'Alternative' energy and less energy

Allegations of patronage and a cozy relationship between a billionaire and a Canadian premier are threatening to upend a multibillion-dollar green energy project.

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What’s an SMR? Canada’s bet on the contentious next-gen nuclear tech, explained

06/01/23

Author:

Cloe Logan

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National Observer

Illustration by Ata Ojani - What’s an SMR?

"Are SMRs viable? That is the biggest question surrounding SMRs. Although the plans for these next-generation nuclear units might hypothetically work, their viability hasn’t been proven anywhere.

Jan. 4, 2023

Canada has big climate goals and we need ambitious solutions to meet them. The federal government is banking on a new generation of nuclear technology to help us clean up power grids and reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. But will it work?

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Capitalism Is Destroying Us - The New Climate Report

21/12/22

Author:

The New Climate Report

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You Tube

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvRtNGW9Ajk

283,080 views Aug 26, 2022

It's never good to hear the words "total societal collapse" from a scholarly paper, but that's exactly the phrasing used in the new UN climate report. We all know it's bad, but what's really standing in the way of us ensuring a livable future?

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Degrowth and the end of capitalism - Book review

21/12/22

Author:

Martin Empson

Link:

Climate and Capitalism

Dec. 17, 2022

Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement

Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan
THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH
A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
Verso, 2022

reviewed by Martin Empson

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Canada Ignores Good Examples, and Our Gasoline Emissions Surge

21/12/22

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

Link:

National Observer

Dec. 20, 2022

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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet - Book Review

16/12/22

Author:

Casey Williams

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Portside

Dec. 14, 2022

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Rush to electric vehicles may be an expensive mistake, say climate strategists

16/12/22

Author:

Don Pittis

Link:

CBC News

An electric Canoo LV (Lifestyle Vehicle) at a factory in Livonia, Mich., last month. Quirky new designs can make EVs attractive items of conspicuous consumption for those who can afford them. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)

Dec. 12, 2022

With their futuristic designs and new technology, electric vehicles are the seductive consumer-friendly face of the energy transition.

As first incarnated by Tesla, the EV is increasingly seen as sleeker, slicker, faster and more stylish than traditional internal combustion engine cars and trucks that burn those dirty fossil fuels blamed for disrupting weather patterns and killing off species.

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The Ecosocialist Project: Climate Changes Everything

15/12/22

Author:

Jonathan Neale

Link:

System Change not Climate Change

Nov. 28, 2022

Ecosocialism in the age of climate change needs to stop being a niche, an abstract ideological program, and turn into a concrete, practical, non-dogmatic plan for the future.

We need to make some serious changes in the ecosocialist project.

It’s good that we have the idea of ecosocialism. Because the words stand for a basic idea that ecology and socialism go together. Linked, they are the hope of the world.

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