[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues this Sunday August 9 2020

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today’s Issues discussion group is meeting Sunday mornings at 9:30 in
the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church,
following social distancing guidelines.  This Sunday we will discuss two
essays from the August 20 issue of the New York Review of Books:

Page 8, Bill McKibben, “130 Degrees,
<https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/08/20/climate-emergency-130-degrees/>”
a review of Mark Lyman’s book Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate
Emergency.  The essay is completely sympathetic to Lyman’s argument as
probably most of our church members are.  However, if you want to look at a
skeptical account, I can recommend Calum Chase’s review
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/calumchace/2020/08/03/false-alarm-by-bjorn-lomborg--book-review/#dd6a00127242>
in Forbes of False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions,
Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet By Bjorn Lomborg.  For a
critical review of Lomborg, you might read Joseph Stiglitz’s NY Times Review
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review/bjorn-lomborg-false-alarm-joseph-stiglitz.html>

Page 32, Joseph O’Neill, “Save the Party, Save the World,” a review of E.J.
Dionne’s book Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political
Hobbyism,  Take Action and Make Real Change.

Both NYR essays are attached to this mailing.
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