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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #200, OCTOBER 14,
2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Codepink on US Climate Hypocrisy v. China.
Adam Hanieh. “…Oil, Corporate
Power.”
Climate and Capitalism, October 2040.
Giraffe Hero: Colette
Pichon Battle.
US, CHINA,
AND CLIMATE
“Tell US Climate Envoy John Podesta: STOP THE CLIMATE HYPOCRISY!” CODEPINK.
9-26-24
Dear Dick,
Earlier this month, US climate envoy John Podesta met with Chinese Foreign
Minister Wang Yi to discuss financing for global climate initiatives. This is
one of many meetings where US officials criticize China’s
sustainability strategies, demanding Beijing do more, while
simultaneously undermining its efforts.
The US treats China’s
growing dominance over the “green economy” as a security threat, and labels China’s efforts to invest in
green energy projects in the Global South as “geopolitical
expansionism.”
The message is clear:
The US wants China to contribute to the climate effort… but only in ways the
Biden administration deems acceptable. This contradictory approach will
only hinder the global effort to convert to renewable energy
and delay climate goals. We need urgent action to counter
climate change, which will only happen if our leaders work together,
not against one another.
Tell US Climate Envoy
Podesta No More Green Tech Tariffs!
Read Imperial Hypocrisy of
US-China Climate Talks to learn more.
Andy
Higginbottom. “On Adam Hanieh’s
Crude Capitalism.”
Mronline.org (10-5-24). Andy Higginbottom reviews Adam
Hanieh’s crucial new book, Crude Capitalism. Ecology, History, ImperialismCommentaryFeatured
Adam Hanieh, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate
Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso,
2024), 336 pages.
Adam Hanieh’s new book, Crude Capitalism: Oil,
Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso,
2024) could not be timelier. As all eyes turn to Baku for COP29, the capitalist
world heads to yet another performance of misdirection. In contrast to that
monumental deception, we need to see things as they really stand and take
action accordingly. So, let’s take a deep dive and get the record straight, the
basic problem remains that capitalism is destroying planet Earth at an
accelerating pace. Crude Capitalism—hereafter CC—goes a long way to explaining why the capitalist
powers remain so fully committed to oil, come what may.
CC is deeply impressive for the range it covers and the quality
of the analysis. Hanieh’s explanation of how the global oil industry became
central to global capitalism is comprehensive and compelling. The arguments
presented cover the role of oil in the capitalist system over the long
twentieth century, explaining the many connections with the ascendancy of the
US as the dominant imperialist power. . . .
MORE
NEW ARTICLES
IN CLIMATE & CAPITALISM
Ecosocialist
Bookshelf, October 2024
New books on oil, empire, the science of death, fungal health threats,
degrowth, and socialist strategy. Source
·Other recent articles ...The environmental cost of
Israel’s genocide in Gaza
·Profiteering lets
Mpox epidemic spread out of control
·Methane emissions
rising faster than ever
·Ecosocialist
Bookshelf, September 2024
Giraffe
Heroes Project, Ann Medlock
Colette Pichon Battle left a career as a
corporate attorney after Hurricane Katrina devastated her childhood home ground
in rural Louisiana. Her new work is helping people without wealth deal with
the threat of the climate crisis. Her nonprofit Taproot Earth trains
endangered communities and lobbies for the policies and funding that are needed
for survival. Learn more here. [Tell me if you know of someone in AR who provides
a similar service, and I will pass on the info.]
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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #200, OCTOBER 14,
2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.