Liberation, Aaron,
Jodie and the entire CODEPINK team |
Tell U.S.
Climate Envoy Podesta: WAR IS NOT GREEN!
Dear Dick,
While
I write this, it's 70 degrees in New York and
a bunch of war criminals are getting ready to visit a petrostate to talk about
"climate solutions." The climate crisis is pressing down
on us, yet one of the largest contributors remains hidden from view, from
measurement, and from accountability. The U.S. military-industrial
complex is the #1 institutional driver of this crisis, but efforts are
being made to keep its impact out of sight. As the UN Climate
Convention (COP) begins today, we have a chance to highlight this
overlooked contributor and expose the true costs of militarism. Those
responsible for pushing our planet toward disaster must be held accountable. We
need to demand transparency on the environmental costs of war.
John
Podesta, who
built his career defending warmongers and expanding U.S. militarism, is leading
the United States delegation to COP as the war lobbyist. We cannot let Podesta
strut a veneer of faux environmentalism, while deliberately ignoring the
largest polluter in the world—the U.S. military. If he ignores the
elephant in the room, Podesta will doom us.
The
crisis is clear for those living under the boot of the U.S. Empire. The crisis
has been clear for those whose homes have been destroyed by flooding in Appalachia. For
my friends and neighbors in New York City, where it has been 70-80°
in the first few days of November, it is terrifyingly clear that we are in
crisis. The result of the U.S. election unveiled to some that no politician can
protect us in this crisis. Many of our leaders who are charged with caring
about the climate, are actually driving us further into this crisis full steam
ahead—because they're unwilling to say aloud that their foreign policy and
military build up is one of the largest contributors to climate change that the
world has ever seen.
In the
past year, the war on Gaza has unleashed complete devastation
on the entire region, as children’s bodies are torn open by U.S.-made and
funded bombs. The first two months of the genocide alone produced more
emissions than 26 countries combined. As the slaughter continues, U.S. police
continue to participate in a deadly tactics exchange with Israeli soldiers,
followed by continued training in potential facilities like Atlanta’s
Cop City, which threatens to destroy the critical Weelaunee Forest–
land stolen from indigenous protectors, whose sovereign land make up 80% of the
world’s biodiversity globally. Militarism is killing us in every way
imaginable, and it is more clear than ever that we cannot rely on elected
officials to make the necessary changes for our protection. Much less
their puppeteers, who show up and use their fancy talk and sleight of hand to
keep what they don't want to address hidden. Yet we can’t ignore them
when they use our tax dollars to create catastrophe.
We need you to tell
Podesta: WAR IS NOT GREEN!
The
Biden/Harris administration produced one of the largest military budgets in
history. By doing so, they produced one of the largest contributions to climate
change in history. We have been in a crisis, and it will continue to escalate.
Yet crisis can open doors by clarifying and exposing what we need to oppose and
what we need to strengthen. This is not a silver lining but a task that becomes
thrust on us for the survival of one another, whose mutual liberation we depend
on. And to do so, our goals can’t be hidden. I’m ready to take on this
task of survival to build a world where we all can thrive, and I’m energized to
build it with you all.
Take action now by
telling Podesta: to address the climate crisis, you must address the war
machine!
And learn more:
· Check out the War Is
Not Green page for webinars and additional information
· Learn about the
Imperial Hypocrisy of Podesta’s U.S.-China Climate Talks
Until
Liberation,
Aaron,
Jodie and the entire CODEPINK team
New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show The World Is
Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action. Inside Climate News (11-2-24).
BY BOB BERWYN
The currently projected warming of about 3
degrees Celsius is “too hot to handle,” says Ko Barrett, a NOAA climate advisor
and deputy secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization.
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Environmental Dynamics
Student Selected to Participate in U.N. Climate Change Convention. UofA News (11-11-24) |
Jessie Abrego Bonilla was nine years old in 1998 when one
of the largest El Ninos in recorded history hit Panama. That same year a solar
eclipse occurred, and conversations ran rampant in her community about the end
of the world.
Bonilla was chosen as a member of the COP 29 Roster
of Experts for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC).
The UNFCCC is an international
environmental treaty established in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio
de Janeiro. Its primary objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations
in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference
with the climate system. With 197 parties, including almost every country in
the world, the UNFCCC serves as a critical framework for global efforts to
address and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
The organization supports and coordinates
international cooperation on climate action, including the creation and
implementation of important agreements like the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris
Agreement. These agreements set binding and non-binding targets for
countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the
inevitable impacts of climate change. . . .
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