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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #126, MAY 8,
2023
Scott Scheffer. Coverage of extremely destructive weather in
the Global South is slanted, biased, and
Eurocentric.
Álvaro J. de Regil. “The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis.”
Noam
Chomsky. “The End of Organized Humanity.”
Scott Scheffer. “While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages
eastern Africa.” Editor. Mronline.org
(4-22-23).
Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 13, 2023 by (more by Struggle-La Lucha) | (Posted Apr
21, 2023). Climate
Change, Environment, Imperialism,
MediaAfrica,
Americas,
United StatesNewswireCyclone
Freddy, President Joe Biden
The U.S. corporate-controlled
media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth. Coverage of
extremely destructive weather is so slanted, biased, and Eurocentric that
people in the United States and Europe may not even realize how calamitous the
situation is for the Global South. . . .
Earth’s longest-lived tropical storm ever
There was no way to downplay what happened to
the West Coast. But during March, the deadly tropical Cyclone Freddy slammed
Malawi, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, and Mozambique. Most U.S. media did
not cover the immense death toll and damage to eastern Africa. As of March 27, the Institute for African Studies reports, more than
700 people died, and almost an equal number are reported missing. Most of the
deaths occurred in Malawi. Nearly 700,000 people in the region have been
displaced. Floods have destroyed power structures, washed away infrastructure,
and contaminated community wells. Mozambique and Malawi were already dealing
with a cholera outbreak, and the case numbers are rising.
Cyclone Freddy
was the longest-lasting storm ever and traveled a
greater distance than any before. For the full article go to: https://mronline.org/2023/04/21/while-biden-unleashes-climate-bomb-in-alaska-cyclone-freddy-ravages-eastern-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=while-biden-unleashes-climate-bomb-in-alaska-cyclone-freddy-ravages-eastern-africa&mc_cid=3257cded0d&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e
Álvaro
J. de Regil. “The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis.” Mronline.org (4-9-23). (Posted Apr 08, 2023).
Ecology,
Environment, Financialization, StrategyGlobalCommentary, Monthly Review
EssaysFeatured
In the last two years, the full report on Mitigation of Climate
Change prepared by the IPCC scientists, as well as research from other centres,
such as the Stockholm Resilience Centre, have consistently confirmed that we
are following a trajectory of doom. Unless we veer fast in the opposite
direction, the odds that we will be facing planetary catastrophes that will put
at great risk the existence of life in our planet on the next twenty years are realistic
and likely.1
Not surprisingly, we
continue to see that such existential threat— the direct result of the dominant
socioeconomic structures of capitalism—continue to fall on the indifferent ears
of those in power, particularly in the Global North, the overwhelming precursor
of the planetary rift we face. Instead, these elites persist on a narrative
that makes most people think that all we need to do is to decrease our carbon
dioxide emissions to address climate change (which is only one of the nine
planetary boundaries that we are on the verge of or have already transgressed)
without changing the consumeristic lifestyle systems required for capitalism to
sustain itself. MORE
https://mronline.org/2023/04/08/the-unbearable-unawareness-of-our-ecological-existential-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-unbearable-unawareness-of-our-ecological-existential-crisis&mc_cid=933e5d13ce&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e