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Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters Greenpeace’s Yeb Saño explains what a Philippines human rights investigation means for the fossil fuel industry in Canada. Four years ago, the Philippines Commission on Human Rights began posing an incendiary question. Should 47 of the planet’s most polluting companies have to answer legally for the […]
Dennis Meadows: The Limits To Growth
Dennis Meadows: The Limits To Growth Revisiting one of the most seminal studies of our era Fifty years ago, an international team of researchers was commissioned by the Club of Rome to build a computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth on a finite planet. In 1971, its findings were first released in Moscow […]
Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale
Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez takes office in the midst of an economic crisis. Like his predecessor, he has made fracking a centerpiece of the country’s economic revival. Argentina has some of the largest natural gas and oil reserves in the world and “possibly the most […]
Our Entangled Future: Excerpt
Our Entangled Future: Excerpt Ed. note: This piece is an excerpt from the book Our Entangled Future: Stories to Empower Quantam Social Change, edited by Karen O’Brien, Ann El Khoury, Nicole Schafenacker, and Jordan Rosenfeld. You can find out more about the book and download a free copy here. (Direct quotes and references for this excerpt […]
Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth’s crust
Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth’s crust Preface. I suspect one the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left for thousands of low-tech generations in the future. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have excess oil energy to do it. […]
Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File
Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File The province let oil and gas firms create a $100-billion disaster. They expect you to foot the bill. Every day something crazy happens in Alberta to illustrate how thoroughly oil politics have eroded the province’s grip on reality. Judy Aldous, who hosts a province-wide CBC Radio noon […]
Moving towards low-carbon lifestyles: a question of collective action
Moving towards low-carbon lifestyles: a question of collective action Our way of life must change if we want to avoid climate breakdown—but how much can we do as individuals? Ahead of the upcoming ICTA-UAB Conference on Low-Carbon Lifestyle Changes, Joël Foramitti, Lorraine Whitmarsh and Angela Druckman are outlining a roadmap. ***** Recent news about the state […]
Our climate is like reckless banking before the crash—it’s time to talk about near-term collapse
Our climate is like reckless banking before the crash—it’s time to talk about near-term collapse Our food, finance, and logistics systems are worryingly vulnerable to climate shocks, Aled Jones and Will Steffen write. These are not distant existential issues raised by uncertain and abstract models of future climatic risk. They are urgent questions that humanity […]
Canadian Oilsands Firm Denied Its Own Science On Climate Change
Canadian Oilsands Firm Denied Its Own Science On Climate Change While Imperial Oil was calling the link between fossil fuels and global warming an ‘unproven hypothesis,’ internal reports had confirmed the connection. Oilsands giant Imperial Oil continued to call the link between fossil fuels and global temperature rise an “unproven hypothesis” decades after its own […]
Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine
Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine Alberta’s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet. If the Teck mega mine is approved, the damage to our planet will be colossal This week, the Canadian government is in Madrid telling the world that climate […]
Three Ways to Regenerate Bioregions
Three Ways to Regenerate Bioregions Is it even possible for humanity to safeguard its future? Are we bound to a fate of extinction… a still-birth on the way to becoming a planetary species? Or might we evolve our diverse cultures toward the regeneration of landscapes and ecosystems — making it possible to continue existing? These are not […]
Retire early… to save the planet?
Retire early… to save the planet? If it’s not this, it must be the opposite. How often do you witness this sort of thinking? When I pay attention I find it’s everywhere, framing nearly every argument. Author Daniel Quinn calls it two-handedness: imagining there are only two options, usually framed as opposites. Democrat or Republican. […]
Zero carbon Britain: Rising to the climate emergency
Zero carbon Britain: Rising to the climate emergency A new report out today from Rapid Transition Alliance founding member the Centre for Alternative technology (CAT) looks at how the UK can cut energy demand by 60% and reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions using current technologies, without relying on unproven carbon capture. By modelling the changes needed […]
Arctic Blast Could Produce Next Snowmaker For Northeast
Arctic Blast Could Produce Next Snowmaker For Northeast Freezing temperatures will return to the central and eastern regions of the US this week as an arctic front sweeps out the mild weather. This could result in the next snowmaker for parts of the mid-South and Northeast by Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday, reported The Weather Channel. The […]
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused Environmental activists rally for accountability for fossil fuel companies outside of New York Supreme Court on October 22, 2019, in New York City. New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, is taking on ExxonMobil in a landmark case that accuses the oil corporation of misleading investors […]
