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What My Friends on the Left Need to Know About the Green New Deal
What My Friends on the Left Need to Know About the Green New Deal “Nowhere has our public discourse failed us more egregiously than on the environment and climate change,” I wrote last year while reviewing the first sketches of a proposed Green New Deal. It’s since become a buzzword, but until now it remained only vaguely […]
As Election Nears, Canada’s Biggest Oil Firm Is Noticeably Quiet
As Election Nears, Canada’s Biggest Oil Firm Is Noticeably Quiet Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he’s Canada’s energy ‘champion.’ Yet he opposes climate policy Suncor supports. As we race towards a federal election that will determine if and how Canada responds to the climate emergency, one central player is noticeably absent. Suncor is without a […]
How Our Lifestyle Is Driving the Climate Crisis and How We Can Change It
How Our Lifestyle Is Driving the Climate Crisis and How We Can Change It From athleisure to electronics to our innocent binging habits, it becomes clear that everything is interrelated. She argues that we need to understand the map if we’re going to make any changes. The Tyee talked with Schlossberg over the phone to […]
Rainforest on Fire
RAINFOREST ON FIRE On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe THE RIVER BASIN at the center of Latin America called the Amazon is roughly the size of Australia. Created at the beginning of the world by a smashing of tectonic plates, it was the cradle of […]
Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?
Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez? In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the […]
Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal?
Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal? In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: “Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.” Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The ‘GM […]
AFOLU’s warning
AFOLU’s warning A second sobering report from the IPCC again provides solid scientific evidence that the climate crisis cannot be resolved if we continue along our present path. While previous assessments have focused on transportation and industry, the most recent report shows that if the way we misuse and degrade our land does not dramatically improve, there […]
The New Trail of Tears
The New Trail of Tears How climate change is forcing the relocation of species, including our own In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, designed to appropriate to the United States lands occupied by aboriginal Americans. The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, but the army under Commander in Chief Andrew Jackson acted anyway. Now […]
Save The World By First Saving Yourself
Save The World By First Saving Yourself We each have a role to play in how the world recovers from the coming crisis Ripped from today’s headlines: Negative Interest Rates Are Coming And They Are Downright Terrifying (Yahoo! Finance) Earth’s Lungs Are Burning: Amazon Rainforest Which Contributes 20% Of Planet’s Oxygen Is On Fire What’s […]
More Wildfires Are Burning In Angola & Congo Than Brazil
More Wildfires Are Burning In Angola & Congo Than Brazil Thanks to a concerted effort by American social media ‘influencers’, everybody and their grandmother is now aware of the fact that wildfires – many of which were allegedly started illegally by farmers seeking to clear out more land for farming or pasture – are tearing through […]
The Green New Deal Battles Business as Usual. Both Will Doom Us
The Green New Deal Battles Business as Usual. Both Will Doom Us We’re clinging to fantasies while the world crumbles. And we like it that way. The stories we tell ourselves become the reality of our experience. Global elites are now offering ordinary people two salvation stories for our digital entertainment. Both delusional stories are […]
What Is Earth For?
What Is Earth For? “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and foster its renewal is our only hope.” – Wendell Berry Author Wallace Stegner once said every book should try to answer an anguished question, an instruction that […]
America’s Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Set To Finally Close Its Doors
America’s Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Set To Finally Close Its Doors Few people know that sitting across from the reactor that suffered a partial meltdown on Three Mile Island in 1979 – is another unit that still remains one of the region’s largest power sources. In fact, the second unit has provided power for 45 years without incident. […]
Small farms don’t produce most the of the worlds food – but they could produce all
Small farms don’t produce most the of the worlds food – but they could produce all Recently, I wrote an article about how difficult it is to survive as a commercial smallholder and floated some ideas of why that is and what can be done about it. I want to follow up with two articles. This one […]
