OMNI CLIMATE MEMO
MONDAYS, #161, JANUARY 15, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Jeremy Brecher.
Ending Fossil Fuels.
ADG. Russophobia, Germany, and
Coal.
Brooke Staggs. Evangelicals v. Climate
Change.
Tupy and Pooley. Negative Review of New Book on Population
Growth.,Superabundance,
Ending Fossil Fuels 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,
Fossil Fuels.
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
Fundamentalist CC Denial.
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... (Warning: I have discovered that in general
usage the meaning of the word “evangelical” ranges from adherents to Jesus
doctrine of love in the Gospels to extreme fundamentalism. –Dick)
Overpopulation and Its Consequences Under-recognized in New Book.
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.”