Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Holthaus calls out any attempt by the uber-wealthy to paper over their profits from climate destruction with “philanthropic” donations. And David…
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Benjamin Israel, Jan Gorski, Nina Lothian, Chris Severson-Baker and Nikki Way highlight the reality that increased extraction from the tar sands is fundamentally…
Degeneration, Collapse, and Rebirth
What we are facing is systemic degeneration: ecologically, culturally, spiritually, intellectually, psychologically, socially, and biologically in terms of degenerating health and shortening life spans. This is the slow-motion collapse of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac offer a stark look at the plausible worst-case scenario for a climate breakdown over just the next…
Slowing Climate Change Doesn’t Have to be so Confusing!!
Some people insist that we can’t put it on individuals to make the changes necessary to affect climate; we have to change industry and vote differently and all that jazz.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heesu Lee reports on Greenpeace’s estimate that air pollution costs the world nearly $3 trillion every year. And Damien Cave writes that…
Going, Going ……
I posted recently about the Teck tarsands development that is seeking the Trudeau regime’s approval. If the government gives its go-ahead to the project, it will destroy whatever remnants remain…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jeff Spross calls out the absurdity of gutting protections for health and safety in the name of “regulatory certainty” – particularly when that…
Why Would the UN General Assembly Elect Canada to the Security Council?
Prime Minister Trudeau has been hustling around the world, attempting to round up votes for Canada when the UN General Assembly elects members of the Security Council in June. Two…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Fiona Harvey writes about the perfect storm of environmental crises leaving us at risk of societal collapse. And Tim Flannery calls out…
Dear CVRD Chairman and Directors
Dear CVRD Chairman and Directors: I realize and appreciate our busy board currently has many priorities and budgetary fires to snuff. However, one of the largest blazes on our horizon…
A New Horrifying High Our Leaders Will Ignore
News that Antarctica just reached new horrifyingly high temperatures, forerunner of the deluge to come, once more reinforces the perilous state our world is in. Despite that, it seems likely…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Reich comments that Democrats who failed to recognize and respond to a rigged economic system share in the blame for the rise…
Peter MacKay—Another Made in Alberta Climate Policy?
With Peter MacKay as front-runner in the Conservative leadership race, I dared hope that finally with a leader who wasn’t from the Prairies the party might have a responsible climate…
New column day
Here, on how the costs of approving the Teck Frontier tar sands mine likely include locking Canada into another cycle of public subsidies for a dying oil sector – making…
Canada Stands Indicted
While I most assuredly cannot claim any virtue when it comes to climate-change mitigation (I still fly, probably the greatest environmental sin one can commit), I do understand the gravity…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Justin Worland writes that the financial sector is belatedly and slowly waking up to the dangers of the climate crisis – with…
… And Now We Indoctrinate Our Children
As if we needed yet another example of Albertans’ deep denial of global warming. Education Minister Adriana LaGrange claims she is receiving reports from parents of “extremist views” being taught…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Larry Elliott writes that continuing inequality looms as an obstacle to meaningful climate action. But David Love offers a reminder that climate apartheid…
Let’s Talk about Population! (ducking projectiles)
Back in November, 11,000 scientists declared that we need to stabilize or gradually reduce the global population. Since then, I’ve bumped into a few people, online and in real life,…