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Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements
Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements Introduction As COP 26 began, Greta Thunberg summed up the whole thing quite succinctly using just one word, three times: Blah blah blah. And as it ended two weeks later, she tweeted: The #COP26 is over. Here’s a brief summary: […]
The show is over.
The show is over. Climate strike in Lausanne Tomorrow 150 weeks will have passed since we started to school strike for the climate. During this time more and more people around the world have woken up to the climate- and ecological crisis, putting more and more pressure on you — the people in power. Eventually […]
Greta Thunberg Urges Norway and Canada to Honor Climate Commitments
Greta Thunberg Urges Norway and Canada to Honor Climate Commitments When you want a seat on the UN Security Council, the last thing you need is a teenage activist, practiced at the art of shaming government officials, working against you. However, that’s just what Norway and Canada have. Canada, Norway and Ireland are vying for […]
Of Warnings and their Ripple Effects
Of Warnings and their Ripple Effects In her testimony to the US Congress, Greta Thunberg did not prepare a statement for submission to the record. Instead, she submitted the most recent scientific report, issued by the IPCC three weeks earlier. She said simply, “I am submitting this report as my testimony because I don’t want […]
A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution
A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution Leftwing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages total, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill was also crucial to Ocasio-Cortez’s rapid ascent to acronym status and anointing as the queen of green. Thanks […]
Politicians Offered a Choice between Climate Fantasies as Our Future Grows Bleaker
Politicians Offered a Choice between Climate Fantasies as Our Future Grows Bleaker Greta Thunberg is right — across Canada we are acting like ‘spoiled irresponsible children.’ Now that we can open the windows again and clear the air of political flatulence, perhaps we can acknowledge the realities that remain like ghosts in our troubled house. […]
Oil Industry Set Agenda During Climate Summit Meeting with Big Greens
Oil Industry Set Agenda During Climate Summit Meeting with Big Greens Last week, as climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, invited leaders from major environmental groups spent their day listening to the leaders of fossil fuel companies discuss how they want to respond to the climate crisis. Depending on which room you […]
5 Stories the Media Ignored While Dividing the Country With Greta Thunberg
5 Stories the Media Ignored While Dividing the Country With Greta Thunberg The term pedophrasty is a relatively new word — not currently accepted by an official dictionary — but that has a powerful meaning in today’s political and media environment. Pedophrasty is an “argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the […]
More talk and little action
More talk and little action The grim reality is that Greta Thunberg’s passionate speech lambasting global leaders at the UN climate summit in New York on September 23 is unlikely to make much of a difference in the way the largest global polluters do business. The top emitters aren’t bothered: the US didn’t show up; China yawned; […]
Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of “Deadly” Heat Waves
Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of “Deadly” Heat Waves Photograph Source: Intothewoods7 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg’s School Strike for Climate generation seems likely to witness the beginnings of a grueling, traumatizing, brutal, heat-driven reversal of the human population boom. Why? Because we’ve continued to pack the atmosphere with a little more […]
Climate Scientist: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe
Climate Scientist: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe Watch Full Show LINKS Kevin Anderson on Twitter Greta Thunberg on Twitter The 24th United Nations climate summit comes amid growing warnings about the catastrophic danger climate change poses to the world. In October, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that […]
