OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS,
#147, OCTOBER 2, 2023
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continue to sift through boxes of books after a water pipe froze and broke
last Dec. Which of the books or
folders are still worth reading? The Climate Reality Project is a non-profit organization involved
in education and advocacy related to climate change. The Climate Reality
Project came into being in July 2011 as
the consolidation of two environmental groups, the Alliance for Climate
Protection and The Climate Project, both of which were founded by Al Gore. Among its activities, The Climate
Reality Project hosts an annual event called 24 Hours of Reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climate_Reality_Project
An entirely different approach sometimes
labeled “ecosocialism,” makes the case that the capitalist system (growth,
competition) cannot be reformed enough and fast enough to save us; rather it
must be rejected entirely. To know
what this involves, we must read books that advocate deep structural
change. This book does not mention
socialism in its index.
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News (7-21-23). From Iran to Azerbaijan, Iraq to Nigeria, Russia
to Venezuela, British foreign policy is largely captured by the global
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CLIMATE TRUTHTELLER “We ignored Al Gore
in 2000. We're paying the price of climate denial.” To the editor: Wildfires, flooding, hurricanes, abhorrent heat,
ocean temperatures rising to unheard of amounts — this is not the "new
abnormal," but most likely the "new normal." ("Fires, floods, heatwaves. Is
the extreme weather from coast to coast ‘a new abnormal’?"
July 12) Twenty-three years ago, Al Gore,
then running for president, pointed to scientific reports that predicted all
of this. Millions of us heard it but chose to disregard it or not believe it. It's hard to believe that many in this
country are still in climate-change denial or at least pretend to be. And why
is that? Because as Gore said, it is an ‘inconvenient truth.’" Linda Cooper, Studio City AND
WHAT DID OUR SO-CALLED LEADERS DO?
WHAT DID WE DO? 13
YEARS AGO the same inconvenient truth OUR LEADERS FAILED US, WE FAILED
OUSELVES, FOR STILL 2023 GLOBAL TEMPERATURE IS RISING. Now sociopathic individuals,
politicians, and companies are (Jul 14, 2023). Companies
seek to dodge conflict. Read more... “Profit-Driven Systems Are Driving Us To
Our Doom.” Caitlin Johnstone. Here is the conclusion to Johnstone;
to read the entire essay go to: https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/profit-driven-systems-are-driving-us-to-our-doom-fbcfed082592 “But we’re not
getting solutions, we’re getting a world ruled by corporations whose leaders
are required to place growth above all other concerns, even concerns about
whether the future will contain an ecosystem which corporations can exist in
or a human species for them to sell goods and services to. Corporations
function as giant, world-eating sociopaths, because our current models let
their leaders and lawyers wash their hands of all the consequences of the
damage their monsters inflict in the name of growth and the duty to maximize
shareholder profits. People worry
about the world getting destroyed by machines driven by a heartless
artificial intelligence, but we might end up destroying it with a kind of
artificial mind we invented long before microchips: the corporation. So much
of humanity’s dysfunction can be explained by the fact that corporations (A)
pretty much run the world and (B) are required to act like sociopaths by
placing profit above all other concerns. As long as
human behavior remains driven by profit, ecocide will continue, because
ecocide is profitable. As long as
human behavior remains driven by profit, wars will continue, because war is
profitable. As long as
human behavior remains driven by profit, exploitation will continue, because
exploitation is profitable. As long as
human behavior remains driven by profit, corruption will continue, because
corruption is profitable. There is no
“good” model in which human behavior can remain driven by profit without
these destructive behaviors continuing, because so many kinds of destructive
behavior will always necessarily be profitable. No proponents of any
iteration of capitalism have ever been able to provide any satisfactory
answers to this. The call then
is to move from competition-based, profit-driven systems to systems which are
based on collaboration toward the common good of all. We’re a long way off
from that, but a long way can be cleared in a short time under the right
conditions. Our species is at adapt-or-die time, and the adaptation that must
be made is clear.” DEFORESTATION =
DOMESTIC TERRORISM Name and jail the
forest terrorists: Pentagon Send names of others to Dick If we had spent the money and
energy to protecting and restoring our forests that we spent on the War on/OF
Terror, we could have prevented the worst from happening. |