climate change
Saturday At The Movies
Love it! Although growing food not lawns would be even better.
Civil disobedience as law enforcement
Historian and author Jeremy Brecher argues that activists who engage in acts of civil disobedience and risk arrest are upholding the law, not violating it. The post Civil disobedience as…
The Bones Left After The Best Meat Is Taken
Some things haven’t changed in centuries. Photographer Aaron Huey’s compelling TED Talk from 2010:
Saturday At The Movies
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Australia’s Senate Drops Climate Change Wrench into General Election
The contenders to form Australia’s next national government have night & day differences on climate change. The incumbent, Labor’s Kevin Rudd, trails his rival, Tony Abbott’s Liberal Coalition, 48 to…
Extreme weather: Are these signs of Climate Change?
In the Maritimes we have been getting so far thunder and rain storms as well as hail storms. Some coastal communities were flooded. Is this the new normal? Are these…
Do We Expect Our Children To Sacrifice For Us?
* Climate Study Finds More Bad News For the Planet Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal: It’s Time For An Urgent Response
Climate Change: The Comedy Show?
Well I didn't think anyone would be able to turn the tragedy of climate change into a comedy show. At least not since the hapless Con stooge Peter Kent returned…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Matthew Yglesias sums up the effects of four decades of U.S. union-busting, and points out how the supposed benefit from pointing a fire…
Confessions of a Climate Change Denier
Yotam Marom, a political organizer, activist, educator, musician, and writer based in New York City, explains how the “Armageddon” narrative around climate change fuels denial. The post Confessions of a…
The Harper Regime and the Signs of the Apocalypse
I don't know how I made it to this long weekend in Ontario. But now that I've arrived I've got to say this is the weirdest summer ever. After the…
Saturday At The Movies
Kleenex alert!
Stephen Harper and the Road to Armageddon
Well there he was today in his crumbling bastion of Quebec City, in the province of the fiery nightmare, looking as shaken, or just plain weird, as I have ever…
The tragedy of Canada’s environmental denial
Ray Grigg, a weekly environmental columnist and author of seven internationally published books on Oriental philosophy, discusses the “tragedy” of Canada’s environmental denial. The post The tragedy of Canada’s environmental…
Ice Crisis at the Poles: Ice, Ice, Baby
What continent is this, anyway? And why does it matter? The arctic ice cap will be fully melting in the next few summers, likely. There is a lake on top…
Shift Happens
* Here in Northern Ontario our lovely boreal summer is in full swing. The blueberries are starting to ripen, the ethereal call of the loons drifts up to our windows…