OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup #2, 11-19/12-4, 2021
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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CONTENTS
I reported all I received after 11-17, leaving blank the days my sources did not report on COP26.
11-19
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Guterres’ dark appraisal of COP 26 (“the
army of corporate executives and lobbyists”), COP 27
UNA/USA
Keyon Rostamnezhad, UNA/USA Today
UNA CALL TO TAKE ACTION
Read IPCC Report
11-20
Baraka, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance.org: COP26 Northern Colonial Capitalist Greenwashing.
11-24
Prashad and Alexandra, Two gains at COP26: next COP in 2022 and 1.5
degrees Celcius kept alive.
Harris, Climate Mobilization announces important coming events.
Alexandra, Big Polluter US Military complex Ignored at COP26.
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin Interviewd by C. J. Polychroniou for
Truthout.
11-26
Chowhury, Mary Robinson: COP26 “a shameful dereliction of
duty.”
11-30
Art Hobson, ADG, Price on Carbon Needed.
The Climate Optimist, Harvard U, COP26 a “tremendous momentum.”
12-2
Climate Coverage Now (CCN), critical appraisal: 1.5 Celcius already catastrophic, and the feeble pledges of COP26 certain to raise temperature higher.
12-3
MR online.org, COP26 “did not take any steps to stop the catastrophe.”
12-4
Chito Arceo, YACAKP, Popular Resistance.org: A new participant’s
disappointment.
John Bellamy Foster, Marxism, Ecology, Climate Change Crisis
UNA/USA TAKE ACTION TODAY
UNA/USA TAKE ACTION TODAY
TEXTS
Vijay Prashad. Mronline.org (11-19-21).
The organisers of COP26 designated themes for many of the days during the conference, such as energy, finance, and transport. There was no day set aside for a discussion of agriculture; instead, it was bundled into ‘Nature Day’ on 6 November, during which the main topic was deforestation. 
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UNA Today: Here's what happened at COP26 
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UNA/USA TAKE ACTION TODAY | |
Ask your lawmakers to support more ambitious climate action COP26 may have ended but the need for bold climate action continues—and our officials must be held accountable. Take 30 seconds to urge your lawmakers to uphold the commitments made by the United States at COP26. Read the IPCC's latest report In August, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest report—and the findings are distressing. The report, which UN Secretary-General António Guterres called "a code red for humanity," warns that climate change is rapidly intensifying and impacting every region of the world—and we're running out of time to take action. | |
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11-20
COP26: Greenwashing And Plutocratic Misadventures
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By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. Popular Resistance.org (11-20-21). COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet’s looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe. We need justice. But that word -- Justice! -- despite all of the philosophical pontificating from John Locke to John Rawls, is a concept incompatible with the rapacious civilizational logic of a colonial/capitalist system based on self-interest, greed, and social Darwinism. -more-
11-24
Why Our Climate Isn’t Jumping For Joy After COP26
By Vijay Prashad And Zoe Alexandra, Socialist Project. Popular Resistance.org (11-24-21). Two major gains took place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland, which concluded on November 13: the first was that there would be another COP in 2022 in Egypt, and the second was that the world leaders expressed their aspiration to keep global temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius alive. These were, however, the only gains made at the end of COP26 to address the pressing issue of climate change. After more than two weeks of intense discussions – and many evenings of corporate-funded cocktail parties – the most powerful countries in the world... -more-
Organizing for a Just Recovery11-24-21
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On Monday evening, you have an incredible opportunity to hear from two leaders on the front lines of the climate emergency. You will come away from the conversation with new ways to think about the climate crisis, new tools to respond to next year’s challenges and a new approach to your organizing work. Sign up now to join Monday night’s event. One of our featured speakers is José Bravo, Executive Director of Just Transition Alliance. He will share a report back from COP 26 and his analysis of real and false solutions to climate change, as well as his experiences organizing to push back against disaster capitalism. We’ll also hear from Allen Myers of Regenerating Paradise, which is working to transform the community of Paradise, CA following the Camp Fire. Regenerating Paradise recently premiered the visionary short film A Message from the Future of Paradise. Don’t miss out — sign up today! Warmly, Rebecca Harris, Organizing Director, Climate Mobilization Project Climate Mobilization Project | ||||
What role does the military play in climate change?
Editor. 11-24-21
A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined. 
COP26 Legacy: Interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
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11-26
Climate injustice at Glasgow COP-out
Anis Chowhury. Mronline.org (11-26-21)
Former Irish President Mary Robinson observed, "People will see this as a historically shameful dereliction of duty,… nowhere near enough to avoid climate disaster."
11-30
Needed: A price on carbon
Meeting reflects need for greater action
Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu
NWADG, 30 November 2021
The recent two-week Glasgow meeting on global warming didn't move
the needle significantly, but it did reflect a public alarmed by environmental
catastrophes. MORE https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2021/nov/30/opinion-art-hobson-glasgow-results-reflect-need/?opinion
So far as I can determine, the conference didn't even discuss the idea
that's most likely to solve the problem: Carbon Fee and Dividend. I first
encountered CF&D in climate scientist James Hanson's wonderful 2009 book Storms of my Grandchildren. It would levy, at the mine, oil well or gas well, a fee on the atmospheric carbon that will be emitted by burning the extracted fuel. The fee should equal the fuel's environmental damage. The fee would be phased in, starting at a low price and gradually rising. This would significantly raise fossil fuel prices. People will quickly look for cheaper energy solutions, reducing emissions.
This plan's brilliance lies in how the fees will be used. Hanson and
every other sensible analyst suggest that it be returned to all citizens on an
equal per-capita basis. According to Citizens' Climate Lobby, the skilled
organization that champions this plan, a reasonable fee would provide an
initial dividend of $50 per month per family, soon rising to $300. CCL thus
estimates two-thirds of Americans, including most poor people, will receive
more in dividends than they pay in higher prices, injecting billions into the
economy and protecting family budgets.
The recently-passed infrastructure bill includes money for directly
capturing carbon-dioxide from the air, reducing net emissions. It's goal is to
capture CO2 at a cost of $100 per ton, suggesting $100 per ton of emitted
CO2 as an appropriate carbon fee.
Because it's nearly certain to be effective, this plan will be fiercely
resisted by industry,. Stock values of those companies having no realistic
plans for switching their business model into non-polluting channels will
decline immediately upon enactment of CF&D. It will be the beginning of
the end of the fossil fuel age. -------------------------
References: MORE https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2021/nov/30/opinion-art-hobson-glasgow-results-reflect-need/?opinion
November was a BFD (Big Fossil Deal) 11-30-21
[Does Harvard pass the Reality Check? --D] | 9:54 AM (57 minutes ago) |
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INVITE | Talking Shop: The Climate Story After Glasgow
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Editor. Mronline.org (12-3-21)
The balance sheet is clear: on paper, Glasgow clarifies the ambiguous Paris goal by making it more radical (1.5°C is now the target) and mentions the responsibility of fossil fuels; but in practice, the conference did not take any steps to stop the catastrophe.
12-4
COP26: On The Outside, Always Looking In
By Chito Arceo, YACAP. Popular Resistance.org (12-4-21). As the first-ever person from my city to attend the biggest summit in the world about climate change, the hype was real. My friends and family were very much eager to see what would happen in the most anticipated COP since COP21, and the local government gave me their full support to report back the important things that could be echoed back to my community. Unfortunately, my disappointment was even bigger than I thought imaginable, and this COP turned out to be quite uneventful on my part. Coming into the Blue Zone (the area where the official negotiations took place) for the first time and seeing... -more-
Marxism, Ecology and the Climate Crisis—John Bellamy Foster
https://mronline.org/2021/12/04/marxism-ecology-and-the-climate-crisis-john-bellamy-foster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marxism-ecology-and-the-climate-crisis-john-bellamy-foster&mc_cid=c65cd3c4d1&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e
Posted Dec 04, 2021 by John Bellamy Foster
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In the week before the COP26 international summit, John Bellamy Foster analyzed the climate emergency and how we can achieve climate justice.
[I am reading two of Foster’s books now: The Ecological Revolution (2009) and The Return of Nature (2020). The first, an excellent introduction to Marx, ecology, and our present crises, I will finish soon I hope; the second, an encyclopedic survey of Marxists on ecology, I will be glad to have as a reference. –Dick]
About John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, is editor of Monthly Review, an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City. His research is devoted to critical inquiries into theory and history, focusing primarily on the economic, political and ecological contradictions of capitalism, but also encompassing the wider realm of social theory as a whole. He has published numerous articles and books focusing on the political economy of capitalism and the economic crisis, ecology and the ecological crisis, and Marxist theory: (with Paul Burkett) Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (2016); The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy (New Edition, 2014); (with Robert W. McChesney) The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China (2012); (with Fred Magdoff) What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism: A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment (2011); (with Brett Clark and Richard York) The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth (2009); (with Fred Magdoff) The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (2009); The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet (2009); (with Brett Clark and Richard York) Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present (2008); Ecology Against Capitalism (2002); Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000); (with Frederick H. Buttel and Fred Magdoff) Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment (2000); The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (1999); (with Ellen Meiksins Wood and Robert W. McChesney) Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution (1998); (with Ellen Meiksins Wood) In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda (1997); The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy (1986); (with Henryk Szlajfer) The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism (1984). His work is published in at least twenty-five languages. Visit johnbellamyfoster.org for a collection of most of Foster's works currently available online.
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