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24/12/22
Author: 
Victor Anderson and Rupert Read
Teaser photo credit: By UN Biodiversity – 22dec07-COP15-Sec-Gen-Media-3206, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126536988

". . . fooling ourselves is not good for anyone. It’s certainly not good for nature; nor for our long-term mental health." . . . Optimism of the intellect is not what we need at this time. For it amounts to little more than wishful thinking writ large. What we need is courage: to look the very difficult truth in the face. And a profound determination: to work together to start to build a different system; and to pressure this system we live under to transform.

Dec. 20, 2022

24/12/22
Author: 
Rebecca George, originally published by YES! magazine
Teaser photo credit:A mixture of brown, white, and red indica rice, also containing wild rice, Zizania species. By Earth100 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23632640

Website editor: Important and very interesting article.

Dec.20, 2022

Seemingly miraculous varieties that can withstand drought, flood, and saltwater intrusion are the result of centuries of selective breeding by ancient farmers.

Until as recently as 1970, India was a land with more than 100,000 distinct varieties of rice. Across a diversity of landscapes, soils, and climates, native rice varieties, also called “landraces,” were cultivated by local farmers. And these varieties sprouted rice diversity in hue, aroma, texture, and taste.

24/12/22
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
COVID-19 is airborne, so why aren’t health officials loudly prioritizing mask wearing and filtering air in schools and workplaces? Image via Shutterstock.

Dec. 21, 2022

We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.

As the pandemic evolves, the failure of current public health policies now shines clearer than a midnight star. The assumption that hybrid immunity — vaccines combined with infections — would end COVID’s relentless evolution has fed the pandemic, not starved it.

23/12/22
Author: 
David Broadland
This satellite photo of logging west of Kelowna covers an area of 63 square kilometres. The 220,000 square kilometres of primary forest in BC that is being converted to clearcuts, logging roads and plantations is 3,500 times greater than the area shown here (click image to enlarge). For context, the entire state of Washington covers 184,827 square kilometres.

Dec.13, 2022

The BC government is committing a 220,000-square-kilometre, biodiversity-killing, climate-destabilizing fraud on its own citizens and the international community.

THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF WRITING over the past year about the “Big Lie” in American politics: A deliberate, gross distortion of the truth, repeated over and over, even in the face of evidence that what’s being claimed is false.

23/12/22
Author: 
Allison Hannaford
A Canada Post letter carrier crosses a snow and ice covered road while delivering mail in Burnaby, B.C., on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Dec. 22, 2022

Like many Canadians, Colin McCarter is awaiting his father’s arrival to celebrate the holidays with him and his family in North Bay, Ont. However, he warned his dad about the impending storm and the challenges he may face on his nearly 400-kilometre drive north from the Greater Toronto Area.

McCarter, the Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change at Nipissing University in North Bay, thinks about extreme weather a lot. His studies revolve around how disturbances like climate change impact our landscape.

21/12/22
Author: 
The New Climate Report
The New Climate Report

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvRtNGW9Ajk

283,080 views Aug 26, 2022

It's never good to hear the words "total societal collapse" from a scholarly paper, but that's exactly the phrasing used in the new UN climate report. We all know it's bad, but what's really standing in the way of us ensuring a livable future?

Check out my podcast, The Deprogram!

21/12/22
Author: 
Martin Empson
degrowth venn diagram

Dec. 17, 2022

Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement

Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan
THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH
A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

Verso, 2022

reviewed by Martin Empson

20/12/22
Author: 
Gerard Dalbon
DSA and the War in Ukraine: Toward a Mass Socialist Anti-War Movement

Dec. 9. 2022

A DSA International Committee organizer talks about DSA’s response to the war in Ukraine, the need for socialist anti-war organizing, and his perspective on the conflict as an Eastern European.

Watch here:

 https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/dsa-and-the-war-in-ukraine-toward-a-mass-socialist-anti-war-movement/

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