Climate Change

28/01/16
Author: 
David Suzuki
David Suzuki

With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed that they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent.

27/01/16
Author: 
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

I sometimes forget the degree to which a large part of English Canada despises Quebec. This week, the reminder was brutal.

27/01/16
Author: 
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

I sometimes forget the degree to which a large part of English Canada despises Quebec. This week, the reminder was brutal.

26/01/16
Author: 
Jillian Bell
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre following their joint press conference about the proposed Energy East pipeline in Montreal on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made headlines Tuesday when he met with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, an outspoken opponent of the proposed Energy East pipeline.

25/01/16
Author: 
Carlos Valdez
In this Jan. 12, 2016 photo, an abandoned boat lies on the dried up lake bed of Lake Poopo, on the... Read mor

UNTAVI, Bolivia (AP) — Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was Bolivia's second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in what marshes remain.

Lake Poopo was officially declared evaporated last month. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have lost their livelihoods and gone.

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25/01/16
Author: 
Harold Steves

Watch this video about the effects on agriculture of Site C Dam here.

23/01/16

Nov 22, 2015 - 

The same imperialism that has caused so much damage to the Global South today continues expanding and threatening the whole planet. Consequently, the struggle for climate justice has converted into a struggle for the liberation of all workers, peasants, indigenous and ecosystems. The struggle against Empire is a struggle to save life on Earth.

(Originally published in Spanish at www.salvarlatierra.org )

22/01/16
Author: 
Herbert Docena
Paris Red Line

 On the final day of the UN summit (COP21) held in Paris in December 2015, thousands of people defied a ban on public gatherings by converging at a boulevard leading to the business district in La Défense to denounce the new climate agreement that government negotiators were about to sign and celebrate at the conference venue in Le Bourget, 20 kilometres away. Hoping to counter governments’ attempts to control the narrative regarding the summit, they gathered behind giant inflatable ‘cobblestones’ and a red banner proclaiming “System change not climate change!”

22/01/16
Author: 
George Monbiot
 Supporters of the Heathrow runway protesters on trial for aggravated trespass and being in a restricted area of Heathrow airport without permission. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/Demotix/Corbis

They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics. But to me, these people are heroes. The 13 women and men on trial this week for cutting through the perimeter fence around Heathrow airport and chaining themselves together on a runway were excoriated by police, passengers and politicians. (One of the defendants in the case is a member of the cooperative society that rents my house.) If convicted, they all face a possible prison sentence.

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