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Climate change: Why action on the crisis is all hot air

16/08/23

Author:

Jonathan Cook

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Middle East Eye

A firefighter tackles a wildfire in the Mojave National Preserve, California, on 30 July 2023 (AFP)

Aug. 11, 2023

Neoliberalism's relentless cheerleaders are largely unchallenged in their dangerous belief that capitalism's growth paradigm can be squared with sustainability. It may cost us the Earth

The debate about the climate crisis should have been settled in the early 1990s. And yet, three decades later, the extent, imminence and even existence of a looming catastrophe are still hotly disputed. That is not by accident.

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Montana Judge Rules Fossils Extraction Violates Kids' Rights

14/08/23

Author:

Julia Conley

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Common Dreams

Youth plaintiffs await the start of the nation's first youth climate change trial at Montana's First Judicial District Court on June 12, 2023 in Helena, Montana. (Photo by William Campbell/Getty Images)

Aug. 14, 2023

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Burnaby Housing Corp Aims for Half-Market Rents

14/08/23

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Christopher Cheung

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The Tyee

More ‘nimble, proactive and direct’: Burnaby will join five existing municipal and regional housing corporations taking direct responsibility for delivering affordable homes. Photo by Christopher Cheung.

Aug. 14, 2023

Why Burnaby Decided to Develop Its Own Housing

BC’s third-largest city is aiming for rents at 50 per cent below market. Here’s how.

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B.C.’s dirty little secret: it is ramping up thermal coal exports

14/08/23

Author:

Derrick O'Keefe

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Ricochet Media

Aug. 14, 2023

As wildfires rage around the world, Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison is doubling down on the dirtiest fossil fuel

British Columbia continues to expand its exports of the dirtiest fossil fuel on Earth. And even though Canada’s federal government has promised to end thermal coal exports by 2030, B.C.’s richest person keeps increasing his investment in Canada’s busiest coal export terminal.

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How Labor Exploitation and Climate Change Intersect

12/08/23

Author:

Sonali Kolhatkar

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LA Progressive

Delivery - Photo by Aaron Doucett on Unsplash

Aug. 11, 2023

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Canada in the Year 2060 - Unfolding Climate Disruption

12/08/23

Author:

Anne Shibata Casselman

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Maclean's

The aftermath of the White Rock Lake wildfire in B.C. in 2021. (Photograph by Darryl Dyck/CP Images.)

Aug. 10, 2023

This article is long, because it is VERY comprehensive. It's worth getting the full picture of what we are facing. Spread the word.

- Gene McGuckin

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Challenging the Corporate-Driven Food Reset

11/08/23

Author:

Colin Todhunter, Dissident Voice.

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Popular Resistance

photo: Graphic from the International Panel of Expert on Sustainable Food System (IPES-Food).

Aug. 8, 2023

The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation.

It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, chemical runoffs, increasing levels of farmer indebtedness, the undermining and destruction of local communities and the eradication of biodiversity.

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