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17/11/21
Author: 
First Nations leaders
RCMP Set Up Illegal Exclusion Zone

RCMP Set Up Illegal Exclusion Zone Blocking Food, Medicine, And People From Reaching Healing Center And Homes On The Territory

17/11/21
Author: 
Robert Hackett
B.C. Premier John Horgan announcing "real climate action" in 2017. Credit: BC NDP / Flickr

[Editor: And now the floods!]

November 12, 2021

As British Columbia’s New Democratic Party prepares for its first biennial convention since winning the 2020 election, memories of last summer’s deadly heat domes and wildfires still burn deeply. B.C. is experiencing the global consequences of carbon-intensive extractivism – the kind of “rip and ship” (extract and export) economic policies pursued by the previous right-of-centre B.C. Liberal government for most of its 2001-2017 term of office.

16/11/21
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/11/16/analysis/methane-promises-fool-me-26-times

November 16th 2021

“No more blah, blah, blah. No more whatever the f*** they are doing inside there…” — Greta Thunberg at COP26 in Glasgow

16/11/21
Author: 
Monthly Review
Climate change papers

[Editor: Funny but not funny]

Nov 15, 2021

Originally published: The Shovel by The Shovel (October 8, 2021

15/11/21
Author: 
David Ljunggren
A man rides a bicycle along the sea wall past a barge that came loose from its mooring and crashed ashore after rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jesse Winter

OTTAWA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Canadian helicopters carried out multiple missions on Monday to rescue hundreds of people trapped in their vehicles on a highway after huge rainstorms sparked landslides in the western province of British Columbia.

15/11/21
Author: 
Jag Bhalla

Nov. 13, 2021

Yves here. In addition to the important reasons given below for shutting economists out of the debate on climate change, an additional one is even Nicholas Stern fell for trying to look at climate change in net present value terms. As anyone how has built financial models will tell you, pretty much anything that happens more than 30 years out is ascribed no value because just about any positive interest rate will result in very long term impacts being discounted to zero.

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