Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.
Since 1995 there have been 25 global conferences on climate change. At every one our so-called political leaders have kicked the can down the road and sung from a bright green hymnbook.
Greta Thunberg has disparaged the refrain as nothing more than “blah, blah, blah.”
She is right of course. Blah, blah blah has kept emissions rising, along with energy spending and its twin sibling unbridled economic growth.
Unceeded Kwantlen, Katzie, and Coast Salish territory (Fraser Heights, Surrey, BC). From 10am today, Hummingbird Land Defenders will use their bodies to block tree cutting for the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. The women wish to protect the mature forest and seven grand cedars, in the North Slope Buffer Park.
The Unist'ot'en Village and their neighbours at Gidmet'en Checkpoint are both calling for supporters who can come out and spend multiple weeks or months on the territory.
Glasgow, Scotland – Today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau identified the biggest climate challenge for Canada but failed to come up with the right solution. Focusing on emissions from oil and gas production but not production itself will allow oil and gas companies to keep putting forward false solutions, such as carbon capture and storage, fossil-based hydrogen, and far-off net zero plans, all while pumping out more and more atmosphere-destroying fossil fuels.
Editor's note: This statement by Socialist Action is useful for discussing how ecosocialists should relate to and work within the NDP. Socialist Action is a fellow participant with the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group in the Socialist Unity Assembly.
Media coverage of the planetary emergency often can't be monetized, which is one reason why it's of little interest to Rupert Murdoch and wannabe Rupert Murdochs
In advance of the COP 26 meetings in Glasgow, young climate activists Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate, founder of the Rise Up Movement, issued an open letter to the media.
They urged editors to pay far more attention to the Global North's "moral responsibility to move much faster in reducing their emissions".
Climate activists are attacking the atmospheric scientist for simply stating a fact that makes the fight more urgent.
On the eve of the COP26 talks in Glasgow, the former leader of the BC Green Party — Andrew Weaver — caused a climate-community tempest when he tweeted, “1.5 degrees is not attainable. It never has been imho.”
Measured atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory. Note: red = the monthly mean values; black = the same, after correction for the average seasonal cycle.
