{"id":54836,"date":"2020-08-27T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54836"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:21:47","slug":"the-positive-power-of-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54836","title":{"rendered":"The Positive Power of Emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Positive Power of Emergencies<\/a><\/h3>\n

Seth Klein discusses his new book on tackling the climate crisis like we\u2019ve fought wars \u2014 and now the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Called to the new fight. \u2018What seemed politically impossible… can be quickly embraced,\u2019 says Seth Klein, author of\u00a0A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency<\/em><\/a>, which will be published on Sept. 1.\u00a0Image credits: Joseph Sydney Hallam (left); Meital Smith (right).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Seth Klein spends a lot of time thinking about emergencies. Earlier this spring, the former director of the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives had just finished writing a book drawing lessons for fighting climate change from the country\u2019s Second World War experience when the coronavirus hit. \u201cTalk about awkward timing,\u201d Klein recalls in\u00a0A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency<\/em><\/a>, which will be published on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

But Klein quickly realized that the global pandemic made his book\u2019s central argument more relevant than ever. Whether it\u2019s a war against Nazi aggression, a deadly and infectious virus or a climate emergency\u00a0irreversibly changing<\/a>\u00a0our country, collective dangers require swift and transformative action. They are opportunities to overhaul conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce emergencies are truly recognized,\u201d Klein writes, \u201cwhat seemed politically impossible and economically off-limits can be quickly embraced.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with The Tyee about his forthcoming book, which is\u00a0currently available for pre-order<\/a>, Klein expands on that argument, explaining how Canada\u2019s $250-billion response to COVID-19 has shattered mainstream conceptions about what\u2019s feasible for climate action. He discusses what the Second World War can teach us about reducing social inequality in the face of a crisis, and the crucial role Indigenous people have played in both our wartime efforts and our current battles on climate change.<\/p>\n

Geoff Dembicki: Where does the interest in WWII come from? Because it doesn\u2019t seem like you\u2019re that much of a war person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Positive Power of Emergencies Seth Klein discusses his new book on tackling the climate crisis like we\u2019ve fought wars \u2014 and now the pandemic. Called to the new fight. \u2018What seemed politically impossible… can be quickly embraced,\u2019 says Seth Klein, author of\u00a0A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which will be published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[13249,12878,607,30232,23884,862],"class_list":["post-54836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-climate-emergency","tag-geoff-dembicki","tag-pandemic","tag-seth-klein","tag-thetyee-ca","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54837,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54836\/revisions\/54837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}