OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #125, MAY 1, 2023
Bill McKibben.
Cities and States Can Sue Exxon
and other Malefactors.
World Beyond War. Costs of War: Carbon
Footprint
Increasing, Climate Heating.
Chris Hedges Interviews Roger Hallam, founder to
Extinction Rebellion (XR).
A Victory for Democracy Over Greed and Power (and by
a GOP-dominated Supreme Court)
Bill McKibben.
“A seismic win went almost unnoticed amidst the Tuckerstorm.” April 25, 2023.
High court lets cities and states sue Exxon et al.
The Supreme Court…declined to grant cert in a
case brought by oil companies desperately trying to hold off state court trials
for their climate crimes.
To make a long story short: Eight years ago,
journalists—led by Inside Climate News
and the LA Times—began publishing
stories proving that the big oil
companies knew all there was to know about the dangers of global warming back
in the 1980s. Among other consequences, this helped convince the legal
departments of a number of cities and states to launch lawsuits against the oil
giants, on the grounds that they’d done great and knowing damage to the
taxpayers of these jurisdictions, who were having to clean up after the endless
storms, fires, and floods. . . .And so the cases—in Baltimore, in Colorado, in
a dozen other jurisdictions around the country—may now proceed. MOREhttps://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-seismic-win-went-almost-unnoticed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=438146&post_id=117113782&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email
“Is Climate The Worst Casualty of War?” from World Beyond War
News To Help End War
“The cost of America’s post-9/11 wars is
approaching $6 trillion,” writes Bannerman, “and the price tag will continue to
climb right along with sea levels, temperatures, atmospheric CO2, and methane,
a particularly potent greenhouse gas.” (Photo: Debra Sweet/flickr/cc)
By Stacy Bannerman, July
31, 2018
From Common Dreams
… the environmental devastation caused by bombs, burn pits, and depleted
uranium cannot be contained to a combat zone. We haven’t counted the massive
carbon footprint of America’s endless wars because military emissions abroad
have a blanket exemption from both national reporting requirements and the U.N.
Framework Convention on Climate Change. There will be no exemptions in the
coming climate collapse. We’ve all got skin in the war game now. MORE
https://worldbeyondwar.org/is-climate-the-worst-casualty-of-war/
CHRIS HEDGES: THE SYSTEM IS NOT MOVING FAST ENOUGH
The Real News Network. April 23, 2023. Resistance Report.
Roger Hallam, The
Co-Founder Of Extinction Rebellion Argues The Climate Crisis Calls For
Revolution.
Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body of UN scientists, delivered a
“final warning” to drastically cut global emissions in order to prevent the
heating of the planet past 1.5 degrees Celsius. As the exponentially
accelerating effects of the climate crisis have become more apparent in recent
years, so too has activism to demand urgent action from governments. In the UK,
a movement known as Extinction
Rebellion (XR) first
emerged in 2018, and then proliferated around the globe. XR has helped
popularize the spread of civil
disobedience tactics in the contemporary environmental movement. But what
is the movement’s theory of change? How does XR seek to proceed from direct
action tactics to systems change on a timescale that matches the rapidly
degrading state of our the earth’s ecological systems? Roger Hallam, co-founder of XR and leader of the activist
organization Just
Stop Oil, joins The
Chris Hedges Report for a conversation on tactics and strategy to save
the planet, which ultimately requires transforming the system. . . .[For the
entire interview go to https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-the-system-is-not-moving-fast-enough/ (or
subscribe to Hedges’ Reports).