Climate Change

04/11/19
Author: 
Farhad Manjoo

NY Times Op-Ed, Nov. 3, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — I have lived nearly all my life in California, and my love for this place and its people runs deep and true. There have been many times in the past few years when I’ve called myself a California nationalist: Sure, America seemed to be going crazy, but at least I lived in the Golden State, where things were still pretty chill.

04/11/19
Author: 
Michelle Chen
Hundreds gather in Amsterdam in solidarity with Carola Rackete, captain of the Sea-Watch 3 ship, who was arrested after a two-week standoff with Italian officials, in Amsterdam, July 4, 2019. ANA FERNANDEZ / SOPA IMAGES / LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES

[Editor: It is well known that climate change is increasing conditions causing world-wide migration.]

November 3, 2019

02/11/19
Author: 
Jillian Ambrose
Fracking at Cuadrilla’s site in Lancashire was out on hold after a major earth tremor. Photograph: Cuadrilla/PA
2 Nov 2019

Victory for green groups follows damning scientific study and criticism from spending watchdog
 

The government has halted fracking in England with immediate effect in a watershed moment for environmentalists and community activists.

02/11/19
Author: 
Maya Earls
Doctors for Extinction Rebellion in London, on October 12 2019.  Credit: Daniel Leal-Olivas Getty Images

Health professionals have joined climate protests and organizations have divested from fossil fuels

The editor-in-chief of one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals has said doctors and medical professionals should engage in nonviolent protests to address climate change.

02/11/19
Author: 
Will Dubitsky
 
NDP must push minority Parliament to accelerate transition to a green economy

The federal election results suggest that the first priority of the NDP must be electoral reform to bring to an end the politics of fear and the strategic vote, which favours the Liberals and Conservatives alike.

01/11/19
Author: 
Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash
London on April 18, 2018, as they protest against the Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to the Pacific Ocean. In 2016, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government approved tripling the 1,150-kilometer (715-mile) Trans Mountain pipeline's capacity to carry 890,000 barrels of oil for shipping overseas from landlocked Alberta's oil sands to the port of Vancouver. / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images)AFP/GETTY IMAGES
 Oct 30, 2019

By some estimates, “the price of oil could permanently plummet to $25 a barrel by the mid-2020s. Only the cheapest oil in places like Saudi Arabia could be economically produced. Canada's oil sands, where most projects need an oil price of $60 to $80 a barrel just to break even, would cease to make financial sense.”
 
30/10/19
Author: 
Jon Queally, staff writer, Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Fire is seen near Getty Center in Los Angeles, the United States, Oct. 28, 2019. Thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes after a fast-moving wildfire erupted early Monday morning near the famous Getty Center in Los Angeles in the western U.S. state of California. (Photo: Qian Weizhong/Xinhua via Getty)
October 30, 2019

As Climate Crisis-Fueled Fires Rage, Fears Grow of an 'Uninhabitable' California

As activist Bill McKibben put it, "We've simply got to slow down the climate crisis."

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