OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #129,
MAY 29, 2023
Stacy
Bannerman “Is Climate The Worst Casualty of War?”
Common
Dreams, July 31,
2018. (# 46, 9-15-18). Pub. also in Peace in Our Times (Fall 2018) p. 21. Other writers on the convergence of war and
cc: Bertell, Chomsky and Polk, Dower, Dyer, Greer,
Johnson, Maddow, Parenti, Paskal, Sanders, Smith and Vivekananda, Gar Smith,
Wood.
UN WARS OF WAR, WARMING, PANDEMIC
CONVERGENCE
Jessica Corbett. JESSICA CORBETT “War and
Climate Crisis Threaten Global Progress on Human Health, Warns UN Chief.” Common
Dreams (May 21, 2023).
"We can return
to the path of progress. We can realize our ambitions for health and well-being
for all," said António Guterres. "But only if the world works
together... despite the tensions straining relations between nations."
. . . .But now, "war and
conflict threaten millions. The health of billions is endangered by the climate crisis. And the Covid-19 pandemic has stalled, and even
reversed, progress in public health," the U.N. leader said in a video
address kicking off the assembly. . . .https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-antonio-guterres-climate-war-health
I continue to return
to magazines skimmed earlier. E.g. The Nation, May 18, 2015.
Several articles on domination by money, individual profits,
instead of public good—specifying malefactors, naming names, calling readers to
act.
Eric Alterman on “Invisible
Plutocracy.” Our democracy has been
“severely corrupted by money,” the Republican Party promotes that condition,
reporters offer a “fairy-tale narrative” of US as a “fully functioning
democracy,” while little is “decided on its merits.”
Zephyr Teachout on “Restoring
Antitrust” (Sherman Antitrust Act).
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken (no longer in Senate), and Bernie
Sanders “are creating a populist fighting force representing the broad
grassroots demand that we break up big companies.”
Money profit through monopoly plus leads directly to the commission of the
military-industrial-congressional-presidential-WAR complex (MICPC) and omission of meaningful resistance to
global warming and climate change.
And We the People don’t have much time to PUSH necessary structural
changes. Dick 5-24-23