OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #155, NOVEMBER 27,
2023
What’s stopping USA from reversing rising
temperature, or at least from slowing it down?
(A frequent subject in CMM.)
Fossil Fuel Industry
Politics of War, “Cold” and Hot.
Religion: US Evangelicals.
Overpopulation and still growing.
What should each of us do to become an insurgency?
Fossil Fuel Industry
Jeremy Brecher. Against Doom:
A Climate Insurgency Manual.
“…lays
out key elements of a far-reaching global-scaled, pragmatic, people-powered
strategy to topple the power of the fossil fuel industry and the institutions
behind it.” David Solnit.
Politics of National Rivalry, Russophobia, War.
Loveday Morris and Vanessa Guinan-Bank. “Germany
Seeing Return to Coal.” Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette (8-7-22). [ It’s
politics]: “It’s part of a pan-European
dash to ditch Russian natural gas and escape President Vladimir Putin’s energy
chokehold.” [And the Ukraine War energy
pressure.] “. . .the coal revival may[?]
make it harder for the country to meet its climate goals.”
Religious
Fundamentalism.
Brooke
Staggs. “Many U.S. evangelicals still denying climate change.” (Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette), Nov 25, 2023. Many U.S. evangelicals still denying climate change. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Nov 25, 2023). Read more...
Overpopulation
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. Superabundance:
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an
Infinitely Bountiful Planet.
Cato Institute, 2022. Rev. Free
Inquiry (April-May 2023) by S. Keyron McDermott, “Infinity War: Lies,
Damned Lies, and ‘Superabundance.”
The rev. concludes: “In stark
contrast to this lushly produced and beautifully bound volume. . . are the
glaring realities the book doesn’t address.
. . .The once respectable Cato Institute seems to have shot itself in
the foot with Superabundance. As
to that holiest of all abundance essentials, population, the mind boggles. In mid-November 2022, the eight billionth
living human was born. By most measures,
Planet Earth is well past its carrying capacity.”