OMNI CLIMATE
MEMO MONDAYS, #181, JUNE 3, 2024.
Compiled by Dick Bennett
[This new weather disaster reporting organization with
suggestions for individual action looks helpful. Let me know what you discover about it. –D]
First landfalling
cyclone of the season, record-breaking temps, and more
DISASTER BRIEFS, MONDAY, MAY 28, 2024 Global Disaster Briefs
are your weekly (or more often, if needed) summaries and headlines from around
the world about natural and man-made disasters, climate change, disease and
health, and international conflict. See endnotes for resources used in putting
this report together. Data is retrieved and summarized on the day of
publication unless otherwise noted.
NEW TO
MESOSCALE THIS WEEK At
your request, I'm adding a list of ways you can help those impacted by the
disasters and global conflict I write about.
I’m including a Charity Navigator and/or GuideStar rating on each
non-profit included. In cases where the most effective remedy is congressional
or international legislation or intervention, I'll list the appropriate
resources to contact. © 2024 Rebekah Jones, PO BOX 3371, Silver Spring, MD 20918
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UNDERSTANDING OF CC
Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication
Dear Friends,
5-21-24
We are pleased to announce the latest version of the Climate
Change in the American Mind (CCAM) interactive data visualization tool –
the CCAM Explorer. The
tool and accompanying dataset include the most recent year of data (ranging
from 2008-2023) and enable users to explore Americans’ opinions about
climate change over time and across different groups of people. Here are a
few highlights from the updated tool:
Americans increasingly understand that global warming is happening and
human-caused. Additionally, public understanding of the scientific
consensus has increased more than any other measure: the percentage of
Americans saying that most scientists think global warming is happening
increased from 33% in 2010 to 56% in 2023 (+23 percentage points). Importantly,
however, only one in five Americans
understand the strength of the scientific consensus about global warming (i.e.,
that more than 90% of climate scientists think that
human-caused global warming is happening).
[To read more click on link. I found the report engrossing and leading to stronger
pro-climate engagement. People’s understanding is increasing. -- D]
(You and I can do plenty as individuals, and plenty of assistance to resisters exists. But we also have a
problem with our economic system.
For that we need large awareness, knowledge, and organization. Here’s one of the several journals that help
us confront capitalism.)
Climate & Capitalism
Climate & Capitalism <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com> 5-28-24
“Mythmaking 101: What
went wrong with capitalism?”
Did big government, monopoly power, and easy money end competitive capitalism's
golden age? Source
Other recent articles
Despite promising
climate action, oil and gas giants double down on drilling
Global people’s
movements are leading the fight for our planet
Capitalism’s New Age
of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic Machines
Can capitalism solve
the ecological crisis?
“Can
Capitalism Solve the Ecological Crisis?”
Climate and Capitalism (May 7, 2024).
Two new books argue that green capitalism will save us.
Neither is convincing.
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Akshat Rathi. CLIMATE CAPITALISM: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and
Solving the Crisis of Our Age. Greystone Books.
Hannah Ritchie. NOT THE END OF THE WORLD: How We Can Be the First
Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet.
Penguin Random House.
Graphs for global elites
and the billionaire class
reviewed by Andrew Ahern
Two new books argue that capitalism will solve the climate
and ecological crisis. While making such an argument with different styles and
focuses, Bloomberg journalist Akshat Rathi’s Climate Capitalism: winning the race
to zero emissions and solving the crisis of our age and
data scientist Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World: how we can
be the first generation to build a sustainable planet bring
the reader to a similar conclusion: our existing social and economic system
(capitalism) will deliver the necessary technological change due to market forces,
cheaper machines, and government incentives to bring about an age of abundance,
human progress and the world’s “first sustainable generation.”
Both Rathi and Ritchie are techno-optimists and
political-pessimists who skirt social and political change for technological
substitution. . . .MORE