OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #217, February 10, 2025.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #217, February 10, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett

Trump’s Environmental Record
Inside Climate News Weekly
Fighting Back: Protecting the Commons
A History of the Struggle

 

A Glimpse of TRUMP’S ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD
“During his first term in office, Donald Trump worked to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.  He fast-tracked the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.  He rolled back 85% of protected land in the Bears Ears Monument for drilling; and he destroyed Indigenous sacred sites and burial grounds, including Monument Hill in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct his Mexico border wall. “(NOAAF)

 

 2-10-25

This number of Inside Climate News Weekly is packed with information regarding the Trump administration’s onslaught against the climate and environment.

 

 

 PROTECTING AND EXPANDING THE COMMONS 

“Future Natures: On Seeing Commons Through Popular Genres” By David Bollier.  Popular Resistance.org 2-2-25).  In academic research about the commons, few scholars are as venturesome in their creative approaches than the scholars and researchers associated with the Centre for Future Natures, at the University of Sussex in England. Led by anthropologist and research fellow Amber Huff, Future Natures explores “ecologies of crisis, commons, and enclosures," but its chief output isn’t monographs and books. It’s an exuberant array of creative works in popular genres like comic books, zines, social media, videos, and podcasts.  -more-

 

Chelsea Henderson.  Glacial.    2025.   A History of the Struggle.
Review BY Michael Svoboda .  Glacial exposes the heroes and villains of U.S. climate policy.    Yale Climate Connections.    1-25-25.   Chelsea Henderson investigates 60 years of climate progress and setbacks.     https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/book-review-glacial-exposes-the-heroes-and-villains-of-u-s-climate-policy/?utm_source=Weekly+News+from+Yale+Climate+Connections&utm_campaign=5fbbc9681a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_23_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-5fbbc9681a-59405044