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BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now
BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can’t dither another minute. Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren’t doing enough to stop […]
A letter to real power: a letter to us
A letter to real power: a letter to us When I heard that Culture Declares Emergency was organizing a series of ‘Letters to Power’, I thought to myself: “Rupert, you should probably write one”. You see, I have spent much of my life attempting to talk to, persuade, even beg those with power – our elected leaders, […]
The Positive Power of Emergencies
The Positive Power of Emergencies Seth Klein discusses his new book on tackling the climate crisis like we’ve fought wars — and now the pandemic. Called to the new fight. ‘What seemed politically impossible… can be quickly embraced,’ says Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which will be published […]
Now is the time to end the climate emergency
Now is the time to end the climate emergency Reading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis In The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save […]
Notes From Underground #4: Emergency Democracy
Notes From Underground #4: Emergency Democracy It’s late in 1940, six months since the fall of France. Still a year to go before America joins the war. Meanwhile, Britain soldiers on alone – or so it likes to tell itself, the vastness of Empire folded conveniently into the background. Through the crackling of the wireless, […]
Global warming was blamed for evaporating the Great Lakes, now blamed for high water levels in Chicago’s ‘climate emergency’ – Updated 2
Global warming was blamed for evaporating the Great Lakes, now blamed for high water levels in Chicago’s ‘climate emergency’ – Updated 2 “What we are seeing in global warming is the evaporation of our Great Lakes.” That was Illinois Senator Dick Durbin in 2013 when Lake Michigan was at a record low. You can find plenty of […]
Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision
Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision Teck’s Frontier mine would kill emissions targets, say analysts. The Trudeau government is under intense scrutiny for a looming decision — one that will powerfully signal whether it favours oil patch growth over fighting the climate emergency. Will the Liberals approve […]
Clean Tech Versus a People’s Green New Deal
Clean Tech Versus a People’s Green New Deal Rich nations’ proposals for greening the economy need to acknowledge that their wealth rests on economic exploitation and ecological spoliation of poorer countries. The Green New Deal (GND), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s draft legislation to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions, was literally 2019’s talk of the town. Climate […]
Assange and Auschwitz
Assange and Auschwitz When I read that Angela Merkel visited Auschwitz this week (for the first time ever, curiously, after 14 years as Chancellor, and now it’s important?), my first thought was: she should have visited Julian Assange instead. I don’t even know why, it just popped into my head. And then reflecting on it […]
‘There Is No Climate Emergency’: Scientists Call for Reasoned Debate
‘There Is No Climate Emergency’: Scientists Call for Reasoned Debate The message was clear: “There is no climate emergency.” With those five simple words, a global network of scientists and professionals attempted to inject reasonableness and decorum into what should be a robust discussion about a complex scientific and public policy issue, but has instead degenerated into […]
A Sea Change Moment?
A Sea Change Moment? Tomorrow begins Global Climate Strike Week, led by young people to demand urgent action to address the climate emergency. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential threat had a humble start a year ago when a young Swedish student, Greta […]
Neoliberalism and Environmental Calamity
Neoliberalism and Environmental Calamity Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Current conditions represent a political emergency of sorts, meaning that ways of solving environmental and social problems will either be worked out or circumstances, led by the environment, will assume a life of their own. Given that these conditions are the result of historical processes that […]
‘Climate Crisis’ Open Letter to Media: Who’s Responded (So Far)
‘Climate Crisis’ Open Letter to Media: Who’s Responded (So Far) Five-point plan on Tyee finds allies in CWA union and top US journos. Now the responses are rolling in, some from beyond Canada’s borders. Here’s how Holman came to write the widely shared letter and what it’s helping to trigger. As record wildfires raged out […]
Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency
Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency A five-point plan for mainstream media to cover fewer Royal babies and a lot more of our unfolding global catastrophe. To:Karyn Pugliese, president, Canadian Association of JournalistsMartin O’Hanlon, president, CWA CanadaFiona Conway, president, Radio Television Digital News AssociationJohn Hinds, president and chief executive officer, […]
It’s confirmed. It really is an emergency
It’s confirmed. It really is an emergency The latest report that charts the accelerating impacts of global warming, climate change, and mankind’s destructive impact on the natural environment lays out a grim future for over a million of the planet’s species. This warning follows hot on the heels of a Canadian government assessment that forecasts […]
