OMNI CLIMATE MEMO
MONDAYS, #165, FEBRUARY 12, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett
Hi,
Dick. It’s Jane Fonda reaching out with an
exciting invitation for you! Mark
your calendars for Tuesday, February 13th,
because we're turning Galentine’s Day into a Grace
and Frankie live reunion celebrating laughter, and friendship
benefiting the Jane Fonda Climate PAC’s work to elect
climate champions at every level of government. |
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Being a
part of that show with my dear friend Lily Tomlin was one of the great joys in
my career, and I hope you can join us for a trip down memory lane. But, oh,
it’s so much more than that!
Every ticket purchased and every dollar you donate will
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mission to elect true climate champions at every level of government.
JOHN BELLAMY
FOSTER
I presented John Berger’s Solving the Climate Crisis twice before. It is one of the best responses to the
climate catastrophe and impending chaos from inside the capitalist system; that
is, he does not examine the capitalist system from which the emergency arose. Following is a response from outside that
economic system by perhaps the preeminent Marxist scholar in the US: U of Oregon
Prof. Emer. John Bellamy Foster, editor of The Monthly Review, and
author of probably several hundred articles and books—e.g., The Endless
Crisis, The Robbery of Nature, The Return of Nature, Marx and the Earth, Marx’s
Ecology, none of which are mentioned by Berger (nor is Marx).
Here is one of Bellamy’s
earlier books:
The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet by John Bellamy Foster. Published by:
Monthly Review Press, 2009.
288 Pages Access this eBook
from one of our digital partners DESCRIPTION AUTHORS‘Since the atomic bomb made its first
appearance on the world stage in 1945, it has been clear that we possess the
power to destroy our own planet. What nuclear weapons made possible, global
environmental crisis, marked especially by global warming, has now made
inevitable—if business as usual continues.
The roots of the present ecological crisis, John Bellamy Foster argues in The
Ecological Revolution, lie in capital’s rapacious expansion,
which has now achieved unprecedented heights of irrationality across the globe.
Foster compellingly demonstrates that the only possible answer for humanity is
an ecological revolution: a struggle to make peace with the planet. Foster
details the beginnings of such a revolution in human relations with the
environment which can now be found throughout the globe, especially in the
periphery of the world system, where the most ambitious experiments are taking
place.
This bold work addresses the central issues of the present crisis: global
warming, peak oil, species extinction, world water shortages, global hunger,
alternative energy sources, sustainable development, and environmental justice.
Foster draws on a unique range of thinkers, including Karl Marx, Thomas
Malthus, William Morris, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Rachel Carson, Vandana
Shiva, and István Mészáros. The result is a startlingly radical synthesis,
which offers new hope for grappling with the greatest challenge of our age:
what must be done to save the earth for humanity and all living species.