We Give Value To The Worthless
I am currently reading a book by Michael Lewis called Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of A New Tycoon. A story about Samuel Bankman Fried and his FTX crypto-exchange,…
climate change
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Julia Simone-Rutgers highlights how extreme heat (which is only getting worse) already looms as a major cause of death and disruption in Canada.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Matt Simon discusses the continued escalation of global temperatures to record highs (which only figure to be exceeded in the years to come).…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Simon Lee, Hayley Fowler and Paul Davies discuss how the climate breakdown has undercut the basis for existing models and assumptions about the type…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jess Thomson points out a new NASA video showing the movement of carbon pollution in our atmosphere, while Oliver Milman reports on new…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Crawford Kilian writes about the profound and numerous forms of loss arising from the wildfires which leveled much of Jasper, while Marc Fawcett-Atkinson points…
Letter from a British Prison: An Experiment with the Truth
I write more about Covid than climate because we can actually dramatically decrease the problem with rampant viral transmission in the next few years with tools on hand if we…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jonathan Watts discusses the strong argument to treat climate hypocrites primarily as destructive petrostates rather than honest actors in trying to address the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lament that inequality continues to get worse fifteen years after they warned of its myriad harms. And George Monbiot…
The UK election will truly effect Alberta
The UK is going to look a lot more like Scandavia by 2030. If you look at the parties in the new Parliament, most of their platforms said the same…
Scoring Canada environmentally
There is no issue of more importance than the environment. If we can’t learn to... The post Scoring Canada environmentally first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Is the war against climate change already lost?
World Marks Full Year of Average Temperatures Above 1.5C Target
Watch what the BC NDP does, not what they say
So BC taxpayers currently paying close to $3 billion a year in carbon tax must result in lower production of natural gas, right? Maybe not.
Not worried about climate change?
Environmental Defence Canada says climate change is one of the main reasons why food prices are increasing. There are other factors too, but some of the prices in 2024 are…
Clothes Dryers are an indication of the world to come
LG is a South Korean technology company that makes amazing things. They’re a manufacturer of appliances, computers, electronics, speakers, mobile products and HVAC (heating and air conditioning) products. For the…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Stoller writes about the "economic termites" whose barely-noticed individual bites into personal finances are adding up to a fundamentally unsound economic structure. Imogen…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Stoller writes about the "economic termites" whose barely-noticed individual bites into personal finances are adding up to a fundamentally unsound economic structure. Imogen…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Crawford Kilian discusses how avoidable harms to people's health and well-being are inflicted on us as "costs of doing business". Patrick Miner et…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Crawford Kilian discusses how avoidable harms to people's health and well-being are inflicted on us as "costs of doing business". Patrick Miner et…