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Is Society Collapsing?
Is Society Collapsing? Abandoned passenger train car, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by modern […]
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “Like a pandemic, climate change is […]
No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom
No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom Protest outside Tocoa courthouse, Municipal Committee in Defense of the Public Commons of Tocoa. For the families of eight water protectors in Honduras, there will be no holiday season this year. They will continue to fight for the freedom of their loved ones who have each […]
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time?
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time? The Earth is not dying. Gaia is not changing. Gi is responding. So often we hear the phrase ‘save the world’ or the ‘save our planet.’ We may even use it. But sometime back in my career someone wise corrected that, explaining that […]
Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study
David McNew / Getty Images Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study The month of December opened with good news and bad news for people concerned about the climate crisis. A climate analysis released by the independent watchdog group Climate Action Tracker said that based on promises made by Paris Climate […]
Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease
Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease Levi Williams-Whitney traversed the land to make a video opposing open-pit mining. He has no regrets. Still from a video made by Levi Williams-Whitney, titled A Hunter’s Perspective: Open Pit Coal Mining in Alberta. The Kenney government has fined an Alberta hunter $600 for making an anti-coal […]
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming Last week I spent what I must admit to have been two rather depressing sessions participating in a zoom conference convened by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in order to share their vision and strategy for reaching net zero emissions by 2050, with a particular […]
UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut
UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut British retailers have urged the government to make an urgent effort to prevent prolonged suspension of cross-Channel transport, which they say would disrupt supplies of fresh produce to UK consumers. To prevent the spread of a new, more transmissible variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist […]
New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’ in the UK
New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’ in the UK Belgium and the Netherlands suspend travel from the UK as authorities assess impact of fast-spreading new virus variant. Out of Control U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns a new strain of the coronavirus is “Out of Control”. More than 16 million Britons are now required to […]
After Sustainability: Missives from the Next Stage of the Climate Crisis
After Sustainability: Missives from the Next Stage of the Climate Crisis Three excerpts from ‘Concrete,’ ‘A Book of Ecological Virtues’ and ‘Uncertain Harvest.’ Enter to win today. This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored content section within The Tyee where we highlight contests, events and other initiatives […]
Mobility is NOT a business: Why the pandemic-induced collapse of mass transit should concern us all
Mobility is NOT a business: Why the pandemic-induced collapse of mass transit should concern us all People have always needed to get from here to there whether by foot, by horse, by ship, by train, by car, by bus or by plane. Civilization DEPENDS on the mobility of humans and the produce they cultivate and […]
‘Food for Thought’: Reflections on an organic life
‘Food for Thought’: Reflections on an organic life Phil Haughton is old friend of mine, best known as the founder of three Bristol food shops flying under the banner of The Better Food Company. I wanted to say a few words about his book, Food for Thought, which ‘celebrat[es] the joy of eating well and living better’. I […]
Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America
Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America In the last five days, the US reported over one million new COVID-19 cases with total virus-related deaths swelling over 311k. The resurgence of coronavirus cases is now affecting meatpacking plants. According to Bloomberg, Cargill Inc. was forced to idle one of its plants […]
Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today
Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today The BC government has failed in its oversight role, say a former BC Hydro CEO and a veteran dam engineer. Construction on the Site C powerhouse continues despite known geotechnical risks. Photo: BC Hydro. Site C is the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history and […]
Our Distance from Dirt
Our Distance from Dirt Many of us on the African continent clutch our unethically sourced pearls and briefly confront the ugly truths about our consumption, writes Takondwa Semphere. But then we forget. 2012: Children gold mining in the eastern DRC. (Sasha Lezhnev/Enough Project, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) It seems that every other month, a different […]
