Whatever you do, don't tell Canada's grubby gang of Con climate change deniers anything. For I doubt they could survive the shock.They want us to believe that fighting global warming is too expensive, not worth it, and bad for business.And of course, that Justin Trudeau's job killing carbon tax is the worst
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Cowichan Conversations: Trudeau invites May, other leaders to join UN climate summit delegation
Our new Prime Minister elect Justin Trudeau has already turned Ottawa right side up and his election victory is still less than a week old. The divisions among the citizens and politicians will take Read more…
Continue readingWill capitalists save us from global warming?
In her latest book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein argues that if we are to defeat climate change we must defeat capitalism. At this week’s UN climate summit in New York, a number of corporate leaders seemed determined to prove her wrong. For example, a group
Continue readingdrive-by planet: COP 19 Warsaw: interview with Filipino negotiator Yeb Saño: leaked doc shows U.S. concern about ‘blame and liability’
At the UN climate summit in Warsaw (COP 19), Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman talked with Naderev “Yeb” Saño, the lead negotiator for the Philippines. At the time he spoke with Democracy Now, Saño was on the 9th day of a fast to make the case for an urgent climate deal
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