"We’ve No Time to Waste"
Jeremy Corbyn, today, in the House of Commons. This should make us all disgusted with our federal parties and our petro-provinces alike. The Liberals, and their apologists, have no excuse…
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Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emilie Prattico comments on the need to move past an economy that generates billionaires and widespread precarity in order to ensure that collective…
And Now, A Word From Another Green Guy
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The Master of Weasel Words Wants "Reflections"
Right out of the gate, Justin Trudeau is balking at serious action on climate change. Speaking on Sunday night, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, suggested that using federal money to…
Two Thirds of Britons Believe World in "Climate Emergency"
Good. It seems the British people have done what their political caste has so far refused to do. They have concluded that the world is in a state of climate…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Murray highlights what climate protests have accomplished so far, while emphasizing the need to turn activism into policy change over the…
Andrew Scheer’s Scary Climate Change Nightmare
For Andrew Scheer it must have seemed like a religious revelation, of the very wrong kind. The kind born in the hell of his own making.For years he has tried…
And Now, A Word From Kermit
H/t Greg Perry Still not convinced? Perhaps these letter-writers can help: Local governments all over the world are declaring a climate emergency, so stop using the neutral term “climate change”…
EPA Warns US Communities to Brace For Worsening Climate Change Impacts
Gee, who knew? Despite a White House and Congress chock full of climate change deniers, the US Environmental Protection Agency has issued a stark warning to American municipalities. Get ready.…
If You’re Pouring Gasoline On the Fire, Don’t Pretend You’re Fighting the Flames.
It’s funny, with the October elections nearing, how concerned the Conservatives and Liberals are becoming about climate change or, at least, the flooding that has ravaged eastern Canada and the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cory Booker rightly questions why corporations are hoarding the wealth created by the work of their employees. And Richard Reeves wonders why so…
Okay, This Might Sting a Little Bit. Time for Ottawa to Declare Climate Change a National Emergency.
Imagine the nerve – debating climate change as a national emergency. Britain’s Labour Party intends to force a debate on the issue this week in Parliament. Labour will this week…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Derrick O’Keefe, Robert Hackett and Shane Gunster highlight how the TransMountain pipeline bailout and SNC-Lavalin scandal have cemented Justin Trudeau’s status as…
McKibben is Banking on Protests
Bill McKibben in The Guardian: “Luckily, we have two relatively new inventions that could prove decisive to solving global warming before it destroys the planet. One is the solar panel,…
Conservatives – In Too Deep, Too Long to Change Now
At some point we’re going to have to write off conservatives, Tories and Blue Liberals alike, when it comes to climate change. They’re either outright, dyed in the wool, deniers…
What Are You Hearing?
I’ve recently had some interesting conversations with friends in Vancouver and Ontario. In each case the other side brought up the issue of climate change and, specifically, how it might…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne highlights how the fight over carbon taxes fits into a broader framework of class warfare – and how the right’s climate…
The Unkindest Cut Of All
Devolution. Debasement. Depraved Indifference. Apply whatever term you like, but the cuts coming furiously from the Ford government in Ontario surely bespeak a state that no ruling body, and by…
The Bill for Thawing Permafrost? Try 70 Trillion Dollars (USD)
This is one we’re not going to be able to duck. We can’t kick this can down the road. It’s already underway, one of the knock-on effects of existing global…
Ford Says Ontario Has Done Enough.
At least there’s something Doug Ford can thank his Liberal predecessor for – cutting Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions. He’s positively boastful about that, to the point where he’s shining an…