OMNI CLIMATE
MEMO MONDAYS, #187, JULY 15, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Our corporate gov won’t do it, create your own insurgency.
Stop methane: check out our landfill. More to be done.
Learn about public transportation around the world. Think big here.
CREATING YOUR OWN INSURGENCY
What’s stopping USA from reversing rising temperature, or at least from slowing
it down (the chief subject of CMM)?
The US Culture of Doom:
US Capitalism, profit, growth, Fossil Fuel Industry, CO2.
Politics of War, “Cold” and Hot, the propaganda-system-information control-nuclear-security-military-imperial-corporate-congressional-presidential-judicial/SC-fundamentalist
religious-educational-agri-transportation Complex.
Overpopulation and still growing.
What should each of us do to become an insurgency? (“Insurgency” definition
enlarged to encompass not only the government but the culture.) An insurgent is a nonviolent rebel against
the established order that produced proliferating nuclear weapons and rising
temperature and refuses to end both.
What have you chosen to do today, this week, this month to become an insurgent? To rationalize your NOT creating your own insurgency? Or what have you done to bring another person into your insurgency?
Forward to people who might want to take
action.
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big boost? Create
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out this petition, and give it your support by signing and sharing: To: Congress
BAN
FOSSIL FUEL ADVERTISING
STOP
METHANE EMISSIONS: CLOSE LANDFILLS, RESTRICT AGRI.
More Than Half Of U.S. Landfills Are Methane
‘Super-Emitters'
By Cristen
Hemingway-Jaynes, EcoWatch. PopularResistance.org
(4-l-24). Methane is a
heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG) that is 28 times more potent
than carbon dioxide. Most methane comes from human activities —
roughly 60 percent — such as agriculture, fossil fuels, and the
decomposition of waste in landfills. According to a
new study led by nonprofit Carbon Mapper, more than half the
landfills in the United States are “super-emitters” of methane. “Addressing
these high methane sources and mitigating persistent landfill emissions offers
a strong potential for climate
benefit,” said Dr. Dan Cusworth. -more-
INSURGENCY OPPORTUNITY, THIS ONE IS UNDER WAY: GOOGLE FAYETTEVILLE, AR, LANDFILL for many
starters.
FOR SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NOW.
“Working-class
environmentalism and climate justice: The challenge of convergence today.”
Editor. mronline.org (4-5-24)
Originally
published: Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and
Riots (PPPR) on April 2024 by Lorenzo Feltrin and Emanuele Leonardi
(more by Platforms,
Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (PPPR)) (Posted Apr 04,
2024). Class, Climate Change, Environment, MovementsEurope, ItalyNewswireGKN
Driveline (ex-FIAT) factory, GKN
Factory Collective, Melrose
Industries
. . .However, what makes the GKN Florence dispute
really unique is the strategy adopted by the workers, who sealed an alliance
with the climate justice movement by drafting a conversion plan for
sustainable, public transport and demanding its adoption. Such strategy
engendered a cycle of broad mobilisations—repeatedly bringing tens of thousands
to the streets—so that the dispute is still open, and the factory remains under
occupation as of today. In December 2022, Milan’s Feltrinelli Foundation
released a special issue of its Quaderni, publishing the Plan for a Public
Hub for Sustainable Mobility drafted by the GKN Factory Collective and
their solidarity research group. This article—on the failure of the
ecological transition ‘from above’ and the need for a convergence between
workplace and community struggles to move towards a transition ‘from below’—was
originally published in Italian as a postface to the Plan.
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MEMO MONDAYS, #187, JULY 15, 2024.