OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #182, JUNE 10,
2024.
RESISTANCE: why our climate is in
crisis and what we can do.
Naomi
Oreskes and Erik Conway, The Big Myth.
Fossil Fuel Profits,
Political Ideology, Accountability
of Institutions, Lobbyists, and
Corporations Supporting Capitalism.
Carly, et al.
“The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires.”
Zach, Greenpeace. Electing Climate Champions.
Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence, Nonviolent Direct Action v.
Destruction of Forests.
United Nations.
Diane Bernard. “The Climate Crisis Is
Directly Related To Inequality.“ DeSmog. PopularResistance.org
(6-1-24).
“Climate Change Is Not Just About Fossil Fuel Profits, But Also
the Political
Ideology Supporting Capitalism.”
In an interview with Rachel Donald of the podcast Planet:
Critical, science
historian Naomi Oreskes spoke about her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to
Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, cowritten with Erik M. Conway.She
explores why our climate is in crisis, detailing how institutions, lobbyists, and corporations continue to
undermine democracy; and why a renewable world threatens the powers that be.
Ultimately, Oreskes points out that the climate crisis is not a scientific
problem, but a political, economic, and social issue.
Oreskes
is a professor at Harvard University who co-authored the bestselling book Merchants
of Doubt, and has written nearly 200 scholarly papers and popular
articles. Her opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times,
The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Times of
London, and many others.
The Planet: Critical podcast uncovers the big
picture of the climate crisis by mapping the energy, economic, and political
crises surrounding it. The following is a partial transcript of Donald and
Oreskes’ conversation, lightly edited for clarity. The whole interview can be
heard by visiting Planet: Critical.
RACHEL DONALD: My first question for you is, why is the
world in crisis? . . . .
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/fossil-fuels-behind-forest-fires
Coal, oil, and gas companies
are now directly linked to worsening forest fires across the western United
States.
A peer-reviewed
study from the Union of Concerned Scientists found that 19.8
million acres of burned forest land—37 percent of the total area scorched by
forest fires in the western United States and southwestern Canada since
1986—can be attributed to heat-trapping emissions
traced to the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement
manufacturers.
Emissions from these
companies and their products also contributed to nearly half of the increase in
drought- and fire-danger conditions across the region since 1901.
The study—and other
attribution studies like it—offers policymakers, elected officials, and legal
experts a scientific basis for holding fossil fuel
companies accountable for the impacts of their products and their
decades-long deception efforts. Continued: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/fossil-fuels-behind-forest-fires
Zach,
Greenpeace USA Votes <info@greenpeaceusavotes.org>
Greenpeace
USA Votes — a political action committee focused on electing
climate champions— has officially launched! Join
us in the arena, won’t you? After more
than 50 years of exposing and fighting the environmental destruction that
will be our people and planet’s undoing (if we sit back and do nothing), the
Greenpeace movement is rising up in a new way: to fight for a people-powered
American democracy that elects climate champions who will pass necessary and
transformative policies! I know,
that’s a mouthful. In a nutshell? [What does Zach
mean by “transformative policies”?
Oreskes and Conway explain the SYSTEM.
–D] |
Nonviolent direct
actionPROVIDES ANOTHER TRANSFORMATIVE RESISTANCE METHOD
“Climate Movement Elders Revive Monkey Wrench Tactics”
By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. PopularResistance.org (45-6-24). Earlier this year, seven activists entered
the site of a proposed timber sale in Washington State, intent on halting — or
at least delaying — the destruction of trees with immense carbon storage
potential. Over the course of several hours, they hiked off-trail through the
dense understory, removing signs and flagging tape marking the boundaries of
the controversial Carrot timber sale. The creative nonviolent
direct actionseemed to
pay off, as a couple days later Washington’s Department of Natural Resources,
or DNR, announced it was cancelling the Carrot sale for the time being. -more-
The UN Has Several Agencies Working Wholly or Partly Against the Causes
and Consequences of the Climate Catastrophe, and they need encouragement
UNITED
NATIONS CLIMATE ACTIVITIES