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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/22/worlds-consumption-of-materials-hits-record-100bn-tonnes-a-year______________________________________________________________ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=z4FEJJGWMt8&feature=emb_title Not to worry.  leading thinkers like Ontario’s Doug Ford and America’s Donald Trump say it ain’t happening. And, like, they know things._________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/coronavirus-panic-spreads-in-china-with-three-cities-in-lockdown Should we worry about this? You bet we should. The spread of this should be reminding us of the great flu epidemic at the end

For years Andrew Bacevich has lamented how his country allowed military force or the threat of military force to displace diplomacy as its principal instrument of foreign policy. It’s no wonder then that he should embrace Martin Indyk’s proposals for a reformation of Washington’s approach to the Middle East. Indyk

By Simon Little Global News Posted January 21, 2020 12:39 pm The Vancouver Park Board held its first meeting since the winter break Monday night, but how to deal with the entrenched homeless camp at Oppenheimer Park was not on the agenda. The board sent out a media release hours

Veteran energy scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, tackles the lies that our federal and some provincial politicians spin about liquefied natural gas.  The Big Lie is that Canadian natural gas will wean Asia off thermal coal energy and thereby slash greenhouse gas emissions. Representatives of the British Columbia, Alberta and federal governments

There was an item in the papers about how our federal government will be providing handouts to farmers who need extra fuel to dry out their sodden grain harvests. That’s what can fairly be called climate change relief. I wonder if Ottawa will be issuing grants to those of us

No, probably it’s just another lethal toxin or rather a family of persistent toxins. Residents of Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans are most at risk from PFAS or perflouroaylkyl substances in their drinking water. And they’re called “forever chemicals” because they simply don’t go away.  And they’re associated with cancers,

I know you don’t want to hear this. I know you would rather bury your head in the sand. But you need to know that kind of thinking is about the very best way to seal your (our) fate. In today’s National Observer, retired professor (anthropology), Dennis Bartels, and Natasha

It has become an informal protocol that the White House gets to appoint the president of the World Bank while the EU gets to nominate the leadership of the International Monetary Fund. Think of it as another dubious artifact of the post-war world order. One of the first things the

The Doomsday Clock no longer marks our future in minutes. They’re working in seconds now. And, as the venerable Union of Atomic Scientists now sees it, we’re 100 seconds away from, well… The risk of civil collapse from nuclear weapons and the climate crisis is at a record high, according

Alberta wants to know how it got so screwed by abandoned oil and gas wells. 3,406 as of today and that may just be the tip of Alberta’s hydrocarbon iceberg. As Alberta struggles to clean up thousands of oil and gas wells left behind by bankrupt companies, the province’s auditor

George Monbiot writes that, if you’re going to stand for climate justice, the powers that be will label you an extremist: The police have always protected established power against those who challenge it, regardless of the nature of that challenge. And they have long sought to criminalise peaceful dissent. Part