CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #109, January 9, 2022
UNFCCC Failure
Film of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’
Martin Rees, If Science Is to Save Us
UNFCCC 30TH Anniversary
The Editors . Monthly Review (January 2023). (Volume 74, Number 8). buy this issue. This month’s “Notes from the Editors” marks the 30-year anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The abject failure of this framework to enact meaningful progress on the planetary crisis continued to be on full display in 2022, including at November’s COP27 in Egypt. | more…
THE LETTER: A MESSAGE FOR OUR EARTHTrailer
This film explores the story about the Pope’s call to care for our planet. In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si’, a letter to every single person in the world, confronting the looming calamity of human impact on Earth and ourselves. It is one of the most ambitious and revolutionary papal statements in history, since it is directed not just to Catholics, but to everyone on the planet and outlines the most critical environmental and social issues that we collectively face. Watch Full Length
https://www.pbs.org/show/letter-message-our-earth/
NUCLEAR RISK
Martin Rees explains how science might save us. BAS (12-22-22). Renowned British cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees discusses his new book, If Science Is to Save Us, with Bulletin editor-in-chief John Mecklin. Read more.