Carbon taxes are the Obamacare of Canada: invented, then cynically abandoned, by the right
“Putting a price on carbon” was always going to be unpopular with people who use fossil fuels out of necessity and for fun – viz., a large portion of the…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how abusing precarious workers has become the primary job of big business. But Owen Jones notes that strikes against…
Ways to Cool Cities
The urban heating effect is a very real threat to how we cool our cities. The concentration of cement and machinery generates and stores a lot of heat that natural…
Climate change and corporate greed combine to destroy forests with fire and felling
Photo by Cameron Strandberg The razing of millions of acres of forests by wildfires has been increasing in scale and intensity for the past few decades. This year has set…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne offers a reminder (with reference to Lars Osberg’s new book) that extreme and growing inequality is a choice rather than…
‘A disservice to our nation’ – Tzeoporah Berman fires back at Jason Kenney’s ‘crass, simplistic narrative’
In a blistering broadside on social media yesterday, prominent B.C. environmentalist Tzeporah Berman fired back at Opposition Leader Jason Kenney for his continuing effort to reduce her to a figure…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Kingsley points out how children are feeling the effects of the UK’s austerity, including by being driven into avoidable poverty. And…
Energy Fund Backed by Bill Gates Only Invests in Carbon Reduction
On of the richest people on the planet is sick of climate change and has launched a venture capital firm to slow down global warming. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) funds…
The limits of renewable energy and the case for degrowth
Photo from Pixabay The energy transition is the focus of much discussion. To read the accounts in the mainstream media, one gets the impression that renewable energy is being rolled…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Evelyn Forget discusses the international outrage at the Ford PC’s cancellation of a basic income pilot. And Paul Waldeman writes about Republicans’ shock…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ann Pettifor discusses the need for a Green New Deal to build an economy that’s both socially and environmentally sustainable. And Sharon…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Skidelsky warns that having failed to learn crucial lessons from a 2008 economic crash caused by a reckless financial sector exploiting…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Harris laments the lack of any consistent connection between reporting on severe weather events and the climate change which is producing them…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the great global policy failure following the 2008 finance-driven crisis was to bail out bankers alone,…
Paying $185,000 for each job
BC’s fossil fuel industry benefited from credits worth $902 million in fiscal year 2018 and $4.2 billion in the past five years. Each of the jobs in oil and gas…
The People’s Pipeline
Photo by Kinder Morgan In an era of neoliberal privatization when governments the world over are hastening to sell off state owned assets and public services for a mess of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thomas Walkom reminds us that the Libs’s supposed tradeoff of climate policy for pipelines is failing as much in producing the former…
Planning for failure
The Saskatchewan Party’s latest excuse for a climate change announcement passed last week with little more than a passing mention in the media. And on the merits, it certainly earned…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne’s column for the Labour Day weekend comment on the role unions play in pushing for advancements for everybody. – Paul…