When the French are banning booze, you know things are really getting extreme. It is only June, but Europe is suffering through its second major heat wave in two months, and this one is shattering records by astonishing margins.
Bulletin Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here [in the Bulletin] as part of the Climate Deskcollaboration.
Economic growth is generally understood as a process that delivers a material betterment of living standards over time. But growth had two other virtues, neither of which has until now received much attention. Both will be sorely missed now that meaningful growth has ended.
First, that economic growth can rescue us from the consequences of our own mistakes or misfortunes.
According to the National Geographic Society: “The human footprint is one of the most destructive forces in Earth’s history, fundamentally altering the planet at an unprecedented scale. Humanity consumes resources far faster than they can regenerate, driving rapid environmental degradation, mass biodiversity loss, and climate shifts that many scientists classify as a new geological epoch.”
CPPIB is financing four LNG terminals — and may risk even more
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is financing four liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals — and signalling there could be more to come — despite the industry bringing worsening climate damage and escalating financial risks to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).
Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival.
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown
Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region
Temperatures in the Antarctic climbed above 15C this month, shattering the previous winter heat record for the usually frozen region and raising concerns about the speed of climate breakdown.
