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Climate change is killing off Earth’s little creatures
Climate change is killing off Earth’s little creatures Climate change gets blamed for a lot of things these days: inundating small islands, fueling catastrophic fires, amping-up hurricanes and smashing Arctic sea ice. But a global review of insect research has found another casualty: 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered. It confirms what many have been […]
Finance, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change
Finance, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change Networks of Power in Canada In our home country of Canada, the disparity between climate rhetoric and practice was recently pushed into the spotlight when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – an avowed climate champion – purchased on behalf of Canada an unfinished bitumen pipeline from Houston-based corporation Kinder-Morgan. The […]
Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe “With “capitalism in danger of falling apart” (a rare, cryptically honest quote from Al Gore), and years of stagnant global economic growth now in a free fall, the Greta campaign must be understood for what it is. An elaborate distraction that has nothing to do with protecting the natural world, and […]
UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5°C Threshold Within Five Years
UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5°C Threshold Within Five Years Breaching the Paris accord’s designated limit temporarily doesn’t mean all hope is lost for the long-term target, experts explain, “but it does ring an alarm bell.” The Met Office reported this week that global average temperature for 2019 to 2023 will […]
SOTU’s glaring omission
SOTU’s glaring omission Trump missed two little words President’s Trump’s State of the Union address on February 5 was a call for bipartisan action. But mostly of the wrong kind. His southern border wall is of course a controversial and expensive proposition, but it was his boast that the USA now exports more energy than […]
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA?
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA? The Yellow Vest anti-government movement (#YellowVests, #GiletsJaunes) began in France on November 17, 2018, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel. President Emmanuel Macron claimed the French were leading the world in the battle against climate change. The Yellow […]
What will it feel like to be left behind?
What will it feel like to be left behind? Chris Martenson’s recent article about collapse and the plummeting of biodiversity made me think about what it feels like to be left behind. Few people living in affluent countries or communities understand what this means. Americans closed their eyes to the plight of people in underdeveloped countries whose […]
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4 “This is some serious climate leadership.” Four Catholic Workers shut off valves at Enbridge Energy Line 3 and 4 in northern Minnesota on Monday. (Photo: @4necessity/Twitter) Condemning “the imminent and irreversible damage being done […]
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk Potatoes on the wing – and thin pickings for all as UK crops wilt. Image: By Lucas Sankey on Unsplash Britons’ familiar and well-loved fish and chips could become scarcer as politics and climate change imperil UK vegetable and fruit supplies. LONDON, 5 February, 2019 − A combination of Brexit − Britain’s move to […]
Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness, Part 2
Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness, Part 2 Ed. note: Part 1 of this series can be found on Resilience.org here. The Resurgent Aristotelians: Hopkins, Fleming, Francis, and Holmgren What then does a modern Aristotelianism look like? How might we reconcile his ideal of a singular, philosophically deduced definition […]
Climate Misinformation Researchers Throw Support Behind California Communities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies
Climate Misinformation Researchers Throw Support Behind California Communities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Just in case fossil fuel companies had forgotten when and how much they knew about the impacts their products have had on the climate, a reminder came at them in court this week. On January 29, six researchers studying climate misinformation filed one of eight […]
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union Tick Tock. The good folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientistshave returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former […]
Malnutrition, Obesity and Climate Change Threaten Our Future, Warns Report
Malnutrition, Obesity and Climate Change Threaten Our Future, Warns Report Lancet says three threats are interacting to create a dangerous ‘syndemic.’ The Lancet calls it the “Global Syndemic.” The report’s authors say we’re facing three pandemics — undernutrition, obesity and climate change — that are interacting to form a “synergy of epidemics,” or syndemic, and it’s a […]
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism A look at Poland’s growing ecological disaster — and its polluted past — shows how green ideals can wither on the vine. At December’s Katowice Climate Change Conference, Polish President Andrzej Duda proudly opened the proceedings by declaring that coal “does not contradict the protection of the climate and the progress […]
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go?
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go? Q.I am not giving up … but if I were to move, where in the United States could I go to minimize climate disruption? — Uneasy in a U-Haul A.Dear Uneasy, So you want to escape climate change. That’s a reasonable impulse — climate change […]
