Our Current Consumerist Culture is Doomed AF
Business as usual means we’re risking our lives for conveniences we didn’t expect to have when I was young, and we pretty happily lived without. It’s not a call to…
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Our Current Consumerist Culture is Doomed AF
Business as usual means we're risking our lives for conveniences we didn't expect to have when I was young, and we pretty happily lived without. It's not a call to…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Li Cohen discusses how the Earth has experienced 12 months of record heat in a row – but is on track to see…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Li Cohen discusses how the Earth has experienced 12 months of record heat in a row - but is on track to see today's…
We Can’t Unknow What We Know
I occasionally get anon comments telling me, in one way or another, to stop writing about Covid and/or climate change. It’s really bizarre to me. I mean, I get that…
We Can’t Unknow What We Know
I occasionally get anon comments telling me, in one way or another, to stop writing about Covid and/or climate change. It's really bizarre to me. I mean, I get that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joëlle Gergis asks what it will take for political leaders to acknowledge and act on the science demonstrating that we’re on the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joëlle Gergis asks what it will take for political leaders to acknowledge and act on the science demonstrating that we're on the precipice…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Robert Reich discusses the growing gap between the well-being of lower-income and higher-income consumers in the U.S. - as well as the reality that…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Reich discusses the growing gap between the well-being of lower-income and higher-income consumers in the U.S. – as well as the reality…
Oilman challenges Poilievre
“We’ve talked for 40 years about climate change … and we’ve done very, very little about it.” That isn’t an environmentalist talking. Or a scientist. It’s Derek Evans, executive chair…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Seth Borenstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman and Anita Snow find that the U.S. suffered a record number of heat-related deaths in 2023, while Aryan…
Alberta could start small….
What I find remarkable about “small c-” Canadian Conservatives is how reluctant, how reticent, they are to acknowledge the economic change that is going on around them. Unlike Brian Mulroney…
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…
Rich polluters pay for their sins
Amid the doom and gloom on the climate change front, we are occasionally treated to some good news. That was the case this week with the announcement by Environment Minister…
Thursday Afternoon Links
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…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
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…
Water Wars
There's an extreme water crisis in Mexico City right now. They could run out of water within weeks. From Peter Dynes of MEER, "'Day Zero' is counting down to June…
Water Wars
There’s an extreme water crisis in Mexico City right now. They could run out of water within weeks. From Peter Dynes of MEER, “‘Day Zero’ is counting down to June…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
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…