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Sarah Glynn & John Clarke - Climate Change is a Class Issue

16/01/25
Author: 
ResoluteReader
Link: 
Resolute Reader
Climate Change is a Class Issue - book cover

Friday, November 29, 2024

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Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
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Climate and class - Book Review - link to free book

16/01/25
Author: 
Peter Boyle
Link: 
Green Left
Climate Change is a Class Issue - book cover

Nov. 29, 2024 

Climate Change is a Class Issue
By Sarah Glynn and John Clarke
2024
68pp, RRP $25.95
Free e-book available from climateandclass.net

This small book has already earned big praise from British socialist filmmaker Ken Loach, who described it as “vital”.

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Capitalism
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North Coast LNG line will go ahead without environmental assessment.

16/01/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Link: 
The Tyee
The LNG industry is depending on the North Coast Transmission Line to deliver renewable energy to gas export facilities on the north coast. The BC government plans to exempt it from an environmental assessment. Map via BC Hydro; inset images via BC Lobbyists Registry.

Jan. 16, 2025

After Heavy LNG Lobbying, BC Simplifies Power Project Approval

The move will allow the North Coast Transmission Line to bypass an environmental assessment.

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Energy
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
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B.C. failing on climate, 600 advocacy groups say - BC Climate Emergency Campaign's third annual progress report

15/01/25
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Link: 
National Observer
Efforts to electrify B.C., including by transitioning more buildings in the province to electric heat sources like heat pumps, are not enough to tackle the climate crisis, a group of over 600 advocacy organizations say. Photo by Jimmy Jeong/National Observer

Jan. 15, 2025

British Columbia’s support for the LNG industry is undermining the province’s climate efforts, says a coalition of over 600 advocacy groups. 

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Agriculture
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Energy
Fisheries
Forestry
Indigenous Peoples
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Embracing Insect Cuisine?

15/01/25
Author: 
Claire Elise Thompson
Link: 
Grist
Illustration of a cricket, garnished with a basil leaf, on a dinner plate

The vision

“After the ninth epidemic of mad cow disease, everyone was already eating insects. So we weren’t the first restaurant in PuertoChina to do it,” said Nai Nai.

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Climate Change
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Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game: The Bank of North Dakota Model

15/01/25
Author: 
Ellen Brown
Link: 
Popular Resistance
https://popularresistance.org/beating-wall-street-at-its-own-game-the-bank-of-north-dakota-model/

Jan. 13, 2025

North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the state boasts the only state-owned bank in the nation? Has it secretly gone socialist?

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Capitalism
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Hydrogen won’t protect pensions from gas utilities' death spiral

15/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 15, 2025

Pension funds are gambling with Canadians’ retirement savings by placing multi-billion dollar bets on hydrogen's ability to rescue old, polluting gas pipelines from terminal decline, according to a climate finance advocacy organization. 

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Canada
Carbon pricing
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Labour - Unions
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US Army of God - Millions Back Trump, Target Secular State

12/01/25
Author: 
Stephanie McCrummen
Link: 
the Atlantic
Illustration by Nicolás Ortega. Sources: Kevin Liles / Sports Illustrated / Getty; Penta Springs Limited / Alamy.

Jan. 9, 2025

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Pathways Alliance's flagship project looks like a big money loser

12/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer

Jan. 9. 2025

The Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture and storage megaproject has not begun construction or even received approval, and yet its business model is already collapsing, according to a global think tank. 

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Alberta
Canada
Climate Change
Industry Spin
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Off to a bleak and blazing start - LA fire

12/01/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Link: 
National Observer
Altadena after the fire - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/los-angeles-fires-the-damage-in-maps-video-and-images

Jan. 12, 2025

So now we know how the second Trump era begins: with Los Angeles on fire.

Apocalyptic, tragic and almost impossibly emblematic. The world at large is spiralling past the guardrail of 1.5 degrees while politics retreats from tackling the problem. Ten thousand homes and buildings burned, neighbours dead and neighbourhoods reduced to ash while the incoming president deflects, derides and promises more drilling for fossil fuels.

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