Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jillian Ambrose reports on a study showing that there’s no reason to approve any new fossil fuel development to meet current demand forecasts…
Assorted content to end your week. – Jillian Ambrose reports on a study showing that there’s no reason to approve any new fossil fuel development to meet current demand forecasts…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lauren Chadwick reports on the WHO’s findings that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a multi-year drop in life expectancy and undone a…
Blissed cat.
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kate Raworth discusses the need to orient ourselves toward measures of progress based on well-being rather than growth – both due to its…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Novinite surveys the numerous countries facing unprecedented heat warnings as the most extreme effects of the climate crisis hit earlier in the…
Assorted content to start your week. – Leslie Sattler discusses new research showing that carbon concentrations are continuing to increase by record amounts. David King writes about the immediate and…
Thornley – Make Believe
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Torracinta reviews Branko Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality in tracing historical conversations in inequality, while pointing out the importance of identifying power…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian O’Boyle discusses how Ireland’s choice to act as a tax haven for the ultra-wealthy has done nothing to help its citizens. And…
Multidirectional cat.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Oliver Milman discusses a new study showing that the costs of a climate breakdown roughly approximate what it would take to fight…
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Max Fawcett laments that anti-vaxxers and science denialists have managed to control public policy choices in the midst of a pandemic with…
Adina Butar – Whisper
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damian Carrington offers a glimpse of what would be in store if we continue to spew carbon pollution as projected and end…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sueellen Campbell highlights how record-breaking temperatures are being covered around the globe, while Sarah Collins discusses new research showing that the northern hemisphere’s…
Crumpled cat.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ian Welsh discusses how institutions under the thrall of neoliberal ideology are incapable of achieving any end other than the further enrichment…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – William Becker rightly argues that the U.S.’ practice of prioritizing fossil fuel donor profits over the health of the public and the planet…
The Ambientalist – Lost Language
My first trip to Halifax was in 2018 for a Liberal Party convention and after a day of conventioneering I enjoyed a great steak dinner at The Barrington Steakhouse and…