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01/12/22
Author: 
Bill McKibben
Illustration by Lina Müller

Denial, lies, and now gimmicks--the body count doesn't phase them, as long as the profits keep rolling in. Future intergalactic travelers may highlight humanity as the only species to knowingly make itself extinct.

             -- Gene McGuckin

Nov. 22, 2022

29/11/22
Author: 
Tim Louis
COP27 sign

Nov. 25, 2022

COP27 is over, and I am devastated by the magnitude of its failure.

If ever there was a need for decisive action by world leaders, it is now. That is because if we have not already passed the point of no return, we are perilously close.

Yet COP27 produced no commitment to phase out oil and gas production. No commitment to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

27/11/22
Author: 
Rachel Tetrault
LOBROART / SHUTTERSTOCK

Nov. 24, 2022

Vancouver's choice to adopt a contentious anti-semitism definition should worry us all

The first time I really understood what it meant to be Jewish was when I was 14 years old. I was preparing for my bat mitzvah, where I was to give a speech about what Judaism represented to me in front of all of my family and friends.

 

26/11/22
Author: 
Daphné Dossios

Nov. 24, 2022

COP27 ends with a new promise from wealthy nations to help pay losses and damages to developing countries

Growing up in Ghana, Jamima Baada watched her community, including members of her own family, migrate from one region to another less impacted by climate change.

Now she teaches climate change and human migration at the University of British Columbia.

24/11/22
Author: 
Marcus Barnett
British postal workers picketed outside a Royal Mail delivery office in Fulham on October 25, one of hundreds of pickets across the country. Next up are strikes on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping days of the year. Photo: CWU

Nov. 18, 2022

In Britain today, anyone asking a worker about the direction the country is headed will be unlikely to receive a printable answer.

23/11/22
Author: 
Nicholas Gottlieb, graphics by Elysse Deveaux
The Dirty Dozen: ‘Carbon bombs’ threaten to blow up Canada’s climate commitments

Website Editor: A great summary of Canada's fossil fuels situation and politics in this article.

Nov. 22, 2022

Canada wants to be the last country producing fossil fuels, even if it kills us

COP27 is over. The UN summit took one big step forward on climate justice with the creation of a loss and damage fund for the most impacted nations, while taking two enormous steps backwards by failing to call for a phaseout of all fossil fuels.

23/11/22
Author: 
Matteo Cimellaro
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger at a protest at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Deranger critiques how carbon markets may affect Indigenous nations. Photo by John Woodside / Canada's National Observer

Nov. 23, 2022

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger’s home community of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is in what she calls a “sacrifice zone.” The nation borders the oil production epicentre of Canada: the oilsands, which leak toxic chemicals and wreak havoc on local ecosystems.

22/11/22
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Oil and gas in Canada

Nov. 21, 2022

Canada's failure to reduce climate pollution has left us far behind most of our peer nations. The primary cause of this failure has been surging emissions from our oil and gas industry. Unfortunately, it’s not the only Canadian sector with stubbornly rising emissions.

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