Water shortages have led to nearly a week of desperate protests in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province leaving at least ten dead. One thing is clear, the newly elected “death judge” will not have one calm minute. With a population of 5 million, Khuzestan can be called the “beating heart” of Iran, because it is one […]
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A Good War outlines a path for Canada to successfully respond to the climate emergency, and in the process tackle poverty and inequality. The title refers to World War II, when all of Canada’s resources, money and labour was mobilized for victory. By way of disclosure, I know the author, Seth Klein. I’ve worked with […]
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Solidarity as the Last Line of Defence Climate change is here and now. Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium have this week suffered severe flooding, costing at the latest count over 200 lives. The necessary resources must be mobilised to deal with it in order to provide answers. Apocalyptic images followed one another without interruption. […]
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Jonas Brännberg is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Two years after the first global climate strike on 19 March 2019, despite the acute situation, Covid-19 has pushed the question into the background. Yet the coronavirus is in itself a judgment on the capitalist mode of production which destroys ecosystems and creates biological […]
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The hottest place in Canada, Lytton BC, has burned to the ground. The mayor of the small village in the Fraser Canyon said “it would be a miracle if everyone made it out alive.” On the evening of Wednesday, June 30, smoke was spotted, and 15 minutes later a full evacuation order was issued as […]
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For years, governments have been shovelling rhetoric about commitments to reduce carbon emissions. The most famous is the international commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Yet, emissions have increased by 60% since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992, at the Rio Earth Summit. The Kyoto Protocol and […]
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In an article titled “Understanding the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future,” 17 climate scientists from around the globe state that, “The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even […]
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Since last August, activists have set up numerous blockades in protest of old growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed. The self-named Rainforest Flying Squad, a group of volunteer activists and grassroots organizers, set up camp as the BC government granted permits to Teal-Jones, a BC-based logging company, to cut timber in the Fairy Creek […]
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Greyhound has closed all its services across Canada. In 2018, it announced the closure of all its services in Western Canada and the federal government did nothing. This was a criminally missed opportunity to take over the entire, already-existing, Canada-wide bus network. Will they fail again this time? The loss of Greyhound leaves hundreds of […]
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Aquaculture, Mismanagement and Climate Change In 2020 the Fraser River sockeye salmon run collapsed. This catastrophic and historic collapse is a real existential emergency for these fish and the people who rely on them. This follows a series of record-breaking bad years. Between 1980 and 2014, sockeye returns in the Fraser River fluctuated between a […]
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