Capitalism

04/08/18
Author: 
Roger Annis

Aug 4, 2018 - Naomi Klein has published a lengthy critique of an important feature essay appearing in the New York Times Magazine on August 1, 2018: Losing Earth: The decade we almost stopped climate changeby Nathaniel Rich, with photos and video by George Steinmetz.

27/07/18
Author: 
Steven Poole

... the authors argue, capitalism also needs to be overthrown because climate change demands a social revolution along more egalitarian, “sustainable” lines. Business as usual, they say, is not an option, echoing Naomi Klein’s argument in her 2014 eco-socialist manifesto, This Changes Everything....

23/07/18
Author: 
Kevin MacKay

JULY 20, 2018

June 23 marked the 30th year anniversary of NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s presentation on global warming to the U.S. Congress. In his address Hansen argued that climate change – long predicted by scientists, was now here, and that it would get steadily worse.

10/04/18
Author: 
WhoWhatWhy
Photo credit: Takver / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

A Radical View of the Existential Crisis Facing Our Environment

April 9, Podcast

 

We are facing planet-wide extinction, a climate emergency — and our current course is suicidal.

That is the underlying belief of author and scientist Richard Smith, who is Jeff Schechtman’s guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast.

06/04/18
Author: 
James Wilt
File photo of oilsands facility near Fort McMurray, Alberta by Andrew S. Wright

This article was originally published in DeSmog Canada on April 2, 2018. Republished with permission.

After more than a year of public hearings, the federal government unveiled its new and improved environmental assessment legislation in February 2018 with much ado.

29/03/18

Private banks around the world are back to funneling more money into the global fossil fuel sectors in 2017, according to a report released today by Rainforest Action Network

17/02/18
Author: 
Alexander Shields
Photo: Facebook Federal Minister of the Environment, Catherine McKenna, with Jim Sanders, President of Enbridge Gas Distribution (center), at the annual Ottawa Winterlude Enbridge Luncheon in early February
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 February 13, 2018​
 
Federal Minister of the Environment Catherine McKenna participated earlier this month in a pancake breakfast sponsored by Enbridge, while wearing an apron with the logo of the company involved in the oil pipeline industry and the tar sands.

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