Climate Change

14/06/19
Author: 
Laura Millan Lombrana
Dry and cracked ground marks an area where water is being pumped by mining companies in the southern tip of the Atacama salt flat.  Photographer: Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg
 June 11, 2019
 
Mining lithium and copper to supply the battery boom and fight climate change is wrecking a fragile ecosystem in Chile.
 
The oases that once interrupted the dusty slopes of the Atacama desert in northern Chile allowed humans and animals to survive for thousands of years in the world’s driest climate. That was before the mining started.
 
 
12/06/19
Author: 
Colin Hogg
Tamatha Paul is a 22-year-old standing for Wellington City Council as an independent. Photo/Screenshot.
11 June 2019
 

The future is the business of young people.

Out of the mouths of babes come words of wisdom, according to that old tome of assorted wisdoms, The Bible. Which isn’t to say that 16-year-olds are babies, just that, in some ways, we treat 16-year-olds as if they are and perhaps we shouldn’t.

07/06/19
Author: 
Joseph Stiglitz
 ‘The war on the climate emergency, if correctly waged, would actually be good for the economy’ Photograph: Press Enterpr/Rex/Shutterstock
4 June 2019

Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake
 
[Editor: We agree that we can and have to afford it but not with growing the economy in the way this happened following World War II. !]
 
07/06/19
Author: 
Damian Carrington
 The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed British MPs in April. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images
5 June 2019

Britons are more worried about climate crisis than economy, crime and immigration
 
Public concern about the environment has soared to record levels in the UK since the visit of Greta Thunberg to parliament and the Extinction Rebellion protests in April.
04/06/19
Author: 
Phyllis Bennis
The US warship USS Harry S. Truman is pictured anchored in The Solent on October 8, 2018 near Portsmouth, England. Matt Cardy / Getty Images.
 05.08.2019

We can’t heal the climate if the US war machine keeps raining destruction, absorbing resources, and gobbling up fossil fuels all around the world. Here’s how to stop it.
 
03/06/19
Author: 
Thea Riofrancos
Green New Deal Now

This article first published on the Viewpoint Magazine website.

31/05/19
Author: 
Randy Shore
A photo shared by the B.C. Wildfire Service shows the Lejac wildfire burning near Fraser Lake on May 11, 2019. B.C. WILDFIRE SERVICE / HANDOUT / PNG

Up to 60 per cent of the snowpack already melted due to unseasonably hot weather

May 27, 2019

With another hot, dry summer ahead, B.C. is poised for a third consecutive record-breaking fire season after 2017 and 2018 rewrote the record books.

Pockets of northeast and northwest B.C. are already rated at “extreme danger” of fire, while the Central Coast and parts of Vancouver Island were rated as high danger, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service.

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