Ecology/Environment

Anjali’s Appadurai’s bid to be our next premier - How a 32-year-old climate activist is shaking up the race to be B.C.’s next premier

04/09/22

Author:

Arno Kopecky

Link:

The Narwhal

Aug. 29, 2022

In a litmus test for the political clout of the climate movement, Anjali Appadurai, who’s never held public office, is gunning for an upset over establishment favourite David Eby in the NDP leadership contest

Inspired, bemused or aghast, there’s one thing almost every description of Anjali Appadurai’s leadership run agrees on: it probably won’t end in victory.

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Pakistan declares floods a ‘climate catastrophe’ as death toll tops 1,000

03/09/22

Author:

Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad

Link:

The Guardian

Displaced people wade through a flooded area in Peshawar, Pakistan. The country’s flooded southern Sindh province braced on Sunday for a fresh deluge. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Aug. 28, 2022

Flash flooding from ‘monster monsoon’ washes away villages and crops and leaves thousands homeless

A Pakistani minister has called the country’s deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe” and “a climate dystopia at our doorstep” as officials said deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan had passed 1,000 since mid-June.

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Climate Crisis Is Killing Off Key Insects and Spreading Insect-Borne Diseases

30/08/22

Author:

Dave Goulson

Link:

Truthout

Bumblebees seem to be particularly sensitive to warming as they are creatures found primarily in cool, temperate climates. PHILIPP PILZ VIA UNSPLASH

Aug. 25, 2022

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Energy regulator gives Trans Mountain a ‘break’ on possible oil spill costs, say MPs, environmentalists

24/08/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

National Observer

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from TMX, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided. Photo by Jesse Winter / Canada's National Observer

Aug. 23, 2022

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided.

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The Coming Hunger

23/08/22

Author:

George Monbiot

Link:

monbiot.com

Aug. 22, 2022

As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted?

This is my response to the open letter from my friend Jyoti Fernandes, published on the website of the Landworkers’ Alliance.

Dear Jyoti,

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The time-bomb town Ontario didn’t defuse

19/08/22

Author:

EMMA GRANEY, CHEN WANG, JEFF GRAY AND COLIN GRAF

Link:

The Globe and Mail

The first sign that something was wrong in Wheatley, Ont., came via a call to 911 on June 2, 2021, at 2:22 p.m. Building owner Whit Thiele had discovered a gas leak.

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Mr. Thiele had bought 15 Erie St. North in 2016 and turned it into a popular local pub called The Pogue, but the business had struggled during the pandemic and eventually closed.

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Canada

Ecology/Environment

LNG - Fracking

Class Struggle or Degrowth

17/08/22

Author:

Gray Maddrey, originally published by Uneven Earth

Link:

Resiliance

Without class struggle the emancipatory potential of degrowth will fail to be realized. A revolutionary pedagogy can help to unify them.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Mass Death of Sequoias Is the Harbinger of Earth Systems Collapse

17/08/22

Author:

Bruce Melton

Link:

Truthout

Climate change is killing giant sequoias in numbers that portend ecological disaster unless radical action is taken to reverse the impacts of the climate crisis. Sequoias, once deemed “unburnable,” began to be widely destroyed by fire in 2015, and then in 2020 and 2021, California fires tripled in area covered.

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MPs raise concerns over pipeline construction obstructing salmon run

15/08/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

National Observer

A dead salmon is photographed in the Coquihalla River near a Trans Mountain worksite. Photo by Kate Tairyan

Aug. 12, 2022

Four B.C. MPs are urging the federal government to halt the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project at least until salmon have finished spawning. The call comes after environmental group Protect the Planet documented salmon dying near a Trans Mountain worksite in Hope, B.C., last week.

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