Trudeau spent the last campaign talking about righting the environment/energy balance. Based on the LNG decision, equilibrium between Canada's contribution to the mitigation of climate change and its energy ambitions remains as elusive as ever.
PUBLISHED : Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 12:00 AM
MONTREAL—As Liberal leader and subsequently as prime minister, Justin Trudeau has talked in the abstract of the need to secure a social licence prior to undertaking any major energy project. Until this week, no one was sure what he actually meant by that.
It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change.
published in the Guardian 28th Sepetmeber 2016
Do they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do not. Governments like ours, now ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change, haven’t the faintest idea what it means. Either that, or they have no intention of honouring it.
Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one's potential for mobility often has to do with one's economic position, but also because a society built on today's mobility paradigm – automobility – directly contributes to growing economic and social differences.
The authors of this book have very little to say about the Anthropocene, the crisis of the Earth System, or the new global epoch, and most of what they do say is misleading or wrong.
I submitted my review of Anthropocene or Capitalocene?” to International Socialist Review in July, but publication was unavoidably delayed until now. These are some thoughts I had after I submitted my manuscript. There’s a link to my review at the end.
[Editors: to see Angus' slides check out the video of his talk in Australia here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJMjvZaNDJA But don't miss the interesting questions and answers at the end of the Canadian launch.]
Published on Sep 19, 2016
Ian Angus speaks at the Canadian launch of his new book @ SFU Woodward's on September 15th.
Human activity has transformed the Earth, accelerating climate change in just a few decades. Author Ian Angus talks to Socialist Review about facing up to the new reality.
Can you explain the concept of the Anthropocene and its importance for understanding the current climate crisis?
Meanwhile, new research discovers soil may not be trapping carbon as fast as we hoped
The planet could pass the critical 1.5°C global temperature threshold in a decade—and is already two-thirds of the way to hit that warming limit, climate scientists warned on Thursday.
