An overwhelming majority among the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis, but they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research has shown.
Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.
Instead of turning towards nationalism, in the face of rising fascism, we should turn to each other and the planet.
Our neighbours across the colonial border are grappling with what is shaping up to be a United States dictatorship, with outsized influence from a syndicate of the world’s richest men. With a federal election around the corner and geopolitical tensions rising across the world, this is a moment for Canada to dive into audacious changes that can unite us all through visionary climate justice rather than rugged individualism and nationalism.
Canada has finalized negotiations on a free trade deal with Ecuador, but claimed human rights protections ring hollow in light of alleged state repression
The global aviation industry is burning jet fuel like there’s no tomorrow.
Jet engines now emit more fossil fuel CO2 than 120 nations combined. And the industry plans to send ever more flights into our overheating atmosphere come hell or high water.
Some students at UBC have gone on hunger strike in an attempt to get the university’s administration to make good on past promises as well as to “divest from the over $110 million it has invested in weapons manufacturers and corporations that sustain Apartheid Israel’s ongoing occupation, annexation, and genocide in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon and Syria.”
