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How to strategically vote for the climate

15/09/21
Author: 
Robert Hackett
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rabble.ca
Butterfly on flowers

September 14, 2021

Because Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to replace our antiquated first-past-the-post electoral system, Canadian voters once again face the same dilemma: Do you vote for your favourite (or least disliked) party, even if it has no chance of winning your riding? Or do you hold your nose and check the box for a second choice in order to defeat the Devil Incarnate?

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Canada
Capitalism
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None of the major parties will cancel TMX, despite heated opposition in B.C.

14/09/21
Author: 
Chen Zhou
Link: 
Ricochet Media
Stop TMX sign - Chen Zhou

Sept. 10, 2021

Even the NDP refuses to commit to killing the $16-billion, publicly funded pipeline expansion

The overpass trembled as cars sped past, and the noise of the traffic roared as several protestors stood on the sidewalk with “STOP TMX” banners. They waved them at passing vehicles, and those on the Trans-Canada Highway beneath them.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
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Double standard: B.C. requires Indigenous consent for forest conservation but not logging

14/09/21
Author: 
Torrance Coste
Link: 
Ricochet Media
Clay Nikiforuk

Sept. 9, 2021

A year after groundbreaking old-growth report, government inaction still drives conflict in B.C.

Every day in B.C., irreplaceable groves filled with the oldest trees in the country are cut down and lost forever. In the year since the province’s strategic review of old-growth management, we’ve seen many promises but very little change in the forest.

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British Columbia
Ecology/Environment
Forestry
Indigenous Peoples
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A power struggle at Fairy Creek: Old-growth activists want fewer police powers at Fairy Creek. The RCMP is asking for more

14/09/21
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Link: 
National Observer
 Close to 1,000 old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades have been arrested, making it the largest civil disobedience movement in Canada. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Flying Squad / Facebook

September 14th 2021

A slew of legal applications involving the contentious Fairy Creek old-growth blockades are moving forward in B.C. Supreme Court this week as the protest becomes one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canada.

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Protest ongoing at Lost Creek tree sit - Timothee in skypod - video

13/09/21
Author: 
Gene McGuckin and Timothee
Link: 
Icloud
Timothee tree sitting
Sept 13, 2021
 
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Alberta
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Canada
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The tiny lichen that could stop Teal-Jones from logging Fairy Creek’s old-growth

12/09/21
Author: 
Shaena Lambert
Link: 
National Observer
A rare species of lichen recently discovered around Fairy Creek could hold keys to stopping old-growth logging in the area. Photo by Natasha Lavdovsky

September 11th 2021

“Small things run the world.” — E.O. Wilson

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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

12/09/21
Author: 
Al Shaw, Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, and Jeremy W. Goldsmith
Link: 
ProPublica

September 15, 2020.

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Agriculture
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Ecology/Environment
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Trans Mountain: Delays into 2023 will add millions to public cost

12/09/21
Author: 
Eugene Kung, Staff Lawyer and Jack Jones, Law Student
Link: 
West Coast Environmental Law

Read this report here:

 https://wcel.org/sites/default/files/publications/2021-09-tmx-constructiondelays-report-final_0.pdf

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Alberta
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Canada
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Big oil’s ‘wokewashing’ is the new climate science denialism

12/09/21
Author: 
Amy Westervelt
Link: 
The Guardian
‘Discourses of delay’ by the fossil fuel companies. Left: Chevron; middle: BP and Shell; right: ExxonMobil. Photograph: Twitter

Sept. 9, 2021

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Capitalism
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Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work

10/09/21
Author: 
George Monbiot
Link: 
The Guardian
A flash flood caused by Tropical Storm Henri in Helmetta, New Jersey, on 22 August 2021. ‘The extreme weather in 2021 – the heat domes, droughts, fires, floods and cyclones – is, frankly, terrifying.’ Photograph: Tom Brenner/AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 9, 2021

Climate policies commit us to a calamitous 2.9C of global heating, but catastrophic changes can occur at even 1.5C or 2C

If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath another in sudden fits and starts, causing periodic earthquakes and tsunamis, our atmospheric systems will absorb the stress for a while, then suddenly shift. Yet, everywhere, the programmes designed to avert it are linear, smooth and gradual.

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Climate Science
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