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Spiked. BC Profs Protest after Publisher Drops Book on Canadian Mining
Spiked. BC Profs Protest after Publisher Drops Book on Canadian Mining UNBC researchers’ book alleging wrongdoing in Guatemala was accepted, reviewed, then cancelled. Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell say their book on the activities of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala was based on years of research in the country. Photo supplied. Two British Columbia university professors […]
The Big Banks’ Green Bafflegab
The Big Banks’ Green Bafflegab Look behind their pro-climate ads and do what they do. Follow the money. Greenwash gulch? Toronto’s financial district. Photo: Wikimedia. There must be a basement somewhere on Bay Street full of English majors. Every day they churn out great reams of verbiage about “environmental, social and governance strategy” and fill annual […]
Horgan Seems Fine with Muzzling the True Site C Watchdog
Horgan Seems Fine with Muzzling the True Site C Watchdog The independent BC Utilities Commission demanded answers on risks and was brushed off. The independent BC Utilities Commission posed tough but ignored questions to BC Hydro about constructing Site C on unstable ground. Photo: BC Hydro. BC Hydro has, in a Trumpian gesture, brushed off the […]
Greenwash
Greenwash An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0] The harm caused by the climate crisis has become undeniable – and terrifying. The floods, storms and raging fires, and the death and displacement they bring, have contributed to a global upwelling of concern and demands on governments to […]
Food for thought
Food for thought Leander Jones looks at the role of community supported agriculture as a 21st-century antidote to the destructive and increasingly fragile corporate agricultural model Members of the Basta community supported agriculture collective working the farm. Image courtesy of Hof Basta. In the past few decades fundamental flaws in the global food system have […]
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Photograph Source: Alexander Savin – CC BY 2.0 Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished title – Expert IPCC Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The interview was conducted to get to the bottom of what […]
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 […]
Greenland’s largest glaciers nearing rates of melt expected in ‘worst-case scenario’
Greenland’s largest glaciers nearing rates of melt expected in ‘worst-case scenario’ Greenland’s three biggest glaciers added the equivalent of around 8mm to global sea levels from 1880 to 2012, study says Photo of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland’s largest glaciers (Shfaqat Abbas Khan, DTU Space Denmark) Greenland’s largest glaciers are currently melting at levels close to what […]
Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important existential issues
Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important existential issues Preface. I’ve noticed that in the half dozen science magazines and several newspapers I get practically the only environmental stories are about climate change. Yet there are 8 other ecological boundaries (Rockström 2009) we must not cross (shown in bold with an […]
Hacking the Law to Open Up Zones of Commoning
Hacking the Law to Open Up Zones of Commoning The following essay is my contribution to the recently published anthology, ‘The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist Ruins’ (Punctum Books), published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. I co-edited this volume with my colleague Professor Anna Grear of Cardiff University. More about the book at […]
Norway’s Supreme Court to Decide on Climate Lawsuit Challenging Offshore Arctic Oil Drilling
Norway’s Supreme Court to Decide on Climate Lawsuit Challenging Offshore Arctic Oil Drilling The Supreme Court of Norway is set to rule in a high-profile climate change lawsuit challenging the Norwegian government’s licensing of new offshore oil drilling in the fragile and rapidly warming Arctic region. The forthcoming decision from Norway’s highest court could, for the first time […]
“The Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth”
“The Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth” A Review of Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis (2018) In Europe, “degrowth” is actually a movement, while in the US it is barely mentionable in polite society. To question “growth” would be the death knell for any serious politician. So what’s going on here? We live in the same world and face the […]
Dear David Attenborough, beautiful Netflix documentary. But your ‘solutions’ destroy nature even more
Dear David Attenborough, beautiful Netflix documentary. But your ‘solutions’ destroy nature even more Dear Sir David Attenborough, I recently saw your new film, A Life on Our Planet – a beautiful, harrowing documentary about the global decline of our natural ecosystems. It’s a bitter pill with a sweet dessert: a possible way out of this mess. I […]
Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth’s crust
Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth’s crust Preface. One the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left to harm future generations for up to a million years. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have the fossil energy to do it, […]
Humans May Have Passed the ‘Point of No Return’ in Climate Crisis, Says Study—But That Doesn’t Mean All Hope Is Lost
Humans May Have Passed the ‘Point of No Return’ in Climate Crisis, Says Study—But That Doesn’t Mean All Hope Is Lost In order to roll back catastrophic carbon emissions, humans must “start developing the technologies for large-scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere,” says one of the study’s lead authors. Melting permafrost in Canada’s […]
