Climate Change

08/04/19
Author: 
George Monbiot
 The Wash, Lincolnshire. ‘Salt marshes can stash carbon 40 times faster than tropical forests.’ Photograph: Michael David Murphy/Alamy

Ecological restoration can be a powerful means of protecting the atmosphere – we need to rewild on a massive scale

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08/04/19
Author: 
Dahr Jamail & Barbara Cecil
A burned truck and structures are seen in the wake of the Butte Fire, which burned over 70,000 acres, on September 13, 2015, near San Andreas, California. DAVID MCNEW / GETTY IMAGES
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
― Wendell Berry
 
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05/04/19
Author: 
Jonathan Cook
April 4th, 2019

Has anyone else noticed how over the past few years the corporate media has been dedicating ever more space to articles on how to deal with loneliness, anxiety and insomnia, as well as ways to immerse ourselves in escapist new technology?
05/04/19
Author: 
Jonathan Blitzer

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   April 3, 2019

04/04/19
Author: 
Jeff Lewis

Canada is not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite mounting evidence the country is vulnerable to rapid warming, the outgoing federal Environment Commissioner warns.

In parting comments, Julie Gelfand criticized successive federal governments, saying their failure to cut emissions is “disturbing,” and urged greater action to tackle what she called one of the biggest challenges facing humanity.

The country’s top environmental watchdog also noted Canada is not on track to meet its climate-change targets.

28/03/19
Author: 
Piero Bevilacqua, Sharon Lerner, ITUC
Fridays for future

Student Strikes for Climate Justice

ENVIRONMENT  •  March 27, 2019

28/03/19
Author: 
Sonia Furstenau

Sonia Furstenau's speech in the BC Legislature on Bill 10 to subsidize LNG in BC.

 

We have voted against Bill 10 at every stage - this is a bill that gives increased tax credits to the LNG industry. 

It's 2019. We have a critical choice to make: will we make decisions that take us to a safer, healthier future, or will we double down on 20th-century energy and the fossil fuel industry, that needs taxpayer support in order to survive.

21/03/19
Author: 
Richard Fidler
CO2 pollution

March 21, 2019 

Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis, the result of an economic system (capitalism) with an inherent growth and profit dynamic which ensures that the exploitation of natural resources (both renewable and non-renewable) exceeds the carrying capacity of nature. You have read the almost-daily scientific reports, each more alarming than the ones before, on the scope of the crisis. I won’t belabour the point.

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