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Should Unions Strike for a Just Transition?

11/10/17
Author: 
Sean Sweeney
Link: 
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy

Unions Threaten to Strike for a “Just Energy Transition,” SAFTU and NUMSA call for socially owned renewables sector and reform of power utility Eskom.

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Climate Change
Labour - Unions
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THE LOFOTEN DECLARATION

01/10/17
Author: 
Lofoten Group
Link: 
lofotendeclaration
Climate Leadership Requires a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production
 
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Category: 
'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Coal
Global
Oil - Pipelines
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100 Percent Wishful Thinking: The Green-Energy Cornucopia

29/09/17
Author: 
Stan Cox
Link: 
Green Social Thought
Hurricane Irma passes by the eastern end of Cuba (NOAA)

At the People’s Climate March back last spring, all along that vast river of people, the atmosphere was electric. But many of the signs and banners were far too focused on electricity. Yes, here and there were solid “System Change, Not Climate Change” - themed signs and banners. But far too many of the slogans on display asserted or implied that ending the climate emergency and avoiding climatic catastrophes like those that would occur months later—hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the mega-wildfires in the U.S.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Global
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Indigenous Groups From Canada Join Ecuador's Fight Against Chevron

28/09/17
Author: 
Telesur staff
Link: 
Telesur
A member of an Indigenous community in Ecuador shows the contamination by Chevron in the Amazon. | Photo: AFP

Ecuador will open a new lawsuit in Canada against the multinational oil giant next month.

A group of Indigenous citizens from Canada is visiting the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador to document environmental damage reportedly committed by multinational oil giant Chevron.

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Climate Change
Global
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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The Burning Question

27/09/17
Author: 
Avery Forrester
Link: 
Jacobin Magazine
A firefighter in British Columbia, Canada. Province of British Columbia / Flickr

For British Columbia's forests, threatened by the worst wildfire season on record, it's either socialism or extinction.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
Forestry
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B.C.'s climate losers and winners

27/09/17
Author: 
Randy Shore
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun
California anchovy may actually thrive in the future, taking advantage of changing conditions and exploiting available resources, especially where other species are suffering. HANDOUT / PNG

A new study from UBC analyzed more 1,000 aquatic species for vulnerability to the effects of climate change, and the news for three B.C. food fish is not good. William Cheung — an associate professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries — brought together biological data relevant to adaptability and applied “fuzzy logic” to the computations. The exercise identified 294 marine species worldwide that are most at-risk due to climate change by 2050. Here are some highlights for species native to B.C. waters:

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Fisheries
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Fossil fuel expansion crushes renewables

25/09/17
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Link: 
National Observer
demand vs renewables

[Editor's note: See comment on this article by Roger Annis below]

I read lots of articles these days pointing to the rapid expansion of renewable energy as a reason to be hopeful about our unfolding climate crisis. Unfortunately, the climate doesn't care how many solar panels and wind farms we build.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
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Climate optimism has been a disaster. We need a new language – desperately

24/09/17
Author: 
Ellie Mae O'Hagan
Link: 
The Guardian
A flooded home in Houston. ‘Major parts of the dominant global superpower have been decimated by two Katrina-dwarfing storms in less than a month.’ Photograph: David J Phillip/AP

[Editor: for another explanation for why people are missing the seriousness of the disaster see John Bellamy Foster http://www.ecosocialistsvancouver.org/article/resistance-movement-planet-full-interview  - "Natural scientists have done an excellent and courageous job of sounding the alarm on the enormous dangers of the continuation of business as usual with respect to carbon emissions and other planetary boundaries.

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Climate Change
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UK Unions Call for Energy to be Returned to Public Ownership

22/09/17
Author: 
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
Link: 
The Bullet

The annual congress of the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) has passed a historic composite resolution on climate change that supports the energy sector being returned to public ownership and democratic control.

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Climate Change
Labour - Unions
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Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.

22/09/17
Author: 
George Monbiot
Link: 
monbiot.com

published in the Guardian 20th September 2017

Which living person has done most to destroy the natural world and the future wellbeing of humanity? Donald Trump will soon be the correct answer, when the full force of his havoc has been felt. But for now I would place another name in the frame. Angela Merkel.

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Category: 
Capitalism
Climate Change
Coal
Energy
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