Editor: This is a very good podcast which really deals with of 'What is to be done' and what is being done on the climate emergency and more. Tara Ehrcke is a Victoria, BC teacher, member of the BC Teachers Federation, socialist and long time union activist at present involved with climate justice. Highly recommended.
Apr, 11, 2022
In this episode, Travis and Danielle talk to teacher and trade union activist Tara Ehrcke about organizing for climate justice.
Last week, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault announced the approval of the deepwater oil project Bay du Nord with 137 conditions, including a requirement the project achieves net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Decades of failing to cut emissions are saddling Canadians with ever-steeper climate targets.
By dragging our feet, we've increased the amount of emissions we need to cut while shrinking the time we have remaining to do it. As the world races to net-zero in 2050, the penalty Canadians are paying for foot-dragging is piling up fast.
On the second floor of a hotel in the shadow of the CN Tower, Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership and their allies crowded around laptops and cellphones for one purpose: confront RBC executives over the bank’s financing of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
More than 1,000 scientists across the globe chained themselves to the doors of oil-friendly banks, blocked bridges, and occupied the steps of government buildings on Wednesday to send an urgent message to the international community: The ecological crisis is accelerating, and only a “climate revolution” will be enough to avert catastrophe.
Policies in place to reduce emissions as of December 2020 would lead the planet to 3.2 degrees Celsius of warming, more than double the 1.5 degrees limit that scientists say is essential for avoiding the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
