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25/01/20
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Excerpted from “Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach”, by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop

https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/papers


Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach
 

Foreword by Admiral Chris Barrie, AC RAN Retired
 

25/01/20
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Maddie Oatman
soup - Photo: Pixabay License

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

25/01/20
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Chris Campbell
Protesters rally in support of the Wet’suwet’en nation Tuesday Photograph By GILLIAN DARLING KOVANIC
JANUARY 23, 2020
 
Burnaby South MP and federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is getting ripped online by one of his former candidates over the issue of LNG and the Wet’suwet’en.

Former candidate and longtime Burnaby MP Svend Robinson took a verbal swing at Singh this morning on Twitter.

25/01/20
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Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg

Greta ignores Davos panel question to give warning

During a panel hosted by TIME, Greta Thunberg issues a stark warning about the IPCC's best case scenario for avoiding climate catastrophe.

Source: CNN Business

Watch video here.

24/01/20
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Jessica Corbett
"Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist."

Jan 20, 2020

"Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist."

"Economic inequality is out of control."

24/01/20
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Damian Carrington
open pit mining - Photo: Pixabay License

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

24/01/20
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Carl Meyer
The bridge connecting North and South Tarawa, an atoll in the Pacific nation of Kiribati that is facing the threat of rising sea levels from climate change, pictured in 2017. Asian Development Bank photo

A new human-rights ruling says deporting a person to a country where they could be killed or seriously mistreated as a result of the climate crisis would violate an international treaty to which Canada is a party, according to the country’s UN refugee agency.

23/01/20
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By Andrew Nikiforuk
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier John Horgan shake hands as LNG Canada CEO Andy Calitz, back right, watches during a news conference in October 2018. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press
January 23, 2020
 
No, methane’s no fix for global coal-fired energy. Here’s why.
 
Representatives of the British Columbia, Alberta and federal governments are making the global rounds these days to sell the notion that liquefied natural gas exports can help the climate crisis.

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