Climate Comedies
I caught Al Franken and David Letterman’s Funny or Die series on climate change: Boiling the Frog. It’s vaguely informative and not particularly funny, but fans of either guy might…
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But Are They Listening?
Unless we live in complete and willful ignorance, all of us are aware, on at least a minimal level, of the perils currently confronting and engulfing our world. Those perils,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Economist observes that the effects of climate change fall disproportionately on poorer people, rather than the wealthier ones who have caused more…
On Hedges’ Veganism Claims
Chris Hedges’ recent article, “Eating Our Way to Disease,” largely just advertises the new doc What the Health: “Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn—whose documentary Cowspiracy, about the environmental impact of…
Sooner Than You Think
Yesterday’s NYTimes has a lengthy article, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” subtitled, “What Climate Change Could Wreak – Sooner Than You Think.” In a nutshell: “…the swelling seas — and the cities…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kate Aronoff writes that in addition to being a political loser, corporate-friendly centrism is extremely dangerous in allowing for far less than…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on new research showing that the actual change in temperature caused by greenhouse gas emissions may be larger than…
Bravo, Jerry Brown
While Donald Trump is content to call climate change a hoax, his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accord does not mean that others are just throwing up their hands…
Truly, Profoundly Disturbing
I have just finished reading a long article in National Geographic, one that, without any use of hyperbole, should disturb all of us deeply and profoundly. But thanks to our…
A Thing Of Beauty: Rick Perry’s Comeuppance At The Hands Of Al Franken
If you start at the two-minute mark, you will see the start of Senator Al Franken’s public humiliation of Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, as the latter amply demonstrates both…
Dispatches From Hell
… with a little water thrown in at the end to balance things out. Meanwhile, Fortune Magazine predicts that things will only get much, much worse in the years to…
Sign Signs, Everywhere A Sign
With apologies to the Five Man Electrical Band: Would it be fair to say we are drowning in our excesses? Recommend this Post
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alex Collinson discusses how insecure work makes it impossible to reliably structure an individual’s life: Many respondents told us about how difficult…
I Wonder
When even the dimmest and most ideologically bent among us realize they backed the wrong pony when they ignored the warnings about climate change, and when it is far too…
Fight Trump’s Paris withdrawal by taking climate justice into our own hands
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement is disappointing, outrageous and immoral. And it should surprise no one. We’ve seen time and again that countries…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Owen Jones writes that UK Labour’s bold and progressive platform was crucial to its improved electoral results. Bhaksar Sunkara rightly sees Labour’s campaign…
Weak Transportation Week
Sent to a Saskatchewan Government employee who announced Saskatchewan Transportation Week immediately after STC bus and parcel services were closed to be sold off much later: Dear Brandy Leippi: Reading…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Pittis discusses the growing price everybody pays for more extreme weather events caused by climate change. And Adrienne Lafrance offers a grim…
Looking past pipelines, the NDP-Green agreement looks pretty good for BC
“Mark my words, that pipeline will be built, the decisions have been made.” – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley Alberta politicians, media and pundits are unsurprisingly focused on what the governing…
Donald Trump and the Day of Judgement
As you may know, today is the day Donald Trump will announce whether he will pull the United States out of the Paris Accord. Momentous arguments inside the West Wing…