[For the section on climate change and the Leap Manifesto click on 'Read the full article' below and then go to minute 20.35 of the speach.]

CAIRO, Apr 21 2016 (IPS) - “Africa’s human existence and development is under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change – its population, ecosystems and unique biodiversity will all be the major victims of global climate change.”

As the climate crisis continues to deepen and as it becomes less and less plausible that current efforts to curb global warming will even come close to preventing our earth from crossing the 2 degree Celsius ‘red line,’ the climate movement has shifted towards a bolder vision for climate action. Virtually every pole of the climate movement has evolved towards a set of bolder, more urgent demands and the mantra ‘keep it in the ground’ has begun to dominate the discussion about fossil fuel extraction and use.

[Webpage editor: The publication of a shipping guidebook for the NorthWest Passage underlines how climate change has and will affect polar regions. You can read the article at ]:

http://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-metro-ontario-editi...

An illustration shows that 2015 was the hottest year since 1880. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The global temperature in March has shattered a century-long record and by the greatest margin yet seen for any month.

[Webpage editor's introduction: Below are three articles about the Leap Manifesto and the NDP, first from the Jacobin.]

The impossible Dream

By Todd Gordon, Jacobin, April 15, 2016 

[Four articles on the reaction to the Leap Manifesto, first from Rabble]

Rather than fearing the Leap Manifesto, let's bring on the debate

That silly Leap Manifesto -- giving itself away right in the subtitle, which calls for "a Canada based on caring for the Earth and one another." No wonder it provoked fury and outrage.