Climate Change

10/11/21
Author: 
City of Burnaby Lawyer Greg McDade

Nov. 9, 2021

The link below is to the text of a letter from City of Burnaby Lawyer Greg McDade to the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) objecting to the regulator's decision to grant Trans Mountain permission, going far beyond what Trans Mountain even requested, to destroy any trees in Burnaby for whatever reasons for the indeterminate future. Can you say "captured regulator?" 

               Gene McGuckin

09/11/21
Author: 
George Monbiot
Excerpt from a painting depicting the British East India Company in India, 1825-1830. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images

Nov. 5, 2021

At Cop26 the wealthy countries cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice

The story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the art of violence and advanced seafaring technology, used these faculties to invade other territories and seize their land, labour and resources.

09/11/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Oversold: Forget carbon storage, direct air capture, hydrogen power and the Earth relentlessly mined to support ‘green tech.’ Image from Shutterstock.

3 Nov 2021

Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.

Since 1995 there have been 25 global conferences on climate change. At every one our so-called political leaders have kicked the can down the road and sung from a bright green hymnbook.

Greta Thunberg has disparaged the refrain as nothing more than “blah, blah, blah.”

She is right of course. Blah, blah blah has kept emissions rising, along with energy spending and its twin sibling unbridled economic growth.

09/11/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Globe and hand image - A society that consumes less energy and stuff could rehumanize society and heal the biosphere.

 4 Nov 2021

We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two.

[Editor’s note: Read part one of this two-parter here.]

09/11/21
Author: 
Bradley Hughes
Trees

November 7, 2021

Before the election, the BC NDP commissioned a report on old growth logging.Back then they promised to implement the report’s recommendations to halt logging in old growth forests in BC.

09/11/21
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Extinction Rebellion Vancouver demonstrators blocked access to the airport on October 25 by lying down on Grant McConachie Way. EXTINCTION REBELLION VANCOUVER

Oct. 26, 2021

The tactic worked, but will it lead to substantive changes in the way the climate breakdown is being covered?

A group of climate activists tied up traffic last night (October 25) on the main road to Vancouver International Airport.

According to Extinction Rebellion, 18 were arrested; that differed from a tweet from Richmond RCMP, which said that 20 were arrested.

09/11/21
Author: 
Hummingbird Land Defenders
MEDIA ADVISORY, Mon. Nov. 8, 2021

Unceeded Kwantlen, Katzie, and Coast Salish territory (Fraser Heights, Surrey, BC). From 10am today, Hummingbird Land Defenders will use their bodies to block tree cutting for the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. The women wish to protect the mature forest and seven grand cedars, in the North Slope Buffer Park.

09/11/21
Author: 
Facebook Is Making Millions Off Lies About the Climate Crisis

Nov. 5, 2021

A barrage of new data shows just how bad Facebook's climate misinformation problem is, and how the company profits from it.

 

As world leaders at COP26 in Glasgow try to negotiate the drastic and urgent action needed to avoid total climate catastrophe, a trio of new reports shows that work is being directly undermined by Facebook’s inability to prevent toxic misinformation about climate change from pervading its platform.

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