OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #247, September 8, 2025.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #247,  September 8, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.

 

Rev. of David Orr’s Democracy in a Hotter Time.
David Orr. “The Interrelated Threats of Climate Change & Democracy”
Thursday, September 11, 5pm PT, 6pm MT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET.
Mark Goldberg. “The UN Turns 80.”   

 

 

 

CONVERGENCE OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE AND AUTOCRACY

Democracy in a Hotter Time:  Climate Change and Democratic Transformation.  Edited by David W. Orr.  Foreword by Bill McKibben.  Afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson.  MIT P, 2023.  296pp.   [Any book that helps us understand the true magnitude of the problems converging upon us deserves our gratitude, but let’s look forward to the even more important book that explains the converging climate change, wars, WWIII threatening, fascism, population growth, and pandemics.   We need to be adults as never before, and we need to possess the fullest knowledge available.   –D]

Author     Praise

The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward.

Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. To survive in the “long emergency” ahead, we must reform and strengthen democratic institutions, making them assets rather than liabilities. Edited by David W. Orr, this vital collection of essays proposes a new political order that will not only help humanity survive but also enable us to thrive in the transition to a post–fossil fuel world.

Orr gathers leading scholars, public intellectuals, and political leaders to address the many problems confronting our current political systems. Few other books have taken a systems view of the effects of a rapidly destabilizing climate on our laws and governance or offered such a diversity of solutions. These thoughtful and incisive essays cover subjects from Constitutional reform to participatory urban design to education; together, they aim to invigorate the conversation about the human future in practical ways that will improve the effectiveness of democratic institutions and lay the foundation for a more durable and just democracy.

Contributors include
William J. Barber III, JD, Stan Cox, Frances Moore Lappé Bill McKibben, Michael Oppenheimer, Kim Stanley Robinson, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

David W. Orr is Professor of Practice at Arizona State University and Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Emeritus at Oberlin College. He is the author of eight books variously about education, climate, and ecological design, and recipient of many honors.

“The Interrelated Threats of Climate Change & Democracy”
Speaker -- David Orr
Thursday, September 11, 5pm PT, 6pm MT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET
The lack of authentic democracy in the U.S. has permitted corporate entities to pursue their own economic and political interests virtually unchecked. This includes plundering the earth and poisoning land, water and air - resulting in the climate crises. What inadequate regulations existed before the Trump regime are now being systemically eliminated.    The dual crises of democracy and climate change are not separate, but are one interrelated threat to the human future. . . .     REGISTER HERE  The program is sponsored by Move to Amend’s Ecology Network (Eco-Net), a space Move to Amend created to focus on the relationship between corporate power and environmental catastrophe. We’re interested in gathering with folks who, like us, want an end to corporate destruction of the Earth for-profit and to create alternatives for a truly livable world. 

“The UN Turns 80 — and Faces an Era of Doing Less: What ‘UN80’ is all about” by Mark Leon Goldberg.  September 8, 2025.    [The conclusion “The Big Picture” provides a quick summary of this crisis year for the UN.   All of us who support the goals of the UN should join the UN and its agencies.  The US has sought to weaken the UN and further control it; we must keep its Charter and its hopes alive for WORLD peace, justice, and ecology.    –D]

 

END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #247,  September 8, 2025.