- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
- Arctic Death Rattle
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The warming of the Arctic negatively affects the entire Northern Hemisphere by altering jet streams at 30,000-40,000 feet altitude, which turns normal weather patterns upside down, wreaking havoc throughout the hemisphere. Even more significantly, loss of Arctic ice exposes the planet to risks of a crushing blow to the planetary ecosystem, without warning.
- As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs. These temperatures have already proved deadly, killing five hikers in Arizona earlier this month. Triple-digit heat earlier that same week is also being blamed for the deaths of two construction workers, 49-year old Dale Heitman in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15 and 55-year old Thomas F. Tommy Barnes on June 14 at the Monsanto campus in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri.
- Blueprint for a Green Economy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
- Bob Rae to Visit ClimateFast
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 In the final hours of their 12 day Fast, Climate Fasters welcome more MP's, bringing the total to 18 so far to sign the pledge board. Bob Rae and Nathan Cullen expected later today.
- A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
- Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
- The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
A Guide to Selected Resources Resource Type: Article
- Canadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific'
Chief executive of company responsible for controversial geoengineering test implicates several departments Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known about the geoengineering scheme and not stopped it.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Capitalism is failing the planet
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
- The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
- Climate Change: Aircraft fuel is cheaper than Coke, a direct tax on fossil fuel is what the world needs urgently.
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 What is needed is to actually make annual cuts in international trade. After all, how can the world aim to bring down greenhouse gas emissions when on the other it aims to push for increased international trade.
- Climate change and social change
Introduction to the November 21, 2015 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come -- everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles -- while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible.
- Climate change: It's going to take a revolution
Resource Type: Film Published: 2015 A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but it's going to take a revolution to make the world inhabitable for future generations.
- Climate Crisis - The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 We find that Britain and the US - the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - are also the two countries least interested in responding to the very real threat of climate change.
- Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse.
- Climate Fast News from The Hill
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 On DAY 10 of the Fast, climate activists, maintain their presence on Parliament Hill to call on the Government to take immediate action to confront the Climate crisis and ask for public to pledge their support.
- Climate Fast: Rae Signs, Will Mulcair Sign? Environment Minister Kent is a No Show
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Climate Fasters end their 12 day fast, tired but elated as pledges of support continue to flow in. Solidarity vigils held in Toronto, Halifax and Salt Springs.
- Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen visits Toronto on Sept. 15-16
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Science for Peace and The Centre for Global Change Science of U of T welcome the world#s foremost climate scientist and author of "Storms of My Grandchildren", Dr. James Hansen, for public talks and meetings, on Sept. 15th and 16th.
- ClimateFast
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization ClimateFast is a group of dedicated climate activists, deeply concerned about worsening climate change. Our aim is to draw the public's attention to the crisis, and by fasting and public pledges to press our politicians into action NOW to confront this greatest threat to our children's future.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
- Day 12 of the Fast - Still Hungry for Climate Change
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Fasters Enter Day 12 of Climate Fast hungry, tired, but jubilant as pledges begin to roll in. Solidarity is growing all across Canada, with vigils in Halifax, Toronto, and Salt Spring Island, BC.
- Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't care less.
- A Death Sentence For Africa
The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.
- Des jeunes participent à une occupation pacifique pour la justice climatique à l'intérieur du Comité sur l'Environement de la Chambre des Communes
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Six jeunes ont entrepris une occupation pacifique à l'intrieur du Parlement canadien, à l'occasion d'une rencontre du Comité permanent de l'environnement et du développement durable dans l'édifice du centre.
- A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
- Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 A book that tries to understand why people are so prone to deny or ignore the reality of climate change.
- Earning a Profit from Global Warming
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
- Earth Day Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125 Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement.
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
- Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Throughout Exxons global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
- Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
- Fasters Head to Court
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Day 11 of Fast - Three "Hungry for Climate Leadership" Fasters in Court - Climate Change Trial Begins in Ottawa Courtroom - Harper Government Accused of Dividing Canadians With Oil-Dominated Energy and Climate Change Policy.
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
- Genetically Modified Crops Can Thrive as the World Warms
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Genetically engineering photosynthesis in plants could take advantage of rising global temperatures and increased levels of carbon dioxide, US scientists say. They believe this could achieve much higher yields on the same amount of land and help to stave off the prospect of widespread hunger as human populations increase.
- The Global Fight for Climate Justice
Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 A guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming.
- Global Warming
The Greenpeace Report Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Global Warning...Global Warming
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Government neglect and ignorance about climate change
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Academics from universities throughout Canada are demanding immediate, informed and responsible action on climate change. Parliament convenes, following the complete omission during the current election process of any discussion on climate change.
- A Great Aridness
Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States.
- Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach New Record
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet for hundreds and thousands of years.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet.
- How green are your ethics?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
- How will we get to an ecological civilization?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Capitalism's infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job.
- Hungry for Climate Leadership - Day 9 of Fast for Climate Justice on the Hill
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 It's Day 9 and the Fasters are hungry, but determined to convey the urgency of the crisis to our elected officials and asks them to end fossil fuel subsidies, put a price on carbon and develop a National Renewable Energy Plan.
- The Ice Melts Into Water
Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next few years.
- In Our Backyard
A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide... Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
- India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late.
- The Inner Light
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 Episode 25 Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 1992 Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is struck with an energy beam from an alien probe. While minutes pass for the rest of the crew, Picard experiences 40 years as Kamin, a humanoid scientist whose planet is threatened by the nova of its sun.
- The Inquisition of Climate Science
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. Lawrence Powell's book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
- The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
- July 5: Thousands to march in Toronto for Jobs, Justice and the Climate
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 March on July 5 comes on eve of the Pan American Climate and Economic Summits
- Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands
A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
- Keep it in the Ground
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world.
- Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground.
- A Line in the Tar Sands
Struggles for Environmental Justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.
- Nature, science & power
Questions need to be asked... Resource Type: Website Published: 2014 Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
- An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research.
- Opinion: It's gettin' hot in here... so take back all your carbon
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In Africa rapidly rising temperatures foreshadow increased drought, famine and disease. The most vulnerable populations -- of which millions are smallholder farmers -- need solutions, and they need them now.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
Workers and Climate Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs. Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
- Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein
Climate, Capitialism and the Left Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement activists will have to anticipate and help people respond to multiple crises while organizing them to recognize and root out their source.
- Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
- Reporting the realities of poverty; Truth about global warming (reviews)
Resource Type: Article Published: 1997
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Social justice is the only solution to global warming
The Climate is Ripe for Social Change Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 South African activist says only an alliance between unions and social justice movements can stop capital from destroying planetary life.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC.
- 'Stable' NE Greenland ice sheet is melting away
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A new study has found that the NE section of the Greenland ice sheet - thought to be stable due to the extreme cold - has been losing ice since 2006 with increasing speed. And that has huge implications for global sea level rise.
- Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
- Storms of my Grandchildren
The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and our Last Chance to Save Humanity Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Hansen's urgent call to act on the climate crisis before it's too late.
- Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care) Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
- Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
Manifesto 2007 Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
- This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs the Climate Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Klein says that climate change cannot be confronted unless we confront capitalism. She says that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better.
- This Changes Everything
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2015 Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Kleins book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montanas Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Kleins narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
- Toronto Joins in Solidarity with Ottawa Climate Fast
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Join with us on Oct. 2nd, in solidarity with the Ottawa Fasters to mark the final day of the Climatefast, Int'l Day of Non-Violence & Gandhi's birthday in a peaceful demonstration for action on Climate Change. 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM, Queen & John Sts.
- Unity for the Climate
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- VOW Women Concerned by Rising Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 As members of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace we are extremely concerned about the threat to our future from runaway temperature rise as a result rising carbon dioxide emissions in our atmosphere.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of green capitalism or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power no matter how green are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- What's at stake in Copenhagen
The crucial debates at Copenhagen Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
- Who Speaks for the Climate?
Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Providing a bridge between academic research and real world developments, Boykoff makes sense of media reporting of climate change.
- Why environmentalists must support workers' struggles
Global Capitalism is the Real Enemy Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 This is to specifically address class struggle as it relates to the ecological crisis. It will not address all the other (many!) reasons that working class struggle must be waged and supported.
- Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
- Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the Anthropocene will be less pleasant than the Holocene, but not fundamentally different, and that the transition will be smooth.
- Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
- World Without Ice
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 56 million years ago a mysterious surge of carbon into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In a geologic eyeblink life was forever changed.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- Youth Stage Peaceful Sit-in for Climate Justice inside House of Common's Environment Committee
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Six youth staged a peaceful sit-in inside the Canadian parliament, at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, pledging to stay until the Harper government acts to combat the climate crisis.
|
AlterLinks
© 2021.
|