Disruptive action on the climate deserves our support
Anti-oil protesters throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” Screenshot from Twitter. Earlier this month, a pair of young activists with a group called Just Stop Oil threw soup on…
Nick Gottlieb
New documents reveal callousness of fossil fuel execs—and Canada’s complicity
“The Shell Skull” by Andreas Metz. Photo by Andreas Metz/Flickr. The United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform just held the third hearing of its investigation into the fossil…
Canada’s home energy retrofit funding woefully inadequate
Suburbs in Toronto. Photo by Jan Buchholtz. Retrofitting existing buildings is one of the only tools for mitigating climate change that virtually everyone can agree on. There are large numbers…
What Canada’s media gets wrong about the fossil fuel industry
Photo by Matt Jiggins/Flickr Last week, the Liberal government took the first steps toward actualizing the emissions cap they promised during the last election for the oil and gas sector.…
Extreme heat is all of our problem
A bright orange sky in Vancouver. Photo from Shutterstock. From June 25 to July 1, 2021, temperatures soared past 40 degrees in BC, setting records all over the province. The…
The false hope of carbon capture and storage
A carbon capture plant built by Climateworks in Hinwil, Switzerland. Photo by Adam Sébire/Keystone/Redux. Carbon Engineering, the carbon removal start-up based in Squamish, BC’s “Outdoor Recreation Capital,” recently announced an…
The climate progress narrative is the newest tactic of global warming denialists
There’s no evidence that the vast majority of countries, particularly the world’s largest emitters, are on track to meet their emissions reductions commitments. So why are we pretending otherwise? Photo…
How a global ‘climate non-cooperation campaign’ could strike at the heart of fossil capital
Demonstration during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 17, 2009. Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr. The latest report of the…
A US court just laid out the flaws in Canada’s climate plan
Oilsands reclamation site and Syncrude operations. Photo by Julia Kilpatrick/Pembina Institute/Flickr. In January, a United States federal court invalidated a series of oil and gas leases based on the federal…
How SUVs came to be a massive climate problem
The world’s SUV fleet is growing rapidly and the segment alone account for more emissions growth since 2010 than aviation, shipping, or heavy industry. Image by Artie61/Blendswap. Sport utility vehicles…
Omelas and the moral catastrophe of climate change
An illustrated map of the city of Omelas, the setting of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, a work of short fiction by science fiction writer Ursula K. Le…
What the Wet’suwet’en raid tells us about Canada’s ‘liberal democracy’
RCMP Emergency Response Team members stand watch during a raid on Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia, November 19, 2021. Photo courtesy Gidimt’en Checkpoint. Canada, like most of the Western (wealthy)…
Electoral politics can’t solve climate change
A protester holds a sign at the climate strike in Nürnberg, September 2019. Photo by Markus Spiske/Unsplash. Like many dedicated volunteers last month, I spent hours doorknocking, phonebanking, and speaking…