OMNI CLIMATE MEMO
MONDAYS, #163, JANUARY 29, 2024. Dick Bennett
UCS. Fossil-Fueled Forest Fires
Books, Organizations, Individuals v. the Climate Emergency.
Stop Fossil-Fueled Forest Fires - secure.ucsusa.org
A groundbreaking new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that fossil fuel producers, such as Chevron and
ExxonMobil, are responsible for 37 percent of the total area burned by
forest fires since the mid-1980s in the western United States and
southwestern Canada.
Two of the many new books on Climate:
Michael Gunter, Jr. Climate Travels: How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates
Action. Columbia UP, 2023.
Rob Verchick.
The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience. Columbia UP, 2023.
And new organizations:
Climate Resistance
climatedefiance.org https://www.climatedefiance.org
WebClimate Defiance is a movement of
young people who use mass-turnout, peaceful direct action to force their
political leaders to act on climate change and other social justice issues. They blockaded the White House Correspondents Dinner
and aim to end fossil …
Declare Emergency Take Action Donate EventsContact Resolute nonviolent climate action
Billions
of people will starve to death in the coming decades, as elites fill our
atmospheric “gas chamber” with fossil fuels for power and profit. Our food
systems will break down. Billions
will be forced out of their homes and countries. This means war, starvation, slaughter, and
rape on a global scale. And the collapse is coming here, too.The science is
clear: the use of fossil fuels must end, immediately, if we hope to survive.
Instead of leading the transition, our government gambles our future on
unproven technologies and hopeful thinking… while quietly continuing to fund
and faciliate the fossil fuel death project. This is genocidal. This is criminal. This is
insane. We come together and offer resolute non-violent resistance
to the fossil fuel madness of the present moment. We still have two to three
years in which we can avert the worst consequences of the climate catastrophe.
What will you do in these two to three years?
And heroes:
Stephen Donziger, “the crusading attorney
who’s been fighting a bare-knuckle legal battle against Chevron for more than a
decade” Aaron Gell, “Campaign Season Is
Heating Up, So’s the Planet.: (Jan-Feb 2024).