We’ve got new oracles to advise the government how to get out of the current high-carbon death spiral with our asses more or less intact. They’re called the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices and the feds have funded them for five years to the tune of $20-million. No one knows
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz, Todd Tucker and Gabriel Zucman write about the need for governments to bring in sufficient revenue to act in the public interest. And Sophie Alexander points out some of the millionaires who want their class to contribute their fair share. –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Big Burp – Methane In the Arctic
It would be strangely terrible if the beginning of humanities decline was prefaced with something known as the “Big Burp”. The methane in the arctic is a super green house gas, and if the facts are correct, it is going to over salt our soup sooner than later.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Chomsky’s Optimism: On Climate Change, Nuclear War, and Activism
Truthdig‘s Scheer Intelligence series, hosted by Robert Scheer, recently posted a 3 hour podcast in two parts. I’ve summarized the gist of what Chomsky says below, in about a 15 minute read, with a few of my own thoughts and links added to the mix. You can listen to the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dion Rabouin offers a reminder that corporate tax giveaways don’t do anything to help the economy beyond the interests of wealthy shareholders. And Nicole Aschoff discusses the importance of building a model for progressive globalism to counter the reach of international capital. –
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – James Bradley writes about the range of responses to an increasingly threatening climate. And Emma Morris offers some suggestions as to how to become part of the solution to the climate crisis. – Adrienne Buller discusses why the popular and necessary prospect of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Younge writes about the need to respond to a bleak reality with the dedication to imagine and create something better. And Vickie Cammack and Donna Thomson highlight how the response to a climate breakdown includes mobilizing our capacity to care for
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ben Jenkins rightly calls out Australia’s right-wing government and media for caring not a whit for the people seeing their country go up in flames: If you were holding out hope that the cynical and partisan way we currently talk about climate change
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Assorted content to end your week. – Simon Holmes a Court challenges the argument that any country or industry can opt out of being part of the response to our climate crisis. And Emily Holden comments on the oil industry’s control over public discussions about climate change, while Christopher Knaus
Continue readingThings Are Good: This Knowledge Tree Cold Help us Avert Climate Catastrophe
The ongoing global climate crisis is still denied by some people (like the Australian Prime Minister) despite all the evidence. The predictions made by climate scientists decades ago are coming true: from crop failures to massive wildfires. Why then are we ignoring their predictions about what’s going to happen next?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Martin Lukacs writes that the Trudeau Libs’ attempts to put a glossier face on politics as usual may be running into a less than compliant public: Not just in Canada, but around the world we have seen the emergence of an airbrushed,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Scott Gilmore writes about the glaring need for Canada’s politicians to show more capacity for shame – through it’s worth noting both a global pattern to the same effect, and the dangers of trying to draw “both-sides” equivalency (as Gilmore does) in
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Maintain Your Rage-Austraila Is Ground Zero
Austraila is ‘Ground Zero’ in the rage worthy reality that is the ‘Climate Crisis’ of our lives. British Columbia, like Austraila, could also explode into a hell on earth scenario if we continue with the Read more…
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Mann writes about Australia’s deadly lesson in the dangers of a climate breakdown. Ian Gill offers a reminder that we may soon be next – and that we have every reason for rage at the oil barons and politicians responsible. And Duane
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Climate Solutions – We Need Politics
We will need to fight against market fundamentalism and help our politicians remember that they exist to serve not only the economy, but the people of a country as well. “As we have seen, cutting carbon with carbon pricing or regulation is not politically painless, so the main efforts
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Prince William launches earth-saving climate action international prize!
You go, William! “The Duke of Cambridge has announced “the most prestigious environmental prize in history” in a bid to galvanise a decade of action to repair the planet. The Earthshot Prize aims to encourage and inspire people across the world to find innovative new solutions to one of the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your year. – Armine Yalnizyan writes about the ongoing struggle for workers’ rights a century after the Winnipeg General Strike: Most workers have no channels for acting, or even talking, collectively. That may be changing. Here in Canada, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers launched a
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Age of Oblivion: Another End of Decade Rant
Of course calendars are a construct and don’t mean anything, but the end of the year and, even more so, the end of the decade are useful times to take stock. In pop culture, we have the Ecco Homo moment as a cultural foreboding – the chutzpah to insist on a fix that pretends
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The Most Consequential Decision of the Decade
This is the time when we commonly look back over the year, or decade, or century, and pronounce our choice of the most significant event or events. There are endless events to choose and a multitude of rationals for our different choices. So many in fact I weary of making
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Damian Carrington reports on the large amount of microplastics raining down on residents of the world’s cities. Geoffrey Morgan notes that Alberta’s farmers are starting to realize that they’re going to be left with the mess left behind – including orphaned wells –
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