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01/06/23
Author: 
Christopher Flavelle, Jill Cowan and Ivan Penn
A firefighter tried to save a home in Meyers, Calif., in 2021. Credit...Max Whittaker for The New York Times

May 31, 2023

The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.

The climate crisis is becoming a financial crisis.

This month, the largest homeowner insurance company in California, State Farm, announced that it would stop selling coverage to homeowners. That’s not just in wildfire zones, but everywhere in the state.

31/05/23
Author: 
Aastha Sethi, The Globe and Mail
The government announced that it would invest $19.5-million in charging stations for medium and heavy-duty vehicles.davidfillion/E+/Getty Images

May 30, 2023

B.C. government providing $30-million to help address the technology gap in the hard-to-decarbonize commercial transportation sector

The B.C. government’s increased support to help the commercial-vehicle sector reach its goal to eliminate emissions by the end of the decade is welcome, but it won’t solve the key obstacle, says the president of the BC Trucking Association.

29/05/23
Author: 
John Clarke
Planet over profit - Wikimedia Commons

May 22, 2023

‘Capitalism in the Anthropocene’ provides essential knowledge and insight for today’s ecosocialist movements

John Bellamy Foster
CAPITALISM IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution

Monthly Review Press, 2022

25/05/23
Author: 
First Nations leaders
Wedzin Kwa (Morice River)

Unist’ot’en Territory, May 25th, 2023

To our dearest supporters and allies,

TC Energy, in the construction of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline (CGL) has been reported by the Narwhal and a Citizen Monitoring Group as “having committed numerous environmental infractions, including slope failures, flooded worksites, and sediment entering wetlands and waterways.”

22/05/23
Author: 
John Vaillant
Northern Alberta’s Bald Mountain wildfire burns on May 12. GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA FIRE SERVICE, VIA CP

May 19, 2023

We can’t call these supercharged wildfire seasons our ‘new normal.’ There’s nothing natural about how we changed the Earth’s climate

John Vaillant’s latest book is Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast.

22/05/23
Author: 
Tom Malleson
Illustration - Tax the rich

May 16 2023

To fight 21st-century inequality, Canada needs 21st-century taxes that force billionaires and corporations to pay their fair share

Ward McAllister, a wealthy New Yorker, recently threatened that if the U.S. Congress were to move ahead with its plans to levy a high income tax, the plan would backfire because it would simply drive “rich men to go abroad.”

17/05/23
Author: 
Fiona Harvey
Forest fires approaching the village of Pefki on Evia island, Greece, in 2021. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images

May 17, 2023

UN agency says El Niño and human-induced climate breakdown could combine to push temperatures into ‘uncharted territory’

The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned.

The breaching of the crucial 1.5C threshold, which scientists have warned could have dire consequences, should be only temporary, according to research from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

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