Thursday, July 14, 2016
It might seem a bit odd for Environmental Law Alert (based in BC, Canada) …
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It might seem a bit odd for Environmental Law Alert (based in BC, Canada) …
Continue readingMiscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Glenn Greenwald interviews Alex Cuadros about his new book on how Brazil has been warped politically and economically by the whims of its billionaire class. And PressProgress takes a look at the impact…
Continue readingThanks to my friend, The Mound, for passing this on to me. It is not good news.The Tyee reports the following:As Arctic sea ice melts, one of the forces doing the melting is the Arctic Ocean itself.No other region on the planet is warming as fast as th…
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The warmth and relative freedom of summer creates an atmosphere of spontaneity and often last-minute plans come together: “Let&…
Continue readingThis and that for your Sunday reading.- J. David Hughes discusses the ultimate problem with new pipeline construction, as it’s incompatible with any reasonable effort to meet even Canada’s existing commitments to rein in greenhouse gas emissions:Under …
Continue readingDespite Justin Trudeau’s sunny assurances that meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and pipeline expansion are not mutually exclusive, most people, if they think about it at all, will see such a position as both risible and impossible. That …
Continue readingBut it will not alter the truth. Despite anthropogenic-climate-change denier Marco Rubio’s publicly professed befuddlement over the causes of the toxic algae blooms in Florida and elsewhere, the answers are not difficult to find: agricultural runoff an…
Continue readingThis and that for your Thursday reading.- Reuters reports on Tidjane Thiam’s recognition that inequality and underfunded education likely played roles in the Brexit vote’s outcome. And David Blanchflower rightly argues that the UK will need economic st…
Continue reading…. things are hardly going swimmingly:Torrential monsoon rains along a stalled frontal boundary near the Yangtze River in China have killed 186 people, left 45 people missing, and caused at least $7.6 billion in damage. In the Hubei Province, 1.5 mil…
Continue readingDuring his address to the Canadian Parliament on June 29, 2016, United States President Barack Obama singled out Alberta as a leader in the fight against climate change. Here is the excerpt from his speech where he spoke about climate change:… Conti…
Continue readingThis and that for your Sunday reading:- Ross Douthat (!) discusses the distinction between actual cosmopolitanism, and the global elitism that’s instead come to dominate international power relations:Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It require…
Continue reading… will never accept the fact of climate change:Want more information on the dangers posed by algae blooms? Click here.And just remember, sports fans, these are only the preliminary rounds.Oh, and by the way, Happy Canada Day.Recommend this Post
Continue readingIn a column on Tuesday, environmental blogger Robert Scribbler noted that the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream had merged with the Southern Hemisphere Jet Stream.“It’s the very picture of weather weirding due to climate change. Something that would a…
Continue readingMiscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Mary O’Hara reviews Daniel Hatcher’s new book on the U.S.’ poverty industry which seeks to exploit public supports for private gain:(A) new book published last week by law professor and advocate Daniel…
Continue readingThis and that for your Tuesday reading.- Noah Zon points out that while it’s impossible to avoid rhetoric about eliminating “red tape” for businesses, we’ve seen gratuitous barriers put in place to prevent people from accessing needed public support:It…
Continue readingA Star letter-writer has an insight on sustainability well-worth sharing: Re: Canada a model for sustainable forestry, Letter June 19Reading the response to Thomas Walkom’s editorial from Forest Products Association of Canada and Ontario Forest Indus…
Continue readingI pray we never get to the day when scenes like the following become so commonplace that we regard them with only the passing interest we might today express in a rocket launch, and not the shock, awe and humbling that they undoubtedly merit:Recommend …
Continue readingWhile the world convulses and gyrates over the results of the Brexit vote, I can’t help but wonder why not even a scintilla of that passion can be brought to a much greater threat to our collective well-being: climate change. Star reader Judith Deutsch…
Continue readingThis and that for your Thursday reading.- Oxfam points out the latest World Wealth Report showing that extreme inequality and wealth continue to grow around the globe. And AFP reports on the IMF’s warnings that inequality and poverty represent signific…
Continue readingThe Leader Post published my letter, and a couple weeks later Murray Mandryk cites the same inexplicable 30-40 years canard. He also makes the same conclusion as Johnstone, which is to not cut our losses on the project. “Even some strident environmental groups recognize clean coal technology” Can anyone name even one? “replacement of dirty […]
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