'Alternative' energy and less energy

17/08/22
Author: 
Gray Maddrey, originally published by Uneven Earth

Without class struggle the emancipatory potential of degrowth will fail to be realized. A revolutionary pedagogy can help to unify them.

04/08/22
Author: 
John Woodside
Jonathan WIlkinson speaks at an event at the United Nations' COP26 climate conference on Nov. 6, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Photo by Karwai Tang via COP26 / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Aug. 4, 2022

Canada was quietly trying to muscle in on Europe’s gas market months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed the continent’s energy security to mainstream attention, documents obtained by Canada’s National Observer reveal.

19/07/22
Author: 
Kenny Stancil
Tactical firefighters work to prevent a wildfire from spreading further as the winds change in Louchats, France on July 17, 2022. (Photo: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images)

More dissatisfaction with slow-if-at-all progress!!

July 18, 2022

"We need a concrete global response that addresses the needs of the world's most vulnerable people, communities, and nations," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

Governments can either come up with a collaborative and urgent plan to tackle the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency that is already wreaking deadly havoc across the globe or keep allowing corporations to pollute the atmosphere without limit, thereby condemning humanity to a grim future.

14/07/22
Author: 
Danielle Paradis
Jason Kenney's Alberta government promotes hydrogen in Edmonton in October 2020. Credit: Alberta Newsroom (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

July 5, 2022

Critics say the best argument for blue hydrogen is to “keep the fossil fuel industry in business.”

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.

21/06/22
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
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June 10, 2022

originally published by The Tyee

Part 2 [Read Part 1 here]

People just want to go on doing what they’re doing. They want business as usual. They say, “Oh yes, there’s going to be a problem up ahead,” but they don’t want to change anything. — James Lovelock

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