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Tiny House Warriors get human rights award for ‘heroic resistance’ against TMX

11/11/21

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Cloe Logan

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Kanahus Manuel, birth keeper and member of the Tiny House Warriors. The tiny homes provide housing for Secwe̓pemc families, while acting as a barrier to the TMX expansion. Photo supplied by Kanahus Manuel

November 10th 2021

For almost four years, the Tiny House Warriors have been working to stop the TMX pipeline from encroaching on their territory, and as of Tuesday, the Secwe̓pemc land defenders have a human rights award to go along with their efforts.

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Oceans Decisive in Climate Goals

11/11/21

Author:

Rochelle Baker

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National Observer

Oceans don’t only provide a livelihood for fishers around the world, such as those pictured above in Ghana, but they also absorb a lion’s share of human-cased fossil fuel emissions. Photo by Seyiram Kweku / Unsplash

November 8th 2021

The world's oceans suck up a huge chunk of human-caused emissions, but their role in mitigation strategies and targets is largely absent from critical negotiations underway at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Canadian scientist Anya Waite says.

A massive carbon sink, the oceans are doing much of the “heavy lifting,” sopping up as much as 40 per cent of our fossil fuel emissions over the past 200 years, said Waite, CEO of the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

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Tax the rich, save the planet

10/11/21

Author:

Adrienne Tanner

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National Observer

Rev. David Haslam, a Methodist anti-poverty and tax justice crusader at a side event to the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 8. Photo by Adrienne Tanner / Canada's National Observer

November 9th 2021

Rev. David Haslam, a well-known British human rights and tax justice firebrand, has this little joke he tells. “I am really worried about the souls of the wealthy.”

“If we are going to save their souls, we’re going to have to take some money off them.”

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Young people like Greta Thunberg will ensure climate activism is here to stay

10/11/21

Author:

David Tindall

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National Observer

Young Indigenous land rights activists take part in a climate strike on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow during COP26. Photo by Nora Legrand / Canada's National Observer

Nov. 9, 2021

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'Regulator' Grants Trans Mountain Unrequested Right to Destroy

10/11/21

Author:

City of Burnaby Lawyer Greg McDade

Nov. 9, 2021

The link below is to the text of a letter from City of Burnaby Lawyer Greg McDade to the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) objecting to the regulator's decision to grant Trans Mountain permission, going far beyond what Trans Mountain even requested, to destroy any trees in Burnaby for whatever reasons for the indeterminate future. Can you say "captured regulator?"

Gene McGuckin

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The Overrated Promise of a Carbon Tax

10/11/21

Author:

Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram

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Common Dreams

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Never mind aid, never mind loans: what poor nations are owed is reparations

09/11/21

Author:

George Monbiot

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The Guardian

Excerpt from a painting depicting the British East India Company in India, 1825-1830. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images

Nov. 5, 2021

At Cop26 the wealthy countries cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice

The story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the art of violence and advanced seafaring technology, used these faculties to invade other territories and seize their land, labour and resources.

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Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will

09/11/21

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

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The Tyee

Oversold: Forget carbon storage, direct air capture, hydrogen power and the Earth relentlessly mined to support ‘green tech.’ Image from Shutterstock.

3 Nov 2021

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.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future

09/11/21

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

Globe and hand image - A society that consumes less energy and stuff could rehumanize society and heal the biosphere.

4 Nov 2021

We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two.

[Editor’s note: Read part one of this two-parter here.]

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

BC forestry plan is lose-lose for Indigenous nations, forestry workers and the planet

09/11/21

Author:

Bradley Hughes

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Socialist.ca

November 7, 2021

Before the election, the BC NDP commissioned a report on old growth logging.Back then they promised to implement the report’s recommendations to halt logging in old growth forests in BC.

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At Cop26 the wealthy countries cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice

Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.

We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two.

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