Pay No Attention To This Video
Please regard this only as a rare anomaly of nature, totally unrelated to the propaganda about climate change being promulgated by enemies of your goverment.– The Harper Regime. Recommend this…
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Who Do You Trust?
My money is on environment watchdog Julie Gelfand. Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq’s parliamentary assistant, Colin Carrie? Not so much: H/t Press Progress Recommend this Post
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eugene Lang discusses the importance of fiscal choice in the lead up to the 2015 federal election. And Don Cayo reminds us that…
Wadena Derailment Crisis: Early Lesson
http://t.co/rSh4hfhlbN Let’s move to the post-carbon energy infrastructure NOW! Publicly-owned wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hydro is our future. No tarsands. No pipelines. No tankers. No coal. No LNG. No fracking.…
The Trouble with Old Men: Coal
Most know that coal contributes to climate change and coal dust is an environmental problem. But old men skew far higher in supporting a coal terminal anyway. Are old men…
About That Man Behind The Curtain
While some of the electorate gets all primed to receive the bauble of tax breaks next year, responding as intended to the carefully orchestrated neo-liberal siren call to worry only…
#DontLookAtTheSun it’s now #PostModernMedia
Now Sun News is owned by the National Post now . The National Post, AKA the Financial Post has made it clear they’ll do lewd things in a washroom with…
On consensus-breaking
Having earlier dealt with Stephen Harper’s attempt to justify war by building up hatred and hype toward ISIS, I’ll note the other main rationale on offer from the Cons –…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Charlie Smith discusses – and then follows up on – Donald Gutstein’s work in tracing the connections between the Harper Cons and the…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: Kshama Sawant
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/podcast-141001-kshama-sawant.mp3 Last year, Kshama Sawant shocked the continent by winning a seat on Seattle’s City Council. She defeated an incumbent Democrat to become the first openly socialist city councillor in…
SaskPower Carbon Capture and Storage Goes Online Late, Over Budget
I must print a “correction” to my piece in April when I reported that the SaskPower CCS plant was on time and online. The plant went online late last month,…
Environmentalists, civil society must unite, adopt stronger tactics to fight climate change
The 311,000 protestors who took part in the exhilarating Climate Summit march through Manhattan and those who blocked some entrances to Wall Street have returned to their homes. The leaders…
National Post climate change deniers "paranoid"—so says their own editor
The prattling of climate change sceptics/deniers in the National Post has been ridiculed by one of its own editors. In recent comments on the CBC’s The National, Jonathan Kay repeated…
Will capitalists save us from global warming?
In her latest book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein argues that if we are to defeat climate change we must defeat capitalism. At this week’s UN…
Heather Mallick Lowers the Boom
Is this blunt enough for you? “The planet is headed for a climate catastrophe, and soon. Make that now. Your reaction will be either a quick calculation as to whether…
Just Under 8 Inches an Hour
If you were looking at something moving at 8 inches an hour, you would notice that wouldn’t you? 20 cm or just about 8 inches per hour is the pace…
Could Climate Change be Detroit’s Salvation?
Will climate change be America’s 21st century equivalent of William Tecumseh Sherman’s “march to the sea“? The Union general has a lasting place in infamy in the southern states for…
Oh, Damn. The Word is Getting Out.
Don’t believe a word of it. Stay where you’re at. You really wouldn’t like it here anyway, really. An article in The Guardian, “Is Alaska the new Florida? Experts predict…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
* It’s time to drop the hate and embrace the love.