As the world cooks, why have our political leaders gone cold on global warming?
Climate change has been all but ignored in the Australian election campaign, and world leaders are giving up on the cause, even as the heat rises.
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Ontario must answer for its climate record
A youth-led climate case is heading back to court. Following a ruling from Ontario’s top court, the stage is set for a resolution of this groundbreaking case.
Why the green-technology race might not save the planet
The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.
Who are Canada's Top Climate Villains?
Oil and gas companies want everyday people to believe that we're driving the climate crisis. In fact, here are the influential players behind Canada's oil an...
Why Speeding Up Mining Approvals Won’t Solve Tariff Troubles | Mining Watch Canada
Why Capitalism Separates Us From Nature: Introducing Murray Bookchin and the Ecology of Freedom
In this introductory video, I explore Murray Bookchin's groundbreaking work, The Ecology of Freedom, and discuss how capitalism actively disconnects us from ...
Capitalism is Incompatible: Denial & Greenwashing
Inside MAGA's Global Climate Agenda - DeSmog
Donald Trump's raucous return to the White House is emblematic of how an ascendant far-right movement is coordinating to defeat climate policies and push a fossil fuel agenda across North America, the UK, and Europe.
The Beginning of the End of the World - Eudaimonia and Co - Medium
Here’s a tiny question. In your darker moments — do you wonder if, well, in some elemental sense, the world around us is ending? That things have changed? Doesn’t something deep down in your gut…
We Should Stop Calling It “Climate Change” — And Start Calling It Extinction
1 in 3 people on Planet Earth are living through a record-breaking heatwave right now. Thailand has just recorded the hottest temperatures it’s ever had — 45ºC (113ºF) — and a record breaking heat…
This Is the Extinction Economy — Some of Us Just Don’t Know It Yet
There are headlines, and then there are headlines. I was scanning the news this morning, and this jumped out and slapped me right in the face: Whew. Sound like a big deal? It should. If it doesn’t…
Why Doesn’t the 1% Care About Extinction? Because the Road To Collapse Is Paved With Gold
Good question. Deceptively simple — yet a deep, profound question. Let’s talk about it. Let me rephrase the question, in a way I’ll come back to. What is The Age of Extinction, sociopolitically? It’s…
Why Climate Change Is a Civilizational Emergency - Eudaimonia and Co - Medium
They’re calling it the first global heatwave. In China, the temperature reached 52.2ºC (126ºF), shattering records. In Arizona, it was 47ºC (116ºF). In California, 128ºF (53.33ºC). In the Persian…
Why Is Climate Change Getting So Bad, So Fast? - Eudaimonia and Co - Medium
Extinction summer. Four great heat domes stretch across the globe. The planet, they say, is burning, and the oceans boiling. And people are startled, shocked, and bewildered. This fast? This hard…
Is Climate Change Our Equivalent of a World War? - Eudaimonia and Co - Medium
It’s been an apocalyptic summer. Our first Extinction Summer. Look around and tell me things are going well. Sicily. Greece. Canada. On fire. Oceans, boiling. Those orange skies over Manhattan were…
The Quiet Devastation of Extinction Capitalism - Eudaimonia and Co - Medium
How do you feel looking around the world? Depressed, anxious, bewildered, bereft? We have the pathetic spectacle of the first criminal trial of an American President — and the current front runner…
Bjorn Lomborg’s false comfort
Ahead of your annual Thanksgiving tête-à-tête with your right-wing uncle, Matthew Klippenstein reads Bjorn Lomborg’s 'False Alarm' so you don’t have to.
False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg; Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger – review
Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best
A closer examination of the fantastical numbers in Bjorn Lomborg’s new book - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
Bob Ward reviews Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, False Alarm, finding the misuse of outdated, concocted and misinterpreted numbers on the costs of climate action and concluding that the book’s central claim that the ‘optimal’ level of global warming by 2100 would be 3.75˚C was completely out-of-date before it was even published.
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Debunking Lomborg, the Climate-Change Skeptic
Debunking the claims of the climate-change skeptic.
As its employees face arrests abroad, Barrick Gold is pushing for mineral development policies at home
And eight other insights from the IJF’s weekly lobbying newsletter
B.C. quietly allowed an oil and gas giant to sidestep rules for more than 4,300 pipelines
B.C.’s energy regulator has the power to grant such exemptions — without notifying the public. Experts raise alarm about the process, saying the regulator is playing soft with fossil fuel companies
From the climate community on Reddit: Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer. The damage at 3C will be so great that governments will be unable to provide financial bailouts and it will be impossible to adapt to many climate impacts.
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From the environment community on Reddit: How Jordan Peterson Became a Global Anti-Net Zero Power Broker. The Canadian psychologist is leading a Trump administration-linked network opposed to eliminating greenhouse gas pollution by 2050.
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How Jordan Peterson Became a Global Anti-Net Zero Power Broker
This special investigation between Canada’s National Observer and DeSmog was produced in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainability, Education and Action and TRACE Foundation. “No more carbon apocalypse-mongering,” Jordan Peterson told an audience of thousands in February at a global conservative conference in London known as the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The crowd applauded loudly. The world is […]
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Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change : r/collapse
Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change
Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.