OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS,
#199, OCTOBER 7, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Reform Capitalism: Public
Citizen
Replace Capitalism: Ecology
TEXTS
REFORMING CAPITALISM
Public Citizen’s Lawyer’s against Climate Change.
Recent numbers of Public Citizen News
offer several articles on climate subjects.
The May/June 2024 number of Public Citizen News presents two articles: One regarding efforts to decarbonize various
industries, to create “green steel” for example; the other describing PC’s
increasing moves beyond civil prosecution of corporate execs, to criminal.
The September/October number has four articles: “Fighting for a Just
Transition, Not Another Colonialist Trap,” one half, you will remember, of the Green
New Deal’s demand for an equitable energy transition. (Stop Warming, Transition Justly!) The transition is requiring a massive minerals-use
reorientation that must not exploit workers globally. “Fighting Joe Manchin’s Latest Dirty Deal”: his sweeping energy-permitting deregulation
bill packed with fossil fuel giveaways.
“Public Citizen Protest Blackrock Takeover of Minnesota Power,” on
stopping one of the world’s larges asset management firms from acquiring
Duluth, MN Energy utility. And
“Watchdogging Texas’ Environments Watchdog.”
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is a reluctant
regulator because it includes economic development as part of its mission. Related are three articles on corporate/super-rich
criminal behavior, corporate globalization, and rev. of a book on Wall St.
titled The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over
Big Government. You guessed PC’s power: 10 full-time attorneys working for The People. Thank you Ralph Nader for starting PC!
REPLACE GROWTH CAPITALISM
Listen to the
Ecologists! Mronline.org
(10-2-24)
Harry
Magdoff . MR (September
7, 2024).
In this reprise from
1992, former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy look
toward the end of the recession again plaguing the United States, seeing this choice
looming on the horizon: Will the progressive left attempt to reform capitalism,
or replace it entirely? Capital’s
inexorable thirst for growth beyond natural limits, they write, means we
must choose the latter—”if we care about the future of the human species…we had
better listen to the ecologists.” | more… Source