Ecology/Environment

Swimming pools, well-watered gardens and clean cars of the rich are driving water crises

17/04/23
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Link: 
National Observer
According to a new study, the richest people in Cape Town, South Africa, used 50 times more water than the poorest. Front view from Signal Hill at night, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Photo by Bernard DUPONT/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Apr. 17, 2023

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The swimming pools, well-watered gardens and clean cars of the rich are driving water crises in cities at least as much as the climate emergency or population growth, according to an analysis.

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RBC was the world's top fossil fuel funder in 2022

13/04/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
RBC CEO David McKay is broadcast on a laptop screen at the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting in Toronto on April 7, 2022. Photo by Christopher Katsarov/National Observer

Apr. 13, 2023

Canada’s largest bank provided more money to the fossil fuel sector last year than any other bank in the world, new financial data reveals.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Capitalism
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Ecology/Environment
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LNG - Fracking
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Sabotaging Oil and Gas Infrastructure Is an Act of Climate Heroism

08/04/23
Author: 
David Klein ,
Link: 
Truthout
Environmental activists chain themselves to construction equipment at a Line 3 pipeline pumping station near Itasca State Park, Minnesota, on June 7, 2021. KEREM YUCEL / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Apr. 7, 2023

As corporations build fossil fuel infrastructure despite protests, we must take the tactic of sabotage seriously.

The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced.

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Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Protest - Revolt
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a Brisk Thriller and a Passionate Argument for Revolution

08/04/23
Author: 
Olivia Rutigliano
Link: 
Lithhub

Apr. 7, 2023

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Climate Change
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Ecosocialism
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Deepening Doubts About Renewable Energy

08/04/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
Cobalt mining in Congo, says journalist Siddharth Kara, ‘drags humanity back to a time when the people of Africa were valued only their replacement cost.’ Photo via Harvard Kennedy School.

Apr. 7, 2023

The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics

The green techno-dream is so vastly destructive, they say, ‘we have to come up with a different plan.’

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Energy
Global
Industry Spin
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The Promises and Perils of the Seaweed Farming Boom

31/03/23
Author: 
Nicola Jones
Link: 
The Tyee
Seaweed farmers harvest sugar kelp from a farm site in coastal BC. Seaweed farming is experiencing a boom around the world, particularly in northern climates where kelp is the crop of choice. Photo courtesy of Cascadia Seaweed.

Mar. 24, 2023

‘We made a big mistake with monoculture on land. Let’s not make the same mistakes’ in the ocean.

Offshore from Vancouver Island, a team hauls up a line laden with metre-long fronds of sugar kelp (Saccharina latissimi), a floppy, brown seaweed with crinkled edges.

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British Columbia
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B.C. RCMP make arrests at pipeline protest site following alleged 'swarming incidents'

31/03/23
Author: 
CBC News
Link: 
CBC News
Multiple officers were involved in the arrests. Police have not said whether anyone they took into custody are suspected of being involved in the alleged 'swarming'. (Submitted by Jennifer Wickham/Gidim’ten Checkpoint)

Mar. 29, 2023

Five people were arrested at a camp on traditional Wet'suwet'en territory in northwestern B.C. on Wednesday.

Sleydo', a spokesperson for the Gidimt'en checkpoint, said Mounties in multiple police vehicles arrived at the checkpoint around 10:30 a.m. PT, though she was not on site when it happened.

"They immediately began arresting people, as far as we know," Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, said in an interview with CBC News. 

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British Columbia
Climate Change
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LNG - Fracking
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Breaking: RCMP are raiding Wet’suwet’en Yintah - Raids at Gidimt'en Checkpoint

29/03/23
Author: 
Kanehsatake Land Defense
Gidimt’en Checkpoint

Mar. 29, 2023

Dear allies of the fight for decolonization everywhere,

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British Columbia
Canada
Ecology/Environment
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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Top climate scientists urge swift action for Canada and the world in critical decade for change

21/03/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Wildfire evacuee Rob Lessard watches from across Okanagan Lake, trying to see whether the White Rock Lake wildfire has burned his home or not. Photo by Jesse Winter / Canada's National Observer

"Canadian climate policy is considered “highly insufficient” by the independent Climate Action Tracker."

Mar. 2023

A climate bomb is ticking, and the latest report from the world’s leading climate science body is a how-to guide for defusing it, says United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.

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Canada
Climate Change
Climate Science
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Why BC Needs a Climate Fund for First Nations

21/03/23
Author: 
Lisa Akinyi May
Link: 
The Tyee
A wildfire sweeps down a mountain near Lytton, BC, in 2021. A Nlaka’pamux Nation community in the area has developed an adaptation strategy to deal with climate change; BC needs to support these kinds of initiatives, and establish a climate loss and damages fund. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Website editor: Here's a great idea!

Mar. 21, 2023

COP27 created a global loss and damages fund. David Eby’s government should do the same.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
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